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Fast Company
2 days ago
- Business
- Fast Company
Shopify just killed UX design
Carl Rivera believes that in the artificial intelligence era, we don't need the 'UX' in UX designer. Last week, Rivera, chief design officer at Shopify, dropped the title at the e-commerce company, along with the title of content designer. His public announcement was met with some kudos and quite a bit of disagreement. 'When I put it out online, you get a complete view of how the market looks and feels about change,' he says. 'How our jobs and how work is changing in the AI era of technology is both extremely exciting, but it's also so frightening.' For Rivera, dropping UX from job titles is about empowering humans in the face of AI. Instead of using his team to implement best UX practices, he's asking them to lean in to what makes their skills unique: taste and intuition. 'I want to get away from terms that make our craft more science than art. AI enables anyone to make things usable. Our job is to make them unforgettable,' Rivera said in his announcement. Scientists and engineers codified 'user experience' as a discipline in the mid-'80s and '90s after the success of the graphical user interface ushered in by the Macintosh. Since then, UX has developed predictable and replicable best practices—many of which have been consumed and replicated by AI at this point. Rivera argues that UX, as a discipline, has become a bounded box created to standardize the experience of technology. UX designers use these rules and play within that safe zone 'because it feels good to quantify things,' he says. But he believes those same rules also push other people in the organization away from the creative process. The result of the current system are user experiences that rate, according to Rivera, a '7 out of 10.' They tick all the boxes, but they are ultimately forgettable. The final deadline for Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech Awards is Friday, June 20, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.
Android Authority
23-05-2025
- Android Authority
Material 3 Expressive's approach to dynamic app color is sounding better and better
Google TL;DR Material 3 Expressive is coming later this year to refresh Android's look. Google's already been previewing those changes through announcements at I/O 2025, as well as its Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1. When Material 3 Expressive finally rolls out, existing apps using dynamic color theming will automatically be able to use the enhanced palettes. Google's latest Material 3 Expressive design language is coming to give your Android device a fresh new look, and with the release of Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1, users are already getting an early taste of those big changes. Even if you're not ready to test out that in-development release, though, there's still plenty to check out, and we've already seen lots of previews of what to expect as apps start responding to Google's changes. This week at I/O 2025, we're learning a bit more about how this colorful upgrade is coming to our phones. So far, a lot of the big components of Material 3 Expressive's changes have felt centered around shape and layout: how UI elements are formed, and where they're placed across apps and the system itself. But we're also due some enhancements when it comes to color, and Android's support for dynamic theming is getting bolder when it comes to its color choices, selecting vibrant tones that still complement each other, but also stand out a bit more. As Google UX designer Andrew Lu puts it: …themes get richer and more diverse because we've upgraded dynamic color to unlock more variation and higher chroma across all hues. That means a greater range of style and personalization for users whether they prefer soft neutrals or juicy vibrance. Maybe the best part here is how it's going to roll out, and Lu clarifies that apps already taking advantage of dynamic theming will automatically pick up these improved color palettes — we're not going to have to wait around for every dev under the sun to update their code. Sure, we're still going to have to wait for not just Android 16 to hit stable, but then most likely also for QPR1 to finish development and land as a future drop. Just know that the day when all your existing dynamic apps suddenly start looking a whole lot better is out there, and will probably be here before you know it. Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff at Email our staff at news@ . You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it's your choice.
