Friday, January 2, 2026
Vol. 1, Issue 02

AI Design Feeds

Design × Technology × Innovation

ux

Well, thats a wrap…

Why designing for ongoing reflection mattersImage of a character unpleasantly gift wrappedIt’s that time of year again where apps confidently tell us who we are. This year, Spotify informed me that I’m 78 years old in Spotify years (I’m 33 in human ones). I personally…

UX Collective 4 min read

Latest Stories

  • Business / Artificial Intelligence

    AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business

    After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.

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  • ux

    Reliability by design

    Designing trustworthy AI for healthcare products.User holding a phone using an AI healthcare assistantAI is entering one of the most human domains: healthcare. It helps people track sleep, manage chronic conditions, monitor mental health, and navigate loneliness. It listens, advises, and sometimes comforts. Yet despite…

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  • art-history

    The algorithmic atelier

    Generative AI and the long history of artistic automationImage generated via Google Nano BananaThe discourse surrounding generative AI in the creative arts is frequently characterised by a sense of historical rupture, a seismic shift unlike any that has come before. Critics often frame the emergence…

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  • Culture

    AI-Powered Dating Is All Hype. IRL Cruising Is the Future

    Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.

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  • branding

    Design for the nose

    Why do people pay for smells? Why is everything nowadays vanilla? How to indefinitely earn money on the same product? Continue reading on UX Collective »

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  • How to design for (and with) Deaf people

    Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss.

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  • Back to the starting line

    Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future.

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  • Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT?

    Algorithms and AI don't just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit.

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  • Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

    A side project that went viral on Hacker News recently.

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  • ux

    From HCD to HCD+: what I learned from Don Norman

    Reflections on the 2025 DNDA Summit and Don Norman’s vision for the next era of design, community, and artificiality. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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  • product-design

    Junior designers have a perception problem-here’s how to fix it

    The Future of Design is Tackling Uncertain or EvenAmbiguous Problems Continue reading on UX Collective »

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  • Science

    The Great Big Power Play

    US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback. Welcome to the next front in the energy battle.

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  • ai

    Velocity over speed: why the AI race has already failed

    OpinionWe are confusing motion with progress. In physics, this mistake has a name: speed without direction. In civilisation, it has a cost.Speed vs Velocity (generated with ChatGPT 5.2)Here’s a truth from physics that should concern every executive racing toward AI dominance: speed tells you how…

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  • startup

    Sharp tools, hands-on leadership, 48 reflections on 2025, error UX

    Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“I never decided to go all in on AI, it just kept showing up. (…)I wasn’t forced. I didn’t plan it. It was just inevitable. When you get a sharp knife, you don’t keep cutting with the…

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  • Fall in love with your new reality

    Sometimes our role in life isn’t to judge something—it is to figure out how to fall in love with it.

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