#product-design

How Product Design and Analysis Services Improve Product Performance and Reliability

Successful product development depends on balancing innovation, functionality, manufacturability, and long-term performance. Every stage of…

Rebuild Motus: A Mouse That Prevents Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 2.0

Designed and built by Simon Su, for DG8114 Human-Robot Interaction, Master of Digital Media, Toronto Metropolitan University.

Pruebas de Usabilidad: el corazón de un buen diseño UX

Hoy quiero compartir una de las metodologías más importantes dentro de la investigación UX: las Pruebas de Usabilidad. Este método consiste…

Stop Adding Digital Tulle

AI is remarkably good at producing details that are plausible, attractive, and completely unnecessary.

안목은 AI가 대신 길러주지 않는다

AI가 대신 만들어줄 수 없는 것

Invisible Details That Separate Premium Products From Average

I Built a Prototype with AI and tested it with users.

Lately, I’ve found myself thinking about a simple question:

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…

Designing for the Everyday: The 6371 Approach to Small Home Appliances

A Chinese design-led home-appliance brand turns repeated actions into clearer product experiences.

Onboarding That Drops Users Into a Working App, Not an Empty Shell

A manual-entry budget app earns its keep over weeks, but it gets judged in the first sixty seconds. This is how I rigged those sixty…

This Designer has probably ruined your life

How the monotone lack of personality of all designs today can be stemmed to one person

What Being a Chief of Staff Taught Me About Being a Designer

A year as Chief of Staff, and why I’m going back to design leadership

Stop Describing Users. Start Defining Behavior.

Why describing the user isn’t enough, and how to translate those conditions into interface decisions.

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.

From Sketchbook to Vinyl: How Toy Designers use Generative AI to Prototype Custom Action Figures

The independent toy and collectible scene is experiencing a massive creative renaissance. Designers, comic book illustrators, and indie…

Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight

AI made building free. So why is the whole conversation still about how to build?

CLAUDE.md vs DESIGN.md: What to Put in Each for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md and DESIGN.md are two markdown files that the product team often adds to a project context to make the most of Claude Code. Both…

Resiliência no Design: 7 passos pra você não projetar só pro cenário ideal

O seu produto continuaria vivo se a realidade das pessoas usuárias mudasse completamente?

What It Means to Build in a Sensitive Domain

“When you build for someone’s faith, a bug isn’t just a bug. It can feel like a betrayal.”

[1편] 우리 유저는 ‘직장인'이 아니었습니다

우리 프로덕트는, 정말 ‘직장인’만을 위한 걸까요? 잡플래닛 유저가 누구인지 다시 물은 두 달의 기록 (1편)

Why Asking Designers for Unpaid Test Projects Usually Backfires

The way you evaluate creative talent says as much about your company as it does about the designer.

Neither Eames had a job title. Why do you?

Mid-century designers didn’t pick a lane because the lanes hadn’t been drawn yet. Charles and Ray Eames worked across furniture, film…

I Thought Email Verification Was Just Sending an OTP. Building It Changed My Mind.

A few weeks ago, I added “Email Verification” to the FindCoffeeMate 2.0 backlog.

What 32 design leaders do when told to move faster

The Greeks knew the answer to this problem, 2300 years ago

What Makes a Car Beautiful, Decades Later?

Breaking down the three ingredients behind cars that never go out of style

Challenge myself to design product in 3 days with new AI app & MCP.

I joined the Wonder Challenge only three days before it ended.

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…

I Vibe-Coded a Mac Clipboard App Called Cliplet — Starting From Figma, Not Code

I’ve always found the macOS clipboard surprisingly limited.

From Refreshing Reddit to Reading the Signal: Why I Built OPT Pulse

What 2,000+ community-reported OPT and STEM OPT cases can — and cannot — tell international students about the wait for an EAD decision

Design Systems, Experience Platforms, and AI Are One Conversation. Here Is Why.

You Don’t Stab a God

Well, you can… but you shouldn’t.

Upwork’s New Work Now Feature Could Change How Freelancers Get Hired (Here’s Why It Matters)

Upwork is quietly testing a feature that rewards availability over waiting. If it expands globally, it could reshape how freelancers and…

Antes do pixel, a decisão. Antes da tela, a escuta.

Com essa experiência, quero mostrar como o design vai muito além da tela final: ele começa muito antes do craft e pode apontar outros…

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

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

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.

AI-Powered Design Operations: Measurement, Automation, and Operational Performance

As the OPS-CX-TEX-UX Product Design team at Trendyol, we continuously evaluate our ways of working, identify opportunities for improvement…

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 Token Structure That Survives Five Products (Google Uses It Too)

It is the same three-tier system Google runs across Android in Material 3. But the reason to build it changed this year: your design system…

AI made the Founder of Color Hunt (Gal Shir) unemployed (left Design)

Why did Color Hunt founder Gal Shir quit design?

Plant care through observation

Plant health can’t be understood from a single moment — it emerges through observation over time.

The interface has left the building

How chat, voice, and agentic AI are rewriting the first principles of UX design

The Kintsugi problem

The most important design decisions aren’t made when everything works — they’re made when it doesn’t.

What If You Never Had to Think About Ordering Food Again ?

Designing a meal scheduling experience that helps busy people eat on time — every day.