Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To cater for new and unique designs on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers series more than 14 years ago, and from the very beginning to today, artists and designers from across the globe have accepted the challenge and […]
The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution
Ever sat in a meeting where everyone jumped straight to solutions? “We need a new app!” “Let’s redesign the homepage!” “AI will fix everything!” This solution-first thinking is endemic in digital development — and it’s why so many projects fail to deliver real value. As the creator of the Core Model methodology, I developed this […]
Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM
It’s common to see Web Components directly compared to framework components. But most examples are actually specific to Custom Elements, which is one piece of the Web Components picture. It’s easy to forget Web Components are actually a set of individual Web Platform APIs that can be used on their own: Custom Elements HTML Templates […]
Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
Many products — digital and physical — are focused on “average” users — a statistical representation of the user base, which often overlooks or dismisses anything that deviates from that average, or happens to be an edge case. But people are never edge cases, and “average” users don’t really exist. We must be deliberate and […]
Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters
JavaScript event listeners are very important, as they exist in almost every web application that requires interactivity. As common as they are, it is also essential for them to be managed properly. Improperly managed event listeners can lead to memory leaks and can sometimes cause performance issues in extreme cases. Here’s the real problem: JavaScript […]
Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX
A few years ago, I was in a design review at a fintech company, polishing the expense management flows. It was a routine session where we reviewed the logic behind content and design decisions. While looking over the statuses for submitted expenses, I noticed a label saying ‘In approval’. I paused, re-read it again, and […]
Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones
Flip phones aren’t dead. On the contrary, 200+ million non-smartphones are sold annually. That’s roughly equivalent to the number of iPhones sold in 2024. Even in the United States, millions of flip phones are sold each year. As network operators struggle to shut down 2G service, new incentives are offered to encourage device upgrades that […]
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
So you need to design a new AI feature for your product. How would you start? How do you design flows and interactions? And how do you ensure that that new feature doesn’t get abandoned by users after a few runs? In this article, I’d love to share a very simple but systematic approach to […]
Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research
New technologies and innovative concepts frequently enter the product development lifecycle, promising to revolutionize user experiences. However, even the most ingenious ideas risk failure without a fundamental grasp of user interaction with these new experiences. Consider the plight of the Nintendo Power Glove. Despite being a commercial success (selling over 1 million units), its release […]
Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
This article is a sponsored by Droip Traditional WordPress page builders had their moment. Builders like Elementor, Divi, and Oxygen have been around for years. So long, in fact, that many of us just accepted their limitations as the cost of using WordPress. But Droip, a relatively new no-code website builder, steps in with a […]