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The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread is a daily summary of UX articles found in the industry and some light-touch updates from the UX Community found in online forums. It’s brief, and meant as a light-touch overview of what’s happening across UX.
Episodes
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 11, 2026
We explore the friction between human intent and machine execution as Sharang Sharma and Luke Wroblewski map the shift from simple voice triggers to…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 10, 2026
As the interface disappears, we explore the tension between our desire for technology to read our minds and the reality that we are still doing the heavy…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 9, 2026
We explore why AI in UX research often fails to save time, examining how Lucas Plabst, Jeff Sauro, and Jim Lewis found that participants provide shallower…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 8, 2026
We explore the tension between AI’s speed and the irreplaceable value of human judgment, drawing on Kai Wong’s argument that externalizing your process is the…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 7, 2026
We explore the tension between technical compliance and human value, starting with Jeff Gothelf’s warning that AI evals often miss real customer outcomes and…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 6, 2026
We explore the growing disconnect between how our design systems look to us and how they actually feel to users, a gap exposed when AI reveals shallow craft…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 5, 2026
We explore whether AI’s true value lies in generation or critique, drawing on Tanner Kohler’s view of it as assistive tech and Nick Babich’s method of using…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 4, 2026
We explore the tension between flashy interfaces and the hidden algorithms driving them, questioning whether we’re paying a high price for "spectacle debt" as…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 3, 2026
As control slips from static interfaces to autonomous agents, we ask who really runs the show when the canvas starts acting on its own. We explore Aurélie…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 2, 2026
We explore the friction between AI’s speed and our human capacity to interpret it, noting that Julie Zhuo argues you can’t mandate transformation from the top…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - September 1, 2026
As the interface dissolves into fluid agents, we grapple with who controls the look and feel when Patrick Neeman warns against rebuilding fragmentation and…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 31, 2026
We explore what happens when software stops waiting for us, examining Lucas Camara’s warning that we must design transparency for agentic behavior and Jeff…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 30, 2026
We chase frictionless experiences, yet Elizabeth F. Churchill and Mikael Wiberg argue that this seamlessness often erodes user agency by encouraging mindless…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 29, 2026
We’re trading speed for depth as AI generates convincing layouts but fails to provide the messy, specific evidence needed for true empathy. Rachel Krause warns…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 28, 2026
We’re moving past the hype of AI as a conversational partner to tackle the mechanical failures of bolting chat windows onto complex workspaces. Drawing on Dan…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 27, 2026
We explore the paradox where raw AI capability is becoming a commodity, yet the real competitive edge lies in the subtle art of making users feel understood…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 26, 2026
We explore the tension between trusting the systems that remember us and the humans behind them, asking who gets to define valid evidence in a landscape where…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 25, 2026
We explore how the speed of modern tools is erasing the visible proof of design effort, breaking the unspoken contract with stakeholders who no longer see the…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 24, 2026
We’re trading friction for speed, assuming AI and tools will do the heavy lifting while we avoid the difficult conversations that actually build shared…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 23, 2026
We examine why our industry clings to mid-century advertising rituals even as Patrick Neeman argues that AI is breaking the billable hour model and demanding…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 22, 2026
We question whether our pursuit of efficiency is actually delivering value or just making us use broken tools faster, drawing on Perre DiCarlo’s argument that…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 21, 2026
We explore the quiet tension between ceding control for convenience and maintaining rigorous design standards, starting with Patrick Neeman’s warning that AI…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 20, 2026
We explore how the language we use around AI shifts accountability from code to character, drawing on Slava Polonski’s research and Bob Baxley’s call for…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 19, 2026
As the interface disappears and our traditional artifacts vanish, we explore how to validate design work when success metrics are shifting beneath our feet. We…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 18, 2026
We explore why smarter tools often fail when layered onto outdated workflows, featuring Luke Wroblewski’s shift to precise classification and Roman Pichler’s…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 17, 2026
We chase speed because we think it shields us from bad decisions, but as Pavel Samsonov argues, it only hides the opportunity cost of the work we didn’t do. We…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 16, 2026
We explore whether accessibility, typography, and code are separate disciplines or just different expressions of the same structural logic, drawing on Hope…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 15, 2026
We’ve traded the friction of the blank page for the peril of trusting AI’s hallucinations, a shift Nicole Alexandra Michaelis and Raluca Budiu warn exposes…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 14, 2026
We explore whether true resilience comes from distributed intelligence rather than top-down command, drawing on Darren Yeo’s concept of "Structured Emergence"…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 13, 2026
We explore the dangerous gap between interface confidence and actual competence, examining how Dan Maccarone warns that we are gorging on borrowed trust by…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 12, 2026
We’re questioning whether AI tools actually flatten hierarchy or just amplify error, weighing Kai Wong’s argument that autonomy bypasses gatekeepers against…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 11, 2026
We explore whether product roles, design systems, and brand identity are static definitions or shifting realities, starting with Marty Cagan’s argument that we…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 10, 2026
We explore the paradox that the boundaries we build to contain complexity often become the very features users and agents exploit to optimize their outcomes…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 9, 2026
We explore whether interface design is merely decorative or a structural constraint that dictates how we perceive value, speed, and memory. From Nicolas…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 8, 2026
We question whether adding more tools actually improves our work or just adds complexity, exploring Caleb Sponheim’s PROVE framework for measuring AI value and…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 7, 2026
We built tools to remove friction, but now that friction is gone, we’re left with a mess of low-effort noise and systems that lie to us with confidence…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 6, 2026
We explore whether the shift toward machine-readable design rules is solving ethical enforcement or simply creating new barriers to entry, as Michael Buckley…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 5, 2026
We explore whether AI can truly replicate the human judgment and context that give our work meaning, moving beyond simple generation to the harder task of…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 4, 2026
We explore whether design authority is granted by title or claimed through rigorous definition, drawing on Jessa Parette’s argument that accepting superficial…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 3, 2026
We explore whether designers are trading portfolios for Python scripts as the industry shifts from showing work to building the intelligence that generates it…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 2, 2026
We explore how AI is shifting our focus from watching work happen to verifying what it produces, a change that renders traditional office surveillance obsolete…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - August 1, 2026
We explore whether the collapsing distance between idea and execution is diminishing the weight of our craft, as Ioana Teleanu argues creative technologists…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 31, 2026
As AI collapses digital surfaces into a single chat box, we explore how Jakob’s Law transforms from a warning against deviation into a driver for rapid…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 30, 2026
We explore the uncomfortable paradox where the accessibility infrastructure we built to help people is now being harvested by machines to replace us, a tension…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 29, 2026
We explore the widening gap between our ability to instantly generate AI interfaces and our lack of rigorous metrics to judge if they actually work, drawing on…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 28, 2026
We question whether chasing frictionless interfaces actually deepens user connection or just hollows it out, exploring Ida Persson’s argument that struggle…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 27, 2026
We explore the dangerous gap between building systems that feel alive and our inability to properly test or manage them, asking if enhancing engagement…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 26, 2026
We explore whether we’re confusing activity with progress, examining Melinda Jacobs’ warning against the "feature trap" and Fabricio Teixeira’s argument that…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 25, 2026
We explore whether design is shifting from usability to shareholder-driven behavior change, leaving practitioners exhausted as Christina Wodtke argues in…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 24, 2026
We explore whether building faster is actually eroding the trust and value we promise users, examining Patrick Neeman’s argument that trust must be an…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 23, 2026
We explore whether the disappearance of traditional interfaces means we are moving from building screens to orchestrating intent, a shift Serg Zorin argues…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 22, 2026
We explore the tension between automation and accuracy, questioning whether our tools create more noise than signal. István Kolozsi’s experiment reveals AI…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 21, 2026
We’re building faster than ever, but are we losing the depth required to justify why our work matters? We explore how Sen Lin and Stefanie Hutka argue for…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 20, 2026
We explore why building faster isn’t building better, as Jeff Gothelf and Barry O’Reilly argue that AI amplifies broken processes rather than fixing them. We…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 19, 2026
We explore why our snap judgments on new tech often miss the mark, drawing on Catherine Chu’s argument that early mockery usually stems from unfamiliarity…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 18, 2026
We explore whether the real work in design lives in our tools or in the agreements between them, questioning if we’re prioritizing convenience over user…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 17, 2026
We traded strategic influence for delivery speed, but now that automation has caught up, we’re left asking if we still know why we’re building these…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 16, 2026
We explore why sterile, frictionless interfaces are losing user trust as we shift from clicking buttons to stating intent, a tension Arin Bhowmick highlights…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 15, 2026
We explore why users are rejecting AI not out of fear, but because current implementations increase cognitive load and disrupt workflows, a point Vitaly…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - July 14, 2026
We explore why the interface is disappearing while design work gets harder, shifting from pixel-perfect layouts to orchestrating complex system logic and user…