UX designers are not designing interfaces, they design personalities
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What if AI sets us free?
What can destroy us can also save us. Here’s how I think we can stay in charge of the choice.From the Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Why design (still) matters, Taste is not a methodology, Borrowed slopes
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.AI companies have spent the past year hiring forward-deployed engineers: e...
Design in the material you ship
Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.The...
The AI experience doesn’t care about your org chart
AI is bringing content design, enterprise content strategy, knowledge management, and model behavior into the same user experience. Our...
Human in the loop means making sure the human is not out of the loop
A reviewer’s hand hovers over an approve button while the work it approves has already moved on without them. AI assisted.Agents now ac...
What I told the CFO when he asked why design matters
How to sell design and show the impact of design outcomes to business and finance leaders.Many years ago a business unit CFO told me: “...
Nobody wants your AI app
The switchboard operator’s job was automated out of existence. The work it became, the invisible systems that now connect every call, i...
Taste is not a design methodology
Judgment brings the facts. Agency puts them on the table. AI assisted.It has become our favorite answer to AI-generated sameness. The r...
What are we willing to sacrifice for AI?
Three paths forward, each challenging what we value most.Photo by