The Power of Designing for Pushback
ChatGPT is accommodating. It’s arguably accommodating to a fault, and if the people building and designing these systems are not careful, the users might be…
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Leader Spotlight: The right and wrong approach to product-market fit, with Charlie Kaplan
Charlie Kaplan is VP of Product at Audiomack, a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform. He started his career at NPR and then became an editor…
What is a toast notification? Best practices for UX
If figuring out when to use toast notifications feels as tricky as making the perfect toast, you’re not alone! Choosing the right notification type to…
TanStack Form vs. React Hook Form
Building forms in React can quickly lead to a lot of code repetition and complexity if done without a good strategy. Because of this, developers…
Jony Ive’s next frontier, AI can’t touch taste, the UX butterfly effect
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “There are two choices: designed to meet a price point on a certain schedule to make the design cheap…
8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Sticky Elements
Modern websites often feature extensive scrolling. Long pages are common on desktop devices, but are even more frequent on mobile screens. The practice creates usability…
Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands
In a previous article, we looked at some practical examples of how to code SVG by hand. In that guide, we covered the basics of…
Leader Spotlight: Taking lessons from big tech to healthcare, with Sriharsh Boddapati
Sriharsh Boddapati is Senior Director, Product and Engineering at CareSource, an innovative and value-based healthcare company. He began his career in software engineering at Societe…
Craft vs. Complacency: the ethics of laziness in AI-driven UX
AI isn’t making UX worse. Sloppy designers are. This image was generated by Copilot. Recently, a partner sent me an image to use on a client…
Linear design: The SaaS design trend that’s boring and bettering UI
Linear design is a popular design trend, particularly for SaaS products. When I first wrote this article a little over a year ago, I predicted…
Design constraints: Why they’re actually useful
Product design teams face various limitations and predefined conditions known as design constraints during the product design process. Most design constraints are typically unavoidable limitations…
How to design experiences for AI agents: a practical step-by-step guide
Learn how to design for AI agents — including how to adapt your process, choose the right interaction pattern, and overcome potential pain points. This…
Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
Think of the SOLID principles as five golden rules for crafting code that’s both robust and flexible. Coined by the legendary Robert C. Martin (aka…
Modern CSS carousels: No JavaScript required
Historically, creating sliders or carousels meant wrestling with JavaScript, struggling with accessibility, and trying to minimize layout shifts. External libraries helped, but they also came…
UX scenarios + GenAI
Using AI for ideation, UX scenarios, and the value of world-building in UX design Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared…