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Design insights and articles
Design insights and articles
Design insights and articles

September 18, 2025 — As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet. Read more…

Why underpaid annotators may hold the key to humanity’s greatest invention, and how we’re getting it disastrously wrong.

September 16, 2025 — From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website. Read more…

September 16, 2025 — For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweight way. Read more…

Voice and immersive interfaces are no longer futuristic extras — they’re redefining how we shop, learn, and live. Is your product ready for this shift?


September 15, 2025 — Elastic and bounce effects have long been among the most desirable but time-consuming techniques in motion design. Expressive Animator streamlines the process, making it possible to produce lively animations in seconds, bypassing the tedious work of manual keyframe editing. Read more…

From Jacque Tati’s “Playtime” to David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks,” Jeremy Hindle traces the ideas and images that shaped Lumon’s uncanny world.

September 12, 2025 — Real-time dashboards are decision assistants, not passive displays. In environments like fleet management, healthcare, and operations, the cost of a delay or misstep is high. Karan Rawal explores strategic UX patterns that shorten time-to-decision, reduce cognitive overload, and make live systems trustworthy. Read more…


The next leap in AI won’t come from new models alone—the app layer will be what makes new technology stick.

Most companies are trying to do a kickflip with AI and falling flat. Here’s how to fail forward, build real agentic ecosystems, and turn experimentation into impact.