This is UX’s turning point. Your voice drives clarity, delivers conviction, and determines whether we keep building the wrong things or return to designing what matters. This image was created by ChatGPT. The myth of arrival Most of us are taught to find our UX voice in someone else’s process. If you’ve been in UX for more than five …
Month: July 2025
How to sell the European Accessibility Act to your boss
Yet another reason to invest in accessibility, but this time, it can impact the bottom line As of June 28, 2025, if you sell stuff in the EU, not complying with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) can get you fined. We’ll get to the EAA in a sec. but let’s first acknowledge something: Selling the value of …
An ode to breaking things
Musings on how to prepare ourselves and steer a new direction of the craft and design now that AI is challenging the status quo Continue reading on UX Collective » Why Silicon Valley has a weird Nietzsche obsession Portrait of Nietzsche by Edvard Munch, 1906 Some Silicon Valley leaders have a bizarre adoration for philosophers like …
Back when websites had a pulse
Rethinking web audio in the age of user-first design Dircksny.com | Way Back Machine web archive I recently had to track down a screenshot of a website from 2008 — Dircksny.com, a small agency where I landed my first real design job. I eventually found a live web archive of it on Wayback Machine. And the moment it …
User behaviours, product design architecture, and the impact of AI
How user behaviours shape product design architecture, and how AI will reshape the digital products landscape. Image is generated by ChatGPT. Architecture in digital product design is controversial and ambiguous. On one hand, there is Information Architecture; on the other, there is System Design. Career ladders and design positions often require one or the other. They …