Year: 2026

An introduction for designers As a designer, I am optimistic about this one, and that is not my usual reflex with AI interface design. You have probably never heard of it. That is fine, almost no designer has. A2UI still lives in developer corners, written about in code. The idea underneath is worth meeting early, …

What a Jakarta city bus taught me about where experience is really made. Continue reading on UX Collective » His principles were never about technology for its own sake. They were about restraint, honesty and most importantly clarity — exactly what the rush to ship AI keeps leaving out. Ten rules from a designer who keeps no screens, read …

AI promised us a leisure revolution but delivered us more documents to consume. I designed a voice-first app to move my work away from the desk and into the spaces that suit me. Using ARC (Audio Review Companion), to provide document feedback away from the desk. Image generated by AI. A false promise Generative AI will change the …

A meditation on presence, AI, and the uncomfortable work of understanding people before we design for them. Continue reading on UX Collective » But not the sort of conflict you usually see on the news Most journalism doesn’t cut to the reasons behind conflicts. It only reports on the conflict and, in many cases, dramatizes that …

AI, metaphysics, and the search for moral grounding in design Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash A Confession If you had told me a year ago that I would be writing an article suggesting that Catholic philosophy might be exactly what is needed to ground ethical design, I would have thought you were crazy. Yet here I am. …

What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact Continue reading on UX Collective » AI products replaced 20 years of empty-state research with a prompt box, and the first-session drop-off shows it. Editor’s note: I wrote this article from firsthand experience as a founder and engineer. I used Claude Code as a writing assistant …

The dark side of ‘user-friendly’ AI. There is a teenager in Florida who is no longer alive. He had spent months talking to a chatbot modelled on a Game of Thrones character. He fell in love with it. He told it so. Shortly after, he took his own life. The company that built the bot …

A practical guide with real product examples of what’s replacing them. One of the bigger challenges for product and design teams right now is a type of UX debt nobody is tracking — patterns that still function but no longer justify their existence. We’ve spent years perfecting dashboards, data entry forms, search flows, filter sidebars, setup wizards, …

When adaptation becomes uncoordinated, journeys fall out of sync — like improv comedy gone horribly wrong. Continue reading on UX Collective » Learnings from designing open source technology Landscape artist Thomas Moran, created around 1876 — Boston Public Library I have been reflecting on the past three and a half years and realized there have been many ‘firsts’: …

Competitive research isn’t for visuals. It’s for bringing evidence. Continue reading on UX Collective » Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The excitement surrounding these tools does not come from the design itself. It comes from the collapse of the distance between description and interaction. An interface appears immediately, behavior responds instantly, and possibility becomes …