One skill separates the designers who survive 2026 from the ones who don’t
AI is putting the future of UX designers in jeopardy, unless they are willing to become builders, makers, and system thinkers. Every few weeks, another…
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We used to know that it was a person who wrote it
Reading used to come with a guarantee that a person was on the other end. We spent it down, and now you check everything. Continue…
Your strategic guide to winning design awards
A roadmap to transform recognition into rocket fuel for your career and company. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on…
The CSS Upgrade Your AI Coding Assistant Needs
AI can write CSS now. That does not mean it writes good CSS. Anyone who has used an AI coding assistant for front-end work has…
The Agile Trap Designers Fall into: Feeding the Beast
One of the most common complaints designers have about working on agile teams is the feeling that there’s never enough time. There’s always another feature…
A2UI under the hood: Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI
An introduction for designers As a designer, I am optimistic about this one, and that is not my usual reflex with AI interface design. You…
While everyone talks about AI, design is gaining power
Some of the world’s biggest technology companies are quietly elevating design from a support function to a strategic one. Something interesting has been happening in…
Lord of the TTL chips
One Steve to rule them all, One Steve to find them, One Bill to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them (or, the…
Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares. The bot confidently gave him a refund policy that didn’t exist. The airline…
How one of the oldest design portfolio formats needs to change in 2026
There’s a better version of the before/after that shows what employers want. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
The hidden UX of payments
Trust in financial products isn’t built by branding. It’s won or lost in micro-moments most teams never design on purpose. Illustration generated by AI I’ve spent thirteen…
Gamification 2.0. Beyond Points and Badges: Designing for Players, Not Metrics. Conclusion
Part 6 of the “Gamification Series.” Design for players, not metrics Through decades of watching games evolve from 8-bit sprites to photorealistic 3D, from arcade…
The board is not the game
Your AI product has pieces, cards, and screens. Nobody designed the game. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
The autonomy dial: a pattern toolkit for designing human control over AI
A practical method for setting how much an AI does on its own, plus six control patterns for human oversight. Continue reading on UX Collective…
No, design is not dead. Neither is engineering or product.
The designer, engineer, and PM each evolve into different kinds of specialized ‘builders’. Not dead. (Photo by Tandem X Visuals on Unsplash) “Design is dead.”…