The web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driven AI experiences. Ever since the commercialisation of the Graphical User Interface pioneered by systems like the Xerox Star and popularised…
There is an airport in Bend, Oregon where I live. We’ve got a proper one in Redmond, the next town over, but a little baby municipal one here in Bend. There is a cafe there that I’m only just hearing about: Bend Airport Cafe. Looks nice, I should go! I’m mentioning it for another reason,though….
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s !important (#18), bringing you the best content that CSS developers have produced over the last couple of weeks or so. Abhishek Jakhar explained why tooltips should be delayed then instant (basically, so…
Gradients can look super different depending on what color space you have them interpolate in. It’s sRGB by default, and there is a decent chance you’ve never even thought about it. But it’s a small syntax change to change that, as Keith Grant documents. One of those is not better than the other. Maybe it’s…
The creator of the TV show The Good Place wrote a tie-in book about moral philosophy which includes a chapter called “The Luck of the Draw,” discussing how the myth of meritocracy leads people to “underestimate the role that luck has played in their lives.” Given how God seems to play dice with the universe, there is something compelling in the way art…
I got a cool trick for you. You can just paste an HTML email into Gmail. So let’s say you’re using (the very nice) MJML language to create an nice responsive cross-client-compatible email on CodePen. Like this one. You can just select all that nice visual output and Copy it. Then in Gmail, make a…
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? Whether you’re holding tightly onto summer or eagerly awaiting autumn, we’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy! For more than 15 years already, our monthly wallpapers series has…
Firefox 151 recently shipped the Document Picture-in-Picture API. This isn’t the same thing as the (regular?) Picture-in-Picture API, which pushes videos into a resizable window that remains visible even after switching browser tabs or OS windows. No, the Document Picture-in-Picture API enables us to put anything into the window. I guess we can think of…
Sometimes we gotta take matters into our own hands, am I right? I was reading Aaron Gustafson’s Never Lose Form Progress Again which is just a wonderful idea for a Web Component. Basically you wrap a <form> in <form-saver> and it saves the data a person types into a form to localStorage so they don’t…
Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Many dashboards are technically correct and communicatively inert. They show the right numbers but still fail to produce a decision, a direction, or a change in thinking. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when you bring structured UX…