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Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data

As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be no shortage of marketing hype around personalization platforms, we still have very few standardized approaches for implementing personalized… Continue reading Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data

Your New UX Habit: Establishing Baselines for Impact

Summary:  Gather baseline metrics before starting a project so your team can demonstrate its impact. Between delivery timelines and limited resources, cutting data collection upfront seems like an efficient choice. Without benchmarks to compare to, however, it’s impossible to demonstrate improvement. (Don’t worry, we have some other options for reducing UX waste.) In fact, one… Continue reading Your New UX Habit: Establishing Baselines for Impact

Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3

I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by Patrick Brosset at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it’s inaccessible by default. Note: This post contains interactive demos. If you want to see them instead of screenshots, enable the CSS… Continue reading Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3

Rethinking Figma in an AI world

As AI pulls product development closer to code, Config 2026 reveals Figma’s high-stakes gamble to survive an era of agentic workflows in a code-native environment At Config 2026, Figma is responding to AI pressure by expanding its canvas into code layers, motion, and shaders to prevent teams from bypassing design handoffs entirely. The real test… Continue reading Rethinking Figma in an AI world

Free AI Image Editor: Easy Ways to Edit Photos for Any Project

Whether you’re making a social media post, YouTube thumbnail, images for website, or school project, editing photos is something almost everyone does today. The good news is that you don’t need expensive software or advanced design skills anymore. A Free AI Image Editor can help you make quick changes in just a few clicks. AI… Continue reading Free AI Image Editor: Easy Ways to Edit Photos for Any Project

Loom

This is the first run experience of Loom, an online video recording platform. This first experience is from the perspective of someone who came to Loom directly of their own motivation, to record a presentation video for a virtual event. Other new users to this product could be those invited to view an existing video,… Continue reading Loom

Incentive Structures for Diary Studies

Summary:  A mindful incentive structure can keep diary study participants engaged and responding, without overloading you with low-quality responses. Compared to other UX research studies, diary studies — especially longer ones — are particularly vulnerable to high participant attrition — when participants stop submitting entries or responding. One of the strongest levers against attrition is… Continue reading Incentive Structures for Diary Studies

The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique

Summary:  To build useful and usable AI-powered systems, our understanding of users’ needs and our design judgement must be encoded into well-defined evaluation criteria. Design Decisions in Generative AI Systems Imagine asking a large language model a question like “How’s the weather today?” The response might include too much information (“it’s 72 degrees, and it… Continue reading The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique

Context Architecture

Summary:  Context architecture applies information architecture principles to AI systems, helping agents interpret information and produce better, user aligned responses. From Prompts to Context The way we shape AI products has evolved quickly. It started with prompt engineering. Early on, success depended on crafting the right instruction. A well-written prompt could unlock surprisingly strong results,… Continue reading Context Architecture

The forgotten science behind self-improving companies

Cybernetics might just be the most important body of knowledge in 2026 and beyond. But don’t take my word for it. Look at the evidence: from technical staff at Anthropic to a production engineering talk at Factory, and YC founders speaking at Stanford — a pattern keeps emerging. They’re all talking about cybernetics. And as far as… Continue reading The forgotten science behind self-improving companies

Famous Brands Packaged Like Products: Creative AI Poster Series

What if popular digital brands were sold in stores just like everyday consumer products? That simple idea inspired this creative AI poster series. Instead of viewing brands as websites, apps, or online platforms, these posters imagine them as premium packaged products displayed on supermarket shelves. From social media giants and AI tools to creative platforms… Continue reading Famous Brands Packaged Like Products: Creative AI Poster Series

The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)

Summary:  “AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work. What Does “AI Design” Mean? When someone says “AI design,” everyone in the room pictures something different. One person is thinking about using AI to generate component variations for a design system. Another is designing a chat interface. A third… Continue reading The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)

Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world

Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.” In a world of automated perfection, the “thinking hand” reclaims the grit, soul, and human conviction that make design truly come alive. (image source: jonmiura) Lucasfilm and the Art of the Matte Painting For close to 50 years, the same Star… Continue reading Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world

A year in review: 2024

2024 was our first year with three kids, and what a year that was. Personal Life with three kids is different in many ways, but most importantly, it’s awesome. I love my little daughters so much, and I enjoy every day with my family. Okay, maybe not every day because when they’re all sick at… Continue reading A year in review: 2024

Logo Design After AI: How Designers Create Powerful Brand Logos in 2026

AI tools have changed how logo design for brands begins—but not how it succeeds. Today, designers can generate logo concepts in seconds, explore styles instantly, and speed up the creative process. However, creating a logo that is clear, memorable, and meaningful still requires human thinking and strategy. Many people assume AI tools can replace graphic… Continue reading Logo Design After AI: How Designers Create Powerful Brand Logos in 2026

Filmora AI Video Generator App: Create AI Videos on Mobile Easily

Making videos used to be very hard for many regular people. You need a big computer and many hours to learn every tool. Now, everyone wants to share great stories on social media every single day. Using a Filmora AI video generator helps you create amazing videos directly on your phone. This smart tool turns… Continue reading Filmora AI Video Generator App: Create AI Videos on Mobile Easily

Minimum Viable Product (MVP): Definition

Summary:  MVPs are learning tools that test whether an idea is valuable to users. Low-code platforms and AI-assisted design tools have made it faster than ever to build new products. But speed of creation can obscure the critical question in product development: Are we building the right solution for our users? Minimum viable products (MVPs)… Continue reading Minimum Viable Product (MVP): Definition

The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?

Let’s be honest: the designer-developer handoff was never really “working”—at best, it limped along with annotated PDFs and passive-aggressive Figma comments. At worst, it bred siloed teams, bloated timelines, and a whole lot of mutual eye-rolling. But in 2025, after a decade of Figma, a thousand design system evangelists, and an ocean of bridging tools, you’d… Continue reading The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?

AI in UX Research Revisited: What Really Changed Since 2023?

What is this report about? 📚 In 2023, at the beginning of the still-ongoing AI frenzy, we asked expert UX researchers how they viewed the rise of AI in the UX Research industry. At that time, responses were a mix of curiosity, skepticism, and early experimentation. Two years later, driven by rapid progress in AI… Continue reading AI in UX Research Revisited: What Really Changed Since 2023?

Google AI Mode: Powerful Search, Poor Usability

Summary:  Google’s new AI Mode provides a new way to search the web but is hampered by discoverability and navigation issues — especially for AI novices. What Is Google AI Mode? Google AI Mode is a new feature of the search engine that combines the breadth of a web search with the reasoning power of… Continue reading Google AI Mode: Powerful Search, Poor Usability

Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener

Summary:  Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time. Even the most carefully designed screener can let the wrong participants slip into their study. You may discover halfway through a usability test that someone clearly doesn’t match your target audience – leaving you… Continue reading Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener

Guardrails for AI Agents

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Why guardrails are an integral part of any AI workflow and how to set them up for your AI agent As with any other type of software, AI agents are vulnerable to various types of threats. Without proper safeguards, they can produce inaccurate, biased, or even harmful outputs — or take unintended actions… Continue reading Guardrails for AI Agents

Prioritize Smarts over Sentience to Increase Trust with AI

Summary:  People trust AI more when it seems smarter rather than sentient. AI emotions can reduce trust in factual, task-oriented work and reduce AI reliability. A common concern from attendees of our Designing AI Experiences course is how to help users develop trust with artificial intelligence (AI). One technique that designers are frequently tempted to… Continue reading Prioritize Smarts over Sentience to Increase Trust with AI