What sits on the engawa
On designing for wishes we cannot yet wish alone. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Digital Skills
Better search, worse web
Every number says Google AI Search is better. None of them can see the cost. Continue reading on UX Collective »
The organizational cost of low taste
When taste is weak, organizations don’t fail in strategy. They fail in decisions. This is what happens when an organization loses a shared sense of quality. Every downstream symptom is just a different way of compensating for the same missing signal. From scaling problem to judgment problem In a previous article, I argued that AI has made … Weiterlesen
Access is not mastery, the polymath UX architect, A2UI under the hood
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “I’ve seen PMs and sales teams build working prototypes with AI tools that genuinely work — they ship, users can use them. But there are details underneath: interactions that are slightly off, components that don’t quite fit the pattern, decisions that made sense in the moment but will create friction as … Weiterlesen
The Magic 8-Ball vs. Gen AI: a surprisingly interesting comparison
Two products. Both fortune-tellers. Wildly different operating costs. One Is a Plastic Sphere Filled With Alcohol. The Other Is a Trillion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Compute. They Do Roughly the Same Job. In 1950, Brunswick Billiards commissioned a Cincinnati novelty firm to design a giveaway. The result was a plastic eight-ball with a 20-sided die … Weiterlesen
Two modernisms
Mies hid the steel. Beck removed the geography. Radix stripped the styles. None of them were making a philosophical statement — they were… Continue reading on UX Collective »
Why the best part of the flow isn't the end
South Korea’s “dopamine sites” let you order food that never arrives. Strip out the transaction and what’s left still works — which should… Continue reading on UX Collective »
Enterprise software is getting personal
Three design trends reshaping the user experience of enterprise software as we know it. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Your strategic guide to winning design awards
A roadmap to transform recognition into rocket fuel for your career and company. Continue reading on UX Collective »
We used to know that it was a person who wrote it
Reading used to come with a guarantee that a person was on the other end. We spent it down, and now you check everything. Continue reading on UX Collective »