Issue 611
Articles
The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story
Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs.
Fast is a design decision
Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user’s resources.
Where decisions live
Different places should have different jobs.
AI in UX: Work Is Faster, But Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings
AI saves UX practitioners time on nearly every task, yet most feel lukewarm about it.
Accordion Icons: Which Work Best?
A closer look at accordion icons, why split menus are harmful, and why it’s better not to have icons and text labels link to different actions.
Tools and Resources
Figma Specs
Build with shared context across Figma, teams, and agents.
Stage ·
Share a prototype and get sign off in one link.
UX Portfolio
Rebecca Yang
Rebecca is a grad student at University of Washington and interned at Google.
Last But Not Least
Everyone is starting over
Starting over is less about learning any specific tool or framework and more about building the habit of becoming someone new.
“When you’re trying to build something that people will love, you have to obsess over the tiny friction points that cause them to hesitate.”
— Joshua Porter