UX has a forgotten ancestor and his system was better
Before kindergarten was a classroom, it was a design lab for the mind. Froebel built it. We buried it. Froebel and Froebel’s Gifts. (Image created by AI)…
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Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM
It’s common to see Web Components directly compared to framework components. But most examples are actually specific to Custom Elements, which is one piece of…
AI is flattening language — and redistributing power
For a long time, “good writing” has been more than skill; it’s been a form of gatekeeping. Not anymore. Continue reading on UX Collective »…
Our new team review process and principles at Booking.com
A case study on how to bring a UX community together to critique, ideate, learn and have fun Last year, together with my colleagues Leo and…
AI won’t kill UX — we will
AI won’t kill UX — we will It’s time we stopped blaming the tools and started asking better questions about how we work, what we value, and how…
40+ Free Web & Mobile UI Templates for Figma
Designing a user interface is a complex task that requires careful consideration of various design elements, including layout, typography, color, and usability. However, with the…
Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
Many products — digital and physical — are focused on “average” users — a statistical representation of the user base, which often overlooks or dismisses…
Catch frontend issues before users using chaos engineering
Chaos engineering involves introducing controlled failures into a system to identify weak points before they impact users. While traditionally applied to backend services, applying chaos…
Vanilla moments
Why you need to design for the real world. Pontiac Bonneville, drawn by the author. The story goes that in 1978 a customer wrote to General Motors…
How a UX redesign increased redemptions by over 58 percent
How did I, a UX designer who’s supposed to be pushing pixels, end up talking numbers and metrics? And how did I find myself influencing…
Deno 2.4 is here: What’s new and what to expect
Deno 2.4 speaks volumes about Deno’s direction. While it may be a minor version number on paper, the features packed inside represent a major push…
Migrating Tanstack Start from Vinxi to Vite
If you’ve been building with TanStack Start recently, you’ve probably run into strange and confusing errors like: invariant failed: could not find the nearest match…
Why PMs must help architect distribution, not just adapt to it
>>>> gd2md-html alert: inline image link in generated source and store images to your server. NOTE: Images in exported zip file from Google Docs may…
11 lessons from a year of using AI in my daily work
From hype to habit. Photo: Julius Drost/Unsplash, Illustration: Jan Takacs AI is everywhere, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Rather than watching from the sidelines,…
11 lessons from a year of using AI in my daily work
From hype to habit. Photo: Julius Drost/Unsplash, Illustration: Jan Takacs AI is everywhere, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Rather than watching from the sidelines,…