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How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Color Overlay Tool Using JavaScript

Sometimes you don't want to change the actual content of a PDF. You simply want to add a colored layer over part or all of the document. This can be useful...

How to Build an AI Agent with Per-User OAuth Access [Full Handbook]

When your AI agent serves more than one person, every tool call must answer: who's the agent acting for? Let's learn how to solve this by building an AI agent...

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Filter Studio with JavaScript

PDF editing isn't limited to adding signatures or merging documents. Sometimes you simply want to improve the appearance of a PDF by increasing brightness,...

Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie

When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural...

Design’s dreaded phrase is coming back. This time we’re in control.

How “Everyone can Design” means designers don’t have to wait for permissionContinue reading on UX Collective »

Why your clients aren’t buying and how to change that

You know it’s the right thing to do. The data screams it. Yet they still say no. Here’s the playbook that actually works.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The side of the egg

On the next hack for our humanity, in the age of AIContinue reading on UX Collective »

The loom that raised its hand

90 years of loom engineering went into teaching machines to catch their mistakes.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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How to Automate Flutter Releases with Fastlane and GitHub Actions for Firebase App Distribution, Google Play, TestFlight, and App Store Connect

Picture this: it's 4pm on a Friday, and your team has just merged the last feature for the sprint. But your product manager asks for a new build on TestFlight...

Flutter Frontend Systems Design: How to Think Like a Senior Engineer in the AI Age

Systems design has always been treated as a backend problem. Ask a group of Flutter engineers what systems design means, and most will describe server...

AI Paper Review: Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

Today, diffusion models have become one of the most influential families of generative AI systems. They power applications ranging from image synthesis and...

Product Experimentation at Scale: How Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, and Uber run Causal Inference on LLM-Based AI Features

Causal inference for LLM-based AI features is no longer theoretical. Airbnb, Netflix, Lyft, and Uber have published detailed engineering blog posts describing...

Product Experimentation with Doubly Robust Estimation: When Both Your Models Are Wrong in LLM Applications

Your AI product shipped an agent-mode opt-in six months ago. You ran a propensity analysis, adjusted for engagement tier and query confidence, and reported a...

How to Get Your Side Project Seen and Gain Paying Users

In 2022, I built a small micro-SaaS in my spare time and eventually sold it for a few thousand dollars. And today, with AI tools, it probably would've been...

AI Evaluation Engineering: Build a Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Platform from Scratch [Full Handbook]

The gap between a demo that impresses and a system you can trust is measured in evals. I want to start with a story that's happening in hundreds of...

What a dollhouse full of death taught me about thinking

We’re gorging on borrowed trust and it’s going to cost us.

The CSS hack that extends your website on iOS Safari

What Star Wars got right about AI

Thinking outside the box (literally)