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Issue 517

Articles

The State of UX in 2025
UX is increasingly a byproduct of business objectives, not the driving force.

The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design
Few things are as frustrating to a user as when a site won’t respond.

The path to design principal: Mastering archetypes and defining success
The skills that can elevate your design career and your influence as an individual contributor.

Experience Design: The Next Iteration of UX?
As an umbrella term for UX/CX work, “experience design” reflects blended roles and core human-centered principles.

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Tools and Resources

Ballpark – Card sorting
Improve UX by watching how users organize information.

Figma 2024: We shipped it, you shaped it
From flagship features to little big updates, we take a look at how you shaped what Figma shipped in 2024.

AI User Research
Let users request features & highlight bugs to your own AI agent.

UX Portfolio

Andy Shaw
Andy is a freelance product designer based in London.

Last But Not Least

Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self
What one designer wishes she knew starting out as a designer in big tech.

“Design is what will differentiate great products from the obvious solutions.”
— Dylan Field

Thanks to this issue’s sponsor:

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