UX Design Weekly
 

 

UX Design Weekly

Issue 608

Articles

Beyond productivity: Designing space for creativity
How rest, joy, and attention fuel creative work.

The Default Is Not a Design Decision
How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice

The New Big Ball of Mud: Why Agentic AI Systems Turn Fragile
AI makes building nearly free, so users grow agentic systems piecemeal into fragile messes they no longer understand.

Design Systems for AI Agents
Design teams invest a lot of time in creating a system, then struggle to keep it up to date as the actual product evolves.

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Tools and Resources

Open Inspector
Inspect any page, with no site access.

Shotcandy
Free screenshot beautifier.

UX Portfolio

Leadership Folios
Portfolios from UX Managers, Directors, VPs, Founders and Executives.

Last But Not Least

Google Noto 3D Emoji Design Process
The unexpected design challenges of translating 2D emoji into open-source 3D.

“"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”
— Mark Weiser

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Drexel University