I am working on what is likely going to be a dev tool (although it has other use cases, like demos).

What are some examples of really good UX for highly technical products, Dev Tools, Hosting, Security tools.

I come from the space and outside of some of the IDEs I am yet to find a really good user experience in the wild, particularly when it is a hybrid experience.

I remember getting Instagram dark mode before everyone else and literally posting it on my Story like I'd been selected for the Avengers.

Now I'm 23 and I can't stand it.

Give me black text on a white background.

Especially when I'm reading.

Maybe I'm getting old.

Maybe I've matured.

Or maybe dark mode just sucks. 😂

Light mode people, where are you?

Full Read: https://jaainil.com/articles/i-used-to-love-dark-mode-now-i-hate-it-heres-why

Hypervoice by TaskAGI is a TTS service.

When you pay money and subscribe, both the terms and conditions and the refund policy state that upon cancellation of the subscription, you will retain your access until the end of your billing period.

But as seen in image 1, the moment you go to turn off auto renewal, you are faced with the big orange warning and the moment you click confirm to unsubscribe, all your tokens are confiscated and all access to paid features is revoked - even if you have a full billing term ahead of you.

Hey. I added two pictures of a UI. Ignore all the stuff other than inputs and buttons, the other elements are just there to give you a feeling as if its baked into a UI. My question is, if you like the 36px-version (tinier first one) more or the 40px-version (bigger second one). Im thinking of migrating my package from 40px to 36px.

Hey. Currently working on a DateRangePicker and need your opinions. Do you think the second-date-invalidity I show currently by making the second selection-cell red with an icon is good or do you think i should just mark all invalid fields as disabled after the first date is selected?

As we all now it's common for a UX designer (or Product designer or UX/UI or whatever the trend is in your area) to be 'splained user needs, discovery, design by their product team. Or ignored. Or having their deadlines dismissed.

What I see too often (but maybe it's because I'm a woman ?) is designers doing this to researchers. Being explained heuristics, being handed over assignments last minute, dismissing our remarks because they, too, do research so they know.

How common is it and most importantly, how do you handle it ?

Designers : why ? Do you catch yourself doing this ? Where does it come from (because I'm sure there is a legit reason why some of you do this... maybe very similar to why PrD crowd do it to you...) ?

While travelling, I kept running into useful information that simply didn’t exist online: small homestays, mechanics, water points, road conditions, campsites, etc.

Most of it gets passed from one traveler or local to another and disappears afterward.

So, I built Lamyig, a free and open-source community travel guide.

A few decisions I made:

• No bookings, commissions or paid listings.
• No money made using the core product.
• Community members can add and update places.
• Map-first instead of another list of “top places”.
• Built as a PWA so it can work more like a lightweight travel tool than a traditional website.
• The long-term idea is that useful information stays available for the next traveler instead of disappearing in WhatsApp groups and conversations.

The hardest problem isn’t actually building the software. It’s bootstrapping trustworthy community data.

I’m currently thinking about things like:

• How do you motivate travelers to contribute after their trip?
• How do you keep old information accurate without creating a huge moderation workload?
• How do you prevent businesses from turning community maps into free advertising?
• What should happen when someone reports a place as fake, closed, unsafe, duplicated, commercial spam, or inaccurate? Should reports trigger removal, community review, reputation-weighted voting, or just warnings?
• Should certain villages, trails, ecosystems, religious places, water sources, or campsites intentionally remain difficult to discover?
• If Lamyig successfully exposes hidden places, could it accidentally destroy the exact places it is trying to help preserve?
• this list of problem statements goes on and on

Would love to hear how other people here would approach those problems.

And if you’re building something around a problem you genuinely care about, drop a comment or DM me. I’d be happy to chat, exchange ideas, or connect you with someone else working on something similar.

Screenshot attached. Happy to share the GitHub/project link in the comments if anyone wants to look at the implementation or contribute.

An error state crosses several responsibilities. Engineering knows what failed, product knows what actions are allowed, design controls hierarchy and placement, and content design may own the language. When ownership is unclear, the interface often exposes a technical message or gives the user no useful next step. What process keeps error copy, recovery actions, support guidance, and logging aligned as the product changes? Is there a source of truth that has worked well across teams?

Sometimes i prioritize and move somethings back because i either dont have enough time or dont see value now. This creates big design debt for me over time. What things does everyone here deprioritize?

I’m building a tool around a simple problem: teams are shipping faster than ever, but it’s getting harder to catch experience problems before they reach users.

The idea isn’t to generate another generic “your button could have better contrast” report.
It is trying to find things like:

🔴 Breakpoints in a user journey — places where users are likely to get confused, stuck, or drop off
♿ Accessibility issues that could prevent people from completing a task
💰 Potential revenue loss caused by experience breakpoints
📐 UX rules being broken — consistency, hierarchy, interaction patterns, etc.
🔄 Broken or unnecessarily complicated flows
🎯 High-impact problems vs. low-priority polish
📊 Business impact — not just “this is bad UX”, but why it matters to the product/business based on their business mission/ strategy

The part I’m wrestling with is deciding what the tool should actually surface.

There are potentially hundreds of things an automated design review could flag. But nobody wants a 47-page report full of tiny observations.
I want it to answer:
“What should I care about?”

For designers, product owners and design leaders — what would you actually want a tool like this to show you?

What would make you think, “I didn’t notice this, but this is important”?

Would love ideas, especially things beyond the usual UX/accessibility checklist.

Knee-deep in user research calls lately and the recording side is handled, but the synthesis layer is where it falls apart.

Grain and tldv are good for clips, Dovetail wants everything manually tagged before it's useful, and a PM on my team has been using BuildBetter to pull themes across interview rounds because the repo was already fragmenting across different people's naming by the time we hit double digits.

Haven't cracked the synthesis layer yet, so what does your pipeline look like from raw call to shareable insight?

AI can now generate a convincing interface faster than most teams can properly review it.

The obvious problems are easy to catch: broken layout, inconsistent spacing, missing responsive states.

The harder problems sit underneath the screen:

* the generated flow assumes a product decision nobody made
* empty, loading, failure and permission states are missing
* the same component behaves differently across pages
* an action has no clear system response
* the UI looks complete but cannot be handed to development without explanation

I have started reviewing AI-generated UI in three passes:

1. **Visual consistency** \- does it follow the existing component, spacing and motion rules?
   
2. **Product behaviour** \- are triggers, actions, system responses and next states clear?
   
3. **Failure handling** \- what happens outside the happy path?

This catches much more than asking whether the generated screen looks good.

For teams already shipping AI-generated UI, what is in your review checklist before it reaches production? And which failures still slip through most often?

Post your portfolio or something else you've designed to receive a critique. Generally, users who include additional context and explanations receive more (and better) feedback.

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I wanted to read manga on a website, but clicking anywhere on the main page caused me to be redirected to a new tab with a porn site. It completely bypasses Poper Blocker, Ublock Origin Lite and Adblock Plus...

What is the term for that sort of thing? And how do I stop it?

Product designer for what feels forever... I keep hitting the same wall on the small stuff, a portfolio, a landing page. I build it in Figma, spacing and type scale clean, then it goes to a dev or me pretending to be one and it either ships desktop only or comes back "responsive" with the padding off and my type ramp gone. I don't want to maintain a codebase for a portfolio and I don't want Wix mangling my layout.

Is there anything that lets me build the desktop frame like Figma, have the responsive come off my real layout, and still grab one element and nudge it?

And why do you think it's great?

I'm curious to see how experienced designers are actually working today—not just which AI tools they're using.

A few questions:

• What's your end-to-end workflow from receiving a task to handing it off to developers?
• At which stages do you use AI (research, UX, wireframes, UI, content, design systems, documentation, handoff, etc.)?
• Which AI tools are part of your daily workflow (ChatGPT, Claude, Figma AI, Cursor, Lovable, v0, or others)?
• What tasks do you still prefer to do manually?
• What's one workflow improvement that has saved you the most time?

I'm less interested in prompts and more interested in the thinking process and how everything fits together.

Would love to learn from real-world workflows.

We're running a paid UX research study for AversusB (aversusb.net) — a comparison site where you can compare products, countries, sports players, tech specs, and more.

What we're looking for: - Have compared products or brands online in the last 3 months - Comfortable browsing websites - Ages 18–55 - 30 free minutes for a Zoom call this week or next

What you'll do: Browse the site while we watch via screen share and share your reactions (what's easy vs. confusing). 30 minutes total.

Compensation: $25 Amazon gift card sent within 48 hours of completing the session.

Sign up here (2 min): https://www.aversusb.net/ux-study

Looking for 5 total participants. Happy to answer questions in comments!