We thought AI feedback was making our designers faster. It was making them shallower
The designs shipped faster; the designers grew more slowly.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Sycophancy: the emperor’s new clothes
Why AI’s real danger isn’t hallucination — it’s agreement.The conversation about AI risk over the past years revolved around accuracy, ...
The calm and charm of cosy games in a chaotic world
What this gentle genre of design reveals about building digital products for anxious times.At some point in the last few years, million...
The color statistic that’s been wrong for 80 years
The estimate everyone repeated and nobody verifiedContinue reading on UX Collective »
Stairways to nowhere: why AI makes blueprints matter more than ever
Design principles Vitruvius defined 2,000 years ago are now your most critical AI tool.Too much software today is built like the Winche...
Product ethics, AI adoption theatre, an architecture that no longer exists
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“In the last week of February 2026, something unusual happened. A sitting ...
The deceptive side of robot cuteness
And the different kinds of cute design techniques.Photo by
Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.
In the age of AI, “working” is a commodity while “winning” is the new mandate...
The last interface
Will AI agents kill design as we know it?At the end of February a report by Citrini Research caused major shockwaves through the softwa...
You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists
Claude just showed us what replaced it.VISUAL 1: The Dissolved Interface. Generated with Gemini.Last Tuesday, I asked Claude to prepare...