Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

What good UX Writers do before starting work. Continue reading on UX Collective » My first real-world use of vibe coding to improve a product design workflow Made by me with Midjourney. Not all vibe coding is useful. But sometimes, it actually helps you do the job better, faster. Over the past year, I explored a lot […]

Designing AI with purpose: the AI intention matrix A powerful framework to help AI product teams build with clearer intent. In the race to add “smart” features, many products stumble into a trap: shipping AI because they can, not because they should. As teams scramble to automate, they often don’t stop to ask: what’s the role […]

How Figma Sites prioritises superficial qualities of web experiences. A tough pill to swallow: I still get excited whenever there’s a new design tool to play with. Over the past few years, I’ve been repeating the same mantra in my head: “expertise over tools, outcomes over outputs”, as a way to focus on the substance of […]

The world speaks, too. 1973, Harvard Square, Cambridge.In the middle of a busy intersection stands a piano, surrounded by a small crowd. A bearded man in his sixties approaches, calmly sits down, and starts a stopwatch. Silence falls. He lifts the piano lid with precision, places his hands in his lap, and stares ahead. He does nothing. […]

How intentional practice leads to true mastery Continue reading on UX Collective » Here’s what UX designers can do about it Next week is the 14th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). This tradition was founded in 2011 with the goal of getting more people to think about and apply web accessibility practices to include users […]

The “AI-first” approach has caused controversy among users. Continue reading on UX Collective » Looking at a bigger picture together with the team, while solving problems, adds a strong motive to the process. The journey to problem solving is adventurous. (Freepik) Whether you are a designer, a product owner/manager or an engineer, you must have come […]

Here are a few insights from interviews with six design leaders Continue reading on UX Collective » Looking at a bigger picture together with the team, while solving problems, adds a strong motive to the process. The journey to problem solving is adventurous. (Freepik) Whether you are a designer, a product owner/manager or an engineer, you […]

A quote by I. M. Pei “Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.” (image: unsplash) Architecture has long shaped our physical world — but what if it learned from UX design’s focus on feedback, iteration, and human experience? Over five years ago, I transitioned from architecture to UX design. At the time, the internet […]

A philosophical lens for designers ready to move past process, prediction, and the constraints of algorithmic logic. Image source: https://voegelinview.com/what-we-get-wrong-about-nietzsches-nihilism/ Most design frameworks are built to structurally guide both thought and action. Design Thinking, the Double Diamond, and Human-Centered Design offer steps and stages — empathize, define, ideate, test. These structures have helped democratize design and align […]

How can we create a tool that represents our thoughts — adding as little as possible and losing nothing? “The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over its simple ideas, are chiefly these three: (1) Combining several simple ideas into one compound one; and thus all complex ideas are made. (2) The second is bringing […]