AI and cognitive delegation: the hidden cost of AI that works too well
We are all more productive, but are we still thinking? Credit @kovalto1 adobe.stock 47% This is the percentage drop in brain activity measured among participants…
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How to find out what your design work was really for
Missing the business context means underselling your own work Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Trust Is the Currency, Knowledge Is the Engine
What Mastercard’s AI lead understands about enterprise transformation that most organizations are still missing. Federico Cohen Freue fields roughly a thousand AI requests a year.…
Stanford’s AI Report 2026: AI isn’t going anywhere. Neither are you — if you pay attention.
The new black are the tools and we have to get good at them so we can own them. Stanford’s AI Report 2026: AI isn’t going…
7 things that Vibe Design can’t replicate
Vibe design with intention, eyes open. Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI at Tesla, coined “vibe coding” in early 2025, saying there’s a new type of…
Gamification 2.0. Beyond Points and Badges: Designing for Players, Not Metrics. Chapter 3: The Framework
Part 3 of the “Gamification Series.” Genre matters: the missing framework Here’s the most important thing most gamification designers miss: there is no single “game…
Should I design for humans or machines?
Rethinking UX as we start designing for agents and automation “User” has traditionally meant one thing: a person. The user is someone who navigates an…
Being kind to machines, the genius of Claude’s branding, AI UX debt
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The way we talk to technology has always said something about us. We barked commands at early voice recognition…
The permalink problem in AI chat
AI chat made the conversation addressable and the message ephemeral. Knowledge work needs the opposite. Editor’s note: I wrote this article from firsthand experience as…
Designing locality, by redrawing the lines
On a Bruno Munari picture book, an old Buddhist phrase, and an empty field in the middle of a town Continue reading on UX Collective…
How Grok guided me through the new Adobe color interface
GenAI navigation on shaky ground. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Is hot coral a feature or a liability? A closer look at the colour of your bank card.
What a pair of trainers, Dutch car thieves, 17,000 lost wallets and the pain of paying tell us about the influence of colour. Most bank cards…
You are no longer the user. You are the principal.
Google just promoted you. The architecture below has already shipped. Visual 1 — Delegated Presence. Generated with Gemini. Halfway through the Google I/O 2026 keynote, I closed the lid…
The future of customer service is designed to make you give up
Deceptive patterns are wasting your time and making you feel bad for trying to access basic support. Continue reading on UX Collective » This…
Designing how designers master AI
Mastering an AI tool isn’t learning its correct use. It’s learning to bend it to how you already think — and that kind of mastery is personal,…