Digital Skills

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 »

Mastering an AI tool isn’t learning its correct use. It’s learning to bend it to how you already think — and that kind of mastery is personal, divergent, and never finished. Diagram illustrating that mastering an AI tool is divergent and personal: the same instrument, shaped by the designer (D) who holds it, becomes five things only … Weiterlesen

People do two things online. They are either consuming content or navigating to it. You want people to spend more time engaging with your content and less time struggling to find it. A great information architecture (IA) tells a story, creates flow, and aids discovery for the people using your products or services. Is this how … Weiterlesen

The illusion of completion and the birth of the ghost Continue reading on UX Collective »

The new product mandate. Continue reading on UX Collective »

We’ve all lived a version of this story. You start small — asking AI to refine an email. Then something a little harder, like writing a function in a language you barely know. Then a whole feature. Eventually you give it access to your files, your calendar, your codebase. At first it feels like an intern. Then it … Weiterlesen

Re-designing mocks is slowly becoming the bulk of design work Continue reading on UX Collective »

You can get there, but it’s about making the effort. The next decade of user experience work is not about prompting better, it’s about owning the systems, the white space, and trade-offs nobody has mapped yet. Most designers I talk to already use AI every day. It makes them so much faster. Sketching faster. Doing research faster. Writing copy faster. … Weiterlesen