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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 - May 14, 2026
We explore whether hiding the mechanics of work—whether in AI reasoning, pricing bundles, or hiring pipelines—erodes the trust we claim to design for. From…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 13, 2026
We challenge the assumption that minimalism equals good design, exploring Adi Leviim’s argument that blank AI states drive churn and Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro’s…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 12, 2026
Today we explore Fabricio Teixeira argues this curated newsletter from ux collective critiques the current state of ai interfaces, arguing that relying on text…
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The Feed & The Thread - May 11, 2026
We explore whether AI’s speed is liberating us for deeper discovery or drowning us in unvalidated noise, as Gale Robins and Jeff Gothelf warn that productivity…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 10, 2026
We explore the widening gap between AI’s promise to handle basic tasks and the reality that agents still struggle with user autonomy and trust, drawing on…
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The Feed & The Thread - May 9, 2026
We explore whether the shift from direct manipulation to text-based prompts is a regression in interaction design, weighing Joshua Leigh’s critique against…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 8, 2026
We explore whether AI is breaking our design systems or revealing where our frameworks are too rigid, looking at Sen Lin’s enforcement layers for Claude Code…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 7, 2026
We explore how our shift toward hyper-individualism and centralized control creates the very isolation we then fail to solve, drawing on Patrizia Bertini’s…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 6, 2026
Today we explore Dan Brown argues dan brown argues that product information architecture (ia) is not just about naming content categories, but about desig…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 5, 2026
We explore the widening gap between controlled design systems and chaotic reality, examining Leslie Sultani’s warning that human oversight of AI often creates…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 4, 2026
We explore why our drive for efficiency is eroding trust, from Catherine Chu’s finding that users reject AI dating coaching for feeling dishonest to the…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 3, 2026
We explore the tension between bolting AI onto legacy interfaces versus rethinking products from the ground up, weighing Revanth Krishna’s call for…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 2, 2026
We explore why optimizing for easy metrics like interface polish often masks foundational flaws in research rigor and ethical alignment. Drawing on Raluca…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - May 1, 2026
We explore why speed is creating a new kind of friction where interfaces fight users, examining Joas Pambou’s call for stable streaming controls and…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 30, 2026
We explore whether the design industry’s recent struggles stem from a false sense of security during the boom years, or if we’ve simply failed to translate our…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 29, 2026
We are grappling with a critical tension: as Taras Bakusevych argues that legacy UI patterns are crumbling under AI's ability to infer intent, Jim Lewis warns…
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The Feed & The Thread - April 28, 2026
When AI makes building effortless, we face a paradox where the real risk isn't shipping too slow, but shipping the wrong thing too fast. We explore how Marty…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 27, 2026
We explore the tension between constant AI assistance and the actual user experience, asking whether intelligence should always be visible or if uninvited help…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 26, 2026
We're drowning in features and AI speed, yet the real challenge today is finding the discipline to remove what doesn't matter. We explore Luis Hermosilla's…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 25, 2026
We explore the tension between building smarter AI bots and the user's feeling of shouting into a void, asking if our interfaces truly acknowledge where people…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 24, 2026
When speed becomes our only metric, we risk outsourcing our critical thinking to the very tools meant to help us. Today, we explore Heenesh Patel's argument…
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The Feed & The Thread - April 23, 2026
As AI reshapes our workflows, we confront a critical tension: are we solving the right problems or simply diluting the expertise that defines our value? Today…
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The Feed & The Thread - April 22, 2026
As AI tools collapse the walls between design and engineering, we ask whether we are truly ready to lead as primary business protagonists rather than secondary…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 21, 2026
We confront the uncomfortable truth that the systems we built to optimize efficiency are now teaching AI to inherit and amplify the web's darkest deceptive…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 20, 2026
We explore the dangerous tension where AI-generated fluency masks a lack of real expertise, asking if polished words are eroding our professional depth. Hoang…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 19, 2026
As our tools begin to build themselves, we confront the uncomfortable question of whether speed is hollowing out the mastery needed for future design leaders…
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The Feed & The Thread - April 18, 2026
We explore the uncomfortable truth that while we obsess over making AI smarter, we are ignoring the human context that gives products their soul. From Gregory…
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The Feed & The Thread - April 17, 2026
We question whether our systems can truly handle the messiness of reality when Peter Zakrzewski exposes AI's failure at spatial reasoning and Victor…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 16, 2026
We explore the unsettling tension between the tools meant to make our work easier and the ways they are quietly reshaping who we are as designers. From Chris…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 15, 2026
We explore the blurring line between showing your work and selling your output, asking if intent now matters more than polish as Julie Zhuo and Soleio Cuervo…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 14, 2026
We explore the tension between the speed of modern tools and the necessity of slow, human thinking, asking what we should do with the time we save once speed…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 13, 2026
We explore the tension between velocity and trust, asking whether moving faster actually accelerates our uncertainty. While Jeff Gothelf warns that "vibe…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 12, 2026
We question whether our critiques validate the designer or the work, exploring Filipe Nzongo's argument to separate the person from the design while Jeff Sauro…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 11, 2026
We explore the tension between polished perfection and the human touch, asking if visible imperfection is the only way to signal trust in an era of AI fatigue…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 10, 2026
We are navigating a field where the traditional boundaries of our roles are dissolving, forcing us to choose between the efficiency AI promises and the ethics…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 9, 2026
We confront the uncomfortable truth that the systems we build to improve things often make them worse, starting with Dora Czerna's argument that human-centered…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 8, 2026
As the gap between static mockups and production code collapses, we ask whether designers must code again to stay intimate with their craft. Luke Wroblewski…
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The Feed & The Thread - April 7, 2026
We explore the critical shift from moving fast and breaking things to managing legal liability, as Andrés Zapata argues that deceptive interfaces are now…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 6, 2026
We confront the uncomfortable truth that the systems we build to improve things often make them worse, a tension Alexandra Vasquez highlights when she argues…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 5, 2026
We explore the dangerous gap between visual polish and the collapsing invisible mechanics that actually make products work, questioning whether our obsession…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 4, 2026
Today we confront the uncomfortable truth that our design ladders often reward personality over output, a structural trap Jessica Goldman argues is…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 3, 2026
We explore whether AI failures stem from a lack of intelligence or, as Connor Joyce argues, a critical failure of context that turns design into an act of…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 2, 2026
We question whether our obsession with removing friction has inadvertently trapped users in an extractive attention economy, as Patrizia Bertini argues that…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - April 1, 2026
We explore whether AI is finally returning design vision to creators by dissolving the structural barriers that once forced developers to prioritize…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 31, 2026
We confront the harsh reality that as hardware scaling hits a wall, our only path forward lies in ethical software innovation and genuine power-sharing, not…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 30, 2026
Today we confront the uncomfortable gap between AI's ability to let us build teams in a single text file and the corporate cultures that still punish the speed…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 29, 2026
We ask whether our current panic about AI is just history repeating itself, as Dora Czerna argues that every wave of democratization triggers a crisis before…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 28, 2026
We tackle the sharp question of who owns design judgment when AI decides the interface, weighing Fabricio Teixeira's call for "livable" products against Kate…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 27, 2026
We confront the uncomfortable reality that design debt is now as crippling as technical debt, a point Arin Bhowmick makes by showing how legacy decisions…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 26, 2026
We're confronting the mirage of UX's demise while asking if our ethics can hold the line as AI agents take over complex tasks. From Luis Berumen Castro's…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 25, 2026
We tackle the dangerous accountability gap when AI fails, asking who truly takes the blame as Dolphia argues that organizational structures often industrialize…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 24, 2026
We question whether the AI revolution will be a sudden broadcast or a slow, century-long shift that forces us to rewrite the employer-employee contract, as…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 23, 2026
We confront a hard truth today: do we actually control the future of design, or are we just reacting to economic forces like AI and AR? We unpack Catherine…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 22, 2026
We tackle the tension between moving fast and moving right as AI reshapes our workflows, asking whether speed is a virtue or just a risky tactic. We explore…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 21, 2026
We tackle the tension between AI hype and the hard work of problem-solving, asking if design is becoming a guessing game where intuition replaces research…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 20, 2026
We start today by asking whether we design for human intuition or for machines that feel nothing, exploring how Hoang Nguyen argues our next users won't be…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 19, 2026
We explore the uncomfortable truth that we often decide first and invent logic later, a concept Nate Sowder uses to challenge how we trust user feedback. While…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 18, 2026
We challenge the assumption that lovable products or smart AI are the end goals, asking instead how we keep humans in control while Ian Batterbee argues that…
- The Feed & The Thread
The Feed & The Thread - March 17, 2026
We confront the tension between static screens and dynamic, agentic workflows as Tony Phillips argues that conversational systems thrive when user goals remain…
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The Feed & The Thread - March 16, 2026
We question whether formal credentials still matter when the community is shifting toward proven portfolios and deep, hands-on experience over expired…