UND - Episode 2

Unrequested design news

Imagine exporting code into a canvas and making UI changes directly, without needing to write any code. It seems this is now a reality.

Have you ever tried Lottie? It’s like the Figma of micro-animations?

Remember when Nokia ruled the world? Nokia design secrets will be online.

Instagram adopting AI will be fun.

15 reasons to use AI—and 5 not to.

Unrequested design advice

Here we go again—another piece of advice nobody asked for.

You know that moment when you walk up to a door, see a handle, and pull—only to stand there like an idiot because it was actually a push door? Yeah. Not your fault. That’s on whoever designed the door. They clearly skipped the “how to not make people look stupid” part of product design.

If a door needs to be pushed, why does it even have a handle? It’s like putting a “drink me” label on poison—just asking for trouble.

So, if you would like a website, maybe don’t ask your cousin who once made a cute birthday card. Get a UX designer. And if you’re trying to break into UX design, don’t take advice from a mentor who’s never done it before. Or do—sometimes you have to learn by making mistakes.

Unrequested UX/UI mini lessons

What is a UX designer?
Alright, imagine walking into a café. The menu isn’t a cryptic puzzle, the staff doesn’t act like you ruined their day just by existing, and the chairs don’t feel like medieval torture devices. Everything just works. That’s not magic—that’s someone actually thinking about your experience.

Now take that logic and slap it onto apps, websites, and any digital product. Boom—that’s a UX designer. They make sure you don’t quit an app because the “Buy” button is hiding in the Bermuda Triangle. They figure out how people use things, design layouts that make sense, and test them so you don’t have to suffer.

A UX/UI designer it’s about solving real problems and making things actually usable. And no, they don’t work in a dark room alone, whispering to their designs. They work with teams, balancing user needs, business goals, and tech limitations—because even the best ideas die if they don’t fit the bigger picture.

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I'm Alessandra Stagno, a Lead Product Designer from Italy, now based in the Netherlands, with over 8 years of experience in Product Design – not the physical kind, though. The UX and UI kind. Yes, because in Italy, if you say you’re a Product Designer, people think you make chairs. Never made chairs – unfortunately. But give me a horrible website or software with a questionable user experience, and you’ll find me in a room fixing it, saying: “Oooh! Now it’s clean, and I understand what I’m supposed to do, let’s test it!”