Hot Takes

Industry controversies, unpopular opinions, tech culture chaos, spicy commentary

28 posts

October 13, 2025

Why Your Introduction Kills More Job Opportunities Than Your Resume in 2025

Your resume is perfect. Your portfolio showcases ten years of wins. Yet, you’re stuck watching rejection emails pile…

October 11, 2025

Your carefully crafted homepage just became obsolete. That perfectly balanced navigation? It’s already old news. Furthermore, welcome to…

October 9, 2025

The insurance industry faces a fascinating design paradox. Conversational AI can complete policy applications in 90 seconds. Traditional…

October 2, 2025

Time to strip away the LinkedIn polish. We’re living through one of the most disruptive periods in design…

September 26, 2025

Let me tell you something that might ruffle some creative feathers. The most successful designers I know aren’t…

September 25, 2025

Those “essential designer tools” lists keep multiplying like notifications from a buggy app. Most promise quantum-powered wireframes and…

September 24, 2025

Remember when Microsoft almost killed Paint back in 2017? Yeah, that didn’t age well. Fast forward to 2025,…

September 17, 2025

So you’re scrolling through job postings and seeing “AI skills required” everywhere. Meanwhile, your design education probably covered…

September 12, 2025

Let’s be honest about something: most portfolio advice you read online is terrible. I know, I know—that’s a…

September 11, 2025

Look, I’m going to be straight with you. The UX research world is having a bit of an…