17 articles

Screens being produced faster than a team can review them
Brilliant Blog

September 14, 2026

Shipping faster than a team can evaluate

Generation scaled and evaluation did not. The five forms UX debt takes when interfaces are produced rather than drawn, and how to run an audit against them.

Three delegation patterns shown as a plan a person reviews before execution
Agentic UX

September 28, 2026

Designing for delegation, and the three patterns it needs

Plan visibility before execution, confidence signaling that names the source of the uncertainty, and autonomy that widens at the pace the user sets.

A person at a workstation holding several tasks at once
Accessibility

October 5, 2026

Designing for executive function

Neuroinclusive design treated as a systems brief rather than an accommodation added at the end.

A difficult interaction being tested during discovery rather than after build
Research

September 21, 2026

Testing the hard parts first

Working prototypes of complex interactions are now cheap enough to build during discovery instead of after release.

Six dimensions scored independently rather than as one number
Design Systems

October 12, 2026

Grading a design system against six dimensions

A maturity framework applied to the state most enterprise design systems are actually in.

A conformance clause marked inside a contract document
Accessibility

October 19, 2026

Accessibility moved into procurement

EN 301 549 v4.1.1 pulls WCAG 2.2 Level AA into the European Accessibility Act. What that changes about contracts.

A research interview in progress between two people
Research

October 26, 2026

What an interview gets that a model cannot

Where synthesis tools genuinely help, where generated research evidence is fabrication, and the test that separates them on a live project.

Screens being produced faster than a team can review them
Brilliant Blog

September 9, 2026

Generated imagery in production interfaces

Tested against stock photography, generated images showed no perception penalty when users did not know the source. What that changes about art direction budgets, and what it does not.

An empathy map laid out in four quadrants during a research session
Research

September 8, 2026

What an empathy map can and cannot be built from

An empathy map assembled from a model output is a map of the model. What it takes to tell the difference in a readout.

A workflow with one unstaffed link between two that are covered
Design Systems

August 27, 2026

DesignOps maturity is low almost everywhere

The finding reads as a resourcing problem rather than a competence one, and the distinction changes what a team should do about it.

Five principles shown as a set rather than a ranking
Accessibility

August 25, 2026

Simplicity, clarity, control, support, co-creation

The five neuroinclusive principles, applied one at a time to a real enterprise workflow.

A vendor specification with the accuracy figure left blank
Brilliant Blog

August 25, 2026

Buying AI tools that can show their accuracy

Most AI-powered UX tools lack reliability and accountability in their outputs, so the purchasing question is what accuracy the vendor will put in writing.

A marked up proof with edits in progress
Craft

August 18, 2026

Who signs off on the copy

A newsroom uses AI for clarity, formatting and critique, and keeps editorial judgment with a named human. That division is a workable model for interface copy.

Components assembling themselves into a layout from a contract
Design Systems

November 2, 2026

When the interface assembles itself

Generative UI turns a design system from a library of screens into a contract of components. What has to be true before that is safe to turn on.

Many research sessions, a few of them carrying a source
Research

November 9, 2026

Democratizing research without diluting it

Research ops, templates, training, and the harder question of which decisions a non-researcher should be trusted to make from a study they ran themselves.

Acceptance, edit distance and reversal shown side by side
Measurement

November 16, 2026

Measuring an assistant

Task completion and time on page stop meaning anything once the product acts on the user behalf. What replaces them.

Two people weighing options over a printed layout
Craft

November 30, 2026

The part of the job that does not get automated

Product sense, defined concretely enough to hire for and concretely enough to teach.

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