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UX & Thinking

130 stories curated in ux & thinking.

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UX Planet
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Why You Need to Start Prototyping with Real Code

Designers can improve their workflow by utilizing codebase access to start prototyping with real code.

28 Jun
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UX Planet
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Building a Dynamic Pong Game from Scratch.

Developers can create a dynamic Pong game from scratch using various design and coding techniques.

28 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Planet
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Stop Typing. Start Speaking.

Voice interaction is becoming a preferred alternative to typing in user experience design.

28 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Why your Claude Code needs a design stack

Claude Code requires a design stack to integrate into a designer's workflow.

27 Jun
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UX Collective
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Rethinking Figma in an AI World

Designers are reevaluating Figma's role in the design process amidst advancements in artificial intelligence.

25 Jun
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UX Collective
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Why the best part of the flow isn't the end

South Korea's "dopamine sites" demonstrate that removing the transaction from a user flow can still leave an engaging and functional experience for users.

21 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

Two modernisms

Designers like Mies and Beck simplified their work by removing elements like steel and geography.

21 Jun
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UX Collective
Thinking

One skill separates the designers who survive 2026 from the ones who don’t

A specific skill will differentiate designers who thrive in 2026 from those who do not.

18 Jun
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UX Collective
Thinking

We used to know that it was a person who wrote it

The proliferation of AI-generated content has eroded trust in online information, forcing readers to critically evaluate the human authorship of every piece they encounter.

18 Jun
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UX Collective
Thinking

Your strategic guide to winning design awards

Design awards can transform into career and company growth opportunities with strategic planning.

18 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

A2UI under the hood: Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI

Designers are creating radically adaptive UI with A2UI technology for a new era of user interfaces.

17 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

While everyone talks about AI, design is gaining power

Design is gaining power amidst widespread discussion of artificial intelligence.

17 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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The board is not the game

AI products often have various components but lack an overarching design that ties them together into a cohesive user experience.

15 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

The autonomy dial: a pattern toolkit for designing human control over AI

Designers can use the autonomy dial pattern toolkit to set AI autonomy levels and implement human oversight controls.

15 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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No, design is not dead. Neither is engineering or product.

Design, engineering, and product development are not obsolete fields.

15 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

Access is not mastery

The prompt interface, by democratizing the GUI, has made computing more accessible, yet this increased access does not equate to user mastery.

14 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

How difficult could it be to design a chatbot?

Designing a chatbot can be more challenging than it initially seems.

14 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

What it really feels like to be a digital accessibility advocate

Digital accessibility advocates often face an uphill battle within companies, struggling to secure resources and attention despite the significant legal and reputational risks of non-compliance.

13 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

A shortlist of one: how AI became our shopping adviser

AI is increasingly influencing consumer choices by acting as a personalized shopping adviser, creating a highly curated and potentially monopolistic recommendation landscape.

13 Jun
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UX Collective
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We stopped clicking, and AI became the Internet

AI has become integral to the internet as user interaction has shifted beyond clicking.

11 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Design for pain: how to make the worst moment better

Designers can improve the user experience during difficult moments by creating empathetic and supportive interactions.

11 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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The gesture and the instruction

Designers consider the relationship between gestures and instructions in user interfaces.

11 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI.

Dieter Rams' ten design rules remain relevant for designing artificial intelligence systems.

9 Jun
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UX Collective
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AI design isn’t ugly. It’s fluent — and that’s the problem.

AI-generated designs often exhibit a consistent visual language due to their shared algorithms and data sources.

8 Jun
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