9 non-UX skills every UX designer should learn
Being a great UX designer takes more than just technical basics. Sure, you need to master skills like research, UI design, prototyping, interaction design, and…
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Choosing the best access control model for your frontend
Access control is crucial for securing web applications and ensuring a smooth user experience. It answers the question: What are you, as the user, allowed…
Leader Spotlight: The importance of remaining open-minded, with Aislinn Wright
Aislinn Wright is VP of Product Management at EDB, the Postgres data and AI company. She began her career at IBM, where she started as…
It’s not always hammer time
Choosing the right UX tool for the problem Imagine you are a homeowner, and you need to renovate your kitchen. You do your research and hire…
Your company doesn’t know what feedback is
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Applying the UX honeycomb for a modern website
UX is more than good design. It’s how products create value for users. At its core, UX helps teams build products that are useful, usable,…
Will AI take designers’ jobs?
Hardly a week goes by these days without some AI meme trending on social media or lighting up the blogosphere. A few weeks ago, it…
Is OpenNext really the key to Next.js portability?
There’s been major controversy (rightly so?) surrounding Next.js’s openness, particularly how it was designed not to work well on serverless platforms other than Vercel. In…
Solid series: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
Pretend you’re constructing a house; you could put up some walls and a roof and say it’s all good. It may stand for a while,…
How to effectively manage design teams
I’ll be honest — I often feel a bit awkward in design meetings. While I can appreciate a clean UI when I see one or…
Make Every Day Count (May 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Sometimes, it doesn’t take a lot to get inspired. A short bike ride to soak in the sun, a coffee break with a friend, or…
Leader Spotlight: Aligning customer feedback and expectations, with Ryan Poppa
Ryan Poppa is Senior Director of Product Management at DNSFilter, a cybersecurity company that specializes in content filtering and threat blocking. He began his career…
DesignShift: From control to creativity
Why we need creativity now more than ever As we move through 2025, many of us are experiencing a profound sense of temporal distortion — a few months…
Axios POST requests: Handling errors, authentication, & best practices
Sending requests to a web server is one of the most commonly performed tasks in frontend development. Creating a Facebook post, uploading a new Instagram…
Riding the wave: from human-centered design to human-centered AI
Buckle up as we chart through a new wave of ⟡ shifting tech and design paradigms ⟡ Humanoid AI staring at you — Image by author As many…