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  • A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  • Rethinking design critique
  • The Soft Control of Space: Design for Decision-Making

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smashingmagazine.com /1 month ago

A Practical Guide To Design Principles

Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design pattern...

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uxdesign.cc /1 month ago

Rethinking design critique

Building design knowledge through a collaborative processContinue reading on UX Collective »

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archdaily.com /1 week ago

The Soft Control of Space: Design for Decision-Making

"There is no space without event, no architecture without action." When Bernard Tschumi wrote these words, he was articulating a fundamental principle of the architect's practice....

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uxdesign.cc /2 weeks ago

How to write a DESIGN.md file Claude can actually use

Your DESIGN.md should tell a story of your productContinue reading on UX Collective »

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nngroup.com /2 weeks ago

Small by Design: The Strength of Lean Design-System Teams

Lean design-system teams, when strategically planned, can move faster, prioritize sharply, and scale impact beyond their size.

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gdusa.com /1 month ago

Maugé-Lewis: Teaching Design Thinking In The Age of AI

By Carole Maugé-Lewis, Professor Emerita at Kennesaw State University and Principal of MAUGEDESIGN. Her work bridges design education and professional practice, with a focus on int...

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smashingmagazine.com /3 weeks ago

Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools

Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes...

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uxdesign.cc /3 weeks ago

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.Claude Code can now write directly to the Figma canvas through Figma MCP.You...

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gdusa.com /2 weeks ago

Creative Comment: Brand and Product Design

In this piece, ‘When Brand and Product Design Become One,’ Allison Connell of Athletics asserts that today’s most successful brands behave as cohesive systems where typography, mot...

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nngroup.com /1 week ago

The Case for Design Disposables

Design disposables are rough artifacts you make to think, not to deliver. Learn to tell them apart from deliverables and avoid the sunk-cost trap.

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uxdesign.cc /2 weeks ago

Be like water: Rethinking the design process with AI

What Bruce Lee can teach us about structure, flow, and intention.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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uxdesign.cc /2 weeks ago

How I use AI to partner on design problems

A design workflow where AI holds the context, I do the thinking: from brainstorm to prototypeWorking through a complex design problem means holding a lot in my head. Research synth...

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uxdesign.cc /1 week ago

What critical thinking means for senior designers (and how to apply it)

Re-designing mocks is slowly becoming the bulk of design workContinue reading on UX Collective »

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nngroup.com /1 week ago

Closing the Loop: What to Do After a Design Critique Ends

Most designers invest in running critiques but skip the followup. That missing step is often why feedback culture breaks down.

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uxdesign.cc /1 week ago

Two gears, one compass: designing at velocity while sustaining quality

How to build an AI-augmented design practice by leaning on 2 mindset shiftsIllustration by Roberlan Borges ParesquiDesign process isn’t dead — it’s conditionalThe claim “the design...

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inc.com /1 month ago

Great Websites Take Shape Twice, First in Strategy, Then in Design

The best digital experiences begin with strategic clarity and are refined through iterative design.

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uxplanet.org /3 weeks ago

What is DESIGN.md and How To Use It

One of the biggest challenges when using AI design generators is producing consistent output. Even when you feed AI tools specific…Continue reading on UX Planet В»

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uxdesign.cc /1 month ago

Rethinking the shape of design teams in an AI world

For our juniors, organisations and future generations to come.As AI disrupts the design process and traditional hierarchies, organisations must shift to a “dual transformation” mod...

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uxplanet.org /1 month ago

Using Design Systems in Claude Design: How Good Is It?

Claude Design caused a lot of buzz in the product design space, and many people started to wonder whether this tool can (and should) be…Continue reading on UX Planet »

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uxplanet.org /3 weeks ago

Designed a prompt end-to-end for the design process and it will make you faster

I designed a detailed prompt for the end-to-end design process which covers research to handoff. This took me almost a month to test and refine it works perfectly. Took my 4 weeks...

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uxdesign.cc /1 month ago

A GenAI perplexed by color theory

Using Perplexity to build an accessible perceptual uniform triad.Continue reading on UX Collective »

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inc.com /1 month ago

Design Thinking Done Right

Design thinking’s move into business strategy allows organizations to reconnect with the deeper discipline for lasting value.

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curiositytank.com /1 month ago

The Invisible Mechanism Behind UX Thinking: The Question That Shaped My Entire Career

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uxdesign.cc /1 month ago

Human-Centred Design has grown up. It’s time we did too.

Human-Centred Design has grown up. It’s time we did tooWe spent twenty-five years making technology work for users. Now we need to make it work for human beings. These are not t...

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