Digital Skills

How product teams confuse building with validating Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Sean Foster on Unsplash The urge to build feels older and more reflexive than the thinking meant to govern it. There’s a particular comfort in being busy. One that is very easily mistaken for being useful. … Weiterlesen

Why 95.9% of the world’s top million sites still fail the people who need them most. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The artifact just became the cheapest thing in hiring. The room test is the live follow-up you can’t generate, and it’s where interviews actually get decided in 2026. Press enter or click to view image in full size © Martino Pietropoli Seven or eight years ago I made it to the final round at a … Weiterlesen

AI is a powerful partner for UX reviews, not a replacement for the expert, and the accuracy comes from the expertise you feed it, not the model. I got a task that isn’t complicated in itself: I had to write a UX expert review for the search, results, and product detail pages of a portal. … Weiterlesen

If design experiments scare you? Take a page from design leaders and call them bets. Photo by Kindel Media: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-vegetable-garden-7457497/ I’m about to say something that would irritate my old academic advisors and colleagues. You don’t need nearly as much scientific rigor as you think to run a design experiment. That’s something I’ve learned after … Weiterlesen

On the small delay that makes a brainstorm actually storm Press enter or click to view image in full size Note by Hiroshi One day, I was invited to join a brainstorm. I opened the Zoom link they had sent. The team looked well composed for a brainstorm — six or seven people, a good … Weiterlesen

The habit loop that built social media is now wired into every chatbot — here are ways to use it without becoming the dealer. 16 min read · 14 hours ago Nir Eyal published Hooked in 2014, and product teams have been running its playbook ever since. It was a topic I taught in General … Weiterlesen

How I use Claude Code to challenge assumptions and turn research into a living artifact Press enter or click to view image in full size Claude Code can already do plenty of basic research work. It can search the web, compare products, synthesize documents, and organize the result into a template. These are useful capabilities, … Weiterlesen

Everything got faster, closer, more certain. The person inside stayed the same. Continue reading on UX Collective »