Thursday, January 1, 2026
Vol. 1, Issue 01

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Design × Technology × Innovation

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…

UX Collective 10 min read

Latest Stories

  • 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…

    UX Collective 17 min read
  • 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.

    Wired AI 1 min read
  • 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 »

    UX Collective 1 min read
  • 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 »

    UX Collective 1 min read
  • 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 »

    UX Collective 1 min read
  • 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.

    Wired AI 1 min read
  • 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…

    UX Collective 8 min read
  • 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…

    UX Collective 2 min read
  • Gear

    3 New Tricks to Try With Google Gemini Live After Its Latest Major Upgrade

    Google's AI is now even smarter, and more versatile.

    Wired AI 1 min read
  • ai

    AI will kill most startups — and that’s a good thing

    AI will kill most startups — and that’s a good thingWhen anyone can build the product, only authority differentiates the outcome.Image source: Adobe StockPicture an ordinary person working in tech — a designer, developer, or product manager — who stumbles onto a genuinely good idea.…

    UX Collective 4 min read
  • Business

    Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

    The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.

    Wired AI 1 min read
  • Business

    So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen

    In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.

    Wired AI 1 min read
  • prototyping

    How PMs can vibe code to build stronger requirements

    Leveraging AI-driven exploration to build stronger, clearer product specificationsGenerated by Nano Banana Pro based on the article.It can be tempting to think our job as Product Managers is to provide the team with absolute certainty. We want the “perfect” plan before we share it. But…

    UX Collective 4 min read
  • writing

    Contrails and tiny text will probably kill us

    Contrails’ potential—the totally unnoticed, yet the only small text worth reading, and why everyone missed it. Continue reading on UX Collective »

    UX Collective 1 min read
  • Security

    The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here

    Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.

    Wired AI 1 min read