The psychological fine print of AI
What happens when technology starts reshaping the minds using it? Meet the new class of cognitive biases AI is creating. We have spent decades cataloguing…
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The trick to designing agentic AI is learning how to think like a manager
Setting boundaries (and establishing trust) is the ask with agentic projects Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
This article is a sponsored by MacPaw Your grandmother’s vacuum was a trusty but ugly workhorse hidden in a dark closet. Dyson turned that practical…
Consent Fatigue: Are We Designing People into Compliance?
Part 10 of the “Ethical UX Series.” The illusion of consent “The best way to take control is to make people believe they’re making their…
St. Augustine and AI’s false promise
An ancient diagnosis for a modern delusion. Saint Augustine of Hippo with his restless heart pierced by the light of Truth, painting by Philippe de…
Pinning is not saving. Saving is not favoriting. Favoriting is not flagging.
UX pattern research: Pinning, Favorites, Save for Later & Urgency Flags I forget to take the garbage out. Every Friday. Without fail. So I wrote it…
You skipped the first question. Now you’re adding AI.
AI didn’t create the gap. It made it impossible to ignore. Intelligence inside an inherited architecture. Generated with Gemini. Last quarter, I sat through a product planning…
You skipped the first question. Now you’re adding AI.
AI didn’t create the gap. It made it impossible to ignore. Intelligence inside an inherited architecture. Generated with Gemini. Last quarter, I sat through a product planning…
When AI decides and human signs off
The design problem most AI companies aren’t solving There’s a design principle underneath every high-stakes AI product: AI is the decision support. The human is the…
Using Next.js security headers to strengthen app security
Editor’s note: This blog was updated by Jude Miracle in May 2026 to replace outdated Next.js config patterns and add modern security guidance around CSP…
Collected consciousness, exhausting moment, UX Research with AI
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “So much of our creative communication as human beings so deeply depends on the emotion, connection, and meaningful context…
7 Essential Design Tools & Resources for High-Quality Web Builds in 2026 Sponsored
Building for the web in 2026 means juggling two pressures at once: clients want AI baked in somewhere, and most of them want to sell…
Don’t simply bolt on AI. Rethink from the ground up.
Let AI carry the weight of your product’s abstractions, so your users don’t have to. I still remember feeling awe-struck the first time I used ChatGPT.…
The basketball playbook for AI builder teams
What Pat Riley, Gregg Popovich, Phil Jackson, and Dawn Staley can teach us about building in the age of artificial intelligence, with Steve Kerr providing…
Keeping Your WordPress Client Expectations Realistic in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence (AI) apps are transforming how we build and work with WordPress. It seems like we’re inundated with new tools and use cases nearly…