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Why Most Product Teams Aren’t Really Empowered
Although product teams say they’re empowered, many still function as feature factories and must follow orders.
Humanizing AI Is a Trap
LLMs humanize by design. Adding personality/emotion amplifies risk. Design real tools, not fake friends.
UX Quiz: 2025 Year in Review
Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year.
How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a friendly video course on UX and design patterns …
Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question.
How To Measure The Impact Of Features
Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 …
UX Designer salaries in the US (2026 update)
Thinking about a UX career in the US? This guide breaks down salary ranges, city comparisons and the trends shaping earning potential in 2026.
Google Research 2025: Bolder breakthroughs, bigger impact
In 2025, the magic cycle of research accelerated. Google Research teams delivered pioneering breakthroughs and brought our research to reality with impact on products, science and society.
Gemini provides automated feedback for theoretical computer scientists at STOC 2026
We describe a new tool that uses Gemini to help scientists rigorously verify the correctness of their conference submission papers, which was tested for the STOC 2026 conference.
Spotlight on innovation: Google-sponsored Data Science for Health Ideathon across Africa
African researchers and developers used Google’s AI models to address crucial medical challenges.
A civil servant who became a UX advocate: How learning UX design enhanced John’s career
John never set out to change careers. But as digital tools became central to his work as a Civil Servant, he realised he needed new skills to stay confident and effective. Learning UX design …
A differentially private framework for gaining insights into AI chatbot use
Introducing a novel framework that generates high-level insights into AI chatbot usage through a pipeline of DP clustering, DP keyword extraction, and LLM summarization. This approach provides …
Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which means soon the book will go to the …
How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.
Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design …
The top UX design trends in 2026 (and how to leverage them)
UX is entering a new era in 2026. AI is reshaping how we interact with products, regulations are raising the bar for accessibility and sustainability, and users are seeking calmer, more human digital …
Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
We introduce the Titans architecture and the MIRAS framework, which allow AI models to work much faster and handle massive contexts by updating their core memory while it’s actively running.
From Waveforms to Wisdom: The New Benchmark for Auditory Intelligence
The Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB) is the definitive, open-source platform for measuring machine sound intelligence, unifying eight core capabilities — from retrieval and …
The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. …
Designing For Stress And Emergency
Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a …
