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4 pieces filed under “error states”.
AI · 4 June 2026 · 10 min
When the model is wrong: designing failure states for AI features
AI failure is a design state, not an exception. Wrong-answer UX, graceful degradation tiers, feedback that improves the system, and copy that keeps trust intact.
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Web design · 18 Mar 2026 · 8 min404 pages with personality (that still get people home)
A 404 has three jobs: orient, recover, charm — in that order. The anatomy of an error page that rescues sessions, and how to measure whether yours works.
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AI · 19 Feb 2026 · 11 minWhen the model fails: fallback UX for LLM features
LLMs fail — slowly, confidently and at the worst times. How to design degradation tiers, honest error states and timeouts that keep users' trust intact.
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Web design · 6 Nov 2025 · 9 minYour error pages are a system: design them like one
404s, 500s, offline and maintenance states are one family with one voice. Design them together, give each a real recovery path, and log what users hit.
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