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The shift of UX
Published Oct 7, 2025 · Around 2 minutes to read
Sorry, no more declaring things dead. I promised.
I saw a couple of things recently that convinced me that UX has fundamentally shifted:
- A non-tech friend of mine coded up a Bitcoin cycle tracker. It was a nicely designed Replit app: responsive, beautiful visualizations, and good content hierarchy. If a non-dev/designer can wire up apps like this, “traditional” UX design is now table stakes.
- Agentic Commerce Protocol, aka you can buy stuff in ChatGPT. Websites as containers are limiting. If it’s digital, I should be able to read, write, listen, shop and play…anywhere. I ditched my zip drives when I signed up for Dropbox in 2008. I could access my stuff anywhere, on any device. Smartphones and responsive design built upon this flexibility. But we were still constrained to a structured UX. Every website and app needed a header/footer, navigation, forms, buttons etc. And they all needed to feel familiar for a better UX (Jakob’s Law). But this new era of software allows you to create your own UX. Anywhere. Interfaces can be generated on the fly tailored only to you. Buying stuff in ChatGPT is just the beginning.
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P.S. I can’t help it, I am going to declare something dead: death to forms. There’s no reason I have to enter my information in different websites and apps. My computer/phone already knows me. And password managers are a weak answer. I really, really dislike forms. And I will make it my life’s purpose to make them go away.
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