UX design

Pool Library: Built Fast to Fix My Own Annoyance

I kept losing design references I loved, so I built a quick, simple local library that keeps them - and saw how fast design is changing. Continue reading on Medium »

How designers work with AI now, plus tools and five prompts.

Secret agent bot: accessibility matters for the agents even if you can’t see them

AI is hollowing out the middle of design, leaving an hourglass behind

For fifteen years, the design process kept growing while the time left for making the product kept shrinking. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why Do Very Different Things End Up Solving Problems the Same Way?

Day 27 of Monkey Saw 125 Things- Continue reading on Medium »

I Tested 100+ GitHub Tools for Claude. These 7 Are the Best

There are hundreds of GitHub repositories for Claude, and pretty much every repository claims it will streamline your work with Claude… Continue reading on UX Planet »

Your Error Messages Are a Feature: What a "Random Logout" Bug Taught Me About Designing for Failure

In my last article, I wrote about UX bugs that pass every test — like a wallet with no visible balance. This one is about the biggest category of those bugs: what your app says, or doesn't say, when something goes wrong. The complaint came in as: "The app keeps logging me out randomly." The portal used short-lived access tokens with a refresh flow. The access token expired on schedule, the frontend's refresh call was broken, the refresh silently failed, and the app dumped the user back to the lo

On M.F. Husain and multiple meanings of the colour orange

The painting that introduced me to the power and purpose of art Continue reading on UX Collective »

Borrowed slopes

When a traffic line bends, newsrooms reach for the oldest kit in digital design. The readers it costs are the ones they most need. Continue reading on UX Collective »

What Deserves Your Attention?

AI-generated UI, What the AI era owes you, Amazing Glass, Jev for UX

The research you did last quarter changed nothing.

Research does not die from being bad. It dies from being ignored. Continue reading on Medium »

漢堡選單大家都認得了，為什麼還是找不到東西？問題出在 Engage、I want to… 這幾個標籤上

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How to run a design review meeting that ends in a decision

A design review meeting now decides one thing: is it ready to build? Continue reading on Medium »

How Physical Space Proves UX Isn’t Just Digital: The Existential Crisis of the Metro’s EPID Panel

The cost of ignoring usability in real-world public infrastructure. Continue reading on Medium »

Control: Why We Need to Feel Like We’re in Charge

Day 26 of Monkey Saw 125 Things- Continue reading on Medium »

What Does a Product Designer Do? A Complete Guide for 2026

rocess varies by organization, most digital product design projects follow a structured approach. Continue reading on Medium »

I Paid for Spotify Premium. Two Days Later, I Went Back to YouTube.

Spotify knows a lot about what we like. But does it always understand what we want to hear right now? A product designer’s perspective. Continue reading on Medium »

The Hidden Design Decisions Behind UPI Payments

How a few seconds of interaction changed the way we think about money. Continue reading on Medium »

Art Woman Design Poster AI File Format

This “Art Woman Design Poster” is a medium-sized reproduction featuring a multicolor Art Deco style design of a woman. It is suitable for… Continue reading on Medium »

How to Become an AI Designer in 2026

A plain roadmap for students and juniors on what to learn, what to build, and what to show hiring managers. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

UX portfolio case study: show decisions, not process

Recruiters don’t require yet another double diamond diagram. What they want is proof of how you reason when the solution isn’t clear. Continue reading on Medium »

Designing for an idea before it exists

On empty seats, metaphors, and the useful parts that don’t quite fit Continue reading on UX Collective »

Looks Great in Figma. Now What?

A beautiful mockup is easy to admire. A good product has to work beyond the screenshot. Continue reading on Medium »

Art Woman Design Poster AI File Format

This “Art Woman Design Poster” is a medium-sized reproduction featuring a multicolor Art Deco style design of a woman. It is suitable for… Continue reading on Medium »

15 Figma Tools That Solve Problems Nobody Wants to Deal With

5 powerful tools for serious UX work, and 10 tiny plugins that can rescue you from hours of repetitive design tasks. Continue reading on UX Planet »

I Tried Claude With Figma on an 800+ Screen Project. It Never Reached the Hard Part

I tested AI-assisted interface generation before designing more than 800 interconnected enterprise screens. The test struggled with visual… Continue reading on UX Planet »

Most of what you have been taught about colour in UX is pseudoscience

Blue does not build trust. Red does not create urgency. Here is what colour actually does in a product, and how to think about it without… Continue reading on Medium »

Tesler’s Law: complexity moved to a different part of the journey

Are synthetic users (really) the future of UX research?

Synthetic users are making me rethink “imperfect research”

What the AI era owes you

Who Designs AI-Powered Fan Engagement Features for Sports Clubs? — 2026 Guide

AI is changing what fan engagement means — but most clubs haven’t figured out what to build or who to build it with. Continue reading on Medium »

Claude Haiku 5.5 is the Ultimate Junior Designer

Haiku 5.5 is the fastest and most token-efficient AI model from Anthropic. I’ve demonstrated what this model is capable of in my previous… Continue reading on UX Planet »

Design Team Promotion Framework: Timelines, KPIs, and What It Really Takes to Grow

AI: incidents by design

Is Figma Dead in the AI Era? Why AI Makes the UI/UX Phase More Important

As AI makes design-to-code faster, Figma can become less about drawing screens and more about thinking through the experience. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

AI is Making Average UI Easier to Create. Here’s Why That Makes Good UX Harder.

When everyone can generate a polished interface, looking good stops being enough. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

The Best Interface is the One You Stop Thinking About

Good UX rarely asks for your attention. It quietly helps you spend it somewhere else. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

What Is Brand Identity? Why Your Logo Is Only the Beginning

If you ask ten business owners what brand identity means, many will probably mention a logo, colors, or a font. Continue reading on Medium »

Beyond streaks and nudges: ethical gamification & AI design

On designing systems that inspire rather than manipulate. Continue reading on UX Collective »

ADHD & Product Design: Designing for Focus, Not Just Features

I downloaded a notes and reminders app designed to help people with ADHD take notes and set reminders, but the onboarding process and full… Continue reading on Medium »

The Best AI in Games Might Know When to Leave You Alone

AI is getting better at understanding players. That doesn’t necessarily mean it should act on everything it learns. Continue reading on Medium »

What Happens When Every Screen Is Right?

What the Design Team Actually Does Between “We Need an AI Assistant” and Launch Day

Accessibility begins where conditions change

Abilities, environments, and ways of interacting vary. Designing for accessibility means translating that variation into interface… Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

The designers who will still be paid in 2028 are the ones who started today.

AI did not kill design. It killed average design, and made the premium on the real thing bigger than it has been in a decade. Continue reading on Medium »

Jev: How to use it for better, faster, and cheaper user decisions in UX