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How to Implement Role-Based Access Control in a Node.js REST API with JWT

The first time I built an API without thinking about roles, I gave every logged-in user the same access. It worked fine until a regular user accidentally hit...

Designing excuses

Perhaps it is the market that draws the norm into the openContinue reading on UX Collective »

DesignOps in the age of AI: when governance becomes orchestration

DesignOps is shifting from governing human-led process to orchestrating human and AI technology towards ethical, meaningful outcomes.Continue reading on UX Collective »

How any designer can build a more open design culture at work

You don’t need a “leader” title to build psychological safety at work.Continue reading on UX Collective »

From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction

The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context,...

Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion

Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, fostering...

Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas

We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an infinite...

Designing in regulated industries

The 15-minute AI stress test every designer can run

How to Build Your Own MCP Server and Publish Your ChatGPT App with Supabase Auth and DigitalOcean

A new type of app is emerging with the development of LLMs and AI-native apps. It lives inside an AI chat (like ChatGPT) rather than being a fully native web...

How to Fix App Jank: A Practical Guide to Profiling Flutter Apps with DevTools

Flutter makes it fast to build beautiful UIs. That speed is one of the framework's greatest strengths, but it also creates a subtle problem: performance...

How an LMS Software Helps Technical Teams Upskill Faster

Technology changes faster than almost any other industry. The half-life of technical skills continues to shrink. Frameworks, cloud platforms, AI tooling, and...

Product Experimentation with Uplift Modeling: Targeting Your LLM Feature Rollout to Users Who Actually Benefit (Python Implementation)

Your LLM product experiment just came back positive, with a promising 8-percentage-point lift in task completion. You ship the feature and leadership...

How to Turn a Postman Collection into a Maintainable pytest Suite

A Postman collection is a great place to explore an API. But it's a poor place to keep your tests. Most teams find this out the slow way. Someone exports the...

Build Your Own Healthcare AI Assistant with MedGemma, Ollama, and Open WebUI

Healthcare data is among the most sensitive data there is. Sending it to a cloud AI service is often not an option because of privacy requirements, regulatory...

How MCP Is Changing WordPress Development

For years, the promise of AI-assisted development felt just out of reach for WordPress developers. You could ask a chatbot to generate a block of PHP, paste...

How to Build an MCP Server with FastMCP for Your Local AI Agent

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build an MCP server with FastMCP, connect your local AI agent to use tools from the local MCP server that you built,...

AI Paper Review: Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

When Chain-of-Thought Prompting was introduced, it showed that large language models could solve many difficult reasoning problems simply by thinking step by...

The revolution was the easy part

Losing the spark in their eyes

The crisis of the what

What the Lean Startup still teaches us about generative AI

Should you really aim to be the best?