UI/UX Articles and Interesting Tidbits of the Week
August//29//2025
Here are some interesting finds on UI/UX of the past week!
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AI Won’t Terminate Developers. Startling intro to this article, which harks back to James Cameron’s classic film “Terminator”, which if everyone remembers correctly, had at its core the rise of AI against humans. This article from Steven Kleinveld for The Next Web reinstates what I have already mentioned in quite a few articles on the topic of AI. It’s a tool that will enable Developers (and Designers) to be more efficient and powerful in what they do (storytelling included), but it won’t phase them out. There’s aspects on the product journey which include finessing experiences, understanding the ebbs and desires of users, and ultimately crafting solutions that are truly piercing through the core of the expectations, and that’s something that these professionals will continue to be indispensable to the flow of deliverability. It’s an article worth reading and reflecting upon. Highlight of the article includes:
“This isn’t the end of developers. It’s a shift in how they work. It’s well documented that LLMs such as Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been drastically improving. As a result of this, the quality of AI tooling has skyrocketed, allowing developers to work with superhuman efficiency, thus becoming more valuable. This moment in tech isn’t about replacing developers; it’s about how they evolve. Just to be clear, AI is amazing at taking care of the repetitive stuff — generating code snippets, filling in boilerplate, even giving you a head start on a frontend. But that doesn’t mean it can build a reliable, secure, and scalable product from scratch. As the CEO of Skylark, an applied AI lab, I’m well aware of how quickly the field is evolving. But it will still be years before AI models master all three elements — reliability, security, and scalability — without a human in the loop.”
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The Landing Page Lie. Another pertinent article from the User Testing blog (author is not identified) on the topic of the Landing Page, and how at times campaigns, including ads, banners, and diverse promotional materials, are undermined by landing pages that simply fail to live up to the expectations that the promotional material has set forth. The article demonstrates that analytics aren’t enough to understand why that drop off starts occurring, and suggests for teams to focus on defining expectations based on the source channels (emails, SMS, banner ads), performing testing (before spending), collaborating across teams (including Design teams), to name but a few, as means to create a consistent experience that doesn’t defraud the user/potential client. Worth reading through. Highlight of the article includes:
“Whether it’s visiting a store, attending an event, or using a website, people form expectations before they even arrive. Those expectations are set by what they’ve seen or heard: marketing materials, word of mouth, product descriptions, or social proof. If the actual experience doesn’t match the promise, the result is going to be disappointment. Digital experiences are no different. If your “brochure” (ad/email/search snippet) promises one thing, and your “venue” (landing page/site) delivers another, visitors won’t stick around to complain; they’ll just leave. The most successful brands manage this by treating the entire experience as one connected journey, They: Audit the current journey from a first-time visitor’s perspective, Continuously update based on real feedback, Adapt experiences to different visitor types or entry points, so each feel relevant and consistent. Every touchpoint, from the ad click to repeat visit, reinforces your credibility and keeps users moving forward.”
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Who Owns the Web Now. This article from Noah Davis for the WebDesignerDepot, is one worth reading through and reflecting upon. It addresses the topic of how the Internet itself is evolving, particularly now with the impactful presence of AI, and what does that mean to what was originally a decentralized and free flowing hub of information. As the internet became more centralized, and in the hands of big tech organizations, what we’re able to consume from the Internet is dictated by those hubs, something that the advent of AI only reinforces, since AI feeds off from the ecosystem these tech mavens have created. It’s a very pertinent reflection on the direction of the Internet and what that means for us all who are deeply immersed in it. Highlight of the article includes:
“Generative AI changed the rules again. Before, centralization was about where things were stored and who controlled access. With AI, it’s about who gets to author reality. When you ask ChatGPT a question or let an AI rewrite your resume, you’re not just using a tool. You’re depending on a model trained by a centralized company, on centralized data, running on centralized computer infrastructure. And you’re accepting its output as — if not truth — then at least as a believable synthesis of it. That’s not just infrastructure. That’s epistemology. AI has taken centralization to a cognitive level. A handful of companies now shape the voice, tone, bias, and boundaries of the internet’s knowledge layer. They’re not just hosting your content — they’re writing it for you, scoring it behind the scenes, and deciding whether it will ever be seen. You can’t decentralize the web if you centralize the intelligence behind it.”
