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Google Testing Audio Overviews In The Wild

Google is testing Audio Overviews in search results, generating conversational audio for queries using Gemini models.

Web design

Using Design Systems in Claude Design: How Good Is It?

Claude Design is more effective with design systems imported from GitHub than from Figma.

6 days ago

Claude Opus 4.7 for Product Designers

Opus 4.7 is available across Claude products and its API, with a token cost of $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

Artificial intelligence

Graphic design

How design leaders influence decisions without being in the room

Effective design communication requires clear annotations to convey decisions, hypotheses, and outcomes.

10 hours ago

Vibe Coding Myths Debunked

Vibe coding enables anyone to create products using AI, but quality depends on design skills and critical thinking.

Typography

fromPiccalilli

3 days ago

The end of responsive images

Responsive image markup significantly enhances web performance and user experience, stemming from years of collaborative development efforts.

Graphic design

The art of subtraction in a world of infinite features

Subtraction in visual arts enhances clarity and focus by intentionally removing elements that distract from the main subject.

Designing with AI without losing your mind

Outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools in design can undermine the quality of solutions and diminish essential skills.

What AI exposes about design

AI is transforming design by automating tasks, emphasizing speed, and allowing a focus on user satisfaction and meaningful outcomes.

Designing with AI without losing your mind

Outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools in design can undermine the quality of solutions and diminish essential skills.

What AI exposes about design

AI is transforming design by automating tasks, emphasizing speed, and allowing a focus on user satisfaction and meaningful outcomes.

The Death of Digital Product Design

AI tools have disrupted product design, enabling anyone to create designs quickly without special skills.

Notes from the people building your future

AI-driven job displacement requires thoughtful policy to ensure equitable distribution of prosperity and prevent increased inequality.

fromJonnyburch

I love AI, but it still can't design for shit

AI lacks a critical eye for its own output, leading to poor presentations and accountability issues for users.

Artificial intelligence

Something big "might" be happening

AI text-prompt tools can produce functional, impressive designs and web apps, creating real risk that many traditional screen-based design roles may become redundant.

3 days ago

The Death of Digital Product Design

AI tools have disrupted product design, enabling anyone to create designs quickly without special skills.

Notes from the people building your future

AI-driven job displacement requires thoughtful policy to ensure equitable distribution of prosperity and prevent increased inequality.

fromJonnyburch

I love AI, but it still can't design for shit

AI lacks a critical eye for its own output, leading to poor presentations and accountability issues for users.

Artificial intelligence

Something big "might" be happening

Context matters... A lot

Large language models excel at tasks but struggle with context, leading to potentially misleading answers despite their capabilities.

#ux-design

fromSmashing Magazine

4 days ago

The UX Designer's Nightmare: When "Production-Ready" Becomes A Design Deliverable - Smashing Magazine

The role of UX designers is evolving to include technical skills due to AI integration, impacting user experience and design responsibilities.

UX design

The mirage of UX Design's demise keeps coming back

fromLogRocket Blog

UX design

UX designers don't need to be data scientists - but they must challenge data - LogRocket Blog

fromSmashing Magazine

4 days ago

The UX Designer's Nightmare: When "Production-Ready" Becomes A Design Deliverable - Smashing Magazine

The role of UX designers is evolving to include technical skills due to AI integration, impacting user experience and design responsibilities.

The mirage of UX Design's demise keeps coming back

The claim that 'UX Design is dead' reflects deeper anxieties about existence and professional relevance.

fromLogRocket Blog

UX design

UX designers don't need to be data scientists - but they must challenge data - LogRocket Blog

Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now

Accessibility is crucial in design, as poor design can lead to life-altering consequences for users.

The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore

Designers must prioritize screen reader compatibility to ensure accessibility, as users rely on spoken content rather than visual elements.

fromA List Apart

3 days ago

Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now

Accessibility is crucial in design, as poor design can lead to life-altering consequences for users.

The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore

Designers must prioritize screen reader compatibility to ensure accessibility, as users rely on spoken content rather than visual elements.

Working in the open

Working in open source enhances design skills through collaboration, user empowerment, and continuous learning.

You can't design what you won't maintain

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is one of the most idyllic cities in the Canary Islands. At its heart stands the jewel - the Auditorio. It's a place where talent from both worlds, New and Old, comes together. A theatre, opera, dance, and music heaven.

Berlin

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

Designers now have the opportunity to redefine their influence and role within companies, moving beyond traditional constraints.

fromFast Company

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

Designers now have the opportunity to redefine their influence and role within companies, moving beyond traditional constraints.

fromFast Company

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.

Making vs. the machine

Monetizing creativity can lead to sacrificing artistic passion and purpose for commercial demands and metrics.

Oh, but there's one more thing

Designers must address real project challenges while navigating the evolving role of AI in the creative process.

Designing for the invisible customer

The act of choosing in design is increasingly outsourced to digital gatekeepers, redefining the role of design and aesthetics.

Designers finally have a say in the product they design.

AI empowers designers by restoring their decision-making authority in the design process.

Sorry, designers, we don't decide the future of design

Designers do not shape their field; they respond to market-driven changes, especially with the rise of AI in design processes.

1 week ago

Oh, but there's one more thing

Designers must address real project challenges while navigating the evolving role of AI in the creative process.

Designing for the invisible customer

The act of choosing in design is increasingly outsourced to digital gatekeepers, redefining the role of design and aesthetics.

Designers finally have a say in the product they design.

AI empowers designers by restoring their decision-making authority in the design process.

Sorry, designers, we don't decide the future of design

Designers do not shape their field; they respond to market-driven changes, especially with the rise of AI in design processes.

The Future of UI Design is Agentic Design

AI tools are now integral to product design, enabling collaborative UI creation and refinement in tools like Figma.

#ai-agents

Designers, your next user won't be human

Every SaaS company will transform into agentic-as-a-service platforms, requiring designers to solve fundamental problems in agent interaction, behavior, and user experience as AI agents become central to enterprise software.

8 months ago

UX design

Who are we designing for now?

Designers, your next user won't be human

8 months ago

UX design

Who are we designing for now?

Rethinking design critique

Design critique is essential for designers to build knowledge and confidence through structured feedback and reflection.

Software development

The last interface

AI will make software development so inexpensive that SaaS companies risk self-destruction through commoditization, while simultaneously disrupting the complex user interfaces that knowledge workers depend on daily.

The craft of the instruction

Instructions I created. Instructions I am continuing to hone - instructions that required me to study my own old essays, identifying what I do when I write. The sentence rhythms. The way I move between timescales. The zooming in and out from concept to detail. The instructions tell Claude how I would like ideas composed. I pull together concepts and experiences from my lived expertise to formulate a point of view - in this case, on this new AI technology.

Design

Cooking

Escaping the ennui in UI

AI-driven 'vibedesign' favors shallow aesthetics over craft, urging a return from prompt 'shimmer' to practiced 'friction' and genuine mastery.

Who are we really designing for?

Designing effectively requires distinguishing between the individual User and the collective Customer.

Integrating UX into capacity planning

Capacity Planning is the process of right-sizing the 'Total Project Demand' with the forecasted Team Capacity. Most UX teams have no idea what their capacity is. Fewer still have a process for calculating it and using it during quarterly planning activities with their counterparts in Product Management & Engineering to ensure teams don't commit to more work than they can handle.

Mobile UX

fromEntrepreneur

This Is the Secret to Building Products Customers Actually Love

Her payment form wasn't connecting to the payment processor, and every attempt ended in an error message that made no sense. I understood her frustration. As a founder myself, I was acutely aware of the pain of trying to run a business and feeling like nothing was going your way. When I dug into her form, I found the problem a few minutes later: a mismatch between test mode and live credentials.

Startup companies

The UX ground is shaking, synthetic users, building perspective

A clear design perspective is crucial; it defines what to exclude, ensuring focus on what truly matters.

Beyond the user: why design needs to widen its circle

Human-centered design must evolve to consider ecological impacts alongside user comfort and needs.

Software development

You're still designing for an architecture that no longer exists

The traditional graphical user interface built on windows, menus, and clicks is being replaced by AI-driven environments where work happens through natural interaction without navigating applications or interfaces.

Careful, liable UX is a thing now

Design decisions that manipulate users are being recognized as deceptive practices with significant real-life consequences.

We didn't mean to build this- engagement at any cost

Meta was fined $375 million for misleading users about platform safety, highlighting systemic issues in tech design and user protection.

Graphic design

On craft and connivence

Relying on reused, trendy design assets can deliver quick results but leaves work vulnerable when clients demand original, high-stakes creativity.

You're not supposed to get it right

Design challenges for UX writers can be intimidating due to the pressure of making quick, impactful decisions and the emphasis on visual elements.

Breaking the echo chamber in your interface

Chatbots trained through reinforcement learning from human feedback learn to agree with users because positive ratings reward agreeableness, creating sycophantic systems that validate rather than challenge.

Human-Centred Design has grown up. It's time we did too.

Technology must prioritize human needs over user convenience to avoid harm.

Every designer on my team ships the same quality now

Figma's integration of AI agents blurs the line between AI-generated and human-designed outputs, raising questions about the value of design work.

Design engineers, UX Design's demise, forget your "lovable" products

Design Engineering merges visual design and front-end development, focusing on the intersection of design decisions and technical implementation.

The three thirds

Many mid-career designers feel disillusioned as they reach a ceiling in their careers, realizing the promised growth and impact is limited.

Design debt is now as dangerous as technical debt

Design debt accumulates unnoticed, impacting product decisions and user experience, yet it remains largely untracked compared to technical debt.

Forget your "lovable" products; the real leverage point was always learning.

Learning reshapes the relationship between outputs and outcomes, serving as the true leverage point that design conversations overlook while chasing trending methodologies.

Stop Burying Your Impact: Why Most UX Storytelling Advice Falls Flat

Begin UX storytelling by answering 'Why should they care?' and choose the appropriate story type rather than defaulting to common frameworks.

Field study: prototypes over mockups

Engineering handoff occurs through PRs using runnable prototypes that reuse the design system components and tokens, enabling engineers to reuse components and reference prototype code.

#user-personas

UX design

User personas of consequence

UX design

How user segmentation, rather than personas, helps you get design buy-in

UX design

User personas of consequence

UX design

How user segmentation, rather than personas, helps you get design buy-in

more#user-personas

The Design Vibeshift

Something's been slowly shifting in the design zeitgeist. I've been watching my feed on X and the vibe has changed. More and more, I see designers sharing finished experiments or prototypes they coded themselves, rather than static Figma files. Moving from working on a canvas to talking to an LLM. The conversation isn't "here's a design I made" anymore... it's "here's something I shipped this afternoon."

UX design

3 months ago

What makes generated UI worth keeping?

Integrate brand, real data, and reusable patterns into AI UI generation so screens remain usable beyond demos and avoid costly rebuilds.

The natural design process

Design should return to essential, natural practices emphasizing observation and focused problem-solving rather than bloated processes.

#ai-ux

UX design

Are we doing UX for AI the right way?

UX design

The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals

UX design

Are we doing UX for AI the right way?

UX design

The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals

How wrong becomes normal

Dark patterns are intentional deceptive interface designs that manipulate users into actions against their interests by exploiting psychology, urgency, and friction.