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A translation guide for designers who think accessibility is a separate skill set Every year, WebAIM crawls the home pages of the top one million websites and runs them through an automated accessibility scanner. The 2026 results , published this spring, found errors on 95.9% of home pages , averaging 56 detectable accessibility barriers per page . That number actually went up from the year…
A realistic guide to shipping your own designs. Your company wants you to use more tokens. Engineers are shipping faster than you can prototype. Vibecoded slop is all over your LinkedIn feed. Agents are the future. Figma’s over. Anthropic just released Claude Design. Taste is everything. Eng just shipped another PR! Design is dead. Actually, you should use less tokens now. Wait, maybe Figma is…
We’ve spent 180 years trying not to feel the cost of the machine. AI just turned the meter back on. Continue reading on UX Collective »
The gap between what AI is reliable for and what it looks reliable for is where damage happens, and enablement fails How to lead the change with AI in a nutshell I’ve been building with AI for three years now. I started by trying to scale UX writing via plug-ins and now have agents, workflows, MCPs, and apps under my belt. I feel comfortable building with AI, and have adopted it into many of my…
How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debt Observing the flock based on how individual biological behaviors aggregate into structured group intelligence (image source: Asa Leonard ) Molly Graham wrote an essay a week ago that ruined the traditional management approach for me. In it, she asked what would happen if we stopped long-term systematic…
Two generations learned what a thinking machine looks like from a production line of individuals and the picture is not holding. AI assisted. The saga imagined thinking machines as immortal individuals in metal bodies. Real AI showed up as copyable software, and every difference is worth understanding. We grew up with the droids. R2-D2 beeping through a firefight, C-3PO fretting about the odds of…
10 controversies and a brief history of the Framer marketplace Full disclosure, I do not work at Framer, nor do I have any affiliation with them. I’m just a regular creator who has been in the space for a while and watched the evolution unfold in real time. I sold my first Framer template in April 2023. That was over 3 years ago. I’ve been in the Framer space since late 2022. To say I’ve seen the…
How models change what we notice, question, and understand Tiny furniture [Content warning: This article contains images of miniature death scenes.] I recently started building a miniature house in my free time. I am clumsy and have messed up a lot of things, but I still find the process therapeutic. Part of it is how cute everything looks at that scale. The world feels so orderly and manageable.…
The trusted face is the mask, but the machine underneath doesn’t know when it’s wrong, and that’s exactly what you won’t check. The more we trust a name, the less we question the machine wearing it, and the more that name has to lose when the machine is confidently wrong. A few weeks ago my team spent an hour arguing about whether to lie to people. We were designing the onboarding for an AI…
How “Everyone can Design” means designers don’t have to wait for permission Continue reading on UX Collective »