Through many discussions with industry colleagues, we’ve started hearing a phrase more often when swapping stories about AI adoption: “Now I don’t have to bug [someone].” Product designers don’t need...
In early 2026, I noticed that the UX designer’s toolkit seemed to shift overnight. The industry standard “Should designers code?” debate was abruptly settled by the market, not through a consensus of...
For web professionals, session management is a balancing act between user experience, cybersecurity, and resource usage. For people with disabilities, it is more than that — it is a barrier to buying...
Imagine that you need to improve the UX of a legacy system . A system that has been silently working in the background for almost a decade. It’s slow, half-broken, unreliable, and severely outdated —...
Designing for autonomous agents presents a unique frustration. We hand a complex task to an AI, it vanishes for 30 seconds (or 30 minutes), and then it returns with a result. We stare at the screen....
Generated by DALL-E Turning knowledge into reusable AI agent instructions for a small, fast-moving team. We're a small Android team at Medium, just a handful of engineers maintaining and evolving the...
When I joined Medium , it was because I still believe in the internet as a place for ideas. Not noise, not outrage, but content that connects people through shared curiosity. Medium’s mission is to...
Photo by Mario Verduzco on Unsplash Medium Android App — Migrating from Apollo Kotlin 3 to 4: Lessons Learned In this post, I’ll share my experience migrating the Medium Android app from Apollo...
How we made our filtering 10x cheaper by removing our Bloom Filters Bloom Filters are great tools to make fast and cheap filtering. They also come with plenty of problems and can easily get expensive...
How we made our email story recommendations better In this Part 1, you’ll understand how we improved one of the main ways our users are exposed to our product and how that led to a massive 7%...
Cross-Digest diversification In this part 4, we’ll see how we went from investigating a few complaints from digest power users to improving our digest recommendations across the board. Intro : This...