Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
Many companies think they know fairly well what their users want and need, and how they make their decisions. Yet most of the time these…
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How to build advanced forms in Next.js using a rule engine
Most React form advice stops at React Hook Form and Zod, and for straightforward CRUD forms, that is usually the right answer. The architecture starts…
The human side of AI: A CTO’s take on fear, trust, and identity in the AI age
Over the last year, I’ve had more conversations about AI strategy than I can count. Some are exciting. Some are thoughtful. Some are deeply pragmatic.…
Meet Alaa: From Banking to Building Global Experiences as a Senior UX Architect
In this story, Alaa shares how the Professional Diploma in UX Design helped her turn years of hands-on experience into strategic, confident decision-making, strengthening her…
Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
You know that thing where you have a grid of cards, and you want them to fade in one after another? That staggered cascade effect.…
Making the Invisible, Visible: 6 Months of Diving Deeper into AI
What I didn’t do I have not vibe-coded, crafted the perfect prompt, created a skill to use, or [insert any trending thing right now]. Not…
Designing the Human+AI system
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AI UX debt: A new bottleneck
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Yippee IA: Six principles for creating a successful information architecture
People do two things online. They are either consuming content or navigating to it. You want people to spend more time engaging with your content and…
Real AI Strategy Isn’t a Vendor Bake-Off
Brian Evergreen on why agentic AI rewards vision-first strategy, and why your RFP is built for a world that no longer exists. The first question…
The case for catholic philosophy in ethical interface design
AI, metaphysics, and the search for moral grounding in design Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash A Confession If you had told me a year ago that…
What critical thinking means for senior designers (and how to apply it)
Re-designing mocks is slowly becoming the bulk of design work Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Most AI tools make users faster. The best AI tools make users better.
We’ve all lived a version of this story. You start small — asking AI to refine an email. Then something a little harder, like writing a function in…
From faster pencil to AI Experience Architect: a designer’s path
You can get there, but it’s about making the effort. The next decade of user experience work is not about prompting better, it’s about owning the…
Gamification 2.0. Beyond Points and Badges: Designing for Players, Not Metrics. Chapter 2: The Solution
Part 2 of the “Gamification Series.” Gamification 2.0: Learning from actual game design Let me tell you what actually hooks players, drawn from four decades…