Tag: Product design
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When AI UX Goes Rogue: Why “Smart” Interfaces Can Wreck Your Brand
When your AI starts “optimizing” UI without understanding human behavior, dark patterns aren’t a bug – they’re the default. This post breaks down how AI-driven UX can silently erode trust, inflate support costs, and expose you to real legal and reputational risk, plus what founders can do to add ethical guardrails before things blow up.
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The Taste Makers: How Design Buyer Illiteracy is Killing User Experience
Exploring why decision-makers value visuals over usability, this post reveals the damage wrought by design buyer illiteracy—leading to beautiful but ineffective solutions and harming real users.
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Why Design Bootcamps Are Destroying the Profession
Design bootcamps are flooding the profession with under-skilled practitioners, devaluing expertise and creating a skills inflation crisis. This post explores market oversaturation, quality control failures, and long-term risks for the design industry.
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The Great Digital Overproduction Crisis: Designing Products for a World That Can’t Afford Them
Exploring the economic and creative consequences of digital overproduction in a world struggling to fund new products. Where do design, AI, and the future of value creation intersect?
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Europe Just Made Dark Patterns a Liability
The era of manipulative UX is ending. With the EU’s new rules, dark patterns go from “growth hack” to legal risk—and ethical design finally gets the runway it deserves.
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Remote Work Is Killing Design Leadership — And That’s a Good Thing
Remote work didn’t break design leadership—it revealed how fragile it was. The leaders thriving now aren’t recreating the office on Zoom. They’re architecting remote-first systems that trade performance theater for measurable impact. Here’s the shift.
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Invisible Interfaces: How Context-Aware AI Is Making UI Disappear
Explore the rise of invisible interfaces powered by context-aware AI, and how they’re reshaping the landscape of UX, product design, and seamless digital experiences.
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Designing for Creative AI Teams: Rethinking Collaboration and Culture
As creative teams integrate autonomous AI partners into their daily work, a new design challenge emerges: how do we lead, collaborate, and build culture in these hybrid human/AI teams? Explore key strategies to thrive in the age of creative AI partners.
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Are We Designing for Real People, or Just for Data?
Is UX still about people, or just about numbers? This post uncovers how design’s obsession with metrics strips away empathy and real-world impact—making a case for rediscovering genuine human-centered design in the age of dashboards and data-driven decisions.
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Can Design Drive Sustainability? Rethinking the Digital Footprint of UX/UI in 2025
As digital products reshape our lives, their environmental impact can’t be ignored. This post explores practical strategies for design leaders and teams to create greener, more sustainable digital experiences—reducing the digital footprint without compromising innovation.