UX design

UX design

Every great product starts with a spark of creativity-and a lot of coffee. ☕ From the first sketch to the final prototype, product design is equal parts art and architecture. But even then, design often stalls-not because of a lack of talent, but because feedback, briefs, and ideas get scattered across tools. That's where product design templates come in. They give shape to your creativity, standardize what's repeatable, and keep your projects focused.

Each minute, millions of teens scroll through videos on social media platforms. These platforms are designed to connect people, but their overuse among young users is leading to serious, unintended consequences. The impact of social media on teen mental health has received significant media attention. After Facebook became available to American college students, their rates of depression rose by 7% and anxiety by 20%.

Unlike our flashy cousins, product/UX designers or the tech-savvy dev crowd, our superpowers are a bit more... well, understated. And if I'm being honest, I don't think content designers do a good job of articulating what they do, which is ironic, given that content designers are shaping the user experience in ways that are subtle, powerful, and, dare I say, heroic. Content designers solve user problems through simplified content crafting experiences that guide, inform, and engage users.

Many adults can remember acting out scenes as doctor and patient, or using sticks and leaves as imaginary currency. Those playful moments were not just entertainment-they were early lessons in empathy and taking someone else's perspective. But as children spend more time with technology and less in pretend play, these opportunities are shrinking. Some educators worry that technology is hindering social-emotional learning.

AI design tools are everywhere right now. But here's the question every designer is asking: Do they actually solve real UI problems - or just generate pretty mockups? To find out, I ran a simple experiment with one rule: no cherry-picking, no reruns - just raw, first-attempt results. I fed 10 common UI design prompts - from accessibility and error handling to minimalist layouts - into 5 different AI tools. The goal? To see which AI came closest to solving real design challenges, unfiltered.

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Per The WebAIM Million report, low contrast text represents 79.1% of all errors on the 1M homepages they analyzed via automated testing. People with low vision often struggle with text that blends into its background, especially if they also have a color vision deficiency. And as people like you and me age, this becomes especially important. Ensuring a minimum contrast ratio between text and background makes it easier to read, even for those who see limited or no color.

Irina opens with an ATM example to illustrate how routine tasks can become inaccessible when design and language don't align with the user's needs. When you use a familiar ATM in your native language, there's no one waiting behind you or distractions. But remove just one element, like language familiarity or a clear interface, and the experience quickly shifts from simple to stressful.

Porsche revealed the interior of its upcoming electric Cayenne on September 30, 2025, and I'm experiencing the kind of cognitive dissonance that only comes from loving something I fundamentally disagree with. The cabin features what the company calls the largest continuous digital surface in any Porsche to date. Translation: screens everywhere. As someone who prefers minimal dashboard clutter, I should hate this. But Porsche's execution here is genuinely impressive, even if it represents everything wrong with modern automotive design philosophy.

This is for me. The styles in here are useful to me. They are things I find myself doing very often (or forgetting to do.) I'd like to be using this in most demos I make and dipping into it for any future project. I do hope y'all will find some value in it too of course, hence blogging about it, but as a guiding principal it's for me.

Part of the GreaterYellowstone Ecosystem's draw is its magnificent megafauna, especially its bears. Excited tourists who see grizzly or black bears sometimes pull over to snap photos or even leave their cars, endangering both themselves and the bears. The National Park Service and other agencies have long used signs to warn people away from roadside bears, but little research has been done on whether the messages work and why.

I used to leave design presentations with a stack of changes and a heavy heart. Over 20 points to revise was normal. Most of the feedback wasn't from users; it was subjective opinions from stakeholders. Nothing felt anchored. I'd rush through the screens, hoping the room wouldn't ask hard questions. Then I learned to stop just showing screens and start telling the story behind them. The result was immediate: clearer conversations, fewer rounds of rework, faster buy-in, and designs that actually reflected user needs.

Design has to shape how tech shows up Design is often mistaken for cosmetic polish - the "nice to have" layer that comes after the real work is done. But in reality, design strategy is what defines how a business will deliver value in the first place. It connects customer behavior, business objectives, and technology capabilities into a coherent path to ROI.

So I'm lying in bed, squinting at my novel, holding it at arm's length like some sort of demented scarecrow. The text size that seemed perfectly readable two years ago now appears to have been written by ants. Welcome to your fifties, they said. It'll be fun, they said. I have to be honest; this decline in my eyesight has been a real wake-up call. Not just because I need to wear my multifocals to bed; making feel like an owl in a Disney movie.

Have you ever been a part of a product launch that felt more like a daunting experience, rather than an exciting or thrilling one? The product launch where users got more confused and felt helpless? Where they could not even point out what was wrong, because the product team worked so heavily on improving the tech and the UX, that it actually changed the way they were used to working before.

As a longtime Linux user, my opinion of the Windows UI has never really wavered: I think it's pretty dismal. Given that Linux has a cornucopia of desktop environments from which to choose, it makes perfect sense that someone who enjoys a good aesthetic would look at Windows and snub it like a cat snubs the new food you just bought.

As a UX designer with a background in front-end development, I was struck by this phrase that kept popping up on LinkedIn. The culprit seemed obvious: generative AI. Developers were embracing it faster than designers (or so I read). I realised that I used AI a lot when I was coding but barely touched it in my design work. Meanwhile, my developer colleague, an AI power user, was releasing features faster than ever.

Ever tried getting feedback from five different people on one design file? It gets chaotic and confusing, doesn't it? In fact, 83% of knowledge workers rely primarily on email and chat for team communication. And, nearly 60% of their workday is lost switching between these tools and searching for information. Between the unending email chains, missed comments, and version mix-ups, your voice disappears from the creative work, and you end up with delayed and subpar submissions.

We're going to do a Q&A panel. We're going to dig in a little bit more on how augmented, virtual, and extended, and mixed reality unlock the ability to integrate the power of computers more seamlessly into our physical three-dimensional world. Designing that user experience of these next generation UIs to be as inclusive as possible comes with a lot of challenges.