Category
130 stories curated in ux & thinking.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into human interactions and relationships.
Files serve a second function with a different architecture.
Rapid progress can have negative psychological effects on individuals and teams.
Workplace loyalty is declining as employment expiry becomes more common.
Users are unaffected by internal organizational structure and its potential flaws.
Increased content creation does not necessarily lead to higher quality output, as seen in Sturgeon's Law.
A moving company's box design reveals the long-lasting impact of subtle design decisions.
Designers consider the impact of the register shift on user experience.
Designers consider the intended audience for their content creations.
Rising computing costs prompt designers to reevaluate their expectations.
Designing for artificial intelligence today mirrors the user experience challenges of designing for the internet in 1999, emphasizing the need for foundational usability.
Designers must prioritize presence and understanding people before creating for them.
Designers can improve AI onboarding to prevent brilliant AI from being abandoned by users early on.
Solutions journalism benefits from more nuanced conflict, rather than avoiding it altogether.
AI chat interfaces currently lack a standardized permalink feature, hindering the reliable sharing, referencing, and long-term organization of specific conversational threads and their contained information.
GenAI navigation faces challenges in the new Adobe color interface.
Hot coral bank card color is examined as a potential feature or liability.
Treating machines with kindness may have benefits for human users themselves.
A DESIGN.md file should tell a story of the product to be useful.
Designers consider opening channels to upstream conversations in the age of AI.
AI products often struggle with implementing effective undo functions.

Lean design-system teams, when deliberately structured, can achieve greater speed, sharper prioritization, and scaled impact by fostering cohesion and minimizing coordination overhead.

Designers struggle with alignment, influence, and navigating organizational complexity on product teams.

Every extra second of friction has a measurable business cost, affecting revenue, retention, and long-term growth.