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What can digital transformation teach us about AI adoption? Paul Boag revisits his book Digital Adaptation to show how lessons from the past can help organizations navigate the challenges of AI…
Read on Smashing Magazine →A reviewer’s hand hovers over an approve button while the work it approves has already moved on without them. AI assisted.Agents now act before we ask and reach past what we authorized. A person in…
Read on UX Collective →It was about what a designer really needed to know about shipping to production, and what people truly wanted from online learningContinue reading on UX Collective »
Read on UX Collective →Why the forward-deployed engineer boom stops at the customer.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Read on UX Collective →AI is bringing content design, enterprise content strategy, knowledge management, and model behavior into the same user experience. Our ways of working haven’t caught up.Image generated by…
Read on UX Collective →The switchboard operator’s job was automated out of existence. The work it became, the invisible systems that now connect every call, is worth more than the job ever was. AI is about to do the same…
Read on UX Collective →How to sell design and show the impact of design outcomes to business and finance leaders.Many years ago a business unit CFO told me: “I don’t need another presentation explaining why design is…
Read on UX Collective →Many experienced people plateau out of sight. Whether they keep growing depends partly on the problems they’re given to tackle.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Read on UX Collective →Judgment brings the facts. Agency puts them on the table. AI assisted.It has become our favorite answer to AI-generated sameness. The reality is good products come from judgment built on facts, and…
Read on UX Collective →Why it took Microsoft 5 years to roll out an ‘obvious fix’Continue reading on UX Collective »
Read on UX Collective →AI made quality available to everyone, and made it average. What sets work apart now is a decision you can see.An AI assistant helped me write this. The ideas, the data and the final edit are…
Read on UX Collective →A useful AI assistant needs relevant personal context, the capability to use it, and an experience that helps users understand its limits.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Claude power users rarely edit their context files and often can’t find them. Your AI agent is only as powerful as its context library.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →WGSL fragment_depth extension, texture compression unaligned, srgb-linear and display-p3-linear color spaces, snorm10-10-10-2 vertex format, and more.
Read on Chrome Developers →A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. You’ll find more [useful guides](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/guides/) and [online…
Read on Smashing Magazine →JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
Read on Chrome Developers →Updates to the Email Verification origin trial, including Android support, third-party origin trials, optional kid handling, and Sec-Fetch-Dest header changes.
Read on Chrome Developers →Empathy maps help UX teams visualize user attitudes and behaviors, building a shared understanding of end users while highlighting gaps in existing user data.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →AI makes building nearly free, so users grow agentic systems piecemeal into fragile messes they no longer understand.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →October is just around the corner, which means it’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Designed by the community for the community, they’re here to brighten your screens, and maybe spark some…
Read on Smashing Magazine →Chrome 156 is now in Beta. Check out the release notes.
Read on Chrome Developers →Chrome 150 and 155 introduce essential ergonomic updates, renaming, and API refinements to the HTML-in-Canvas experimental API.
Read on Chrome Developers →Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about how artificial intelligence works, and how users think about it.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →How people react to being told that AI helped create a piece of content varies with audience, context, the nature and degree of AI use.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Chrome 152 introduces connection allowlists, a new security mechanism that lets you create a strict network sandbox for your documents and workers.
Read on Chrome Developers →Responsively-sized iframes, CSS scroll-marker-group modes, and CSS text-decoration-inset.
Read on Chrome Developers →DevTools MCP server updates, Ad script tracking in the Ads section in Application, and Full soft navigation support in Performance.
Read on Chrome Developers →Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about recommendations for designing AI products and features.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how…
Read on Smashing Magazine →Enhance multitasking extensions with the new Tabs Split View API.
Read on Chrome Developers →Get a preview of the next Chrome release with this post detailing the features in the current beta.
Read on Chrome Developers →Take up to 5 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Training focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. December 2 - December 15, 2026.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →AI tools make it feasible to build fully interactive prototypes of complex interfaces so you can test them with users earlier in the design process.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →NN/G uses AI for clarity, formatting, and critique, but humans retain editorial judgment and responsibility for every article.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for…
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