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A look at what's going on in the field of user experience.
What designers can learn from Zohran Mamdani's historical campaign
, UX Collective - Medium
How user-centered design principles transformed a grassroots political movement into a viral phenomenon and what it means for design practice.Zohran Mamdani Logo designed by Aneesh Bhoopathy.The year is 2025, and New York City, “The Greatest City in The World” has a 34-year-old, democratic socialist and Muslim mayor! Mamdani’s campaign has inspired millions, many of whom not New Yorkers and, most impressively, not even American or located in America.
His campaign didn’t just change politics, it offered a masterclass in user-centered design.
UI Design with Midjourney
, UX Planet - Medium
Midjourney is a great AI imagery generator. The latest version (v7) is capable of producing decent-quality visual output. A lot of articles and videos show how Midjourney can generate different kinds of visuals, but a few demonstrate UI design output.
In this article, I want to share a prompt template that you can use to generate UI design with Midjourney, tips & tricks on how to achieve better results with the tool, and examples of the output generated by the tool.
The evolution of Youtube: How every platform evolves into an ad machine
, UX Collective - Medium
A guide to the extinction of user joy in the digital age.An crap shaped ad, emerging from a cellphone.I was halfway through doing the dishes while listening to a podcast when an ad cut through and interrupted one of the most interesting bits. My phone was a few meters away in the living room and I rushed over like I had forgotten a burning turkey in the oven to make sure that I got to the phone before the second ad started playing. I tapped that lower-right hand skip button and the tension in my body temporarily melted away as I made my way back to the chore and continued listening to my podcast, ironically about the slow decay of once useful apps, that was so rudely interrupted by a Nissan ad.
Popup for YouTube Premium offering ad free experienceAs I pondered how possible it would be to find an ad blocker for my phone, the answer was slapped in my face in the form of a glorious popup! Try YouTube premium and you’ll be ad free… something that only a few years ago was standard had become a premium and I asked myself why? The term I happened to be learning about that day from Cory Doctorow was enshittification, which can be loosely defined as the process by which platforms decay as they shift value away from users and toward themselves and their business customers. In other words, things start out good for us, then get worse as the companies optimize for profit. While we all have a collective intuitive sense of platforms decaying over the last few years, I wanted to look closer from a design perspective, specifically, at how that decay unfolds through the deliberate, incremental rollout of ads.
What Metrics Has MeasuringU Created?
, MeasuringU
At MeasuringU®, we don’t just use UX metrics—we create them.
But what have we created, and what have we just used or extended?
Guiding the future of ethical design
, UX Collective - Medium
How to translate philosophical theory into practical design principles and responsibility.The following article introduces an evolving academic framework called Ethical Interface Design, which examines how moral philosophy can guide interface design in the era of emerging technologies. The working site, ethicalinterface.com, presents these ideas through a minimalist, text-focused layout that intentionally prioritizes thought over visuals — a meta-commentary on where design itself may be heading. The framework remains in active development, and thoughtful feedback is welcome.
Society is moving beyond screens into conversational, immersive, and neural experiences, placing designers at the center of the ethical landscape of human–technology interaction. Ethical Interface Design helps designers understand not only the impact of their choices but also the ethical frameworks behind them, exploring:
Why it’s okay to break a fundamental piece of design advice
, UX Collective - Medium
Showing a high-fidelity version of the future isn’t as taboo anymore
Stop being so humble
, UX Planet - Medium
Why it’s time for content designers to rise upWe’ve all heard it, and let’s be honest, most of us have lived it.
“We’ll plug in the content later.”
Scenario-based AI Chatbots for Language Learning
, UX Planet - Medium
A Product Design Case StudyDuolingo’s gamified conversational AIPicture this: You’ve spent six months using a language app, completed hundreds of lessons, and mastered verb conjugations. Then you land in Paris, walk into a café, and freeze. The barista asks a simple question. Your brain scrambles. The words you practiced vanish. You point at the menu and mumble “café, s’il vous plaît.”
Sound familiar? You’re not alone. This gap between classroom fluency and real-world conversation has plagued language learners for decades. But in the past two years, a new breed of AI-powered tools is finally bridging that chasm — and the secret ingredient isn’t better grammar engines or flashier gamification. It’s context.
This Small Tool Makes AI Sound Human
, UX Planet - Medium
A simple tool that removes AI’s telltale punctuation so your writing sounds natural again.AI helps us write faster, but sometimes it leaves traces. Dashy Drop cleans those digital fingerprints — turning AI text back into a human voice.
I use AI to help me write blog posts, LinkedIn updates, and YouTube scripts. It is part of how I share my design ideas.
What Makes a Good UX Research Moderator?
, MeasuringU
Human research moderators aren’t going away.
Despite technological advancements, such as remote unmoderated testing (with and without thinking aloud) and AI moderators, a live researcher asking questions to a live person will always be needed. Technological innovations are less likely to render things obsolete than make them more specialized (like Internet > TV > Radio).
