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killthecookiebanner.eu

Kill the cookie banner

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution.

nngroup.com

No new name has replaced “UX”

A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

The AI aesthetic

How generative tool interfaces introduce specific visual idioms.

seangoedecke.com

You don’t have to be smart if you can think clearly

Why structured deduction stabilizes engineering performance under complex constraints.

uxdesign.cc

Information architecture is the foundation AI is starving for

Every AI problem you chase (hallucinations, wrong answers, poor retrieval) traces back to the IA projects you never funded.

jstools.space

How to design URLs

Design readable, stable URLs and choose correctly between route paths, query parameters, and fragments in modern web applications.

rauno.me

Rauno Freiberg's field note #2

How grid density, context menus, and custom widgets alter information architecture.

nngroup.com

A concrete definition of “Product Sense”

Predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.

guess-the-designer.replit.app

Which AI? — Guess the designer

A daily guessing game. Spot whether each landing page was designed by Gemini, Claude, or GPT.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Make it work vs. make it good

That’s the work of design: to make something so good, it’s obvious.

uisfx.com

UI SFX

78 open-source, semantic UI cues in 12 switchable feels. Seamless loops for web, mobile, SaaS, and games.

uxdesign.cc

AI personality is a design problem

Right now it’s an accidental byproduct of AI alignment. It could be an interface we build deliberately.

karolinaszczur.com

Against design system federation

Avoid the fraught model that will set your design system back.

layers.jamiemill.com

Layers: AI skills for product designers

AI skills for product designers—guidance through the seven layers of product design.

doc.cc

Five to Nine: a photographic series

This series slips into the hours after the badge comes off—the unbranded life where designers become someone the job never meets.

addyosmani.com

Earning taste and judgment

Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you’re junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose.

vaughntan.org

Against bigness

Organisations say they want innovation but keep killing it. The problem is the organisational decision-making machinery.

blog.murphytrueman.com

Design systems need evals

You’ve taught agents your design system. You still don’t know whether they’re following it.

namethatui.com

What is this UI element called?

See the UI element, learn its real name and API symbol, and copy a precise prompt for your coding agent.

uxdesign.cc

Taste cannot be delegated

The death of design by committee in the age of AI.