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Webflow Blog · Aug 5, 2026

AI adoption isn't the same as AI usage

Usage dashboards go up while nothing about how your team ships changes. Why that gap exists, and the one kind of AI adoption that actually lasts.

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MeasuringU · Jeff Sauro, PhD • Lucas Plabst, PhD • Jim Lewis, PhD · Aug 4, 2026

Can We Trust AI to Moderate UX Interviews?

Can AI Replace UX Researchers? Some criticized us for using that headline in 2023, calling it clickbait. Fair criticism, given the inflammatory nature of AI (for the record, we did have a subtitle). But here we are three years later, and we’re not talking about just the tedious task of having AI code comments—a task [.

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Nielsen Norman Group · Aug 4, 2026

UX Conference October Announced (Oct 26 - Oct 29)

Take up to 2 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Training focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. October 26 - October 29, 2026.

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Nielsen Norman Group · Rachel Banawa · Jul 31, 2026

No New Name Has Replaced “UX”

A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

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Lyft Design · Namika Varma-Chang · Jul 30, 2026

The Anatomy of Typography and Why Accessibility Starts Here

A breakdown of the anatomy of typography. When I first started working on Lyft’s custom typeface, Rebel Sans, much of the team’s attention was focused on brand expression. The first version of the typeface we worked on, Rebel Sans Display, was designed to establish a distinctive brand voice. We spent countless hours e.

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W3C WAI · Jul 30, 2026

Group Note Draft: Verifiable Credentials Overview v1.1

The family of W3C Recommendations for Verifiable Credentials, described in this overview document, provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

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W3C WAI · Jul 30, 2026

Group Note Draft: EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer

The EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer provides information on how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2 against reflowable EPUB publications.

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Smashing Magazine · hello@smashingmagazine.com (Andy Budd) · Jul 29, 2026

The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI

As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act.

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MeasuringU · Jeff Sauro, PhD • Jim Lewis, PhD · Jul 28, 2026

Measuring the UX of AI

AI is everywhere and getting embedded in all of our products. If you ask the typical person in 2026 what AI is, they’ll probably say it’s a generative chat product like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or Gemini. Of course, these are only the frontier Large Language Models (LLMs). That’s not all AI is. For example, the […]

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Smashing Magazine · hello@smashingmagazine.com (Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi) · Jul 28, 2026

Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era

Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jul 28, 2026

There’s no going back

The more I learn about accessibility, the harder it is to look back at some of my old work; but that cringe is a useful measure of progress.

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