Read on Medium 🅼➡️ Users crave clarity. Not just feedback, but meaningful feedback. That means the purpose of a confirmation message is not to exist, but to communicate what happened, why it matters, and what’s next, if anything. As NNG reminds us: “[…] provide response options that summarize what will happen for each possible response” Simple concept, yet, we often […]
Humans are natural completionists. We open loops, and we look for ways to close them. It’s how our brains make sense of the world. In UX, every interaction is a loop: The user takes an action. The system responds. When it works, the user knows what happened and walks off satisfied of having completed a task. When it doesn’t work, that’s […]
We often hear that good design is invisible. But should your rationale be invisible, too? Should your strategy be hidden behind file links and Figma layers? How much time do we spend articulating the reasoning behind our choices? How often do we pause to ensure that teams, stakeholders, and users alike understand our intent? No matter how brilliant your UX […]
If an AI tool can draft a full interface in 30 seconds, does that mean our design process should only take 30 seconds? The question is of course, rhetorical and the answer is a clear no. But let’s be honest: with AI tools now generating UIs faster than we can sip our morning coffee, there’s a lot to reflect on. […]
“When profit is at stake, content and interaction designers put ethics aside all too often. It’s time to say: enough.” We’ve all encountered them — some of us without even realising it. Dark patterns have long lurked within the digital spaces we navigate daily. In Part 1, we traced their origins, the psychological levers that make them effective, and the most […]
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