80% of the people only need 20% of the features.

This website uses a metaphorical and interactive presentation to critically illustrate the modern web user experience, emphasizing the frustrations of constant interruptions, unnecessary animations, and intrusive elements common on contemporary websites.

iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.

When the chef said, ‘Hey, Meta, start Live AI,’ it started every single Ray-Ban Meta’s Live AI in the building.

I’m not as anti-AI, anti-assistant as everyone here (although lately I too have kicked all that out of my own life) but one thing that I wish would away sooner rather than later is the whole hey Siri, hey Alexa, hey Google, hey Meta thing which is a very bad idea executed poorly.

Great essay on the evolution of home pages and the web

Users often struggle with cloud file-sharing applications. Problems appear to arise not only from interface flaws, but also from misunderstanding the underlying semantics of operations like linking, attaching, downloading, and editing. We argue that these difficulties echo long-standing challenges in understanding concepts in programming languages like aliasing, copying, and mutation.

via: https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/08/25/cloud-sharing.html

Progressive disclosure is an interaction design pattern used to make applications easier to learn and less error-prone. It does so by deferring some advanced or rarely-used features to a secondary screen and designing workflows where information is revealed when it becomes relevant to the current task.

I feel like I use this philosophy a lot in my pedagogy and teaching: show only 2;#5 is necessary.

via: https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming

Programs should be valid as they are typed.

via: https://lobste.rs/s/ik0pjv/left_right_programming

Nice trip

Decent Patterns is a collective effort to further the adoption of decentralized technologies by providing open tooling and resources for the community.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKOwTHQ2Jzc

Local-first technologies face unique UX challenges. Let’s explore and discuss what’s needed to address them!

Okay, this article has the same traffic signs metaphor.

To me in gesture form I see someone going 🙅🏻‍♀️ that is so viscerally “no” to me. Like in Dicken’s “The Signal-Man”.

Today we have thousands of apps to choose from, but it’s difficult to craft our own custom tools that do exactly what we need. Geoffrey Litt’s research explores malleable software: approaching software that feels more like a Lego set that anyone can combine to create their own tools, without programming. This talk will feature demonstrations of malleable software tools developed in contexts from travel planning to collaborative writing. It will also discuss how AI might enable a Cambrian explosion of custom tools created by non-programmers, and what kinds of new software environments will be needed to take advantage of that new power.

Great overview of Geoffrey’s work over the past few years and how LLMs could fit into the future of end-user programming.

Web review of Ervin

A very well written article that somehow hits every single gripe I have with modern UX