Top 7 Claude Code Plugins
Claude Plugins are nice ways to extend what Claude can do. In this article, I want to share my top 7 favorite plugins.Continue reading on UX Planet »
UI & UX
Product ethics, AI adoption theatre, an architecture that no longer exists
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“In the last week of February 2026, something unusual happened. A sitting US president took to social media to brand a private technology company a political threat. The Secretary of Defense designated that same company a supply chain risk, a classification previously reserved for foreign adversaries. And hours later, a rival AI lab swoo
Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or slip into shallow gamification. Anders Toxboe updates persuasive design for today’s reality, clarifying what has actually held up over the last decade.
The color statistic that’s been wrong for 80 years
The estimate everyone repeated and nobody verifiedContinue reading on UX Collective »
The last interface
Will AI agents kill design as we know it?At the end of February a report by Citrini Research caused major shockwaves through the software industry, sending the stock prices of heavyweight SaaS organisations like Atlassian and Slack to nosedive. The Citrini Report follows AI’s current trajectory and projects that 2028 will bring a self-inflicted corporate doom loop: AI makes software so cheap to bu
Claude Skills 2.0 for Product Designers
Anthropic has recently improved the process of creating new Claude Skills, and this improvement is so significant that it almost feels…Continue reading on UX Planet »
CLAUDE.md Best Practices
10 Sections to Include in your CLAUDE.mdContinue reading on UX Planet »
Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
UX design is entering a new phase, with designers shifting from makers of outputs to directors of intent. AI can now generate wireframes, prototypes, and even design systems in minutes, but UX has never been only about creating interfaces. It’s about navigating ambiguity, advocating for humans in systems optimised for efficiency, and solving their problems through thoughtful design.
You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists
Claude just showed us what replaced it.VISUAL 1: The Dissolved Interface. Generated with Gemini.Last Tuesday, I asked Claude to prepare a competitive analysis. Not in a chat window. Not through a prompt. I opened Cowork, pointed it to a folder on my desktop, and said what I needed. It read my files. It cross-referenced data from Slack through a connector. It pulled calendar context. It produced a
Current State of Claude Code and Figma Two-way Integration
Two-way Claude Code — Figma sync is a magical thing.Continue reading on UX Planet »
Claude Code for Creating Design System Documentation
Did you know that you can use Claude Code to document your design system in Figma?Continue reading on UX Planet »
Product ethics have never mattered more
OpenAI just struck a deal with the Pentagon. Anthropic refused. And users noticed, which tells us something important about the future of values in product design.In the last week of February 2026, something unusual happened. A sitting US president took to social media to brand a private technology company a political threat. The Secretary of Defense designated that same company a supply chain ris
Things that don’t matter when you write
Extensive experience and “new” ideas are among them.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Accessibility testing takes more than a scan
Uncover accessibility issues that automated tools can’t catchWhen you evaluate a webpage for accessibility, it’s appealing to use automated scanners to quickly get an “accessibility score,” identify issues, and then move on. Browser-based accessibility extensions make this easy…in just a few minutes, you can generate a list of accessibility defects from missing labels to low color contrast.While t
The world’s cheapest compliment
Between the oracle that knows everything and the genius that does everything, AI design is creating a desert for human thought. And I almost got lost in it.“When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” — Nietzsche (All conceptual images in this article were generated by AI and edited by the Author)Leia em portuguêsBefore publishing anything important, I show it to my p
Claude Code + Figma =
Did you know that Claude Code and Figma now support two-way communication? It means that you can publish a design from Claude to Figma…Continue reading on UX Planet »
Want people to pay for your stuff? Show the value like this
How to write benefits so that users can make an easy but well-informed choice — a Google Developer Program case study.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
Our newest Smashing Book, “Accessible UX Research” by Michele Williams, is finally shipping worldwide — and we couldn’t be happier! This book is about research, but you’ll also learn about assistive technology, different types of disability, and how to build accessibility into the entire design process. This thoughtful book will get you thinking about ways to make your UX research more inclusive a
Claude Code for Web Design
Claude Code is one of the hottest products in the design space right now. This tool is amazing because it lets you go from idea to…Continue reading on UX Planet »
A farewell to Flash
Adobe Animate, Flash, was like an old friend. We didn’t keep in touch.A Farewell to Flash.Macromedia Flash, now Adobe Animate was my first introduction to both design for the web and web development. It was the first program I learned inside and out — after Adobe Photoshop.Knowing Flash (as I prefer to call it) was my entry point into the job market, my first few serious opportunities that I got —