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An Intro to Bayesian Thinking for UX Research: Updating Beliefs with Data
, MeasuringU
“That design will never work.”
You may have had that thought before you even ran your first participant in a usability test.
Nano Banana Pro for Accessibility Testing
, UX Planet - Medium
Over 1.3 billion people worldwide live with some form of disability, and roughly 2.2 billion have a vision impairment. Yet the vast…
How complexity accumulates
, UX Collective - Medium
How systems become risky without anyone noticing.Alexander Undoing the Gordian | Source: Knot 1st-art-gallery.comNo one decides to build a fragile system. No executive convenes a meeting to discuss how best to make operations inscrutable, unreliable, brittle. No engineer sets out to create software that no one can maintain or discern later on. No organization deliberately designs processes so convoluted that they guarantee failure.
Yet fragile, incomprehensible, unmaintainable, and failure-prone systems are everywhere. They are the norm. Systems that excel and are resilient are exceptional. So how come? Fragile systems didn’t arrive through dramatic decisions or catastrophic errors. They evolved. Their fragility and brittleness were accumulated gradually, through a thousand small, locally rational choices that collectively created something unmanageable. Therein lies the importance of Systems Thinking. To understand the aggregate dynamics of individual choices.
Being an AI-native designer isn’t what you think it is
, UX Collective - Medium
What 28 design leaders have said AI-native design really is
Extended overthinking
, UX Collective - Medium
On AI, slot machines, and forgetting how to craft pixels.I’ve grown tired of AI lately… of what it does to me.
Every new model, every new tool, every new workflow. Yes, they’re powerful. Yes, they let us do more. But there’s this weird disconnect growing between me and the things I make. When everything is instant, it starts feeling like a slot machine. Except you always win. Which makes it more addictive. And somehow… also boring?
Gemini 3.1 for UI & Web Design
, UX Planet - Medium
Google recently released its new AI model, Gemini 3.1. This model works extremely well for UI and web design. In this article, I want to…
Figma Make with Claude 4.6 or Gemini 3
, UX Planet - Medium
Which AI Model Works Best for UI Design
Hidden cost of AI prototypes, leadership myths, how designers use AI
, UX Collective - Medium
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Prototypes are no longer as special as they once were. They’re now the bare minimum.
But this speed comes with limitations. Many AI-generated prototypes are never meant to survive past the moment they’re validated. They do their job in a meeting or a user test, but then they’re rebuilt by engineering or even trashed. But the prototypes didn’t “fail,” they were just created with a different intention and outcome.”
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…
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.
