The Layered Aesthetic: Depth, Complexity, and Chaos Done Right
There’s a quiet revolution happening in design, and it’s not about minimalism’s clean white spaces or maximalism’s riot of color….
How Scrolljacking Breaks UX Fundamentals
Let’s be blunt—scrolljacking is the design equivalent of taking the steering wheel out of a driver’s hands and saying, “Don’t worry,…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2025
So many exciting new tools for designers this month! From AI help to UI tools to collaboration tools that make…
AI Is Revolutionizing User Testing in 2025 — and Honestly, It’s About Time
User testing used to be a clunky, expensive mess. Remember trying to recruit five “ideal users” who were just available…
Feedback Fatigue: Why AI Will Stop Asking for Your Opinion
Let’s talk about the ancient art of the thumbs-up and thumbs-down — once the sacred, clumsy handshake between user and…
The AI Avalanche: Are We Drowning in Our Own Creation?
Every week—no, every day—there’s a new AI tool. A new update. A new plugin. A new model that claims to…
Designing for the 1%: Why Edge Cases Aren’t Optional
Let’s talk about the other users. Not your typical, scroll-happy, ideal-case personas. I’m talking about the people who use Internet Explorer 11…
Is It Time to Kill the Sidebar?
Once upon a time, the sidebar was king. It wore a crown made of navigation links, tag clouds, RSS icons,…
The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
Let’s be honest: the designer-developer handoff was never really “working”—at best, it limped along with annotated PDFs and passive-aggressive Figma comments….
Are Closed Ecosystems Like Apple’s a Necessary Evil?
The walled garden. The fortress of control. The golden handcuffs. Whatever you want to call it, closed ecosystems like Apple’s…
The Death of the Double Click: How UX Finally Buried a Relic of the Desktop Era
Let’s be honest: double-clicking is dead. And if it isn’t, it should be. What began as a clever way to differentiate between…
Intent-Based UI Is Replacing Navigation—Are We Designing Ourselves Out of the Interface?
We spent decades perfecting the art of navigation: breadcrumbs, sidebars, hamburger menus, sticky headers, site maps. We crafted taxonomies and…
Dear Designers: Stop Using System Fonts Like It’s 2005
Remember system fonts? Good old Times New Roman, trusty Arial, and the unkillable Courier New. Fonts so baked into operating…
The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know
If you’ve ever rage-closed an app because it wouldn’t let you “go back” or stared at a form that made…
Designing for Dribbble Killed Real Web Creativity
It started with a shot. Not a launch. Not a live site. Not even a prototype. Just a shot — a single,…
What Is Web Design in 2025?
Let’s start with a gentle truth: web design in 2025 no longer means what it used to. And that’s okay. Once,…
Confessions of a Web Design Generalist (a.k.a. The Person Who Does Literally Everything)
There’s a special kind of web designer out there. You won’t always spot them in the wild because they’re usually…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2025
Web design tools that use artificial intelligence are still dominating new and beta launches, while hopefully making your workflows a…