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13 stories from the past week in UX & Research, from CTCV.
With AI, a polished look costs nothing. Native brings what can’t be drawn, and it moves with the system, one step ahead of what imitates it. An AI assistant helped me write this. The ideas, the experience and the final edit are mine. In June 2025, Apple…
As LLM chat patterns become more widespread, making them accessible is essential to ensuring everyone can access the information, tools, and opportunities they offer. Drawing on his work improving these interfaces, Eric Bailey shares practical ways to make…
Everyone seems to be asking whether AI will replace UX designers. I think that’s the wrong question. Following the numbers gets you a picture but doesn’t make you an artist | Russell Pinkston In March 2025, the Computer History Museum and IEEE Spectrum staged…
The AI 2027 Conference is a live online day for designers and engineers on where AI stands today, what to expect in 2027, and where teams are getting it right. Smashing AI Conference originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should…
We used to design predictable user flows. Now AI can interpret, decide, and act on its own. Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends. Showing where AI stops in the flow — by gpt In September 2025, researchers at Thinking…
Computer-use agents can’t guess, improvise, or ask a coworker. That makes them the most honest usability testers we’ve ever had. The first time I watched an agent fail on a vendor portal, I recognized the failure immediately. Not because I understood the…
Replacing JavaScript with a modern CSS feature can simplify a piece of code while making the wider application harder to reason about. Gabriel Shoyombo explores what happens when logic is split between CSS and JavaScript, sharing practical guidance to help…
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Open any product you pay for and look at the top right corner. There is a sparkle. Behind it is a panel that slides in from the right, says “Ask anything”, and offers three suggestions you did not…
The accessibility challenge of generative AI diverging color palettes. Continue reading on UX Collective
Let’s kick of November with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Designed by creatives from across the globe, the wallpapers come in a variety of screen resolutions and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
AI-native software development lifecycles reduce UX to AI context. UX must discover user needs, shape what’s built, and evaluate it before and after launch.
AI is expanding UX beyond human users to agents acting on their behalf. Experience design names this broader field, which still centers on people’s goals.
A researcher checks a generated synthesis against her own interview notes while a stack of vendor contracts sits unopened at the edge of her desk. Practitioners know what good output looks like and should own the final call, with operations handling the…
