Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
>be me
>grind for a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever
>mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything
>wake up one day to hundreds of messages: look i made you into a twink ghibli style haha
— Sam Altman
When faces go virally wrong →
By Darren Yeo
Is research a black box at your org? →
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Editor picks
Where design finds (and loses) its soul →
The heart, humanity, and intuition behind great design.
By Al LuccaThe shape of design to come →
Change is happening.
By Luděk ČernockýWhy the car horn is the most annoying UX failure on the road →
How a simple safety device became a source of urban stress.
By Elvis Hsiao
The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices and helps designers think more critically about their work.
Aperture: an experimental AI concept →
Make me think
The age of abundance →
“Here’s the thing; a single human can’t understand a 10M-line software project on their own. And so they break it down into composable modules, test and document each part separately. Then you can reason about the modules at a higher level of abstraction. That’s how AI will deal with larger codebases too.”What to do →
“So what should one do? One should help people, and take care of the world. Those two are obvious. But is there anything else? When I ask that, the answer that pops up is Make good new things.”The blissful zen of a good side project →
“Maybe I’ve been depressed, or burned out. I don’t know. I haven’t been at my best; that’s all I really know for sure. It’s not that things have been bad, exactly, but they haven’t been easy, either. Whatever the reason: I realize now I’ve let it push my consumption-to-creation ratio wildly out of balance.”
Little gems this week
It’s not just AI that needs clear ‘prompts’ — humans do too →
By Nadia
When constraints sparked creativity →
By Ian Batterbee
What AI image generation means for creators — the ethical dilemma →
By Hara Ledaki
Tools and resources
Writing the onboarding experience →
How to help a product introduce itself.
By Nick DiLalloThe A-Z of design →
26 things any designer should know.
By George JosephManus AI: real or hype? →
Early observations of Manus AI and comparison to other AI tools.
By Ian Xiao
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