The announcement is one loud night. The evolution, the slow build starts the morning after, is the whole job. I recently asked Spotify for a Fourth of July playlist. Specifically, a rock one. It came back with big drums and big choruses: “Born in the USA,” “Fortunate Son,” “For What It’s Worth,” “Rockin’ in the Free World.” …
Year: 2026
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 Continue reading on UX Collective » An applied framework for designing AI interfaces that support appropriate reliance, user control, transparency, and responsible autonomy. Traditional interfaces are built around predictable behavior. A control has a defined function. A workflow has known …
Your design system runs on one person’s judgment-AI is about to prove it
Your design system runs on one person’s judgment — AI is about to prove it 76 open contributions to IBM’s Carbon design system, each waiting to clear the same gate. Some have been here since April. The label says it plainly: “one more review.” Source: Carbon Design System on GitHub, captured June 2026. It is 6:40 on a Friday. …
A2UI under the hood: Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI
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 you count is what they feel
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-created document fatigue: how I designed my way out of it
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 …
We haven’t lost the battle for Empathy. Have we?
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 …
The case for catholic philosophy in ethical interface design
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 do you do if your best design work is a small project?
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 …
We built this. Now we own it.
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 …