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It really wasn’t your fault, Coyote
ACME’s brutal design crit.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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AI is lying to us, and nobody seems to care
Real information in, invented information mixed in, one confident answer out. The interface never shows you how it got there.We built it to sound sure of everything. The best thing it can learn to say is “I’m not sure.”The latest argument my team and I are...
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Why don’t we download airport apps?
A billion passengers, millions of smartphones, and one stubborn question: do airports really need their own apps?Continue reading on UX Collective »
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Is the future of software certain once AI is everywhere?
Extinction is the wrong lens. Evolution is the right one.In August 2025, enterprise software had one of its worst weeks on the market in years.CNN chronicled the slide in software shares and blamed AI, worrying that as models get better at building and...
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What The Matrix got right about AI
The famous choice was never about the pills, it was about whether to see the system at all. AI assisted.More Than 25 Years On, The First Film’s Picture Of Machine Intelligence Reads Less Like Science Fiction And More Like A Product RoadmapThe Matrix arrived...
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What is the purpose of software
Practical and existential questions for IT Design and Development.I first asked myself this question for a bit of a laugh. This was at the dawn of 2023, during the rise of the LLM. Doomsayers and prophets alike said AI will allow us to produce so much more,...
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How to experiment when designing in a regulated field like Healthcare
You can’t vibe code your way through HIPAA violationsContinue reading on UX Collective »
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Rethinking leadership, Judgment as bottleneck, Ethical UX for machines
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Design leadership is currently suffering from a bad case of mechanical thinking. We talk endlessly about cross-functional alignment, product development and operations, and predicting roadmaps....
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The feature was fine. So why did users keep hiding it?
The retention killer that never shows up in a requirements doc.This image was the consumer-generated collage of the ‘typical MISSHA user’ at the time: loud, immature, trying too hard, and far removed from the identity consumers actually aspired to. The...
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AI adoption and the slow erosion of design idealism
How years of client work, deadlines, and professional practice reshape a designer’s relationship with emerging technology.Photo by K. K. on UnsplashI was having lunch with a couple of friends the other day. Both are designers around my age, in their early...
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You already know how to make it accessible
A translation guide for designers who think accessibility is a separate skill setEvery year, WebAIM crawls the home pages of the top one million websites and runs them through an automated accessibility scanner. The 2026 results, published this spring,...
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How to become an AI Designer
A realistic guide to shipping your own designs.Your company wants you to use more tokens. Engineers are shipping faster than you can prototype. Vibecoded slop is all over your LinkedIn feed. Agents are the future. Figma’s over. Anthropic just released...
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