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During a recent holiday, I got the new Peugeot 3008 in the rental car lottery. It features Peugeot’s new Panorama i-Cockpit—a bold dashboard redesign with a beautiful display. But after a week of use, it became clear that the software couldn’t match the impressive hardware.

Your first step is to define that job in a single sentence. This isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s your design compass. It makes priorities obvious and tradeoffs easier to navigate.

But that was AI, before APIs that bill you for every little thing, before people subscribed to tools they don’t even remember signing up for, before you could hit $10M ARR in a year and still have no idea if your product will stick.

Picture this: You’re a UX designer starting a new project. As you get to work, you quickly notice a series of experience flaws, poorly conceived solutions, and elements that simply don’t function as they should. Despite your concerns, no one seems to care. Meanwhile, the product team is focused on shipping new features, fixing production bugs, and moving forward, rarely revisiting glaring issues in the user experience. These problems often…

After 6 months of hard work, we’re launching Flowbite Design System v3.0! – fully integrated native tokens and variables – refreshed all UI components with modern 2025 design – massively improved performance and memory usage – improved usage documentation and more.

As online scams become more sophisticated, Carrie Webster explores whether good UX can serve as a frontline defense, particularly for non-tech-savvy older users navigating today’s digital world.

UX benchmarking allows us to track the long-term changes in the overall user experience of our product, while UX success metrics help us assess the short-term impact of a specific project or feature launch.

When stakeholders help create research insights instead of just receiving them, they show higher implementation rates. The IKEA effect (our tendency to overvalue things we help build) offers us a powerful tool for transforming passive stakeholders into active champions of user-centred design.

Are you trying to make your website more inclusive for users with visual impairments? Want practical, easy-to-implement tips to improve accessibility and usability for everyone?