July 2020One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree
and aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinate
system whose horizontal axis runs from conventional-minded on...
Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a...
AI will kill most startups — and that’s a good thingWhen anyone can build the product, only authority differentiates the outcome.Picture an ordinary person working in tech — a designer,...
Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question.In my previous article, I explored how AI...
Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure...
WCAG color contrast is more than just textMost designers know the basics of web accessibility and color contrast. We’ve memorized that “normal text” (24 CSS...
CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. It’s...
The intersection of business strategy and UX.Let’s walk through the key decision gates. The entire process is a cycle, governed by ‘Monitor, Measure, and Adapt.’Begin with...
When you spend nearly two decades building brands, shaping identities, and helping businesses stand out with clarity and confidence, recognition is always welcome. This...
We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which...
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“We have a big choice to make: we’re about to jump into a new era of technology — meaning different values,...
Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor...
As AI mirrors how we design and learn, our role evolves from creating interfaces to defining the signals that shape intelligent experiences.A quick note...
