This article explores seven emerging UI layouts and the perceived roles of AI agent, analysing how each one influences user and embedding AI more deeply into sophisticated, task-oriented interfaces:
Category: Design Strategy
UX in 2025
In 2025, UX design is heavily influenced by AI, personalization, and the need for seamless, intuitive interactions across various platforms and devices.
Designers are focusing on hyper-personalization, voice interfaces, and accessibility, while also grappling with ethical considerations surrounding AI and data privacy.
UX in 2025 isn’t about looking good.
It’s about layering the right principles so your product survives real-world … Read the rest
Design deliberation
UX design deliberation refers to the thoughtful consideration and careful decision-making process a UX designer undertakes throughout the design process, involving research, analysis, ideation, testing, and iteration to create intuitive, user-friendly products.
It’s the process of gathering data, understanding user needs, and weighing different design approaches to arrive at the best solutions, ensuring the final product provides a gratifying … Read the rest
VMT Framework
VMT – A vision, mission, and target represent different levels of organizational planning and strategic direction. Vision describes the desired future state, a long-term aspiration. Mission defines the organization’s purpose and how it will achieve its vision. Target (or goal/objective) is a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) outcome that contributes to the mission and vision… Read the rest
User journey maps
User journey maps are an effective way to visualize user’s experience for the entire team. Instead of pointing to documents scattered across remote fringes of Sharepoint, we bring key insights together — in one single place. The downside is that journey maps are often too linear, too predictable, too neat — which is often exactly the opposite of what users … Read the rest
Design checklist
Checklist Design is a collection of the best UX practices paired with UI you need to provide a complete, honest and rewarding experience for your users.
With the knowledge of not just what to put on your screen but why it should be there, Checklist aims to build the understanding between the two as a relationship that’s integral to the … Read the rest
UX Scope management
Scope management for UX involves clearly defining and controlling the project’s deliverables, goals, and boundaries to ensure the user experience aligns with business needs while preventing scope creep. Key practices include involving stakeholders for consensus, creating a detailed scope statement and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), implementing a robust change management process, and maintaining open communication to track progress and … Read the rest
UX strategic thinking
UX strategic thinking is a long-term, user-centered approach that aligns business objectives with user needs to create a successful and valuable product experience. It involves understanding the broader business context, using data to inform decisions, envisioning future outcomes, and collaborating across departments to ensure design efforts drive sustained user engagement and business growth.
Key Components of UX Strategic Thinking… Read the rest
Understanding UX Strategy
A Practical Guide
UX strategy is the process of planning and orchestrating the user experience of a product or service. It’s about making sure that all the different aspects of the user experience—from research and discovery, to design and testing—are working together towards a common goal.
While UX design is the process behind creating delightful, user-friendly products, UX strategy is … Read the rest
Sizing UX deliverables
This is a method called Relative Sizing for UX teams to improve project estimations. Instead of estimating work based on time, which is often inaccurate, this method focuses on estimating based on three variables: effort, complexity, and risk.
Here’s how the process works:
- The UX team lists all their deliverables and creates checklists for each.
- The team