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Tasks cards vs. reading aloud: Is there an optimal way to conduct knowledge tasks in HF research?

Welcome to the Custodial Era of UX

AI can build a feature in an afternoon. But who will clean up the mess it leaves for users?

The Great AI Fork: What the IMF’s New Model Says About Asia’s Next Two Decades

A fresh IMF working paper puts a number on something economists have quietly worried about for a while — that AI might not lift Asia…

Why Your CFO Doesn’t Care That Users “Love” Your Design

A few months ago, I walked into a budget review with what I thought was an airtight pitch. We had just redesigned a signup flow, cut it…

So you are looking for a design role

How to get hired as a designer and what is expected of you when AI changed the rules.

The feedback staircase…. how you receive feedback matters just as much as how you give it

Sahte Haberlerin Peşinde: Makine Öğrenmesiyle Güvenilirlik Tahmini

Bu çalışma, Türkiye Yapay Zeka Akademisi ve Huawei Student Developers iş birliğiyle düzenlenen Veri Bilimi ve Makine Öğrenmesi Bootcamp…

Bulutta Veri Bilimi Yolculuğu: Huawei & SphereTech Data Science Bootcamp Deneyimim

Veri bilimi projelerinde veri boyutu büyüdükçe yerel donanımların sınırlarına takılmak kaçınılmaz hale geliyor. Bu noktada bulut…

Norman is for everybody, and nobody in particular — “The Design of Everyday Things” (revised &…

“The Design of Everyday Things” by Don Norman says that the book is for everyone, yet as you read, the book may have a different audience.

Making “Craftsmanship” Your Differentiator

Summary: Production time is changing. What used to take months now takes weeks, sometimes days. And yet only a third of designers say they…

Why UX bootcamp job guarantees are a scam

Have you ever wondered why and how almost all the UI/UX design bootcamps have “job guarantees” (well, except us and we will explain why…

Coding Bootcamps vs Computer Science Degree: Which Path Actually Wins?

Last summer, I sat down with two students in completely different situations. One had spent $15,000 on a three-month bootcamp. The other…

Article 1 : The Interface That Excludes Everyone Who Needs It Most

AGI is projected to add trillions to global GDP. But as the technology accelerates, the interface layer between human and machine is…

How & Why I built “Prompt Quest”

Spotting a skills gap in the AI market and shipping a product against it in 1 week

My First Technical Video — Understanding Compiler

This is one of my first technical videos I created during my bootcamp journey. (4 months ago)

Atwood’s Duck: A Technique For Dealing With Parochial Mindset

A designer leaving one intentionally odd color choice or button placement in a mockup, expecting a stakeholder to flag it, while the core…

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres: The Science of Measurement and Managing Discovery…

Introduction

Liberation Technologies: Cybercafes and the Death of the Amateur Web

I’ve always lived with divided loyalties between art and science. I love drawing and painting and making things, but I also love…

Bulut Bilişim ve ModelArts ile Derin Öğrenme Yolculuğu: Huawei Cloud Bootcamp Deneyimlerim

Giriş

This agent only took me five minutes to setup, and saves me hours every week.

If you are like many companies, you have a style guide that lives forgotten in the depths of a Google Drive folder that no one ever…

IC or Manager? The Question Every Senior Designer Eventually Faces

The offer to manage a team, and the hesitation that followed.

Bag of Words: The Unglamorous NLP Technique I Still Reach for First

Before neural machine translation, before transformers, before any of the fancy stuff — every NLP project I’ve built started with this one…

“How a Simple Classroom Conversation Inspired My First UX Case Study”

It Started With a Simple Question

The Hidden Curriculum of Design Work

How to uncover the real need behind vague feedback — and choose the right way to respond

Protect the Phases

Early feedback that means to save time is usually the feedback that costs the most of it. On why phases deserve a doorman, and why the…

Figma MCP Server: What Is It and How Can We Use It to Streamline Our Design Process

A few months ago, Figma released its own MCP server, and with it, brought a term most design teams had never had to think about into the…

How AI became part of my UX design workflow

And what it looked like to work on a design team that intentionally experimented with AI for several months

What a UX Audit Is Actually Testing (And Why Most Designers Get It Wrong)

Presence is not function. Here is where the gap shows up, and what an honest audit actually evaluates

I Tested Five Different Onboarding Flows on the Same Group of Users

Completion rate looked like success. It wasn’t measuring what mattered.

I Rebuilt Our Pricing Page Using Nothing But Customer Complaints

No competitor research. No A/B tests. Just eleven months of things people said were wrong.

I Rebuilt Every Button In Our Design System. No One Noticed.

What silence taught me about invisible work, review culture, and the real job of a design system.

I Audited 40 Enterprise Dashboards. They All Failed the Same Way

The problem was never the data. It was who the dashboard was actually built for.

Where Agentic AI Cost Actually Goes

Why cheaper model calls can still create more expensive agentic workflows

The Missing Design Question in Agentic AI

When AI acts on behalf of people and organizations, it does more than complete tasks. It participates in forming commitments.

What if Duolingo optimised for fluency?

Redesigning a motivation system for progress instead of daily obligation

The UX Secret Hidden Inside Human Memory

We design for what people do. We rarely design for how people remember. Those are not the same thing, and the difference explains a lot…

Users Don’t Read Your Interface. They Predict It.

Understanding this one fact about human cognition will change every design decision you make from this point forward.

Why Confused Users Never Tell You They’re Confused

The silence after a bad experience is not acceptance. It is the sound of someone deciding to leave without explanation.

The Psychology of Clicking the Wrong Button

When users make mistakes in your product, the interface is almost always more responsible than the person holding the mouse.

What Cognitive Load Actually Looks Like in Real Products

The theory is clean and simple. The practice is messier, subtler, and far more consequential than most designers realize until they see it…

The metric that makes everyone comfortable is measuring the wrong thing.

The quarterly review opens with the good news. NPS is at 42, up six points on last quarter. There’s a small round of nodding. Someone says…

Hiring for the Gap Not the CV

Article 4 of 12 — Building Design Teams

Who made this, Designing excuses, DesignOps in the age of AI

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Every product starts in chaos

And why systems thinking is how you respond to it

Your Uber Driver Isn’t Distracted, The App Is Distracting Him

I counted eight notification dismissals in a 20-minute ride. Each one pulled his eyes off the road.

The Software Tax Startup Founders Pay Before Making Their First Sale

₹55,000/year for Adobe. ₹4,000 for Canva Pro. Neither is necessary before you’ve validated anything

I spent the past year trying to replace my UI & front end workflows with GenAI

Nine months of pushing Figma Make & Cursor to their limits on real client projects — and understanding why it can’t replace us.

The Motion Envelope: 30 Years After Flash, Figma Motion Still Cannot Say Why Anything Moves

Keyframes record how pixels move and nothing else. The Motion Envelope makes every animation declare its purpose, and a verifier proves the…

10 Claude code frontend design skills, plugins, and CLIs

Claude Code can build a frontend. Making it look like a human designed it is the harder part.

You already have shoes. So why are you buying more?

The average person owns 7 to 8 pairs of shoes. The average person is also always one drop away from needing another pair. This is not a…