Spotify For years, e-commerce has been built around search bars, filters, and checkout funnels. It’s efficient, measurable, and predictable. But it’s not personal. The next wave of digital shopping isn’t about more product listings or faster load times. It’s about conversation, experiences that feel intuitive, human, and guided. That’s where ChatGPT and conversational AI...
Continue readingFigma Makes: Designing the Tools That Design the Future
Spotify Figma has never just been a design tool. It’s a movement—a living example of how collaborative design, openness, and real-time creativity can reshape the very process of building digital experiences. With Figma Makes, that ethos expands from a product to a culture of creation. What “Figma Makes” Represents “Figma Makes” isn’t just a...
Continue readingAI and Design: Why Human Touch Still Leads the Future of UX
Spotify Every few years, design faces an existential question. “Will this new technology replace us?” It happened with Photoshop. Then Figma. Then, no-code tools. And now, it’s happening again with AI. Across the industry, designers are asking: If AI can wireframe, generate layouts, or build pages instantly, where do we fit in? The truth...
Continue readingUX/UI Is Evolving Into Digital Design: The Next Chapter of Experience Creation
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...
Continue readingUX’ing the Next AR Interface: What It Is, What It Will Take, and How to Make It User-Friendly
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...
Continue readingAdaptive, AI-Driven, and Invisible
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...
Continue readingUX’ing the Old and the New: Desktop Software vs. Mobile-First Design
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...
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...
Continue readingAI Isn’t Taking UX Jobs — It’s Making Us Better at Them
The Fear: AI as a Threat to UX Careers Spotify Everywhere you look, the narrative is the same: AI is coming for jobs. Designers, writers, developers, no one feels immune. In UX, that fear often takes the shape of “AI will automate design, so what will I do?” It’s an understandable anxiety. Tools that...
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