Designing for attention, The problem with sticky menus, Scaling conversational interfaces, Functional documentation

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Designing for (realistic) attention - The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute; few people choose to do so. If you get nothing else from this post, let it be that. - Christopher Butler / filed under Information Architecture

The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead - Designers use sticky menus (menus that stick to the edge of the viewport) to make them easy to access on long pages. But this fancy pattern hurts UX far more than it improves it. - Adam Silver / filed under UI Design

Scaling conversational interfaces - With the explosive popularity of Large Language Models, many companies are implementing conversational (chat) user interfaces for a wide range of use cases leading to more UI design explorations like conversation scaling. - Luke Wroblewski / filed under UI Design

Functional documentation - Some collected thoughts and ideas around applying a functional approach to writing and maintaining documentation, especially for design systems. - Heydon Pickering / filed under Design Documentation