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1 month ago | 
uxdesign.cc | Pete Sena |Trip Carroll |Peter Cho |Daley Wilhelm
Vibe coding, hype-driven CEOs, should you copy a competitor? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Are you wondering WTF all this vibe coding stuff is that’s been sweeping your social feeds? You probably get the gist that it’s about having a vision of an app or software you want to build and vibing your way into it with the help of an AI tool.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Why TikTok “refugees” are flocking to XiaohongshuThis decision is partly UX, partly political in the wake of the proposed TikTok ban. To the left, TikTok, to the right, Xiaohongshu or Red Note. My For You Page is filled with frustrated rants, tearful goodbyes to TikTok, and now guides to basic Chinese phrases.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Are physical buttons going extinct? Are we leaving physical buttons behind or will they be part of our future? The camera control button is the newest addition to the iPhone 16. Image from — https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/09/iphone-16-camera-control-button/Physical buttons were not a part of my user experience education. All interfaces that I and my classmates designed were assumed to be a part of a graphic user interface on either a touchscreen or desk top.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Why does the Switch 2 look like the Switch? Nintendo is well-known for producing radically differentiated consoles. Why does their first new console in seven years look just like its predecessor? The design at the bottom is likely what the next console from Nintendo will look like, rather than the fanmade designs above it.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Deceptive patterns in copy are killing meEmails with misleading subject lines are wreaking havoc on my nerves. Here’s how to avoid writing them. Opening my email shouldn’t be an exercise in avoiding deceptive patterns. Image by Daley Wilhelm via Canva. Confirmed — Daley Wilhelm!All of these are emails that I scroll through first thing in the morning. (Bad habit, I know.) Only one of them makes me sit up and take notice. Confirmed? What was confirmed? An email from PayPal? Oh shit, what happened?
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Why smart homes aren’t the standardThe 90’s may have given us inflated expectations for smart home technology. PAT was the 90’s ideal AI assistant. Image by Daley Wilhelm. Disney imagined the near-ish future of home automation in the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie, Smart House. Through a sweepstakes (how 90’s) a widower’s family won the chance to live in a experimental smart house that takes care of cooking, cleaning, security, scheduling, childcare, and more.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | John Davidson |Darren Yeo |Daley Wilhelm |Adam Hart |Fabricio Teixeira
Making good decisions, UX sociologists, a new workflow for UI animationsWeekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The genesis of agile was that we weren’t very good at software projects. Agile was one response to this, which became popular because it let everyone off the hook — ‘let’s not think hard now; it can wait.’The era of product management compounded the issue because it taught product managers to ‘follow the customer’ and the money would come.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Designers: you need to read science fictionTo anticipate the needs of users of the future, you need to imagine the future. Science fiction often gets it wrong, but there are some times when the genre is eerily accurate. Image from — https://penguinpetes.com/wordpress/2019/03/18/imgur-dump-vintage-science-fiction-from-the-golden-age/Science fiction has long been the inspiration behind new leaps in scientific achievement.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Blender Start Here: Gamifying an unapproachable UICan gamification make the user experience of advanced 3D modeling software easy to learn? The Blender Start Here game stars Lizzy the Pigeon and a cast of other characters to help players navigate the complicated Blender interface. Image from — https://www.xrio.io/pressOn July 8th, developer XRIO announced via Twitter, “To align w/ trademark guidelines, we’re updating our game title & logo.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Daley Wilhelm
Do you know what 7th graders can read? Photo by Min An: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-wearing-white-dress-reading-book-1196338/ In my last article, I detailed the unfortunate fact of falling literacy rates. Reading comprehension is down, and this is a problem that shouldn't just be the concern of teachers, parents, and students. The U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Adult Literacy has found that 43% of the U.S. population has low literacy.
