A close reading of how a single UI gesture can evolve from optional to mandatory over time. The piece uses Google’s new Googlebook laptop as a jumping-off point, but the actual argument is about how small interaction decisions compound into platform lock-in. A good lens for anyone designing gestures or shortcuts into a product today.

https://finest.day/posts/arguing-on-interfaces-from-obligation-to-omnipotence

#uxdesign #interactiondesign #productdesign (https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260522/090000/)

Horizontal scrolling keeps getting tried and keeps getting abandoned. This video unpacks the actual reasons: mice are built for vertical, reading patterns run top to bottom, and users have decades of muscle memory fighting against it. Good history lesson for anyone who thinks the next redesign will finally crack it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XphZYVBH3Y

#ux #interactiondesign #uxhistory (https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260521/160000/)

Most #AI UX still treats conversation as #interface polish. But to shape dialogue patterns in agentic systems is really to design #coordination, #escalation, #oversight, and organizational #trust. What happens when dialogue becomes operational infrastructure?

#AgenticAI #HumanAgentCenteredDesign #HumanAgentInteractionGuidelines #HumanAgentInteraction #ConversationDesign #ConversationalUI #InteractionDesign #InterfaceDesign #SoftwareInterfaces #Chatbots

https://www.designative.info/2026/05/19/shape-dialogue-patterns-a-primer-of-human-agent-interaction-guidelines/

Most #AI transparency discussions assume a single model explaining a single output. But what if #reasoning involves multiple layers, workflows, and #agents? The challenge might not be explainability but interrogability.

#AgenticAI #ArtificialIntelligence #InteractionDesign #HumanAgentCenteredDesign #UXforAI #AIUX #MlUX

https://www.designative.info/2026/05/18/make-reasoning-interrogable-a-primer-of-human-agent-interaction-guidelines/

DIS 2026 workshops are shaping up to be incredible ✨
I’ve already found the workshop I want to register for — how about you? 👀

From AI, more-than-human design, care, participation, sustainability, movement, embodiment, and creative methods, there’s a lot of exciting conversations happening this year.

🗓️ Don’t forget to register for workshops!
🔗 https://dis.acm.org/2026/attending-workshops-at-dis2026/
#DIS2026 #HCI #InteractionDesign #DesignResearch

Designing Data-Intensive Applications—Advice for Interaction Designers, by @uxdesigncc:

https://archive.ph/xyrM7

#informationdesign #interactiondesign

Interaction Models

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

#HackerNews #Tech #InteractionDesign

On my phone, while using Google Contacts app to enter someone's new telephone number, I chose this country code:
🇨🇦 Canada

After saving the edit, the app has changed the flag beside the country code:
🇺🇸 Uni.ted Sta.tes

That's a rather tone-deaf change of data that I intentionally entered, since Canada is pointedly not part of the Unit.ed S.tates.

Coding decisions can be political and offensive.

#fail #UserExperience #UX #InterfaceDesign #ID #InteractionDesign #IxD #politics #poli #Canada

We finally started starting our quarterly newsletter, including current projects, upcoming workshops, and interesting bits from our network.

https://sh1.sendinblue.com/v4ek0ejr9pfe.html?t=1777036678976

This first edition has updates from our community space @pixelforest in #Berlin, the next @vvvv classes at @thenodeinstitute, the student festival Lucid Dreams in St. Pölten, and a recap of our Spatial A/V BIP week.

#newmediart #digitalart #spatialAV #studio #interactiondesign #touchdesigner #vvvv

🤩 Design and typography experts: Thomas Jockin, Michael Mondragon, and Matheo Cadena; revealed their ratings of Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug on Type Thursday Book Club.

👀 Watch them reveal their ratings on YouTube: Tap the link in my bio @matheomrowl. 👉https://youtube.com/shorts/P4OdY6QAUTc

🤓 Graphic Designer: Matheo Cadena

🧰 Tools: Adobe / Adobe Express / Adobe Creative Cloud / Adobe Illustrator.

#WebDesign #InteractionDesign #ProductDesign #UXUI #GraphicDesign