The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context, uncover hidden assumptions with stakeholders, and turn shared direction into a visual foundation before a single concept is created. When a branding project fails, it usually happens long…
Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, fostering trust, and providing a sense of refuge. Kat Homan introduces an evaluation framework that helps designers assess whether trendy visual and interaction patterns support or undermine the unique…
s and no unnecessary wrappers, resulting in faster load times and higher scores across all boards. Elementor, on the other hand, added heavily nested markup and extra scripts, even on this simple layout, which dragged down its performance. If clean code, fast loading, and technical efficiency are priorities for you, Kirki clearly comes out ahead….
A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing, established mental models. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, friendly video course on UX and design patterns by Vitaly. We often hear about shiny new…
We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching modality to users’ context, intent, and cognitive load, so the interface adapts to the user, not the other way around. The design community has entered a period…
July is just around the corner, and that means… It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! As every month, the wallpapers in this collection were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy! The scent of rain after a hot day, watching the moon rise on a summer night’s…
is fewer tokens than , so absent a constraint, the model takes the cheap path. Here’s the thing about AI-generated UI: it’s inaccessible by default. Not occasionally — by default. A developer writing in Frontend Masters tested AI-generated React components across multiple tools and documented the pattern. A typical AI-generated sidebar had ten distinct accessibility…
In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a mindset that allows UX and product teams to accept uncertainty, decipher AI outputs with nuance, and make smart, adaptive decisions. In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares….
We have officially moved past the era of humanoid robots as mere public relations stunts. As they become increasingly lifelike, society may soon face profound social, psychological, and ethical challenges. What happens when the boundary between humans and machines becomes almost impossible to distinguish? For decades, science fiction has cushioned us with the idea that…
Findings from an exploratory user research study highlighting the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities. In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine how best to perform accessibility testing with people with cognitive disabilities. This was work…