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code community design experiences process research reviews strategy columns authors glossary clear search show search search clear search top view infographic october 19 2026 edition design process restructuring a live site how to migrate an ia without losing your users structuring success organizing content to empower users a column by henry adepegba october 19 2026 no comments rebuilding a live site is a different kind of work from designing a new one a redesign that you can see is a design problem but a restructure that you can t see one that moves a thousand uniform resource locators urls overnight is a migration problem and it fails quietly in an earlier structuring success column i wrote about information architecture ia debt the way postponed design decisions harden into permanent costs then provided advice on governance the way you can stop new ia debt from accumulating i then wrote a column on metrics the way you can prove whether a site s structure is succeeding or failing these columns share some uncomfortable implications sooner or later a team that has been measuring honestly discovers that their web site s structure is wrong enough to need rebuilding but rebuilding a live site is a different kind of work from designing a new one read more in information architecture mapping user experiences champion advertisement continue reading design when accessibility isn t culturally neutral designing for different meanings of independence ux across cultures navigating the cultural landscape in ux design a column by jo chang october 19 2026 no comments ux designers can ensure the universality of accessibility principles while also making products more culturally responsive accessibility standards give us a universal foundation for designing inclusive user experiences but cultural context can shape the way people understand independence support and even accessibility itself by looking at assistive technologies web content accessibility guidelines wcag and practical examples such as the national health service nhs app s proxy access this column explores how ux designers can ensure the universality of accessibility principles while also making products more culturally responsive what independence means we often describe assistive technologies such as screen readers and wheelchairs through the language of independence wheelchairs enable independent mobility screen readers enable people to access information independently communication devices enable people to communicate independently there is nothing wrong with this framing being able to do something without assistance can be genuinely empowering but does independence always mean doing things alone let s consider two ways of looking at independence read more in accessibility champion advertisement continue reading design ux design for agentic ai how design evolves when the user interface disappears by kelly moser october 19 2026 no comments agentic ai systems can now spot patterns and make recommendations they can trigger workflows and complete tasks with less input from users this changes the role of ux design ux designers now need to think beyond the design of screens alone traditional ux design assumes that people interact directly with software users click buttons move through screens fill in forms and make decisions in step by step processes agentic artificial intelligence ai changes that model systems can now spot patterns and make recommendations they can trigger workflows and complete tasks with less input from users this changes the role of ux design ux designers now need to think beyond the design of screens alone they must think about how systems can explain their decisions and build user trust they also need to help users stay informed and in control as more actions happen in the background transparency and supervision become increasingly important the best agentic user experiences help people feel well informed involved and in control read more in artificial intelligence design ux design strategy why creating a great user experience is now a business strategy not just a design choice by thomas kwon october 19 2026 no comments today the firms pulling ahead are those who understand that ux design must be integrated throughout software development allowing design decisions to influence product strategy customer satisfaction and long term business performance rather than just being confined to the final stages of delivery people rarely blame a confusing checkout flow for lost sales this happens gradually over time until someone finally asks why for many years ux design sat at the end of the production line when a product got built and engineering was ready to ship it they called in ux designers to make the user interface presentable right before launch maybe that sort of sequence made some sense when digital products were novelties and customers had only a couple of alternatives but it no longer made sense once competitors were just a single click away and switching costs dropped to zero today the firms pulling ahead aren t the ones with the prettiest user interfaces but those who understand that ux design must be integrated throughout software development allowing design decisions to influence product strategy customer satisfaction and long term business performance rather than just being confined to the final stages of delivery read more in business strategy ux strategy design experiences ux design for healthcare software improving patient engagement and clinical workflow efficiency by alena madden october 19 2026 no comments a well designed software user experience can enable patients to easily access medical services and stay more engaged while also making it easier for healthcare professionals to deliver high quality care more efficiently in modern digital healthcare ux design for healthcare software can play a vital role in improving patient engagement and clinical workflow efficiency a well designed software user experience can enable patients to easily access medical services and stay more engaged while also making it easier for healthcare professionals to deliver high quality care more efficiently according to the agency for healthcare research and quality ahrq more than one third of the 9 000 medication related patient safety reports that they analyzed over a five year period were related to electronic health record ehr usability issues and nearly 20 of these incidents might have harmed patients thus designing better healthcare software user experiences is essential to improving patient safety and clinical workflows read more in healthcare experiences ux design october 05 2026 edition design strategy designing for the first 30 days predicting user adoption from early experiences with ai ai minds agency automation and the human actor a column by victor yocco october 5 2026 no comments the primacy effect helps explain the persistence of the user s mistrust users consider their initial thoughts about interactions with an ai powered product as a definitive assessment during their early sessions they decide what the ai understands where it fails and the amount of trust it deserves eight months into a ux research engagement with an inventory management team i reviewed usage data for an artificial intelligence ai assisted logistics routing tool one user consistently overrode system recommendations took longer than his peers to accept recommendations and described the ai as unreliable and narrow the interaction logs for his first week as a user explained why during his third session using the tool the ai had recommended the wrong route for a complex region that he had managed for four years he caught the mistake overrode it and noted in the feedback form that the system had failed to account for regional carrier agreements read more in artificial intelligence design ux strategy design strategy the ux debt of ai why great models still create poor experiences by navya chopra october 5 2026 no comments as ais get smarter the user experience does not always improve even with advanced ai artificial intelligence ai can now do many useful things including creating images designing user interfaces analyzing documents writing code summarizing meetings and working with large datasets an ai can also remember context and handle multistep tasks with little human help however as ais get smarter the user experience does not always improve even with advanced ai users might not know what questions to ask even if they seem to get a good answer they might have no simple way of checking whether the information is reliable ai can save people time when it works well but it can also create extra work if it does something unexpected read more in artificial intelligence design ux strategy research strategy why ux research saves more money than it costs the hidden roi of user centered design by mehardeep kaur october 5 2026 no comments when done well ux research is one of the highest return investments a product team can make the catch is that most of the return never shows up as a number that anyone celebrates ask a startup founder where the budget should go and talking to users first is rarely near the top of the list ux research might seem like a delay a line item standing between the team and the real work of building shipping and growing so research gets trimmed postponed or skipped entirely in the name of speed then the bills arrive later in messier and far more expensive forms this is the quiet paradox of user centered design ucd on the way in it seems like a cost but it behaves like savings on the way out when done well ux research is one of the highest return investments a product team can make the catch is that most of the return never shows up as a number that anyone celebrates this article is about where that hidden return on investment roi actually lives and why it remains invisible until you go looking for it read more in hci research ux research ux strategy design hyperpersonalization without surveillance designing intimate experiences without creepy data collection by magnus eriksen october 5 2026 no comments the useful version and the creepy version of a personalized screen look almost identical both adapt the user interface to the person using it the difference is where the signal came from and whether the user knew she was sending it a user opens the analytics dashboard on a monday morning and the widget she needs is already at the top good then she notices the second widget which is a churn report for a segment that she s never looked at in this product she did read about that segment last night but in an email message in a different app on a different device although the dashboard is right this awareness is also unsettling and these two facts don t cancel each other out this is the whole problem with the personalization of a screen the useful version and the creepy version look almost identical both adapt the user interface to the person using it the difference is where the signal came from and whether the user knew she was sending it do systems really need a surveillance grade profile to show users the right shortcut setting or next step usually not and products that assume otherwise pay for it in lost user trust read more in data informed design design autonomy preserving guidance how to improve adoption without turning experts into form fillers by yi tang october 5 2026 no comments making providing guidance mandatory frequently backfires users under time pressure either rush through forced steps or avoid the tool altogether then the system gets worse data lower user adoption and more workarounds in this article i ll present a project story about designing guidance that respects user agency in expert workflows user agency is an important part of quality if you design enterprise tools you ll eventually get a familiar request add stronger guidance make the preferred option harder to miss capture structured data so we can learn what s happening while the intention is reasonable the outcome sometimes is not in front line high variability work making providing guidance mandatory frequently backfires users under time pressure either rush through forced steps creating checkbox theater or avoid the tool altogether then the system gets worse data lower user adoption and more workarounds which is the opposite of what the company built it to achieve read more in ux design previous next current issue trending articles framing the practice of information architecture by nathaniel davis 13 human qualities you must have to succeed in work and life by pabini gabriel petit how do users really hold mobile devices by steven hoober applying color theory to digital displays by pabini gabriel petit label placement in forms by matteo penzo insights and inspiration for the user experience community subscribe to our newsletter we ll let you know when new articles appear on uxmatters 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