Spotify For years, we’ve defined design in terms of UX (user experience) and UI (user interface). It made sense. The industry needed structure. UX guided behavior, and UI made it beautiful. But the digital world is changing faster than those definitions can contain. Design today is no longer just about interfaces or experiences; it...
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Spotify On the surface, UX design and landscape architecture are worlds apart. One deals with screens and systems; the other, soil and sunlight. But both disciplines share the same ultimate purpose, to create environments where people thrive. Whether you are designing a backyard garden or a digital platform, the challenge is identical: understand the...
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Spotify The Shift from Decoration to Direction There was a time when web design was about crafting beautiful, pixel perfect pages, gradients, drop shadows, and carefully aligned hero images. Designers were digital artisans shaping the aesthetic of the internet. But as technology evolved, so did expectations. The static web gave way to dynamic ecosystems,...
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Spotify The Promise of AR Augmented Reality (AR) has always been just over the horizon, hyped through glasses, headsets, and futuristic demos. We have seen glimpses: Pokémon Go bringing people outside to play, Snapchat lenses changing how we see ourselves, and enterprise AR tools overlaying instructions on factory floors. But AR as an actual...
Continue readingThe Future of UX: From Figma Tokens to AI-Driven Living Websites
Spotify From Static Files to Living Systems Every industry, from healthcare to fintech to retail, relies on websites and digital products to engage users. The problem is that most sites are still static snapshots of a design team’s best guess at what will work. Updates come in cycles: redesigns every few years, tweaks every...
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Spotify Web design has evolved through big waves: Now we’re standing at the edge of the next movement, and I’d frame it like this: The Next Movement in Web Design: Adaptive, AI-Driven, and Invisible 1. Context-Aware Experiences Websites won’t just be “responsive to screen size”, they’ll be responsive to you. 2. AI-Synthesized Design (Design...
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Spotify Looking Back to See What’s Ahead UX has continuously evolved in waves. But what comes after? The next UX movement won’t be about screens or devices. It will be about context, continuity, and invisibility. 1. Contextual UX Experiences won’t just adapt to screen size, they’ll adapt to your situation in the moment. This...
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When UX Lived on Desktops Spotify Before smartphones became the default, most software was designed for desktop environments. Think of heavy, feature-packed programs: spreadsheets, word processors, CRMs. The desktop era was powerful but often bloated. It favored completeness over simplicity. When UX Moved to the Palm of Your Hand The mobile-first revolution flipped those...
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A Tale of Two Booms Spotify Technology moves in waves, and two of the biggest we’ve seen are the Dot Com boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s and the AI boom of today. Both eras brought massive hype, billions of dollars in investment, and a flood of new products. However, the way...
Continue readingUX’ing an Old Problem Into Something New: The Stakeholder Stamp
The Reality We Don’t Talk About Enough Spotify Every designer has seen it: apps, sites, and software so poorly designed that it feels like no one cared about the end user. But most of the time, the design team did care. The problem isn’t always the designer; it’s the stakeholder stamp. That’s the moment...
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