A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
September is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for some new wallpapers! For more than 14 years already, our monthly wallpapers series…
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Interview with Ed Lea, former Head of Design at YouTube TV, Director of UX at Google
Ed Lea is a product designer who grew up in a village near Leamington Spa, a small town in the United Kingdom that he describes…
What happens when dev communities die: Stack Overflow’s slow collapse
Programming is not a straightforward task — all developers face various problems regardless of what they are developing. Devs use online programming Q&A communities, also known as…
How to build a multimodal AI app with voice and vision in Next.js
When large language models first became widely available, you could only send text and get a text response back. But in just a few years,…
AI job apocalypse? The numbers say no
The loudest voices claiming AI is cutting jobs are often the very companies selling it. But when you look at the labour data, the picture…
How free food incentivises workers to return to the office
Are we just hungry? source: A friend of mine recently returned from a work trip to his company’s head office, and his description of the…
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…
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…