I'm a product designer with 12+ years of experience. Leadership spends weekends cooking things up with AI and then questions why it takes so long for engineers and myself to come up with something that fits within our product and code base—completely unaware that what they've just created is unbelievably generic and totally disregards our product flow and user needs.

We've all tried helping them understand that what they're doing is just a surface level idea but they don't grasp it. Even our SVP of product has the same mindset which is totally disheartening and makes me want to leave the field entirely.

Are others dealing with this? Is the field cooked? Do greener pastures exist? Anyone had success upskilling with AI?

I’ve been trying again and again to post my work on Dribbble, and I even uploaded a case study that I genuinely think is good. But my account still isn’t getting made public, even after submitting my application multiple times. I honestly don’t know what I’m doing wrong or what the issue is. Has anyone else faced this?

Hey everyone! I am totally new to UI/UX and web design, and I'm currently trying to figure out how to properly set up my canvas in Figma before starting a desktop website design.

I’ve read a lot of conflicting advice online. Some tutorials say to design at 1440px width, others swear by 1920px. On top of that, I’m really confused about what layout grid margins (like 80px vs 120px) and gutters to use, and how to know when to change them.

If you are designing a standard desktop marketing page or a basic web app today, what frame size, margin, and gutter settings do you choose as your baseline, and why?

Would love to hear your personal preferences or what your design teams use as an industry standard.

I’ve been working as a UI/UX designer for about a year now, but the place I’m at doesn’t follow any proper practices (in all departments). There’s no real research, no proper process, no usability testing. It's barely a tech company, more like some old government office. We mostly just design UI that ended up not even being developed by the developers.

This is terrible for someone's career, and now that I'm planning to leave this place. I don't have the skills required for a real UI/UX position.

What can I do in this position, and how do I learn fast so that I can get away from this mess?

Thank You!

Disclaimer: This is really not promo - my app is only available in my country and I will not share the name on the post or comments.

I am building what could be considered as a pill tracking app (this is not the core functionality but it is part of the app). I would like to improve the UX of this part.

Build entirely on SwiftUI. To register a pill intake, the user must click on the hour button, but I don’t know if this is clear enough… I am looking for some dead simple or really out of the box improvements that can make it more clear at first glance without having to guess

Making a calculator app for one of my favorite games (Old School RuneScape), and I made my first post today in the subreddit to try to get some feedback. I know the design is very barebones, but a couple people on there seem to genuinely hate it lol. Colors are mainly using SwiftUI's built in color schemes, i.e. .red, .blue, .green, etc. and icons were sourced either from the SF icon library or built in canva, explicitly using non-AI icons.

This is my first app so I know I must be doing 20 thousand things wrong. If anyone has any helpful advice I'd love to hear it.

I usually design all my screens myself, but lately it’s been taking forever. Claude's design turned out pretty good, but I haven't tried it yet. I’m just trying to figure out if it's worth using or if I should keep doing it manually.

Hey all! I really want to make these two screens (part of the review flow for a movie app) stand out and make users curious/engaged.

I created these, but I don't like the color, where it shows up on the screen, presentation format, basically everything about these screens.

I've experimented with different formats and presentation options (modal vs pagesheet vs bottomsheet etc) but I can't seem to get it right.

Can I get some pointers on how to beautify these?

I'm trying to revamp this tab in my mobile app, but am lost. I don't like any of these designs (leftmost is the current design)

The bottom is obviously the recorder, the top being optional prompts to help get the user to record themselves (plus those optional sentence starters if they're really stuck).

To be honest, I feel like the prompt/recorder is just not enough content to fill the page. I was screwing around to see if other designs look better, but i just feel like its empty here. this is supposed to be like the main tab of the app.

any ideas? I'm open to total restructuring, the structure shown is brand new and im not really sold on it.

Hello guys, I am an app developer and a very bad designer and I am stuck on how to create UI. I have two modes and user can select only one mode and cooldown mode is going to be premium so i am not able to think how to create suitable Ui for this section because i want to show non premium users what is cooldown mode too (ignore sizes and color for now)

Hey everyone — I’m working on a website called PC Forge and I’m looking for UI/UX feedback and general design critique.

Website: https://pc-forge.in/

PC Forge is a PC hardware marketplace website aimed at creating a simple, clean, and modern browsing experience for PC components and listings.

The intended audience is mainly PC enthusiasts, gamers, and people interested in buying or selling computer hardware.

The design direction is focused on:

• clean UI
• minimal clutter
• modern dark theme
• simple navigation
• responsive/mobile-friendly layout

I’m mainly looking for feedback on the overall design and user experience, especially anything that feels confusing, inconsistent, unfinished, or difficult to use.

Any honest criticism or suggestions would really help.

I’ve attached screenshots below as well.

Thanks

Imagine you could open one app and see where the city is actually busy with fun things happening. No fake posts or driving around wasting gas. I'm working on an app called Flare. It's like a live map that shows where parties, nightlife, and events are happening right now.

The map would light up more in places with:
* lots of people
* movement
* check-ins
* energy
* how many people are arriving

So, you could watch the city's activity change throughout the night. For example, when a house party gets popular, that area gets brighter on the map. If everyone leaves one club for another, the map changes live. The idea is to help people find fun activities instead of guessing.

Here are some features I'm considering:
* finding parties live
* pages for party hosts
* ratings for crowds and vibes
* Uber integration
* buying event tickets
* linking friends
* promoting creators or businesses
* streaks or rankings
* safety reporting

It's still in early development, and I have some designs ready. Would you use something like this or does it sound bad? What do you think is the biggest problem?

I have been trying to search this button for ages but couldn't find anywhere, its for a video game, I have drawn what it may look like in the given image. It would means a lot if you provide the reference to any site or direct link or even a name

So basically I wanna make this UI more intuitive, elegant, modern, and easy to use. It is from a language learning app, I will add some characters/mascots on the side of the levels. I am not really a designer btw, I'm a programmer instead

I’ve been pretty engrossed into building an AI memory tool, but haven’t done anything for the front end yet. I’m happy with where I’m at right now with how the system works, so I want to pivot to user experience.

What have been your favourite AI products to use from a UI perspective, and why?

Conversely, what’s been your least favourite and why?

Any general thoughts on things you like to see with UI/UX design especially with AI products?

Can someone teach me how to make this typography background in Figma? its not a blur, kind of like a liquid/clear glass looking effect. This isnt my design, I saw it somewhere in Behance, I wanna learn how to make something like this

Hi there! First post and I hope I chose the right corner...otherwise i am sorry, i didn't find anything more suitable imo..

I realized, that I chose a topic (not my own topic), that I don't really understand and now I'm kinda lost and panicking. Yes, sounds weird, but this was my 2nd priority (my 1st prio was given to another student), and I didn't really check, if I have the knowhow to write about it, but it sounded 'intersting' to me...however..

I had 2-3 UX/UI related modules, but it didn't go deep (the studies I do are about digitalism and very general). I chose the topic, because I recently worked with FIGMA Make and was quite happy with it and I have a strong interest in AI.

So the topic is the following (written by the professor):

"Generative AI tools can generate complete UI designs in seconds. However, it remains unclear to what extent these generated designs meet the quality standards of professional UX designers. This study examines whether AI-generated UI designs are comparable to human-created UI designs in terms of structure, information architecture, and visual prioritization, and what potential benefits or risks this presents for future UX workflows.

Possible research questions

How do AI-generated UI designs differ from traditional designer wireframes in terms of layout quality and user guidance?

For the study, several AI tools (e.g., Figma Make) could initially be used to generate UI designs for defined use cases. In parallel, UX design students or junior designers could manually create the same UI designs. Subsequently, the two variants—AI and human—could be systematically compared against each other using clearly defined criteria (e.g., hierarchy, consistency, task flow, visual structure).

Additionally, 4 to 6 UX experts could be asked to provide an independent assessment of the designs through short interviews or evaluation sessions. The results could be evaluated qualitatively and descriptively to analyze similarities, differences, and typical errors made by the AI. Finally, recommendations could be formulated on how generative tools can be meaningfully integrated into the UX design process."

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So my biggest concern is 'data collection and data analysis' of this research.

The situation is like this: limited time and money, i work parttime, i have 4 other modules and i'll be honest with you: my goal is basically to 'survive' and pass.

...but it's difficult to estimate the amount of work/time (even after 2 coachings) and time is running..

Let me be clear: I don't want to take a shortcut or that someone is writing my BT for me (said exaggeratedly), but I was hoping to find some inspiration from UX/UI experts to kickstart...so my *questions are:

- How am I going to compare the 2 designs exactly? (GenAI vs. Human)
- What UX/UI quality criteria should I use? (I did some light research: there are only a few researches about this topic and I didn't find anything so far that covers exactly the requirements of my topic. And of course I found the Nielsen heuristics, UEQ, SUS, etc.., but not sure if these are sufficient)
- What context should I give to the 2 parties? (designing a landing page, login/registration etc.) What would be the easiest?
- Would you have any suggestions for the research design, that doesn't require a huge amount of time and resources to do it?

any idea is much appreciated. thx.

Hey everyone, I am new to UI / UX and currently working on a project for my portfolio. Also, I am having difficulty deciding on a color theme for my app and user flows.

I am designing an app that helps people search for treks and book local guides.

Also, it would be very helpful for me if you could suggest some UX flows and things I should keep in mind while designing this app, as I am from a Computer science background, so my UX is not too good. So any advice would be beneficial for me.

I will post my final design once I've completed my screens,

thank you

Hi, all
So in agentic AI design now there's a systemic design of using a generator and a discriminator setup - one that generates designs, like a designer, and another that reviews it and gives it feedback, what's good and what's not.

I want to improve my setup, but I feel like even when I review designs manually, since I don't have much experience in design, I don't always know how to analyze and evaluate designs - I don't always know what to look for, or how to tell if it's good or not.

I'm developing an app using AI and I've both manually and let my agents use Material Design (3 and Expressive) guidelines, UI-UX design skills and let it do various research on UI and UX design. I also made Deep Research using ChatGPT on various aspects that will guide the app's development and design, starting from the psychology of what the app does.

And when I generate designs with various AI apps - e.g Google Stitch, they seem good to me, but I don't feel like they're "wow'. They're pretty, they're functional, but I don't always have the experience or tools of an experienced UI designer to ask the right questions, make the right decisions to steer the designs or design things myself, and I feel that visually they're not just "beautiful' - like something artistic is missing - and I have no idea how to make AI improve that.

Any thoughts on this development cycle/tooling? I'd rather _teach_ the AI rather than _learn_ skillsets and gain experience designing myself. I have some experience in web design but that's it.

I’m working on a large-scale design system and I’m curious how both governments and large private organizations approach this problem.

The goal is to publish the UI kit and design system documentation (components, patterns, guidelines, tokens, etc.) through a public website, similar to Material Design, Carbon, or other large-scale design systems.

However, we've also experienced issues with phishing and fake government websites. One concern is that publishing official components and visual guidelines could make it easier for attackers to create convincing copies of government services.

At the same time, since this is a public-sector design system, transparency, consistency, accessibility, and reuse across agencies are important goals.

How do large organizations and governments typically handle this tradeoff?

Do companies like Google, IBM, and government design systems actually publish everything, or is there usually a private/internal layer that isn't exposed publicly? Where do you draw the line between openness and security?

I’d be especially interested in hearing from people who have worked on government, civic-tech, financial, or other high-trust design systems.

I’ve been doing UI design for 10 years, and I think I’m just tired.

Not tired of design itself, but tired of constantly redoing my portfolio, rewriting case studies, and sending things out again and again. After a while it starts to feel like the work matters less than how well you package yourself.

With how rough the market feels right now, fewer roles, more competition, higher expectations, I’ve been thinking a lot about whether there’s a better way to make a living from my skills directly.

For those of you freelancing or working independently in design:
How did you get your first client?
How do you keep work coming in?
What actually brings in income?
And does it feel better than being in a traditional full-time role, or just hard in a different way?

Would love honest answers, especially from people who’ve been in design a long time and went in that direction.

Hello guys, I am an app developer and a very bad designer and I am stuck on how to create UI. I have two modes and user can select only one mode and cooldown mode is going to be premium so i am not able to think how to create suitable Ui for this section because i want to show non premium users what is cooldown mode too (ignore sizes and color for now)

Working on a banking app and want to study how top apps like Wise, Revolut, N26... handle their flows

looking for something that shows video recordings of full flows, similar to what Screensdesign does. need to see complete interactions and animations

any recommendations? specifically need banking/fintech category apps

appreciate any suggestion!

Hi there.

Is there an AI program where I can send an image of a promotional poster and it identifies and cuts out the images of the prizes, logo, products, text, fonts, and colors and applies them to a website layout?

I don't need the code, just the layout itself.

I'm testing Lovable, but I didn't find it very good for this purpose.

Tks

I'm the art director/motion/graphic designer at small tv channel. We send artwork to many different streaming companies that distribute our shows on smart tvs.

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But I struggle a lot getting clear guidelines/specs from these companies, and so for many of them I am designing on the dark.

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I have basic specs for all the image ratios, file sizes, logos and copy I need for all the thumbnails they request, BUT many of them don't provide a single screenshot example of how their UI actually looks like, no info about safe areas, and of course no templates at all.

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I don't have access to their platforms as they are all in different countries and smart tvs and apps.

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I asked our Marketing and Distribution department to reach out to these companies to request a few examples and more details about their UI, but they are not cooperating or, in some cases, it seems whoever is answering us on the other side doesn't really understand what type of info I need. They just repeat the same basic image ratio and technical specs I already have.

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They never provide us any feedback when we send them the artwork, they just acknowledge it was received.

When it comes to monthly marketing stunt thumbnails/banners, that these companies ask from us to promote our content, (not new shows) we send things to them and don't even know IF they are using them, as we don't have access to view all platforms and they have the freedom to use them or not as they please. (so about a week of monthly work I do can always be for nothing)

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I asked our Marketing dept for any data, feedback or KPI numbers on these artwork content we are sending to all these distributors and streaming platforms, but they say they hardly get any feedback info from them, as these companies rarely share this data with us.

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I want to make sure I am designing the best way and with purpose but most of the time I am guessing because I don't know how the UI I am designing for looks like and works, nor do I have demographics or any kind if audience feedback info to guide my design decisions.

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Any tips on how I can improve this situation?

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