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22 hours ago

Notes from the people building your future

AI-driven job displacement requires thoughtful policy to ensure equitable distribution of prosperity and prevent increased inequality.

Startup companies

fromTechCrunch

Sierra's Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over | TechCrunch

The future of software interaction will shift from traditional interfaces to natural language prompts, enabling users to create agents autonomously.

Renovation

fromwww.theguardian.com

AI can't wield a paint brush, but it did help me transform my home

AI can significantly improve domestic tasks and transform daily living experiences.

fromGSMArena.com

Gemini gains the ability to create interactive simulations

Gemini's new feature generates interactive simulations and models for better understanding of complex topics.

Artificial intelligence

Something big "might" be happening

22 hours ago

Notes from the people building your future

AI-driven job displacement requires thoughtful policy to ensure equitable distribution of prosperity and prevent increased inequality.

Startup companies

fromTechCrunch

Sierra's Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over | TechCrunch

The future of software interaction will shift from traditional interfaces to natural language prompts, enabling users to create agents autonomously.

Renovation

fromwww.theguardian.com

AI can't wield a paint brush, but it did help me transform my home

AI can significantly improve domestic tasks and transform daily living experiences.

fromGSMArena.com

Gemini gains the ability to create interactive simulations

Gemini's new feature generates interactive simulations and models for better understanding of complex topics.

Artificial intelligence

Something big "might" be happening

Django

Top 7 Claude Code Skills Repos for Product Designers

Agile

7 Rules for Creating an Effective Claude Code Skill

Effective Claude Code skills improve performance and save tokens by being focused and well-framed.

Web design

Cowork Mode in Claude Code for Product Design Tasks

Claude Code for Desktop features Chat, Cowork, and Code modes for different interaction types, with Cowork facilitating deeper project engagement.

Top 3 Claude Code + Figma Workflows

Not all Claude Code + Figma workflows are equally effective; identifying the right ones is crucial for designers.

12 hours ago

Django

Top 7 Claude Code Skills Repos for Product Designers

Agile

7 Rules for Creating an Effective Claude Code Skill

Effective Claude Code skills improve performance and save tokens by being focused and well-framed.

Web design

Cowork Mode in Claude Code for Product Design Tasks

Claude Code for Desktop features Chat, Cowork, and Code modes for different interaction types, with Cowork facilitating deeper project engagement.

Top 3 Claude Code + Figma Workflows

Not all Claude Code + Figma workflows are equally effective; identifying the right ones is crucial for designers.

LukeW | Should Designers

Designers should code, and AI coding agents are bridging the gap between design and development.

Designing for the invisible customer

The act of choosing in design is increasingly outsourced to digital gatekeepers, redefining the role of design and aesthetics.

Web design

fromLukew

LukeW | Should Designers

Designers should code, and AI coding agents are bridging the gap between design and development.

Designing for the invisible customer

The act of choosing in design is increasingly outsourced to digital gatekeepers, redefining the role of design and aesthetics.

While AI is building the web faster than ever, accessibility can't be left behind

AI has accelerated marketing processes, but speed can compromise accessibility, impacting customer experience and conversion rates for people with disabilities.

6 days ago

The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore

Designers must prioritize screen reader compatibility to ensure accessibility, as users rely on spoken content rather than visual elements.

Marketing tech

fromDigiday

While AI is building the web faster than ever, accessibility can't be left behind

AI has accelerated marketing processes, but speed can compromise accessibility, impacting customer experience and conversion rates for people with disabilities.

6 days ago

The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore

Designers must prioritize screen reader compatibility to ensure accessibility, as users rely on spoken content rather than visual elements.

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

Microsoft is removing unnecessary Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps, starting with Notepad and Snipping Tool.

Let's Get Puzzled!

Puzzle-piece shapes enhance design by adding playfulness and interactivity using modern CSS and JavaScript.

JavaScript

fromRubyflow

Practical CSS: simplifying UI code with pseudo-classes

CSS pseudo-classes can simplify UI interactions by handling presentation logic, allowing JavaScript to focus on behavior.

Web development

fromdbushell.com

CSS subgrid is super good

CSS subgrid simplifies complex layouts and enhances design flexibility, making it easier to manage content from CMS outputs.

Typography

fromFrontendmasters

Let's Get Puzzled!

Puzzle-piece shapes enhance design by adding playfulness and interactivity using modern CSS and JavaScript.

JavaScript

fromRubyflow

Practical CSS: simplifying UI code with pseudo-classes

CSS pseudo-classes can simplify UI interactions by handling presentation logic, allowing JavaScript to focus on behavior.

Web development

fromdbushell.com

fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community

CSS subgrid is super good

CSS subgrid simplifies complex layouts and enhances design flexibility, making it easier to manage content from CMS outputs.

more#css

Board games

Building a Word Puzzle for the Web Exploring "Letter Boxed" Mechanics

Exploring interactive puzzle concepts like 'letter boxed' can enhance UX and frontend development engagement.

Information security

fromThe Hacker News

Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About

AI browser extensions pose significant security risks, often overlooked, with vulnerabilities and access that can compromise enterprise networks.

How to Understand Your Website Through Your User's Eyes

User journey maps enhance understanding of user goals, questions, and needed information, improving website navigation and user experience.

Who are we really designing for?

Designing effectively requires distinguishing between the individual User and the collective Customer.

Growth hacking

fromEntrepreneur

How to Understand Your Website Through Your User's Eyes

User journey maps enhance understanding of user goals, questions, and needed information, improving website navigation and user experience.

Who are we really designing for?

Designing effectively requires distinguishing between the individual User and the collective Customer.

more#user-experience

Online learning

fromeLearning Industry

What Is Real Interactivity In eLearning? (And Why Clicks Don't Count)

Real interactivity in learning requires decision-making and consequences, not just reactive actions like clicking or revealing content.

Gadgets

fromComputerworld

The Android dark mode upgrade you deserve

Android's dark mode lacks contextual intelligence, limiting its usefulness despite the potential of modern device sensors.

Canada news

fromTheregister

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

A bakery's use of Windows 10 desktops highlights the contrast between modern technology and traditional baked goods.

'We make people feel something as a result of our work:' Figma's chief design officer on how to build impactful technology

Creativity and music have profoundly influenced Loredana Crisan's career, shaping her approach as Chief Design Officer at Figma.

Graphic design

Making vs. the machine

Monetizing creativity can lead to sacrificing artistic passion and purpose for commercial demands and metrics.

Music production

fromFast Company

'We make people feel something as a result of our work:' Figma's chief design officer on how to build impactful technology

Creativity and music have profoundly influenced Loredana Crisan's career, shaping her approach as Chief Design Officer at Figma.

Graphic design

fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Making vs. the machine

Monetizing creativity can lead to sacrificing artistic passion and purpose for commercial demands and metrics.

Gemini is making it faster for distressed users to reach mental health resources

Google updated Gemini to improve access to mental health resources during crises, following a lawsuit alleging harm from its chatbot.

Your Phone Has 12 Calendar Apps. None of Them Look Like This - Yanko Design

The 1970s were a sweet spot in product design, especially in France, where makers were beginning to marry natural materials like wood with the new optimism of plastic.

Design

fromTechCrunch

Binge is a movie tracking app that warns you of jump scares in real time | TechCrunch

Binge taps into Apple's Live Activities to notify users when jump scares are approaching, enhancing the viewing experience for horror and thriller fans.

Digital life

Law

fromAmericanbar

What to Keep in Mind When Designing Your Law Firm's Website

Law firm websites establish credibility, generate business, enhance client service, and improve AI visibility.

Data science

Context matters... A lot

Large language models excel at tasks but struggle with context, leading to potentially misleading answers despite their capabilities.

fromWE AND THE COLOR

13 hours ago

Can AI Search Read Your Design? The New Invisible SEO

AI search engines cannot interpret visual design, making brands with only aesthetic appeal effectively invisible online.

Software development

The Best Way To Plan Work With Claude Code

Ultraplan enhances Claude Code's planning capabilities by enabling multi-agent task planning without blocking the current session.

#ux-design

How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems - Smashing Magazine

Improving UX in legacy systems requires gradual progress while addressing user and stakeholder needs.

UX design

The mirage of UX Design's demise keeps coming back

UX design

Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree - Smashing Magazine

How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems - Smashing Magazine

Improving UX in legacy systems requires gradual progress while addressing user and stakeholder needs.

The mirage of UX Design's demise keeps coming back

The claim that 'UX Design is dead' reflects deeper anxieties about existence and professional relevance.

Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree - Smashing Magazine

Choosing between modals and pages affects user flow, context, error frequency, and task completion.

more#ux-design

Stop Building for the Demo. Start Building for the Decision

The Sprint Trap is the illusion that AI speed is the goal, leading to failed enterprise AI initiatives.

How To Automate Product Design Tasks with Claude Code

AI agents can independently perform specific tasks in product design, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.

Designers, your next user won't be human

Every SaaS company will transform into agentic-as-a-service platforms, requiring designers to solve fundamental problems in agent interaction, behavior, and user experience as AI agents become central to enterprise software.

Software development

How To Automate Product Design Tasks with Claude Code

AI agents can independently perform specific tasks in product design, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.

Designers, your next user won't be human

more#ai-agents

fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Your Voice Wearable and Robot Hear the Words Mute People Can't Say - Yanko Design

Your Voice transforms attempted speech into audible communication for those with speech impairments, enhancing accessibility and immediacy.

You can't design what you won't maintain

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is one of the most idyllic cities in the Canary Islands. At its heart stands the jewel - the Auditorio. It's a place where talent from both worlds, New and Old, comes together. A theatre, opera, dance, and music heaven.

Berlin

DevOps

System Design - Designing Intelligent UIs as MCP Client

MCP is a standardized interface enabling AI models to dynamically discover and invoke tools, APIs, and capabilities through schema-driven contracts rather than hardcoded integrations.

fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Derribar Ventures on User-Centric Design: 5 Pillars Every Team Needs - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Most product failures stem from not understanding user needs, leading to feature-bloated platforms that solve non-existent problems.

Careful, liable UX is a thing now

Design decisions that manipulate users are being recognized as deceptive practices with significant real-life consequences.

The UX ground is shaking, synthetic users, building perspective

A clear design perspective is crucial; it defines what to exclude, ensuring focus on what truly matters.

Beyond the user: why design needs to widen its circle

Human-centered design must evolve to consider ecological impacts alongside user comfort and needs.

fromEntrepreneur

The Hidden Risk Behind Every 'Frictionless' Digital Experience

Digital experiences should prioritize human agency over pressure tactics to foster trust and informed decision-making.

We didn't mean to build this- engagement at any cost

Meta was fined $375 million for misleading users about platform safety, highlighting systemic issues in tech design and user protection.

Software development

The last interface

AI will make software development so inexpensive that SaaS companies risk self-destruction through commoditization, while simultaneously disrupting the complex user interfaces that knowledge workers depend on daily.

fromProtoPie

AI Prototyping Tools: Why Control Matters As Much As Speed

AI prototyping tools enhance design validation by enabling high-fidelity, user-testable prototypes that require refinement beyond initial generation.

fromFast Company

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.

UI Design with Gemini 3.1

Google recently released a new AI model, Gemini 3.1, that demonstrates great results in UI and web design tasks. I've already tested this model for web design tasks and in this article, I want to experiment with Gemini 3.1 and generate UI for a mobile application.

Mobile UX

The old design workshop is dead. Long live design workshops.

Workshops are becoming less effective due to unclear outcomes and lengthy formats, leading to stakeholder confusion and dissatisfaction.

You're not supposed to get it right

Design challenges for UX writers can be intimidating due to the pressure of making quick, impactful decisions and the emphasis on visual elements.

Cooking

Escaping the ennui in UI

AI-driven 'vibedesign' favors shallow aesthetics over craft, urging a return from prompt 'shimmer' to practiced 'friction' and genuine mastery.

Philosophy

3 months ago

Complex

Complex domains are often guarded as exclusive, but clear simple explanations allow non-experts to understand and contribute across diverse technical fields.

Every designer on my team ships the same quality now

Figma's integration of AI agents blurs the line between AI-generated and human-designed outputs, raising questions about the value of design work.

Graphic design

On craft and connivence

Relying on reused, trendy design assets can deliver quick results but leaves work vulnerable when clients demand original, high-stakes creativity.

Design engineers, UX Design's demise, forget your "lovable" products

Design Engineering merges visual design and front-end development, focusing on the intersection of design decisions and technical implementation.

#ui-design

Mobile UX

UI Design Validation with Nano Banana Pro

UX design

UI Design with Nano Banana Pro

Mobile UX

UI Design Validation with Nano Banana Pro

UX design

UI Design with Nano Banana Pro

more#ui-design

The craft of the instruction

Instructions I created. Instructions I am continuing to hone - instructions that required me to study my own old essays, identifying what I do when I write. The sentence rhythms. The way I move between timescales. The zooming in and out from concept to detail. The instructions tell Claude how I would like ideas composed. I pull together concepts and experiences from my lived expertise to formulate a point of view - in this case, on this new AI technology.

Design

The three thirds

Many mid-career designers feel disillusioned as they reach a ceiling in their careers, realizing the promised growth and impact is limited.

fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community

Design debt is now as dangerous as technical debt

Design debt accumulates unnoticed, impacting product decisions and user experience, yet it remains largely untracked compared to technical debt.

What matters most for user engagement: performance or UI?

Performance is a critical factor in user engagement, where even minor delays in loading can deter users. A clean and simple user interface also contributes significantly to user retention.

UX design

The Physics of Great UX: Making Digital Interfaces Feel Real

Building a motion system in product design enhances user experience by aligning with human cognitive expectations and physical principles.

Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree - Smashing Magazine

Choose modals for high-consequence actions requiring user interaction, and pages for exploratory tasks; most overlays interrupt unnecessarily, making non-modal alternatives preferable by default.

When tools pretend to be people

Design conversational AI as tools, not companions, to prevent user anthropomorphism and inappropriate trust.

Forget your "lovable" products; the real leverage point was always learning.

Learning reshapes the relationship between outputs and outcomes, serving as the true leverage point that design conversations overlook while chasing trending methodologies.

#uiux

UX design

5 Common Mistakes That Are Silently Killing Your Product

UX design

5 Common Mistakes That Are Silently Killing Your Product

UX design

5 Common Mistakes That Are Silently Killing Your Product

UX design

5 Common Mistakes That Are Silently Killing Your Product

UX design

What makes generated UI worth keeping?

UX design

What makes generated UI worth keeping?

UX design

What makes generated UI worth keeping?

UX design

What makes generated UI worth keeping?

UX questionnaires. Is it rocket science?

Questionnaires provide essential quantitative feedback from real users to validate design hypotheses and reveal whether design decisions truly work in practice.

3 months ago

Clean up UI design with Figma Make

Figma Make can refine and convert existing Figma designs into cleaner interactive prototypes and code, enabling designers to clean up and improve designs.

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UX design

UI Style Exploration with Nano Banana Pro

UX design

UI Design with Nano Banana Pro

UX design

UI Style Exploration with Nano Banana Pro

UX design

UI Design with Nano Banana Pro

UI Style Exploration with Nano Banana Pro

Visual styles shape product feel, affordances, and interface intent; studying historical OS design reveals visual hierarchy, interaction patterns, and emotional tone.

The Design Vibeshift

Something's been slowly shifting in the design zeitgeist. I've been watching my feed on X and the vibe has changed. More and more, I see designers sharing finished experiments or prototypes they coded themselves, rather than static Figma files. Moving from working on a canvas to talking to an LLM. The conversation isn't "here's a design I made" anymore... it's "here's something I shipped this afternoon."

UX design

Designing for Invisible Experiences

Ubiquitous computing and invisible design reduce user interaction, enabling automated transactions that increase service adoption and accelerate retail and commerce growth.

How wrong becomes normal

Dark patterns are intentional deceptive interface designs that manipulate users into actions against their interests by exploiting psychology, urgency, and friction.

The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals

AI product experiences are generated probabilistically in real time, requiring UX to design model behavior and system constraints rather than only interfaces.