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Most dashboards look like decisions are being made, but they're just data on display. The real design challenge isn't choosing the right chart — it's figuring out which decisions your user actually needs to make.
The Button Will Outlive Us All
The 'no interface' argument is back, this time powered by AI. But the button keeps surviving every prediction of its death — and that tells us something important about what users actually need.
Good Packaging Starts in Someone Else's Kitchen
Lala embraced how people actually use their packaging. Coca-Cola designed for the brand deck. The gap between these two approaches reveals what good design really starts with — and it isn't Figma.
Invisible AI Just Hit a Wall Called Europe
The design world wants AI to disappear into the interface. The EU wants AI to announce itself. How designers navigate this tension will define the next era of interaction design.
Invisible AI Is a Design Trap
The push for invisible, intent-driven AI interfaces sounds sophisticated — but hiding the system from users isn't elegance, it's opacity. Designers should be making AI legible, not invisible.
A Toy Projector Just Nailed AI's Hardest Design Problem
A children's AI drawing projector might be the most thoughtful piece of AI product design this year. It nailed the one decision most AI teams are getting wrong: knowing where the AI should stop.
Your AI Sparkle Icon Won't Cut It Anymore
New EU guidelines on AI labelling are raising the bar beyond decorative sparkle icons. For designers building AI-powered features, this isn't a compliance headache — it's a genuine design problem worth solving.
Stop Putting AI Behind a Chat Box
Every AI product ships with the same blinking cursor and blank text box. It's time designers stopped accepting the chat prompt as the default — and started inventing interaction models that actually fit how people work.
Your Users Don't Want AI — Now You Have to Label It
The EU's new AI labelling guidelines create an awkward design problem: how do you prominently disclose something your users never asked for in the first place?
Stop Shipping AI Nobody Asked For
The tech industry keeps shipping AI features nobody asked for. The real design challenge isn't building with AI — it's knowing when not to.
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