Insights
Design psychology, applied
We start from how people actually think. These are the principles we design around — one at a time, in real interfaces.
The cost of choice in an interface
Why more options make a product feel slower — and how to design the path instead of the page.
The first five seconds decide everything
People judge a product before they read it. What visual hierarchy is really for.
Jakob's Law: why familiar beats clever
Users spend most of their time on other people's products. The safest place to be original is almost never the navigation.
The peak-end rule: designing what people remember
People don't remember the average of an experience. They remember its most intense moment and its ending — so design those on purpose.
Cognitive load: the real reason users drop off
When a screen demands more mental effort than the task is worth, people leave — and blame themselves. Load is the budget you're really designing against.
Social proof that works (and the kind that backfires)
'Other people did this' is one of the strongest nudges in design — but the wrong proof, in the wrong place, quietly erodes trust.
The psychology of trust: what makes a product feel credible
People decide whether to trust a product in seconds — mostly from signals that have nothing to do with your security page.
Designing products in the age of AI
AI changes what a product can do — and quietly raises the bar on design. A field guide to building AI features people actually trust.
How to get cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
AI answer engines are becoming the new front page. Getting quoted by them — GEO — rewards the same clarity that good design does.
Agentic UX: designing interfaces that act for the user
When software can take actions on someone's behalf, the design job shifts from buttons to trust, control and consent.
Designing for uncertainty: AI that's honest about what it doesn't know
AI features are probabilistic. The interface's job is to make that uncertainty legible, controllable and recoverable.
Escaping AI sameness: design as the real differentiator
When everyone ships the same models, the product — not the model — is the moat. Craft is what's left to compete on.
From idea to product: how we decide what to build
Scoping is a research question, not a guess. How a design-led studio turns a big idea into the smallest thing worth shipping.
The honest MVP: the smallest thing that proves the point
An MVP isn't a cheap version of the product. It's the smallest honest test of the one risky assumption underneath it.
Activation: the first session is the whole relationship
Most users decide in the first few minutes whether a product is for them. Activation is designing that moment on purpose.
Pricing a product: the page is part of the product
Pricing is a design problem as much as a finance one — the tiers, the framing and the page shape the decision.
Core Web Vitals: why speed is a design decision
Performance isn't only an engineering concern. How fast a page feels is part of how good it feels — and how well it ranks.
Accessibility by default: WCAG 2.2 without the panic
Accessible design isn't a compliance chore bolted on at the end. Built in from the start, it makes the product better for everyone.
The landing page that converts: structure over spectacle
A landing page that works isn't the flashiest one. It's the one that answers the visitor's questions in the order they ask them.
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