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Designing better buttons: Consistency, hierarchy & buttons vs links
Designing an effective button requires a wealth of UX knowledge. How do we decide how it should look? 💭 Where should we place it? 💭 What copy should…
May 29 • 
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You are shipping hallucinations. Here's how to stop.
When the AI hallucinates, whose mistake is it?
Sep 3 • 
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Why “You are not the user” isn’t always true in UX...
“You are not the user” shaped how we worked. But taken too literally, it can create distance from the product, so much that we stop experiencing it…
Aug 15 • 
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Your hero = your selling point.
How to get it right.
Aug 5 • 
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The choice you never made. Designing for Default Bias in UX
"If you want to encourage a behaviour, make it the default."
Aug 4 • 
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Design isn’t finished until it’s understood.
How to use psychology to present your work with impact
Aug 4 • 
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Designing for a world where no one trusts anything anymore
Trust was always invisible. Until we lost it…
Jul 15 • 
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Intention vs outcome in UX design: Gulf of Evaluation and Gulf of Execution
Fixing UX gaps between user intentions and system feedback.
Jul 8 • 
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Aleksandra Smith
Aleksandra Smith
Psychology nerd. Empath at heart. I share honest takes on UX, useful tools, and ask bold questions about what really works—and why. If you're into thoughtful design and real talk, you'll feel right at home. This is your UX Bit.

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