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UI/UX Design

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

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UX Research
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Facilitate a usability test session
UI Design
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Create a consistent 8pt spacing grid
Prototyping
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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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The Era of Emotional Anesthesia: Why Mood Regulating UX Is Killing Our Ability To Feel
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Era of Emotional Anesthesia: Why Mood Regulating UX Is Killing Our Ability To Feel
We wanted to protect people from digital stress. In July 2026, we are stripping away their right to experience grief, anger, and raw… Continue reading on Medium
I Tested 4 Top AI Design Tools With the Same Prompt
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Tested 4 Top AI Design Tools With the Same Prompt
How Flowstep, Google Stitch, Figma Make, and Claude Design approached the same UX design challenge. Continue reading on UX Planet »
The AI-Driven UX Designer: Why I Stopped Fighting the Tools and Started Designing With Them
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The AI-Driven UX Designer: Why I Stopped Fighting the Tools and Started Designing With Them
There’s a tempting but slightly wrong lesson people take from all this: that adapting to AI means producing more output at higher speed… Continue reading on Med
The Day My Design Lost to a Prompt
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Day My Design Lost to a Prompt
Or, how I became an AI Prototype Repair Technician. Continue reading on Medium »
The Labor Illusion: Why Making Users Wait Can Build More Trust
Dev.to · Khue Pham 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Labor Illusion: Why Making Users Wait Can Build More Trust
Here is a counterintuitive idea from behavioral psychology that quietly runs a lot of the software...
Educational Framework — Episode 004
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Educational Framework — Episode 004
If you’ve ever wondered why products like Google, Microsoft, Shopify, and IBM feel consistent across hundreds — or even thousands — of… Continue reading on Medi
I reverse-engineered Discord's profile banner color blend (and built a tool around it)
Dev.to · blanco 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I reverse-engineered Discord's profile banner color blend (and built a tool around it)
The problem Discord Nitro lets you set a profile theme color. Simple enough — except the...
The Psychology of Loading States: Why Perceived Performance Matters More Than Actual Speed
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Psychology of Loading States: Why Perceived Performance Matters More Than Actual Speed
Skeleton screens, progress indicators, and temporal distortion in digital experiences. Continue reading on Medium »
Can AI Judge Design?
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Can AI Judge Design?
What “AI-as-Judge” Methodology Actually Means Continue reading on Medium »
Your Face Is the New Phone Number. Your Expression Is the New OTP.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your Face Is the New Phone Number. Your Expression Is the New OTP.
A small observation at Lenskart that made me think about the future of customer experience. Continue reading on Medium »
I Stopped Rebuilding Websites From Scratch: Why MiroMiro Became Part of My Workflow
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Stopped Rebuilding Websites From Scratch: Why MiroMiro Became Part of My Workflow
A practical MiroMiro review for indie makers, freelance designers, and frontend developers who want a faster design-to-code workflow. Continue reading on Toward
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How to Build a UX Portfolio That Gets You Hired in 2026
Your pixel-perfect hero animation is stunning, but no hiring manager will ever see it. Continue reading on Medium »
The 88% Failure Rate and the Deceptive Machine
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The 88% Failure Rate and the Deceptive Machine
How AI is restructuring product design — an observer’s weekly journal. June 30 — July 07, 2026. Continue reading on Medium »
SaaS UX: Why Users Don’t Understand Your Product
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
SaaS UX: Why Users Don’t Understand Your Product
This is for SaaS, AI, and DevTools founders, and the marketers who own the product experience. Continue reading on Peppermint »
The UI/UX Design Tasks We Trust AI With — And Where Humans Still Win
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The UI/UX Design Tasks We Trust AI With — And Where Humans Still Win
By Michael Chepurnyak, ein-des-ein Continue reading on Medium »
A jornada do produto não começa (e nem termina) dentro do app
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
A jornada do produto não começa (e nem termina) dentro do app
Quando desenhamos uma nova interface, trabalhamos em cada detalhe dentro dela: onde cada botão deve se posicionar, como a animação do… Continue reading on Mediu
Jobs to Be Done: Understanding What Users Really Need
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Jobs to Be Done: Understanding What Users Really Need
Jobs To Be Done: Unlocking Real User Needs Continue reading on Medium »
Your AI Doesn’t Know Your Design System. Here’s How We Fixed That.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your AI Doesn’t Know Your Design System. Here’s How We Fixed That.
How one design team stopped getting HTML slop and started shipping real prototypes Continue reading on Medium »
How Do You Design Without Perfect Information?
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How Do You Design Without Perfect Information?
Not long ago, I was working on a project where the idea was to analyze metrics across the entire product before deciding where to focus. Continue reading on Med
Senior designers lost the craft they loved.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Senior designers lost the craft they loved.
Figma surveyed 906 designers: AI users are 25% more satisfied with their craft. Continue reading on Medium »
10 Principles of UI Design
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
10 Principles of UI Design
The UI design principles are rules that must be followed for designing friendly, functional, and beautiful products. Continue reading on Medium »
*Why the Tech Industry Wants to Take Away Your Screen*
Medium · Programming 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
*Why the Tech Industry Wants to Take Away Your Screen*
Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Multi-Contact TUI in Rust with Ratatui: Tabs, Consoles, and UX
Dev.to · Matías Denda 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building a Multi-Contact TUI in Rust with Ratatui: Tabs, Consoles, and UX
Closing out a 6-post series on building Anyhide — a Rust steganography tool. This post is about the terminal UI: multi-contact tabs, a Doom-style command consol
Ihre Website verliert Kunden und das ist die eigentliche Ursache
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Ihre Website verliert Kunden und das ist die eigentliche Ursache
Viele Unternehmen glauben, dass ihre Website zu wenige Kunden gewinnt, weil das Design veraltet ist. Continue reading on Medium »
Every MCP client rebuilds the same seven screens
Dev.to · Mayur Rawte 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Every MCP client rebuilds the same seven screens
MCP went from 2M to 97M monthly SDK downloads in a year. There are over 9,400 servers in the...
Design Rationale – Explaining the “Why” Behind Design Decisions
Dev.to · Dev Sk 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Design Rationale – Explaining the “Why” Behind Design Decisions
Design isn’t just about what we build — it’s about why we build it that way. That’s where Design...
Building 3D Web Experiences Using JavaScript: A Complete Guide for 2026
Medium · JavaScript 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building 3D Web Experiences Using JavaScript: A Complete Guide for 2026
A Complete Guide to Creating Immersive, High-Performance 3D Websites with Modern JavaScript Technologies Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
CSS Grid vs Flexbox: Choosing Your Path Like Neo in The Matrix
Dev.to · Timevolt 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
CSS Grid vs Flexbox: Choosing Your Path Like Neo in The Matrix
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I remember the first time I tried to build a dashboard that...
While building this restaurant online ordering & management system, I made lots of research into…
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
While building this restaurant online ordering & management system, I made lots of research into…
...which directed every decision I made on the design, layouts, and workflows. Continue reading on Medium »
Event Speaking Debut
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Event Speaking Debut
TLDR: It went really well for a first external event, but I learned where I went ‘wrong’ and where Miro went ‘wrong’. Continue reading on Medium »
Why I stopped using design tokens as implementation details
Dev.to · Yasin Demir 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Why I stopped using design tokens as implementation details
Design tokens are not CSS variables. This distinction sounds semantic, but getting it wrong produces...
The 15-minute AI stress test every designer can run
Medium · AI 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The 15-minute AI stress test every designer can run
Introducing the spaghetti table protocol challenge. Continue reading on UX Collective »
How any designer can build a more open design culture at work
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How any designer can build a more open design culture at work
You don’t need a “leader” title to build psychological safety at work. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Mi teléfono estaba matando mis ideas, así que decidí construir otro objeto
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Mi teléfono estaba matando mis ideas, así que decidí construir otro objeto
El problema de anotar un pensamiento en el celular es que primero tienes que sobrevivir al celular. Continue reading on Medium »
16 Open Source Shadcn Checkbox Components
Dev.to · Sanjay Joshi 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
16 Open Source Shadcn Checkbox Components
Checkboxes might be one of the simplest UI components, but they're used in almost every React...
Top 7 UI/UX Design Process Best Practices 2026 — An Expert’s Guide
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Top 7 UI/UX Design Process Best Practices 2026 — An Expert’s Guide
Before working to design the thing right, we must first be sure we’re designing the right thing. — Peter Morville Continue reading on Medium »
AI Didn’t Replace Creativity. It Changed Where Creativity Lives.
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
AI Didn’t Replace Creativity. It Changed Where Creativity Lives.
Why, the future of design isn’t about creating more; it’s about choosing better. Continue reading on Medium »
Foundation Styles: o segredo da camada de atalho
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Foundation Styles: o segredo da camada de atalho
Quando a complexidade fica no sistema — e o seu dia a dia fica mais fácil Continue reading on Medium »
Feature Request: Theme Switching for Reel-Quick
Dev.to · Farhan Munir 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Feature Request: Theme Switching for Reel-Quick
I have opened a feature request to add frontend theme support to Reel-Quick. The proposed feature...
Your design system is not done until it’s accessible
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Your design system is not done until it’s accessible
How we integrated accessibility guidance directly into every component of the Solar Design System at Sunrise — and why a separate… Continue reading on Medium »
From new joiner to designing for a complex ESG product in one month
Medium · UX Design 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
From new joiner to designing for a complex ESG product in one month
How structured onboarding, product mapping, documentation, and collaboration helped me become productive quickly in a complex ESG… Continue reading on The Desig
Most Of Your "Nudges" Are Just Interruptions In Costume
Dev.to · Digia 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Most Of Your "Nudges" Are Just Interruptions In Costume
In 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein needed an example simple enough to explain the whole of...
What ref() and reactive() Are Actually For
Dev.to · Yasin Demir 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What ref() and reactive() Are Actually For
Vue 3 gives you two ways to make something reactive: ref() and reactive(). The docs explain the...
Centering in CSS Isn’t Hard Anymore. You’re Just Using the Wrong Tool.
Medium · Programming 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Centering in CSS Isn’t Hard Anymore. You’re Just Using the Wrong Tool.
Stop memorizing random snippets and start understanding how modern CSS alignment actually works. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Python 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Use ComfyUI in Pure Python Code, How To Do It Step By Step
Forget the spaghetti nodes. Control your diffusion pipeline with clean code that actually makes sense Continue reading on Medium »
Building Sleek Korean Web Pages Using ONLY System Fonts (No Web Fonts!)
Dev.to · Gunnwook Ahn 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building Sleek Korean Web Pages Using ONLY System Fonts (No Web Fonts!)
Unlike English web fonts, Korean web fonts are notoriously heavy because they need to contain...
Why your generated color palettes look muddy (and what OKLCH does about it)
Dev.to · Irrational Apps 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Why your generated color palettes look muddy (and what OKLCH does about it)
I've built a handful of small color tools over the past year, and the thing that keeps surprising me...
Image formats explained: When to use JPG vs PNG vs WebP vs AVIF in 2026
Dev.to · Arhan Ahmad 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Image formats explained: When to use JPG vs PNG vs WebP vs AVIF in 2026
JPG, PNG, WebP, or AVIF? A practical guide to choosing the right image format for every use case.