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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
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The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
AI tools are eliminating the need to “bug” colleagues for help, but the informal interactions they replace are the very scaffolding that builds team trust, belonging, and innovation. Casey Hudetz and...
Read →Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to prope...
Read →Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of their...
Read →The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
Read →Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
Why traditional loading patterns like spinners fail in agentic AI experiences, and how interface patterns that reveal the system’s process, status, and decision-making can improve transparency and bui...
Read →Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root c...
Read →Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sig...
Read →Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t ne...
Read →The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
Findings from an exploratory user research study highlighting the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities.
Read →Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a mindset that allows UX and product teams to acce...
Read →Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching modality to...
Read →When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered involving a screenshot...
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