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imkylelambert.com

Getting buy-in for design-led projects

As designers, we excel at crafting concepts and telling compelling stories. But it can be deeply frustrating when our ideas rarely gain traction.

adobe.design

The path to design principal

The skills that can elevate your design career and your influence as an individual contributor

archetypeai.io

Power of metaphors in human-AI interaction

This new type of interaction is radically changing our relationship with technology and the role it plays in our lives.

jmduke.com

Bluesky is good

Bluesky as a favorite, perhaps less out of its ostensible inherent virtues and more out of the size of its alternatives' flaws.

grillopress.github.io

Service design is not mostly convincing other people to do service design

It’s catchy. And many people feel that’s what they do. And you’ll be doing it a bit I don’t doubt.

ballparkhq.com

Ballpark: card sorting for free

Enhance your product’s information architecture with our advanced card sorting feature.

dontfuckwithscroll.com

Don’t fuck with scroll

Momentum scrolling plugins, while marketed as enhancements, are a plague upon the internet.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Contrast is clarifying

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

trends.uxdesign.cc

The State of UX in 2025

From design tools, to our design process, to technologies that will change the way we design.

itamargilad.com

4 levels of data proficiency

Very few companies are truly data-driven. Here are four levels of proficiency that will up your data game.

uxdesign.cc

The digital soul of tomorrow’s cars

Cars are evolving into smart ecosystems, driven by UX innovation, with much to learn from the success stories of leading Chinese brands.

lapope.com

Information patterns and narrative structures in content

10 patterns to structure your content for understanding, engagement, and effectiveness - and a matrix to help you choose the right one.

jmduke.com

Shipping is capturing value

A project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped.

uxdesign.cc

Society drives how we build products, create brands, and design experiences

If a brand is more important than the product, then is the experience more important than the brand?

uxdesign.cc

Creativity is the only thing

An open letter to my fellow creatives in a dark hour.

uxdesign.cc

AI + Hermes (speed) worship

Tech’s obsession with speed and how it has the potential to strip quality and craft in Design.

arp242.net

Against best practices

I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good.

uxdesign.cc

Why is the Mac mini power button on the bottom?

Design flaw or intentional choice?

seangoedecke.com

How I ship projects at big tech companies

What I think about when I’m lead engineer on a project.

feltpresence.com

We did all this discovery... now how do we decide?

The ideas, the interviews, the stories, the pain points — they all start to pile up. That’s where the problem comes in.