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A look at what's going on in the field of user experience.
Field study: prototypes over mockups
, UX Collective - Medium
A practical guide to designing with code in 2026Someone drops a link in a thread — not a deck, not a Figma file — something you can click through, interact with. The conversation shifts from opinions to behavior. This keeps happening at Dust. We’ve been experimenting with making prototypes our default design artifact. The question driving us:
What should designers produce to help teams decide faster while raising the quality bar and reducing implementation waste?We don’t have a final answer yet. This article is a field report: what we’ve tried so far, what seems to work, and what still feels unresolved.
Top 10 Claude Skills You Should Try in Product Design
, UX Planet - Medium
Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, has become one of the most versatile tools in a product designer’s toolkit, capable of far more than…
Are we performing ourselves into exhaustion?
, UX Collective - Medium
On self-surveillance, professional performance, and the cost of forgetting that we built the cage.Is this one me? (All conceptual images in this article were generated by the author using AI.)As designers, we live performance twice over: as users who perform constantly, and as the creators of the systems that encourage that performance. This article is about the first, but it inevitably speaks to the second.
I spent forty minutes choosing a profile picture. Forty minutes taking selfies, testing angles, adjusting light, cropping, thinking about how I wanted to be seen. My professional dignity is somehow correlated to how well I can camouflage my aging. For people I’ve never met. Who may never see it.
OpenAI: from ads to content
, UX Collective - Medium
The future of digital advertising should feel less like a distraction and more like recommendations from a friend.High relevance ads could enhance the quality of the content.I’m a product designer and for the last four years I have been working in digital advertising for tech. I wouldn’t have imagined building part of my career in advertising, but here I am, and I have found myself honestly enjoying the challenge. Through this experience, I have learned that healthy and fair advertising is actually a good thing for the industry. It helps brands reach people, and it helps people find what they are looking for. When ads are well-executed, they are great content. There have been amazing pieces of advertisement across history, and when you pair great ads with great products, magic happens.
A few days ago, ChatGPT started testing ads within its conversations. The first screenshots show a safe and expected approach: a user starts a conversation around a specific vertical, the model gives a standard AI answer, and then it shows an ad related to the conversation keywords. This replicates the model used in other media platforms by capturing signals and showing inventory that matches them. It’s a safe starting point, but it feels simplistic considering the possibilities of AI. There should be a more sophisticated way to do this. We need a model that treats ads not as an interruption, but as high-utility content that actually improves the experience.
5 Reasons why AR glasses are inevitable
, UX Collective - Medium
AI-generated image based on the original from this article https://www.queppelin.com/ar-glasses-for-navigation/When I talk about AR glasses, I don’t mean bulky headsets. I mean devices that look like regular eyewear capable of whispering information into your ear and displaying 3D content or flat panels overlaid on the real world.
This article is neither a validation of the technology nor a criticism, it is an objective personal look at what I see coming. Here are five reasons why I believe AR glasses will succeed and become mainstream, along with the consequences designers and users must face.
An Introduction to Effect Sizes
, MeasuringU
The completion rate jumped from 20% to 80%. That’s a large effect size. If it had gone from 20% to 21%? Much smaller effect.
It’s easy to get caught up in the mechanics of significance testing and p-values. But even before those tools existed, researchers were measuring effect sizes. Effect sizes remain fundamental to understanding whether a result actually matters.
Top 7 MCP for Product Designers
, UX Planet - Medium
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a technology that enables AI models to connect with external tools and data sources (such as GitHub, Slack…
The easiest way of creating Claude Skill
, UX Planet - Medium
Claude Skills are reusable instructions that Anthropic Claude can execute for specific, repeatable tasks or workflows. In my opinion…
UI Design Validation with Nano Banana Pro
, UX Planet - Medium
My favorite 5 use cases
Sample Sizes for Comparing UX-Lite Scores
, MeasuringU
The UX-Lite® is a relatively new metric, but it is versatile, short, and increasingly popular for UX research. It measures perceived usability and usefulness with just two items.
But if you’re using the UX-Lite to compare products or to see whether you’ve improved over time, what sample size do you need?
