June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Everyone has a creative spark in them. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others capture the perfect moment with a camera or…
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How to help people who don’t read discover new features
Writing discovery and onboarding content for “another” new feature, but this time it’s actually gonna get read. Continue reading on UX Collective » This…
Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999
You can’t talk about 1999 without Hamster Dance. That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design for AI — and who we…
I benchmarked Claude Code and OpenCode on a heavy refactor: The reality of agentic CLI workflows
Every week, someone posts something like: “We are so cooked. AI has taken our jobs.” And every other week, someone else replies, maybe on X,…
Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
The HTTP Archive Web Almanac has been tracking color contrast failures for years. The numbers have barely moved. After half a decade of design system…
The Part of Agile Designers Fear the Most: Imperfect Work
One insight from Laura Klein that stuck with me is that in a minimum viable product, teams often forget the word “viable.” A thing that…
We haven’t lost the battle for Empathy. Have we?
A meditation on presence, AI, and the uncomfortable work of understanding people before we design for them. Continue reading on UX Collective » This…
The trust gap between AI and humans
How designers can save brilliant AI from dying in onboarding — before it’s too late. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first…
Solutions journalism needs better conflict, not less of it
But not the sort of conflict you usually see on the news Most journalism doesn’t cut to the reasons behind conflicts. It only reports on the…
The book cover as a relational object
Designing a book cover isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about anticipating the reader’s behavior throughout the entire lifecycle of the book. Writing this piece is quite a…
Product discovery’s quietest, most consequential decision
Validating a problem, an idea, or a solution is where most people begin discovery. The skipped judgment is whether to begin it at all. Generated with…
AI and cognitive delegation: the hidden cost of AI that works too well
We are all more productive, but are we still thinking? Credit @kovalto1 adobe.stock 47% This is the percentage drop in brain activity measured among participants…
How to find out what your design work was really for
Missing the business context means underselling your own work Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Trust Is the Currency, Knowledge Is the Engine
What Mastercard’s AI lead understands about enterprise transformation that most organizations are still missing. Federico Cohen Freue fields roughly a thousand AI requests a year.…
Stanford’s AI Report 2026: AI isn’t going anywhere. Neither are you — if you pay attention.
The new black are the tools and we have to get good at them so we can own them. Stanford’s AI Report 2026: AI isn’t going…