Vibe design with intention, eyes open. Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI at Tesla, coined “vibe coding” in early 2025, saying there’s a new type of coding “where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” Predictably, vibe design was next. Google’s Stitch introduced a Vibe Design mode last … Weiterlesen
Missing the business context means underselling your own work Continue reading on UX Collective »
The new black are the tools and we have to get good at them so we can own them. Stanford’s AI Report 2026: AI isn’t going anywhere. Neither are you — if you pay attention. The work we do will look different in five years, and the people who shape that difference will be the ones who wrestled … Weiterlesen
On a Bruno Munari picture book, an old Buddhist phrase, and an empty field in the middle of a town Continue reading on UX Collective »
Rethinking UX as we start designing for agents and automation “User” has traditionally meant one thing: a person. The user is someone who navigates an interface, scans text/visuals, and makes decisions. UX/UI has always been about “reducing friction” between humans and the products they use. But UX and the design process are heavily evolving. In … Weiterlesen
AI chat made the conversation addressable and the message ephemeral. Knowledge work needs the opposite. Editor’s note: I wrote this article from firsthand experience as a founder and engineer. Disclosure: I co-founded AI Toolbox — a Chrome extension that adds per-message bookmarking and full-text search to major AI chat products. Engelbart’s 1968 NLS could already jump to … Weiterlesen
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The way we talk to technology has always said something about us. We barked commands at early voice recognition software. We typed queries into search engines like telegrams. Now we chat, negotiate, apologize, and occasionally vent to systems that, by any reasonable measure, couldn’t care less. What’s changed isn’t … Weiterlesen
GenAI navigation on shaky ground. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Google just promoted you. The architecture below has already shipped. Visual 1 — Delegated Presence. Generated with Gemini. Halfway through the Google I/O 2026 keynote, I closed the lid of my laptop. I waited. The instinct to open it again did not arrive. That had not happened to me in thirty years. I rewound the stream. Sundar Pichai had just said … Weiterlesen
Deceptive patterns are wasting your time and making you feel bad for trying to access basic support. Continue reading on UX Collective »