Articles
“Craft at scale” is a white whale
“Craft at scale” is mutually exclusive with the kind of rapid and unending growth that’s the baseline expectation for traditional startups and public tech companies.
The UX Research Reckoning is Here
UX Research as a discipline, and researchers as an outstanding breed of human, deserve a self-critical look at how we got here and what to do now.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
A few reasons chatbots are not the future of interfaces.
Scaling Conversational Interfaces
With the explosive popularity of Large Language Models, many companies are implementing chat user interfaces for a wide range of use cases leading to more UI design explorations.
How Figma draws inspiration from the gaming world
The parallels between developing gaming interfaces and building Figma and FigJam.
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Gautham Mukesh
Gautham is a designer at BrowserStack.
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Last But Not Least
The UX of a Coconut Sucks
UX Lessons from Nature’s design flaws
“Design used to be the seasoning you’d sprinkle on for taste; now it’s the flour you need at the start of the recipe.”
— John Maeda
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