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Graph-based UI for AI is better than linear chat for design tasks | Storytelling improves with a keyframing UI | With a better history UI, clients reused a designer’s past alternatives 2.6× as often as they generated new material | Fast wins make users stay | Mental models: the map in the user’s head always wins | User
Users referred from AI answers convert 60% better than other traffic | The visibility of sources in AI responses can shift 46x overnight without users noticing | Use AI to uncover the hidden disagreements behind a team’s apparent consensus | A 17-item questionnaire is the best-validated way to survey attitudes toward A
Users parse a layout before they read its labels. Whitespace, borders, alignment, color, and motion determine what belongs together. When these cues fight the content, users attach the label, price, warning, status, or action to the wrong object. Proximity, similarity, enclosure, and the other Gestalt cues guide the ey
Pointing time depends on two numbers: target distance and target size. Paul Fitts quantified this in 1954, explaining every mouse move and thumb tap since then. Make frequent targets big and near, make destructive ones small and far, and don’t supersize everything else. The law holds up in VR and AR, at degraded throug
Robert Cialdini’s 7 principles of persuasion are reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, and unity. They are the bedrock of persuasive UX design, and they work because they’re mental shortcuts hardwired by evolution to keep our ancestors alive
A better design system improved usability | AI persuades even when people know it’s AI | Fewer features = better usability | Readers prefer AI stories if they don’t know it’s AI | The stepper design pattern for adjusting numeric values
Top 10 UX slogans explained by Greek gods | Improve your Google search results by boosting the sites you like | Academic research on AI user experience uses outdated models | Worker bees send 13 more AI messages per week than their executives | Free AI accounts dominate even in the enterprise | AI splits company cultur
The 50 most common user research methods scored on breadth of scope, depth of insights, remote suitability, and cost, then ranked by total value.
Cognitive load is the mental effort users spend to perceive, understand, decide, and act within an interface, drawn from a working memory that holds roughly 4 chunks. The design task is allocation: spend that scarce budget on the user’s goal, cut everything else, and mind the new debts run up by open loops and Slow AI.
AI conducting user interviews mostly failed to probe deeply | AI UI tools break 1/4 of their design promises | The planning fallacy makes us believe more in schedules than they deserve | Cards as a UI element | Humans are middleware for AI | How to make AI support extended tasks that take weeks to complete | Two recomm
A card packs everything about one item (image, title, key facts, action) inside a clearly bounded rectangle that the user’s visual system sees as a single object, which is why cards excel at presenting browsable collections of self-contained things. But boxing everything produces flabby layouts with pitiful information
AI spending growing 75% per year at the median firm | An AI agent that argued back against design ideas helped designers improve | A design is a hypothesis: try to defeat it | AI can generate superior accessibility when it prioritizes communication density over narrative completeness | Skeleton screens buy patience, no
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