Articles
State of the Designer 2026: Designers Are Leaning Into the Messy Middle
How designers around the world are upleveling their skills, keeping craft high, and turning new pressures into creative momentum.
Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
Concrete design patterns, operational frameworks, and organizational practices for building agentic systems that are not only powerful but also transparent, controllable, and trustworthy.
The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals
Designing how models behave.
What UX Consulting Clients Expect in the Age of AI
Clients still seek strong judgment and critical thinking, research rigor, and respect for real-world and user constraints from UX consultants.
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Tools and Resources
2026 AI in UX & Product Design Survey Report (PDF)
What 200+ UX and product designers told us about how they’re actually using AI today—and how that’s changed over the past year.
VForms
Interactive video questionnaires.
How AI ate my website – Luke Wroblewski (YouTube)
Advances in AI models now enable different ways of interacting with web sites.
UX Portfolio
Ian Aldous
Ian is a Creative Director at Apple.
Last But Not Least
Build something silly
Building something not because the tool matters, but because the act of building rewires how you think.
“The most important skills for surviving and flourishing in the 21st century are not specific skills. Instead, the really important skill is how to master new skills again and again throughout your life.”
— Yuval Noah Harari
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