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Has the “AI Edge” Become a Dull Blade?
Today’s cutting-edge technology is becoming tomorrow’s ho-hum office tool. And that’s a good thing.
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The Shape of Sentient Design
Use this diagram to think through and explore AI-mediated experiences in your product design.
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A.I., Snake Oil, and Miracle-Cure Expectations
Be distrustful when AI is hyped as a cure-all—but don’t assume it’s useless just because it doesn’t live up to outlandish promises.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
Ethan Mollick reviews the research that chat interfaces introduce heavy effort that undermines complex, specialized work. He says the future is radically adaptive interfaces.
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“I Suppose You Would Call It an Interface for the User”
Nicholas Evans on LinkedIn: What happens when we go all-in on a single AI interface to do all the things.
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Why AI agents need to learn to read the room
Fin researcher Genna Bridgeman shares practical findings about how AI interactions are affected by social expectations of the specific communication channel.
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SaaS Is Dead?
Benedict Evans deflates the frothy talk that AI agents and assistants will eliminate vast swaths of software.
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The Shape of the Thing
Ethan Mollick notes that AI has begun to unlock radical changes in the shape of work. What that shape will ultimately become is uncertain—which means now is the moment to influence it.
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Charlie's Fake Videos for AI Literacy
The banking app launched a fun and smart campaign to educate about the risks of deepfake scams.
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The Cascade Effect in Context-Based Design Systems
TJ Pitre explains how to bake context into your design system, which pays dividends in AI-powered automation but also next-generation Sentient Design experiences.
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Boring Is Good
Scott Jenson suggests AI is likely to be more useful for “boring” tasks than for fancy outboard brains that do all our thinking for us.
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The 28 AI Tools I Wish Existed
Sharif Shameem pulled together a wishlist of fun ideas for AI-powered applications.
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How Developers Are Using Apple's Local AI Models with iOS 26
TechCrunch gathered a collection of apps that are using Apple’s on-device models to provide casual intelligence that’s free, easy, and priveate to the user.
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AI Will Happily Design the Wrong Thing for You
Anton Sten: While AI hardly created the problem of ill-considered products, it will certainly accelerate them.
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LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
A research paper finds that the reliability of large language models plummet the longer a conversation continues.