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Figma Make: Complete Guide
Figma Make is a new AI-powered design tool that allows you to turn your text prompt into a real design. In this guide, I will show you how to use this tool and explain its strengths and weaknesses.https://medium.com/media/98dfac33be9d52e0220d3b6974e165ad/hrefHow it worksAll...
Figma MCP: Complete Guide
Bridging the gap between visual design and production-ready code has always been a top priority for most product teams. Figma MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a solution to this problem. MCP allows AI code generators like Cursor to understand...
Sometimes hard UI can be a blessing
Desirable difficulties in B2B and B2C product design — and what research on disfluent fonts can teach us.I always thought that if there were ever a case for intentionally designing a harder-to-use interface, it would be for a B2B web app. After...
Scroll. Forget. Repeat.
AI is writing for AI, and humans are just scrolling. Content design is flawed by design.Continue reading on UX Planet »
UX Moments: Sell me this pen
Why E-commerce is no longer just about selling, but about understanding and creating value for the userThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)Do you remember the iconic scene from “The Wolf of Wall Street” where Jordan Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) hands...
Designing for Spatial UX in AR/VR: A Beginner-to-A...
From 2D screens to multi-dimensional experiences, UX design is evolving. Spatial design — across AR, VR, and mixed reality — isn’t just about technology. It’s about anchoring digital content meaningfully into human environments.Table of ContentsWhat Is Spatial UX Design?Understanding the User’s Physical ContextDesigning for Comfort, Movement,...
Empty State Design: A Practical Guide
Covering what empty states are, their anatomy, common use cases, and different types with tips on when to use each.IntroductionEmpty states are often overlooked in product design. Although only an estimated 2–5% of users encounter them, well-designed empty states can...
Your UX teams were so preoccupied with whether or ...
Your UX teams were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they shouldThe race in digital evolution: When “Can We” overshadows “Should We” in product design.Jurassic Park (1993)Do you remember what happened in “Jurassic...
What If… YouTube Music Translated Lyrics in Real T...
A UX case study on making multilingual music more meaningful.My RoleWith this project I identified a missing opportunity, hence on top of my end-to-end design ownership, I took on product responsibilities (wrote my own PRD, with AI help).Trailer before the MovieImagine...
Why we get hooked: The invisible threads behind pr...
Photo by Google DeepMindThere are some apps or products that just stick. You don’t know exactly when it happened, but one day you realize you’re using the same product over and over. Not because you’re consciously comparing features every day,...
Why we never hired a designer. Part 2
Beyond digital product design — how lone design generalists can un-hire themselves into more inspiring rolesThe curse of knowing how to drawSince the earliest years of my design career, when I was volunteering in organising conferences or youth activities, I was always...
New Figma MCP + Cursor Integration with Example
How I Built an Amazing Web App in 20 Minutes with Figma MCP + CursorRecently, Figma introduced an exciting new integration called Dev Mode MCP, which connects seamlessly with various AI models, enabling them to fetch design contexts directly from...
The Designer’s Mindset: 10 Principles I Wish I’d K...
10 essential mindset shifts every designer should embrace to unlock their full potentialContinue reading on UX Planet »
UI design tip: Try to avoid using multiple alignme...
Sticking with a single alignment (or as few as possible) helps to simplify an interface, making it look neater and tidier.One of the trickiest and most important parts of UI design is aligning interface elements. Getting the alignment right can...
From Stacking Features to Shaping Value: A New Pro...
Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on UnsplashFor decades, software development has mirrored the construction industry — a manpower-heavy model where effort, hierarchy, and sequencing define how value is created. But that model is no longer working. Not for users. Not for businesses....