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active: 2018-05-25 → 2026-07-15

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RI Rita Kind-Envy · UX Collective

What good writing looks like

The essential (micro) copy rules I used at Google.

Jan 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 3,951 claps paywalled #ux-writing #ux #writing-tips

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AD Adrian Levy · UX Collective

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

Claude just showed us what replaced it.

Mar 05, 2026 · 12 min read · 1,974 claps paywalled #ux #artificial-intelligence #information-architecture

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

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WI Wira Indra Kusuma · UX Collective

We used to log off

Online used to be a place you could leave. We designed the exit out of it because an exit reads as a leak. Here is why building it back is…

Jun 08, 2026 · 9 min read · 1,814 claps paywalled #ux #ai #ux-design

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UR Urszula Kluz · UX Collective

Tender leadership with a bit of mischief

We often shy away from showing our “soft” side at work. But what if that’s our biggest strength.

Aug 25, 2025 · 12 min read · 1,023 claps #women-in-tech #leadership #ux

Tender leadership with a bit of mischief

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VL Vlad Derdeicea · UX Collective

The 80% job: how design leads are using AI — and it’s not about mockups

Design leads spend 80% of their time communicating, aligning, and justifying. That’s exactly where AI helps most.

Feb 11, 2026 · 26 min read · 755 claps #design-leadership #artificial-intelligence #product-management

The 80% job: how design leads are using AI — and it’s not about mockups

GI Giulia Alfarano · UX Collective

What should be the contrast level of inactive buttons?

Using the APCA Readability Criterion to improve the accessibility of disabled controls

Oct 20, 2023 · 8 min read · 734 claps #accessibility #apca #wcag

What should be the contrast level of inactive buttons?

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JO Johannes Schleith · UX Collective

Don’t design for AI

Design for problems worth solving with AI, distributed cognition, cognitive tasks and human centered intelligent systems

Feb 19, 2024 · 9 min read · 654 claps #user-experience #design-thinking #artificial-intelligence

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JU Juli Mata - Product-Service Strategy Consultant · UX Collective

This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

The dilution of service design and the inflation of design knowledge.

Jun 29, 2023 · 8 min read · 633 claps #design-thinking #product-design #service-design

This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

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SL Slava Polonski, PhD · UX Collective

AI personality is a design problem

Right now it’s an accidental byproduct of AI alignment. It could be an interface we build deliberately.

Jul 02, 2026 · 10 min read · 578 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #product-design #design

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JA Jax Wechsler · UX Collective

Trauma-informed design research

Design practice that helps not harms

Aug 09, 2021 · 7 min read · 517 claps #design #design-research #ux

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CA Cassie McDaniel · UX Collective

How designers need to change for an AI-powered world

A recap of ideas from our panel discussion for a topic that’s on everyone’s mind

Jul 01, 2026 · 11 min read · 512 claps paywalled #ai #design #product-development

How designers need to change for an AI-powered world

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KE Kevin Muldoon · UX Collective

Why design systems fail to resolve disagreements

How design lost the ability to evaluate work

Jan 10, 2026 · 8 min read · 457 claps paywalled #design-systems #design-critique #design

Why design systems fail to resolve disagreements

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RI Rita Kind-Envy · UX Collective

You can’t design what you won’t maintain

A marvel of design is about to collapse into the ocean, and we can’t do anything about it.

Mar 19, 2026 · 7 min read · 438 claps paywalled #architecture #theatre #product-design

You can’t design what you won’t maintain

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RI Rita Kind-Envy · UX Collective

The big M&M’s color investigation you could’ve totally lived without

How colors manipulate our brain, and why switch them up? A deep dive into M&M's product tactics and controversies.

May 18, 2026 · 9 min read · 424 claps paywalled #colors #design #product-design

The big M&M’s color investigation you could’ve totally lived without

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MA Mark Bult · UX Collective

Dear New Employee

The experience of joining a large company as a designer.

Feb 19, 2020 · 7 min read · 400 claps #technology #humor #ux

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UR Urszula Kluz · UX Collective

Colonoscopy and candy drops: on crafting a good peak-end experience

Why the last moments of an experience shape what we remember — and how to design them right.

Aug 06, 2025 · 8 min read · 359 claps #ux #content-strategy #psychology

Colonoscopy and candy drops: on crafting a good peak-end experience

RI Rita Kind-Envy · UX Collective

You’re not supposed to get it right

I left the Google design challenge convinced I had failed — and I passed. This is what actually matters in these interviews.

Apr 04, 2026 · 6 min read · 351 claps paywalled #design-challenge #design-interview #interview

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WI Wira Indra Kusuma · UX Collective

Better search, worse web

Every number says Google AI Search is better. None of them can see the cost.

Jun 22, 2026 · 7 min read · 341 claps paywalled #ux #search #google

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NE Neel Dozome · UX Collective

Lord of the TTL chips

One Steve to rule them all, One Steve to find them, One Bill to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them (or, the role of the 7400…

Jun 16, 2026 · 13 min read · 338 claps paywalled #machine-learning #technology #history

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SE Sen Lin · UX Collective

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.

May 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 310 claps #productivity #product-design #figma

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

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JA Jay Acutt · UX Collective

The extended designer, and the design machine

The Extended Designer spends less time making products, and more time making progress.

Oct 28, 2023 · 19 min read · 304 claps #design #design-thinking #product-design

The extended designer, and the design machine

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RI Rita Kind-Envy · UX Collective

How werewolves killed my Pinterest

This is what happens when your attention is being actively hijacked — the best “inspo pics” app is now unusable.

Mar 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 302 claps paywalled #pinterest #advertising #marketing

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BE Beliz Yuksel · UX Collective

Mapping user experience with culture

How subway maps relate to culture.

May 31, 2021 · 9 min read · 300 claps #culture #massimo-vignelli #ux

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JA Jay Acutt · UX Collective

The general creative state, and the art of experiencing

Lessons from Acting to practice empathy in UX Design

Nov 24, 2022 · 34 min read · 290 claps #acting #theatre #method-acting

The general creative state, and the art of experiencing

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PA Patrizia Bertini · UX Collective

We stopped clicking, and AI became the Internet

On convenience, abdication, and the quiet erosion of the open web. The internet isn’t dying. That’s the problem.

Jun 11, 2026 · 11 min read · 290 claps #artificial-intelligence #design #technology