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Web Design: UI, UX, colour, type & branding

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AI for Design & UX

AI Logo Generator Review: A Designer's Honest Take

Assess AI logo generators as exploration tools, not finished brand systems. Learn how to evaluate concepts, check rights, refine artwork and deliver usable identity assets.

Inside this article
  • Start with a brief that excludes generic answers
  • Generate directions, then remove the presentation effects
  • Treat originality and rights as separate questions
  • Rebuild the chosen concept for actual use
Maya LindqvistMaya LindqvistRead the article
AI for Design & UX

AI UX Design Patterns: Loading, Confidence and Undo

Build AI features with honest progress, evidence-based confidence cues and explicit undo rules, then test the failure states that polished demos leave out.

Piotr KowalskiPiotr Kowalski
AI for Design & UX

AI Motion Design Tools for Micro-Interactions

Use AI to prototype purposeful interface motion, then check reduced-motion behaviour, interruptions and rendering cost before shipping micro-interactions.

Maya LindqvistMaya Lindqvist
Typography & Colour

Display P3 vs sRGB: Choosing Color Spaces for the Web

Build a reliable sRGB foundation, add Display P3 accents with safe CSS fallbacks, and check that wider color never compromises readability or brand consistency.

Arjun RamanArjun Raman
AI for Design & UX

AI Prompts for UI Design: Generate Layouts You Can Use

Turn a loose interface idea into a constrained AI brief. Generate layouts with realistic content, reusable components and responsive behaviour that survives implementation.

Inside this article
  • Describe the task before the appearance
  • Define the content and component contract
  • Ask for a plan and then one layout
  • Specify responsive and interaction behaviour
Piotr KowalskiPiotr KowalskiRead the article
UX & Research

Site Search UX: Turn Queries Into Better Findability

Plan a practical search research, collect reliable evidence, and turn findings into focused product improvements while keeping assumptions and research limits visible.

Noor HaddadNoor Haddad
AI for Design & UX

AI Personas and Synthetic Users: Where They Mislead

Use AI personas to challenge assumptions and rehearse research, without mistaking generated opinions for user evidence. Build a workflow that keeps real behaviour at the centre.

Maya LindqvistMaya Lindqvist
Branding & Business

Scaling Content With AI: Automation in Niche Publishing

Design an AI-assisted publishing pipeline with clear briefs, source checks, editorial gates, and useful metrics that increase output without sacrificing trust.

Piotr KowalskiPiotr Kowalski
AI for Design & UX

AI Design System Maintenance: Audit Tokens With AI

Use AI to classify token drift, trace aliases and prepare safe migrations while deterministic checks protect themes, component behaviour and your design system’s public contract.

Inside this article
  • Establish the source of truth and audit boundary
  • Collect evidence with deterministic checks
  • Ask AI to classify drift with traceable reasons
  • Validate semantics across components and assets
Piotr KowalskiPiotr KowalskiRead the article
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AI for Design & UX

AI Font Pairing: Testing AI Typography Suggestions

Test AI font recommendations against real content, language coverage, licensing and loading behaviour, using controlled specimens instead of persuasive descriptions.

Maya LindqvistMaya Lindqvist
Design Systems

Design Handoff Checklist for Shared Components

Make shared-component handoff verifiable with an agreed API, behavior notes, responsive rules, state coverage, and release evidence instead of screenshot-only approval.

Jonah WeissJonah Weiss
UX & Research

How to Test UX Microcopy for Clarity and Confidence

Plan a practical comprehension study, collect reliable evidence, and turn findings into focused product improvements while keeping assumptions and research limits visible.

Theo OkaforTheo Okafor