GUIs should have been keyboard-first this whole time
A viral post set the internet ablaze last week with a straightforward proposition: GUIs ought to be entirely keyboard-driven. After that, everyone c…
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Building Better Property Platforms: 5 UX Details That Matter
Property platforms often serve two very different types of users. One person wants to find a home. Another wants to publish a property and find the…
Where Should I Look? 3 Small UX Problems in Remote Demos
In remote software demos, the biggest problem is not always the product itself. Sometimes the audience simply doesn’t know where to look. A button m…
Filling Silent Streams: How AI Avatars Keep Engagement Alive Without Viewer Comments
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . The Challenge of "Silence" in Unmanned AI Avatar Live Streams When creating a live st…
Decentraland warns your scene UI will clash with its mobile controls — but won't say where they are
I put two buttons at the bottom of a Decentraland scene, the way the platform's own mobile guidance says to. On a real phone, one of them wrote a pe…
Figma published 10 skills
Figma published 10 skills their community https://dub.sh/ZfYjDlg A few that stuck with me: /find-animation-opportunities – scans a design and tells…
Why Is Bad Software Okay?
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there's a lot of software that just isn't very good. This isn't to say that I make the best software or am someh…
I Built NameSnap With Codex: Five Lessons About AI-Generated App Design
I built an app as an experiment with Codex's design capabilities. The app is called NameSnap Picker. It helps teachers, streamers, coaches, parties,…
How to Build a Fair A/B Audio Preview for AI Processing
Two audio players do not make a fair before-and-after test. If the second player restarts from zero or takes half a second to load, the user is no l…
The jitter wasn't in the interpolation. It was in the schedule.
The avatar standing on my desktop looked like it was stuttering. One symptom — but it turned out to have three causes of completely different kinds.…
Designing a Meme Template Picker That Preserves Context
A meme template picker has a difficult information-architecture problem: users recognize some formats by sight, others by name, and many only within…
Trust is a feature you build, not a claim you make
I spent part of my career in e commerce, in the years when online retail was still arguing with itself about whether people would ever hand over car…
Native Modals: Parallel & Intercepted Routes in Next.js 🔀
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AI Features Users Don’t Want (And What They Actually Need)
Companies keep adding AI features, assuming users will embrace them. The reality is different. Most people don’t want another tool that complicates…
Single-Signal Recommenders Feel Dumb: Prune, Don't Rank
Every recommender starts as a single filter and stays there longer than it should. You ship colour matching, it works, the demo looks great, and the…
ABM landing pages for maritime cybersecurity
Industrial B2B meets product-page UX Account-based marketing can look tidy in a deck and messy in a browser. The tension is sharp when you mix an in…
Free Accessibility Certifications and Courses
Originally published on A11y News : 6 free, self-paced courses to take this summer Nowadays there are countless web accessibility courses and certif…
How I Built a No-App Photo Sharing Platform Using Just QR Codes and Browser Cameras
Last summer, I was at my cousin's wedding. 200 guests, one professional photographer, and exactly zero way for anyone else to share the photos they…
Designing an Interface Around a Single Binary Input (What Morse Code Taught Me About Constraints)
Most UI decisions assume the user has a full keyboard, a mouse, and a touchscreen to work with. I didn't really think about what happens when none o…
Designing sleep apps that people don't abandon after three nights
Designing sleep apps that people don't abandon after three nights The sleep app category has one of the worst retention curves in consumer software.…
Most explanations fail for the same reason
I work in finance. When I read about synergies, I do not need help. A few weeks ago I was reading about RAG. It is a way of giving an AI model acces…
Why Claude-generated screens are missing their states
Ask for a screen and you get the screen on its best day. Full of content, nothing loading, nothing failed, permission already granted, network fine.…
Claude to Figma: keeping AI-generated UI bound to your design system
On one build I found 127 places bound to a raw colour instead of a named role. Every single one had passed visual review. They all surfaced the mome…
Figma MCP: turning Claude-generated UI into a component library
This is the stretch nobody films. The demo ends at the screenshot; the job ends about a week later, in a Figma file that someone else has to be able…
The Evolution of No-Code UX: What Makes a Flow Builder Maintainable?
In Developers Don’t Hate No-Code. They Hate Losing Control, I argued that developers are not automatically against visual tools. They are against lo…
The 4% rule: picking app background colors that survive cheap phone screens
Every design team eventually ships a beautiful off-white, off-blue, or off-anything background… and then opens the app on a $120 phone and watches i…
The Death of the Static UI: Building Context-Aware Mobile Apps in 2026
Every app you've ever shipped made the same quiet assumption: the interface is a fixed thing. You design a screen, you lay out the widgets, and ever…
Scrapped the entire mockup
SyncIEP was built for special needs educators, providers, and teachers. My co-founder taught special education for twelve years, and most of what we…
UI/UX Design in 2026: Why Great Products Feel Invisible
UI/UX Design in 2026: Why Great Products Feel Invisible When people think about UI/UX design, they often imagine beautiful colors, modern layouts, a…
Audition the voice before you commission the work
Originally published at olund.dev . Part of my tooling generates long-form written content in a configured voice: an editorial identity that describ…