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How to talk about a design that looks worse on paper

Why it took Microsoft 5 years to roll out an ‘obvious fix’Continue reading on UX Collective »

Secret agent bot: accessibility matters for the agents even if you can’t see them

AI is hollowing out the middle of design, leaving an hourglass behind

For fifteen years, the design process kept growing while the time left for making the product kept shrinking.Continue reading on UX Collective »

On M.F. Husain and multiple meanings of the colour orange

The painting that introduced me to the power and purpose of artContinue reading on UX Collective »

Borrowed slopes

When a traffic line bends, newsrooms reach for the oldest kit in digital design. The readers it costs are the ones they most need.Continue reading on UX Collective »

AI-generated UI, What the AI era owes you, Amazing Glass, Jev for UX

Taste is not a design methodology

The synth everyone owned and few could program: a lesson for AI design

The State of AI and Software Engineering: Code is Cheaper but Expertise are More Valuable [Full Book]

A report on AI productivity, human capability, software economics, SaaS defensibility, and the future of engineering work. Between 2024 and 2026, the marginal...

What to Do When Your Constants Are Someone Else's Law

A colleague once asked me why a number in my code had a comment three lines long. The number was 18. The comment said which rule it came from, which section...

How to Measure Conformance Between an Operational Specification and Its Execution

In my previous article, I explored executor independence: the idea that different execution mechanisms should be able to satisfy the same operational...

How to Add Structured Data (JSON-LD) to a Next.js Site and Validate It

Structured data has always mattered to search engines. When a search engine reads your page, it sees HTML: a heading, some paragraphs, a date somewhere, a...

What are we willing to sacrifice for AI?