Designing with AI without losing your mind
With critical thinking skills on the line I built a real-time AI collaborator, Thia — with vision and voice capabilities to keep early ideas raw, the loop…
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How AI may reshape elderly care
A unique design challenge Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash AI has changed so many parts of our lives, for better and for worse. Beyond…
Attention Engineering: Why Users Ignore Even the Most Important Elements
Part 5 of the “User Psychology Series.” Over the last four chapters of the “User Psychology Series,” we have explored how users think, feel, decide,…
What improv taught me about why innovation falls out of sync
When adaptation becomes uncoordinated, journeys fall out of sync — like improv comedy gone horribly wrong. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post…
Working in the open
Learnings from designing open source technology Landscape artist Thomas Moran, created around 1876 — Boston Public Library I have been reflecting on the past three and a half…
Bridging the gap between strategy and design at a major South African bank: Chandika’s UX story
Chandika, a Full Stack Product Manager at First National Bank South Africa, went from product owner to a true “product architect” with the help of the…
The erosion of design authority, burnout problems, invisible customers
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The excitement surrounding these tools does not come from the design itself. It comes from the collapse of the…
Cloze Test in Practice
In the previous article, I explored why mobile reading is fragile and introduced a cloze test as a way to measure whether users genuinely understand…
A human approach to Agentic AI. One person. One text file. Five agents.
How I built my own AI team with nothing but text files, a conversation in Claude Cowork, and a lot of character. I built what…
Design engineers, UX Design’s demise, forget your “lovable” products
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Despite the title proliferation, there is a shared DNA. Design Engineering lives at the intersection of visual design and…
The ground is shaking: Why designers must flip the script on AI
Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and I think most of us can sense it even if we haven’t yet found…
The long and short of telephone progress
Antitrust regulation, the birth of “Silicon Valley” and approaching the limits of Moore’s law Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared…
Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.
Democratisation, panic, quality collapse, then new norms emerging. This isn’t new terrain. Scroll through any design discussion right now and you’ll find the same anxieties circulating.…
Google Stitch, design maturity guide, livable products
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “I woke up this morning to see Figma stocks had plummeted by nearly 12% as a result of Google…
Taste is not a feature
On judgement, context, and why AI makes taste more important, not less. Photo by Juan Miguel Agudo on Unsplash “Taste has no system and no proofs. But…