3 color contrast mistakes designers still make
WCAG color contrast is more than just text Most designers know the basics of web accessibility and color contrast. We’ve memorized that “normal text” (24 CSS…
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Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
After finishing a project that required me to learn everything I could about CSS and SVG animations, I started writing this series about Smashing Animations…
Designing product delighters people remember and share
Why moments like Spotify Wrapped get shared everywhere, and how products like Figma and Duolingo design small delights Continue reading on UX Collective » …
Your users don’t need training. They need scaffolding.
Get new users doing instead of learning Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Angular vs. React vs. Vue.js: A performance guide for 2026
Editor’s note: This blog was updated by Clara Ekekenta in December 2025 to reflect the latest performance landscape across Angular, React, and Vue, including updates…
Drizzle and React Native (Expo): Local SQLite setup
If you’ve worked with SQLite in React Native, you already know where things get annoying. Migrations need babysitting, type-safe queries take extra effort, and keeping…
Why cleaner design slides aren’t the answer to getting your team to buy in
Information is cheap, but attention is expensive: why design presentations fail Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
AI+UX: A Few Notes from the Field
Practical AI notes. Note: We used several AI models, each with custom standardized instructions and assistants. Prompts were tuned, versioned, and reviewed. A few years ago,…
Lower the surprise: Applying The free energy principle to UX
Our brain is a prediction machine that can’t be stopped. No matter how hard we try, it will still build expectations. If you’re reading this,…
5 weird web APIs that’ll make you fall back in love with the browser
So there I was, rebuilding my website for the third time this year (don’t judge), when I remembered something: browsers are actually magical. Beneath all…
Perplexity and NotebookLM don’t use better AI—they use better intelligence flow architecture
What product designers can learn from how they design intelligence flows. Everyone thinks Perplexity and NotebookLM succeed because they use “better AI.” They don’t. They use…
So your AI wants a personality
Emerging personality patterns that drive differentiation in AI products Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Developers aren’t the enemy
Don’t demonize those that can help you provide more accessible content. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Why feature roadmaps don’t work for early-stage startups
The comfort and the cost of knowing what’s next. An example of a feature-based roadmap Imagine this scenario:You are working with a passionate founder. They want…
New navigation paradigms, ChatGPT talks too much, AI coding tools
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “To navigate is to read the world in order to move through it, whether it means scanning a crowd…