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130 stories curated in ux & thinking.

The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.

A 1960 study on city maps reveals that information architecture, not AI model behavior, is often the root cause of user confusion with AI context.

The sycophancy trap: what happens when feelings become the metric

Emotional design frameworks often fail when confronted with engagement metrics, creating a "sycophancy trap" where designers prioritize pleasing users over effective solutions.

AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product

The prompt becomes the product in an AI canvas, creating a synthetic self through generative design.

Reading and writing are interfaces. And AI can reduce their friction.

Reading and writing function as interfaces, and artificial intelligence offers the potential to decrease friction within these fundamental human interactions.

What Minority Report got wrong about AI (so far)

Minority Report's depiction of AI, while influential, has not yet materialized in reality, prompting a reevaluation of its futuristic predictions.

Nobody wants a blank page. Nobody touches a perfect one.

Users struggle to initiate tasks on blank slates and hesitate to modify seemingly complete designs, highlighting the need for thoughtful scaffolding and clear pathways for interaction.

Sterling Cooper built your UX process. We need to redefine it in the age of AI and systems.

The traditional UX process, likened to Sterling Cooper's advertising methods, requires redefinition to effectively integrate with contemporary AI and complex systems.

You already know how to make it accessible

Basic accessibility principles are likely already familiar to designers and developers.

How to become an AI Designer

Becoming an AI designer requires specific skills and knowledge.

Who gets the meter?

AI's emergence is reintroducing the previously obscured costs associated with technology, prompting a reevaluation of how we perceive and internalize the expenses of digital systems.

Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks

Design leadership is reexamined through the concepts of swarms and flocks.

What Star Wars got wrong about AI (so far)

Star Wars got some aspects of artificial intelligence incorrect, according to current understanding.

Framer is killing the marketplace… or are they?

Framer's impact on the marketplace is being questioned and analyzed for its potential effects.

Design’s dreaded phrase is coming back. This time we’re in control.

The resurgence of "Everyone can Design" empowers designers to initiate projects without seeking permission, fostering a proactive approach to creative work.

The CSS hack that extends your website on iOS Safari

A CSS hack can extend a website's background color into the notch and bottom bar areas on iOS Safari, enhancing the immersive user experience.

Gamma Tips & Tricks for Product Designers

Gamma provides tips and tricks for product designers.

The loom that raised its hand

Loom engineering has progressed over 90 years, teaching machines to independently identify and correct their own errors in the manufacturing process.

Thinking outside the box (literally)

Designers are considering unconventional shapes and forms beyond traditional rectangular designs.

9 Aug

UX Planet

Thinking

You’re Using Claude Design Wrong

Claude Design is often misunderstood as a tool for generating final designs, rather than a tool for quick ideation.

4 Aug5 min read

UX Collective

Thinking

Designing for the proxy

AI is changing the design audience, as digital experiences now often interact with machines, like language models, before reaching human users.

2 Aug7 min read

UX Collective

Thinking

Perplexity diverges with color

Perplexity, a text-based generative AI model, can serve as a color suggestion tool for building diverging color schemes in data visualizations, requiring user modification of Hex code suggestions.

1 Aug7 min read

UX Collective

Thinking

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Creative technologists are increasingly central to product teams, bridging design, code, systems, and storytelling as AI reduces the gap between ideas and implementation.

1 Aug13 min read

UX Planet

Thinking

I Tried Logo Design with Claude Design and It’s Amazing

Claude Design is used for logo creation and various design tasks, including slide deck and HTML email template design.

31 Jul7 min read

UX Collective

Thinking

Jakob’s law: How to apply it as AI collapses surfaces into one chat box

AI assistants are consolidating tasks into one conversational surface, changing how Jakob's Law applies to user interface design.

30 Jul17 min read

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