ai
leadership
Do More with Less: Digital Leadership in Lean Times
Josh Clark shares nine principles to guide high-performing teams to deliver faster/better/cheaper in an era of shrinking budgets.
sentient design
A.I. Is Your New Design Material
Discover the opportunities to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in your everyday work.
podcast
Designing with Artificial Intelligence: The Dinosaur on a Surfboard
On the Presentable podcast, Josh Clark joins Jeff Veen to consider the role for designers in a world of algorithms and machine learning.
interview
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: How AI Will Affect UX Design
Adobe profiled and interviewed Big Medium’s Josh Clark about the opportunities and challenges facing UX designers in a world of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
sentient design
Systems Smart Enough To Know When They're Not Smart Enough
Google and others offer wrong answers with matter-of-fact authority. How can designers build stronger signals of trust into data-driven interfaces?
sentient design
When Combinations of Humans and A.I. are Useful
A research study raises challenging questions about collaborative AI interfaces, including the value of “human in the loop” interfaces and explanations of AI logic and confidence scores.
sentient design
This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
AI pioneer Yann LeCun reminds us that just because LLMs are good at language doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
ai
Beware of Botshit
Botshit is hallucinated content that makes its way into human communications or screws up decision making.
sentient design
A Radically Adaptive World Model
A research project generates a world based on Counter-Strike, frame by frame in response to your actions. What happens when you apply the same thinking to the design of websites, dashboards, or canvas apps?
sentient design
Exploring the AI Solution Space
Jorge Arango explores what it means for machine intelligence to be “used well” and, in particular, questions the current fascination with general-purpose, open-ended chat interfaces.
sentient design
Introducing Generative Canvas
Salesforce is piloting a radically adaptive, AI-mediated dashboard for CRM users. Look out, enterprise, here comes Sentient Design.
ai
Change Blindness
Ethan Mollick shares striking visual reminders of how far generative AI has come in just 21 months.
ai
Introducing Structured Outputs in the API
The more that AI models can reliably return structured data, the more we can design interoperable and radically adaptive experiences with them.
music
Why I Finally Quit Spotify
A personal account of how algorithmic personalization can lead to a creeping blandness and a "corporation-centered” experience.
ai
AI Is Confusing — Here’s Your Cheat Sheet
A helpful glossary of fundamental AI terms from The Verge.
sentient design
Turning the Tables on AI
Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots.
ai
Doctors Use A.I. Chatbots to Help Fight Insurance Denials
Is this an example of tech leveling the playing field, or part of an AI-weaponized red-tape arms race that no one can win?
ai
Still Trying to Sound Smart About AI? The Boss Is, Too
Execs feel pressure to move on AI, even though most admit they don’t have confidence in how to use it.