You may not have known it at the time, but chances are you've probably used a product we've designed.

Articles, talks, and conversations on the ideas shaping modern product and experience design.
Articles, talks, and conversations on the ideas shaping modern product and experience design.
You may not have known it at the time, but chances are you've probably used a product we've designed.

4 ideas for those who have stepped away from pushing pixels

An inaugural newsletter urging designers to shape how AI affects people, confronting hidden data-use choices and a problem where product form is driven by technical possibility rather than human need.


Judge for Mobbin's first ever Awards celebrating the best in UI craftsmanship across iOS, Web, Sites, Animation, and Innovation.

I’ve been seeing way too many articles on Medium about how “UX is dead,” and I’m getting a bit annoyed about it now.

Judge for Vibeathon, a global remote Gen AI competition for creators in design, product, film, music, games, marketing.


Zalando product designers share their honed stakeholder management approaches, from the interpersonal to the strategic.

Over the past 17 years, Metalab has been quietly shaping the internet through product design and development (obligatory name drop from our marketing team: Slack,...



A practical discussion for product designers, product managers, and AI builders who need to ship AI features that users can rely on—without sleepwalking into manipulation, privacy pitfalls, or reputational harm.


In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers. Metalab designed the first interface.

For becoming the go-to design firm for the UX of AI products. Metalab has quickly become a go-to design partner for AI companies to articulate the UX and brand of their products.

A curated collection of Fast Company interviews in which design leaders across industries discuss creativity, business strategy, social impact, and design's evolving role.


Featured in Fast Company with the news of the surgeon general's warning in the The New York Times to protect teens on social media. We designed how we might better take care of people, in context, just in time, and unpack how.

We’ve all felt it. That low hum of disruption shaking the walls of creative work. AI has crashed into the industry, loud, fast, and full of promise. But behind the flashy demos and overnight feature launches, the real shift isn’t just technological.


The catchphrase is catching fire as early adopters ride the new wave of AI-powered tools. Here’s how we might channel that energy and avoid the risk of being overwhelmed.

Metalab's Chief Design Officer offers 5 critical mindset shifts that her industry-leading team has learned integrating AI into Uber, The Atlantic, Midjourney, Suno, and more
