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UX Collective

Why Instagram’s ad breaks feel worse than ads

The psychology of interruption, control, and broken scrolling expectations. Continue reading on UX Collective »

14 hours ago

UX Collective

Why Instagram’s ad breaks feel worse than ads

UX Collective

The dawn of Authentic Experience (AuX)

Why AuX in 2026 is about designing intelligence, not interfaces Continue reading on UX Collective »

14 hours ago

UX Collective

The dawn of Authentic Experience (AuX)

UX Collective

Feelings are the new features

A strategic framework for emotional design when function is free Continue reading on UX Collective »

14 hours ago

UX Collective

Feelings are the new features

Muzli

The Quiet Power: Why Minimal Web Designs Feel More Connected

19 hours ago

Muzli

The Quiet Power: Why Minimal Web Designs Feel More Connected

IxDF

Cross-Device AR: How to Ensure a Seamless Experience

Augmented Reality (AR) UX has endless opportunities to make a usable and engaging product. Place-based storytelling can show information spatially in a way that is easier to understand than abstract ideas. However, AR isn’t always practical or safe to use, which makes it hard for users to want to use ...

1 day ago

IxDF

Cross-Device AR: How to Ensure a Seamless Experience

UX Collective

The case for the uncertain AI: Why chatbots should say “I’m not sure”

Why chatbots should admit uncertainty. An analysis of RLHF, tokenization, and the future of transparency in Artificial Intelligence. Continue reading on UX Collective »

1 day ago

UX Collective

The case for the uncertain AI: Why chatbots should say “I’m not sure”

FastCompany Design

Meet the Sam’s Club CEO tasked with taking on Costco

Meet the new CEO of Sam's Club: Latriece Watkins. As you'll hear from my interview with Watkins on the January 15 episode of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies podcast, she is a Walmart veteran who began her career in the real estate division in 2006. Over the next two decades, she rose ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

Meet the Sam’s Club CEO tasked with taking on Costco

UX Collective

When tools pretend to be people

2 days ago

UX Collective

When tools pretend to be people

FastCompany Design

Want more people to use public transit? Make it safer

If a City is going to operate a multimodal transportation system, then it helps to understand the motivations of people who continue to choose personal cars for their short trips. Bicycle advocates often talk about this in terms of “bike trips not taken” because of a lack of quality infrastructure. ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

Want more people to use public transit? Make it safer

IxDF

How to Use the Environment in Your AR Experience

Augmented Reality (AR) is an exciting medium because of the unique way it interacts with physical space to add new information and meaning. Let's look at what makes AR unique: the context of use. Unlike other devices and platforms, using an AR headset or mobile phone for AR allows you to interact with ...

2 days ago

IxDF

How to Use the Environment in Your AR Experience

Muzli

Beyond the Pixel: Why Your 2026 Portfolio Needs a DNA (And a Community)

2 days ago

Muzli

Beyond the Pixel: Why Your 2026 Portfolio Needs a DNA (And a Community)

UX Collective

Beyond chat: 8 core user intents driving AI interaction

2 days ago

UX Collective

Beyond chat: 8 core user intents driving AI interaction

FastCompany Design

Intuit’s peaceful SoHo flagship tries to solve a problem of its own creation

TurboTax has a new flagship—its first foray into physical retail—in SoHo. The warm, welcoming Japandi-styled space on the corner of Broadway and Grand is adorned with plants, plush sofas, and a 30-foot-long screen on a curved slatted oak wall that displays color fields. Up front, there’s a sensory ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

Intuit’s peaceful SoHo flagship tries to solve a problem of its own creation

FastCompany Design

NYC has a major delivery problem. These architects have a big vision to fix it

Every day, New Yorkers receive a staggering 2.3 million packages at their doorstop. Nearly 90% of those goods snake through the city on trucks that cause traffic congestion and pollute the air on the way. To address the problem, global architecture firm KPF is asking an ambitious question: What if New ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

NYC has a major delivery problem. These architects have a big vision to fix it

FastCompany Design

Honda’s futuristic new logo is ready for a ‘Tron’ cameo

Honda says its refreshed H logo represents a “second founding” for the company. Honda 2.0, then, is designed to look like it's from the future. The Japanese automaker announced on January 13 that it's adopting a new logo across its automobile business. The company has had some sort of an H ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

Honda’s futuristic new logo is ready for a ‘Tron’ cameo

IxDF

How to Reframe Negative Feedback Without Losing Confidence in Yourself

Negative feedback hurts. There's no way around it. Your stomach drops, your heart beats faster, and your thoughts race: “Am I about to lose this client"” “Are they questioning if I'm the right person for this job"” “Will this affect my reputation"” But what if you could change your relationship ...

2 days ago

IxDF

How to Reframe Negative Feedback Without Losing Confidence in Yourself