Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI
In “A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer”, we followed Kate’s weeklong journey of her first AI-augmented design sprint. She had three realizations…
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The middle-class burden of digital products
Stuck between scarcity and abundance, we learn that the real challenge isn’t choice itself, but knowing when enough is enough. Photo by Victoriano Izquierdo on Unsplash…
Adult verification: an impossible design challenge?
Arbitrary censorship will drive internet traffic underground and pose a cyber-security threat Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
How I learned to treat AI like a partner, not a threat
I can’t be the only designer who felt threatened when AI started making headlines. I mean, ChatGPT could generate a polished copy in less than…
I tried out Kiro: Here’s what I learned
It’s been a big year for AI coding assistants, and Amazon has entered the space with Kiro, its own AI-powered code editor. Although it launched…
Why Go design patterns still matter
When our team adopted Go for a rapidly scaling microservices architecture, it initially felt like the perfect choice: clean syntax, fast builds, and strong concurrency…
How to define customer segments that actually matter
When it comes to customer segments, many PMs make the mistake of defining them too broadly, resulting in weaker product-market fit, higher churn, and wasted…
Vibe‑making: The new way we pretend to know everything
When performance passes for mastery, judgment erodes Performance on the surface, unfinished understanding underneath We are in the age of vibe‑making, the feeling of competence without…
Should every country have a design minister?
Why national design policies and even design ministers could reshape our collective future Design is no longer just about products or services. From Singapore to…
How to protect your AI agent from prompt injection attacks
As large language models (LLMs) become the backbone of modern AI applications, from customer service bots to autonomous coding assistants, a new class of security…
Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences
Television sets have been the staple of our living rooms for decades. We watch, we interact, and we control, but how often do we design…
What grief can teach us about the future of design
The loss AI brings to the design industry could be what clarifies its true purpose. Photo by Ann on Unsplash When my father died a few years…
Why designing terrible solutions makes you a better designer
Applying the anchoring effect to design practice. Here’s a nutty idea: designing terrible solutions makes you a better designer. I know that sounds backwards. Designer…
Stop using templates — do this instead
The over-reliance on pre-existing UI templates or design systems undermines innovation, misaligns with actual user journeys, or creates disjointed experiences. The UX gets diluted to…
Qwen3-Coder: Is this Agentic CLI smarter than senior devs?
Introduction Qwen, Alibaba’s model family, just dropped its most ambitious coding model yet: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct. Behind the long name is a 480-billion parameter tool trained on…