Find what matters in the design archive.
Pair with UCD Coach. Coach is the forward habit — today's five. Surf is the rearward workbench on the same briefing corpus: a practice brief for the gate you are in, not an industry digest dump.
Same briefing corpus as UCD Coach. Coach looks forward. Surf looks back.
Search
Used-for search — the gate you are in, not only a topic. Named submit. Results and empty states are written in words.
Topics
Filter by hype label and date on each hub. Selected filters are named in words, not colour only.
Design events
UX, product and service design meet-ups, conferences and workshops — sourced from Eventbrite for designers in the UK and online.
Learn more about Design eventsUCD methods
UCD methods, design thinking, research and workshop practice — concise briefings on what's changing and what to try this week.
Learn more about UCD methodsAI workflows
How designers actually use AI — agents, automation and prompts. Briefings that separate adoption from hype, with one action per read.
Learn more about AI workflowsDesign trends
Browse briefings on the latest design trends — what's hype, what's being adopted and what's established. For UX, product and service designers.
Learn more about Design trendsDesign tools
New and updated design tools — Figma, Penpot, plugins and AI-assisted tooling — summarised with sources, dates and a hype check.
Learn more about Design toolsDesign systems
Design systems news — tokens, components, accessibility and governance — sourced and summarised for practitioners.
Learn more about Design systemsHiring
Who's hiring designers and what the market wants — roles, skills and hiring signals for UX, product and service designers, updated daily.
Learn more about Hiring
Pair with UCD Coach
Coach is the forward habit — today's five, every morning. Surf is the rearward workbench on the same briefing corpus. Today's five is not restaged here.
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Daily email stays on Coach. Surf has no subscribe form.
Recent days
Last 30 days from the shared corpus. Open a day for a practice brief — not today's five restaged.
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Success is reopening a Shelf claim in a real gate decision — not a prettier archive.
