Digital Skills

How to create annotations that let your design work shine Continue reading on UX Collective »

Your team may be shipping manipulative UX, and you may not be aware of it. LLMs trained on the web have absorbed its worst design habits. Or, to be precise, our worst design habits. Not to generalize, but even though they’re considered unethical, many companies use design tricks to deceive users into making choices they would not … Weiterlesen

Chat is the AI interface that shipped fastest, not the one that worked. The 2024 retrofits prove it. Every affordance on the left became an unspoken assumption on the right. Users now have to guess what the system can do. I wrote this essay from firsthand experience building AI-adjacent products. I used Claude Code (an AI coding … Weiterlesen

The invisible walls for designers have been broken down. Maybe we don’t know it yet, but this year is the perfect time to start reframing the influence and vision of product design within and beyond companies. All the walls that might keep us in secondary or even tertiary roles are down, and this is the … Weiterlesen

Chat UI rewards fluency, not precision. Your expertise lives in precision. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The sentiment of the change brought on by AI has never been more relevant than it is now. Technology has always accelerated, but it feels like we are at an inflection point. Where AI business innovation, AI automation, and AI-driven technological disruption are shaping us faster than we can … Weiterlesen

The line between human expertise and AI-assisted results gets delicate, yet there are ways to befriend new technology. On my trip to Trieste, I met a colleague, a software developer, who offered a fresh view of the IT field. Our discussion ended with a classic rant on AI stealing our jobs. Yet, is it really … Weiterlesen

“Good taste” might be one of the most misleading phrases in the world of UX design at the moment. Continue reading on UX Collective »

On demos, tacit knowledge, and building your own scaffolding I’ve spent seven years in the design industry. Strip away the user research and product definition, and the core task was always the same: draw things. Wireframes, visual specs — hand them to engineering, then wait. I was essentially a translator. Translating requirements into ideas, ideas into files, and … Weiterlesen

For our juniors, organisations and future generations to come. As AI disrupts the design process and traditional hierarchies, organisations must shift to a “dual transformation” model that balances high-velocity atomic innovation with a stable tomato core. By using a Capability Link to bridge these structures, teams can scale breakthroughs while ensuring juniors develop the foundational mastery … Weiterlesen