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nudges.fyi

Nudges, biases & heuristics for the age of AI

43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference.

bit.ly

ProtoPie User Testing is here. Track every action, one workflow.Sponsored

Run moderated tests on high-fidelity prototypes. Capture gestures, logic paths, and goal-path scores without leaving ProtoPie.

research.perplexity.ai

Designing, refining, and maintaining agent skills at Perplexity

How to build more predictable AI behaviors with agents.

dir14.com

Users own the present. You own the future.

Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens product space.

anthropic.com

What 81,000 people want from AI

How they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

nngroup.com

Statistical significance isn’t the same as practical significance

Determining whether something is worth acting on.

renderghost.leaflet.pub

Stop asking users what they want; start watching what they do

People’s opinions about themselves and the things they use rarely match real behavior.

adamsilver.io

Why I don’t test different designs at the same time

Parts of A are better, parts of B are better, and there’s probably a Version C that would beat them both.

jessylin.com

The continual learning problem

How do we keep updating the parameters of a model without breaking it?

smashingmagazine.com

How to make your UX research hard to ignore

Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do.

nngroup.com

Stop misrecruits: Add foils to your screener

Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time.

nngroup.com

Digital twins: simulating humans with GenAI

A genAI-based model of a particular individual that can be used to predict both individual and population-level preferences and behaviors.

designarena.ai

Design arena

Global crowdsourced benchmark for design—a framework for evaluating AI design capabilities.

survey.devographics.com

State of CSS 2025

Take the survey! After years of rapid innovation, now feels like the right time for browser vendors to take a beat to consolidate and fix.

lennysnewsletter.com

How tech workers really feel about work right now

Results from a large-scale tech worker sentiment survey.

maggieappleton.com

Humanity’s last exam

There’s a clear need for harder benchmarks to measure model performance against.

monst3r-project.github.io

MonST3R project

A simple approach for rstimating geometry in the presense of motion.

adamsilver.io

Why the ‘none of the above’ checkbox pattern worries me

This research-approved design pattern has me a little worried.

jonyablonski.com

User research myths

Common myths about user research that often prevent companies from implementing this valuable practice.

lea.verou.me

Context chips in survey design: “Okay, but how does it feel?”

How a weird little UI to collect sentiment alongside survey responses defied constraints and triumphed over skepticism through usability testing.