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AI In UX: Achieve More With Less

17 October 2025 @ 8:00 am

A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons learned from real client projects across user research, design, development, and content creation.

How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore

16 October 2025 @ 1:00 pm

Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.

The Grayscale Problem

13 October 2025 @ 10:00 am

From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital Levittown. But it doesn’t have to be.

Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With `<symbol>`, `<use>`, And CSS Media Queries

6 October 2025 @ 1:00 pm

SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds what he calls “adaptive SVGs” using ``, ``, and CSS Media Queries.

Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2)

3 October 2025 @ 10:00 am

Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent (UI sketches, conceptual models, and user flows) directly into a live prototype, making it your primary canvas for ideation.

Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

30 September 2025 @ 11:00 am

How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!

From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant

26 September 2025 @ 10:00 am

What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, you’ll learn how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time, saving you (and your team) from typing the same 448-word prompt ever again.

Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)

24 September 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. He then explores whether AI-powered prototyping is the answer, questioning whether the path forward is the popular “vibe coding” approach or a more structured, intent-driven approach.

Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)

22 September 2025 @ 1:00 pm

Creating motion can be tricky. Too much and it’s distracting. Too little and a design feels flat. Ambient animations are the middle ground — subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. In this article, web design pioneer Andy Clarke introduces the concept of ambient animations and explains how to implement them.

The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence

19 September 2025 @ 10:00 am

With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interface. When it works, interactions feel seamless. When it fails, the entire experience collapses. But trust isn’t mystical. It can be understood, measured, and designed for. Here are practical methods and strategies for designing more trustworthy and ethical AI systems.