Digital Skills

The retention killer that never shows up in a requirements doc. This image was the consumer-generated collage of the ‘typical MISSHA user’ at the time: loud, immature, trying too hard, and far removed from the identity consumers actually aspired to. The consumer imagery shown here reflects perceptions of a specific product line at a particular … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Design leadership is currently suffering from a bad case of mechanical thinking. We talk endlessly about cross-functional alignment, product development and operations, and predicting roadmaps. But mechanical systems are brittle. They crack the second an executive stakeholder pivots strategy, a competitor drops a new AI feature out of nowhere, … Weiterlesen

Why years of client work, deadlines, and professional practice reshape a designer’s relationship with emerging technology. Photo by K. K. on Unsplash I was having lunch with a couple of friends the other day. Both happen to be designers. They’re also around my age, in their early forties, and they’ve been designing for roughly as long … Weiterlesen

A translation guide for designers who think accessibility is a separate skill set Every year, WebAIM crawls the home pages of the top one million websites and runs them through an automated accessibility scanner. The 2026 results, published this spring, found errors on 95.9% of home pages, averaging 56 detectable accessibility barriers per page. That number … Weiterlesen

We’ve spent 180 years trying not to feel the cost of the machine. AI just turned the meter back on. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A realistic guide to shipping your own designs. Your company wants you to use more tokens. Engineers are shipping faster than you can prototype. Vibecoded slop is all over your LinkedIn feed. Agents are the future. Figma’s over. Anthropic just released Claude Design. Taste is everything. Eng just shipped another PR! Design is dead. Actually, you … Weiterlesen

The gap between what AI is reliable for and what it looks reliable for is where damage happens, and enablement fails How to lead the change with AI in a nutshell I’ve been building with AI for three years now. I started by trying to scale UX writing via plug-ins and now have agents, workflows, MCPs, … Weiterlesen

10 controversies and a brief history of the Framer marketplace Full disclosure, I do not work at Framer, nor do I have any affiliation with them. I’m just a regular creator who has been in the space for a while and watched the evolution unfold in real time. I sold my first Framer template in April … Weiterlesen

Two generations learned what a thinking machine looks like from a production line of individuals and the picture is not holding. AI assisted. The saga imagined thinking machines as immortal individuals in metal bodies. Real AI showed up as copyable software, and every difference is worth understanding. We grew up with the droids. R2-D2 beeping … Weiterlesen