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UI/UX Design

User research, Figma, wireframing, design systems, prototyping and usability

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UX Research
beginner
Facilitate a usability test session
UI Design
beginner
Create a consistent 8pt spacing grid
Prototyping
intermediate
Build a click-through prototype in Figma
AI Design Tools
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Generate and iterate on UI concepts with AI

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I Built an AI Color Palette Generator to Speed Up UI Design (Free Tool)
Dev.to · Ashish | Devpalettes 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built an AI Color Palette Generator to Speed Up UI Design (Free Tool)
Designers and developers waste too much time choosing colors. So I built a simple AI Color Palette...
I Tried Building a Design System. Here’s What I Built, What I Missed, and What I’m Learning
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Tried Building a Design System. Here’s What I Built, What I Missed, and What I’m Learning
When I started this concept project, I wasn’t thinking about a design system. Continue reading on Medium »
Why the Interactive Wall Screen is the Must-Have Tech of 2026
Medium · Startup 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why the Interactive Wall Screen is the Must-Have Tech of 2026
Moving beyond the Smart Board: How the Smart Surface Studio is making interactive displays portable and affordable Continue reading on Medium »
DESIGN.md Demystified: Google’s Open Format for Consistent AI-Powered UI Design (Complete Guide +…
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
DESIGN.md Demystified: Google’s Open Format for Consistent AI-Powered UI Design (Complete Guide +…
In the age of AI design tools like Google Stitch, Cursor, and Claude Code, one simple file is changing how teams ship beautiful… Continue reading on Medium »
ParkNBus UX Case Study
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
ParkNBus UX Case Study
Getting to class at Grand Valley State shouldn’t feel like a daily gamble, but for many students, it does. On any given day, students must… Continue reading on
Learning Design Has Never Been More Open. Here’s What’s Still Missing.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Learning Design Has Never Been More Open. Here’s What’s Still Missing.
A reflection on expertise, passion, and what gets lost when the mentor becomes a machine. Continue reading on Bootcamp »
Nobody Picks the Bigger, Simpler QR Code
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Nobody Picks the Bigger, Simpler QR Code
I have watched dozens of people design QR codes. The pattern is always the same. Continue reading on Medium »
Not every UX crime needs a Sherlock
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Not every UX crime needs a Sherlock
How detective styles and the Cynefin framework help designers pick the right lens Continue reading on Medium »
When a Simple Click Gets in the Way: A Tiny UX Detail That Matters
Dev.to · CinfiniteDev 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
When a Simple Click Gets in the Way: A Tiny UX Detail That Matters
I was browsing Flipkart the other day, doing something pretty routine—comparing products. Nothing...
I Vibe-Coded an Analytics Dashboard with Figma Make. 42 Issues.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Vibe-Coded an Analytics Dashboard with Figma Make. 42 Issues.
I opened Figma Make and typed one prompt: Continue reading on Bootcamp »
The Dark Art of UX: 5 Psychological Triggers That Command User Attention
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Dark Art of UX: 5 Psychological Triggers That Command User Attention
How to move beyond aesthetics and use behavioral science to build products people can’t put down. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
DAM Dashboard for Fast Fashion Design Team Collaboration
Core Highlights Problem: Fast fashion design teams handle large volumes of assets under extremely tight timelines—yet collaboration efficiency continues to decl
Most website chat widgets are annoying. Here’s how to make yours actually helpful.
Medium · SEO 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Most website chat widgets are annoying. Here’s how to make yours actually helpful.
Last week, I was researching financial advisors for a client project. Visited 23 websites in an hour. Continue reading on Medium »
Kotori, strongly typed and modular i18n library for React
Dev.to · Acid Coder 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Kotori, strongly typed and modular i18n library for React
Kotori is a strongly-typed, modular i18n library for React. It’s designed for developers who care...
Nobody Told Me Learning Design Would Feel This Lonely
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Nobody Told Me Learning Design Would Feel This Lonely
On scattered resources, expensive courses, and the guide I wish had existed when I started. Continue reading on Medium »
Figma vs Sketch in 2026: I Ran Both in a 6-Person Startup for 3 Months — Here's What Won
Dev.to · 우병수 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Figma vs Sketch in 2026: I Ran Both in a 6-Person Startup for 3 Months — Here's What Won
Explore a detailed comparison of Figma and Sketch from the perspective of a 6-person startup in 2026. Discover the challenges faced, including design reviews, h
Your AI Builds Ugly Websites. These Three GitHub Repos Will Fix That. (Part 1)
Medium · AI 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI Builds Ugly Websites. These Three GitHub Repos Will Fix That. (Part 1)
It seemed that every large language model built off of the same internet acquired the same poor habits. Inter fonts. Purple gradients… Continue reading on Mediu
5 Real UX Problems You Can Turn Into Portfolio Case Studies
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
5 Real UX Problems You Can Turn Into Portfolio Case Studies
No fake redesigns. No Dribbble concepts. Just real problems that prove you can think. Continue reading on Medium »
Multiverse Storytelling Doesn’t Have a Writing Problem. It Has a Navigation Problem.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Multiverse Storytelling Doesn’t Have a Writing Problem. It Has a Navigation Problem.
The multiverse is exhausting everyone, and the consensus explanation is that the writing has gotten lazy. Continue reading on Medium »
Design to Code #4: Why I Chose Radix Over Custom Primitives
Dev.to · 7onic 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Design to Code #4: Why I Chose Radix Over Custom Primitives
I tried to build a dialog focus trap from scratch. Got it wrong in an afternoon. Here is what Radix actually handles — and what it still gets wrong.
Daring Fireball 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
XOXO Explore
Andy McMillan and Andy Baio: Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that website.
Dev.to AI 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
A Stitch at a time
Every UI idea starts the same way. A sentence. A sketch. A screenshot of something you saw and liked. Then the process starts — and the idea starts dying. Wiref
Secrets Behind Successful Web Design Companies in Dubai
Medium · SEO 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Secrets Behind Successful Web Design Companies in Dubai
Dubai is home to one of the most competitive business markets in the world. Continue reading on Medium »
Healthcare UX Trends That Actually Matter in 2026
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Healthcare UX Trends That Actually Matter in 2026
What is healthcare UX design and why does it matter so much in 2026? Healthcare UX design is the practice of building digital health tools… Continue reading on
Designing UX for Invisible Technology: Lessons from Sustainability Platforms in High-Traffic Venues
Hackernoon 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Designing UX for Invisible Technology: Lessons from Sustainability Platforms in High-Traffic Venues
Designing invisible technology means building trust fast. Here’s how one UX redesign made reusable packaging feel credible and easy to use.
I built my UX portfolio four times. The last one finally felt like me.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I built my UX portfolio four times. The last one finally felt like me.
There’s a version of me that spent three weeks perfecting a Framer portfolio that I never published. Continue reading on Medium »
Designing Trust and Feedback in AI-Driven User Interfaces
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Designing Trust and Feedback in AI-Driven User Interfaces
Trust in AI is fragile. One error can trigger algorithm aversion — users abandoning the system entirely. Blind faith leads to automation… Continue reading on Me
The Most Dangerous Designer at a Big Company Is the One Who Can Ship
Dev.to · Ling Zhou 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Most Dangerous Designer at a Big Company Is the One Who Can Ship
For years, big companies loved clean role definitions. Designers designed. Engineers engineered. PMs...
Claude Design, Figma, and the Illusion of Control
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Claude Design, Figma, and the Illusion of Control
What generative design tools do really well, where they break, and why the real work still begins after the demo Continue reading on Medium »
Designing Communication: A Game That Helps Introverts Speak Up
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Designing Communication: A Game That Helps Introverts Speak Up
You’ve probably had something to say in a group discussion — but didn’t. Not because you didn’t have ideas, but because speaking up just… Continue reading on Me
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
O que um relógio de 80 anos me ensinou sobre escuta empática (e por que isso mudou minha visão…
A gente acha que sabe ouvir — até perceber que, na maioria das vezes, está apenas esperando a vez de falar. Continue reading on Medium »
El Curb Cut Effect: Por qué la accesibilidad no es un favor, es arquitectura básica
Dev.to · Leslie Herrera 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
El Curb Cut Effect: Por qué la accesibilidad no es un favor, es arquitectura básica
Hacer software accesible no es caridad, es calidad. Descubre cómo el diseño universal beneficia a todos los usuarios.
Stop Exporting The Viewport: How Zoomed Image Editors Map Back To Original Pixels
Dev.to · byeval 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Stop Exporting The Viewport: How Zoomed Image Editors Map Back To Original Pixels
How to separate viewport transforms from source-pixel geometry so zoomed image editors still export correctly.
Yet Another Usability Model: Clarity, Control, and Comfort
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Yet Another Usability Model: Clarity, Control, and Comfort
A Modern Set of Usability Goals Continue reading on Medium »
Claude Design Does Your Job in 90 Seconds. The Output Belongs to Nobody.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Claude Design Does Your Job in 90 Seconds. The Output Belongs to Nobody.
Last week Anthropic launched a tool that generates brand identities, prototypes, and pitch decks from a text prompt. Figma dropped 7% the… Continue reading on M
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Conversion Rate of Good Design Education: From Student to Professional
By Kedar Joshi | Professional Development India Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Design Mentorship That Money Can’t Buy — But Training Can
By Tanya Mishra | Mentorship in Creative Fields Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Colour, Contrast, and Communication: The Science Behind Great Design Teaching
By Madhuri Jha | Science of Design Education Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Practical Design: Why Real Briefs Outperform Textbook Exercises
By Vidya Sharma | Design Pedagogy Review Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
What Graphic Design Employers Are Actually Looking for in 2026
By Himanshu Garg | Hiring Creative India Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
When Students Become Peers: Alumni Networks in Design Education
By Simran Ahuja | Creative Networks India Continue reading on Medium »
Domains and the emotions they come with
Dev.to · Pratyush-Nirwan 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Domains and the emotions they come with
There’s something strangely emotional about domains. Not in the obvious way no one’s writing poetry...
The Istanbul Metro Through the Eyes of an Experience Designer: The In-Car Experience
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Istanbul Metro Through the Eyes of an Experience Designer: The In-Car Experience
Last week, I visited Istanbul for just 36 hours after a long time away. This short trip reminded me of how long it had been since I last… Continue reading on Me
Interactive Prototype vs. Static Mockup: Which Gets You to User Feedback Faster?
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Interactive Prototype vs. Static Mockup: Which Gets You to User Feedback Faster?
Every product decision starts with the same tension: you have an idea, you need feedback, and you need it before you spend weeks building… Continue reading on M
The Figma Crisis of 2026: Why Designers Are Quietly Switching Tools
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Figma Crisis of 2026: Why Designers Are Quietly Switching Tools
Something shifted this year. Continue reading on Medium »
Tighten cycles and craft will follow
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Tighten cycles and craft will follow
Cut feedback time with AI and give craft room to grow. Continue reading on Medium »
What UX design taught me about trust, reliability, and why I return to what feels steady
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
What UX design taught me about trust, reliability, and why I return to what feels steady
I do not use systems I do not trust. Not for long, anyway. Continue reading on Medium »
Why Hiring a Great Designer Is Harder Than Most Founders Expect
Medium · Startup 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why Hiring a Great Designer Is Harder Than Most Founders Expect
The Hiring Problem No One Talks About Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »