A guide to wrapper vs. container classes in CSS
At first glance, CSS .wrapper and .container classes seem to do the same thing: wrap content, center it, and stop it from stretching too wide.…
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Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
In many products, setting notification channels on mute is a default, rather than an exception. The reason for that is their high frequency, which creates…
Good metaphors, 11 commandments of AI UX, Figma shortcuts
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Here’s something that has always fascinated me: our understanding of the human body, particularly the brain and nervous system,…
Leader Spotlight: Balance vs. compromise in product management, with Suvrat Joshi
Suvrat Joshi is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Nintex, an AI-powered platform for business process automation and application development. He began his career…
The masked side of design leadership
The behaviors we need to break and evolve Venetian Carnaval Mask — Photo from Pixabay Many in the design industry have been inspired by design leaders who created environments…
What is a design language and how to create one?
In this article, we explore the benefits of design language, examples of companies that excel, and how to create a set of design language guidelines…
How to build a web-based AI agent with Stagehand and Gemini
In the near future, AI agents will handle most computer-based tasks for us, such as browsing websites, filling out forms, booking tickets, and more. Basically,…
I’ve designed with data — here’s what we’re getting wrong
UX design is often assumed to be a purely creative job, lumped together with visual disciplines like branding or illustration. But if you’ve spent any…
Getting started with Claude 4 API: A developer’s walkthrough
Claude 4 is Anthropic’s latest generation of advanced AI language models. It was designed to provide developers with a more powerful and reliable way to…
The hidden cost of AI convenience: Our ability to think
How the tools designed to augment human intelligence are accidentally replacing it. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
From Safeguards to Self-Actualization
Abstract This case study reintroduces Iterative Alignment Theory (IAT), a user-centered framework for AI alignment, developed through a transformative and psychologically intense engagement with ChatGPT. The…
Designing drag and drop UIs: Best practices and patterns
Drag-and-drop is an intuitive way for users to interact with digital products because it mimics real-world actions, like moving a card. In this article, we’ll…
What scarcity taught me about designing for attention
In an age of instant downloads, real-time access, and on-demand everything, it’s easy to believe that giving users more features, faster access, and immediate gratification…
AI dev tool power rankings & comparison [July 2025 edition]
Which AI frontend dev tool reigns supreme? This post is here to answer that question. We’ve put together a comparison engine to help you compare…
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
Once upon a time, CSS was purely presentational. It imperatively handled the fonts, colors, backgrounds, spacing, and layouts, among other styles, for markup languages. It…