Cover Story – DesignWhine

Synthetic Users vs Real Users: What Can AI Research Actually Tell You?

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:53:55 +0000

For decades, user research had one unavoidable requirement: users. You could run interviews, surveys, prototype tests or observational studies, but eventually somebody real had to enter the room, answer the questions, misunderstand the interface, contradict themselves, or reveal something the research team had not thought to ask. That assumption is beginning to loosen. A new […]

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The Illusion of Automation: What AI Still Can’t Replace in Product Design

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:25:42 +0000

Editorial Disclosure: This issue is powered by Moonchild AI. While Moonchild supports the publication of this issue, all articles reflect the independent editorial perspective of DesignWhine. Automation often looks effortless from the outside. Behind every impressive AI workflow lies a hidden layer of human judgment, context, and design work that rarely appears in product demos. […]

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Degrees of Separation: Do Self-Taught UX Professionals Get Equal Opportunity?

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:42:04 +0000

DesignWhine surveyed around 1,000 UX professionals from 17 countries, including both degree holders and self-taught individuals, to explore their career experiences and challenges.

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Green UX: Designing for a Sustainable Digital Future

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:15:57 +0000

The search for a connection between UX design and environment began a few months ago when we were looking to change the web host provider at DesignWhine. There’s a category of web hosts who label themselves as “Green Hosts” which got us intrigued. Like most of us, we really had no idea that surfing out […]

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UX From Hell: Unveiling 25 Design Fails and Lessons in User Experience

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:27:30 +0000

DesignWhine collects twenty five user experience design fails that everyone of us go through everyday but none of us complaint about in this special report. When you press the back button on some videos, they minimize yet continue to play in PIP mode. This is true for videos that are part of playlists, but there […]

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ADPList Founders Felix Lee and James Baduor on Democratizing Mentorship

Barkha Sharma — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:42:57 +0000

I wasn’t sold on the notion of writing a cover story for ADPList when we initially discussed it. Sure, I’d heard of the platform, and we’d interviewed Felix Lee, one of the founders, for our second issue of DesignWhine in 2020, but I dismissed it as just another product or service platform. It wasn’t until […]

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