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Design of AI: Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred share the importance of design in shaping AI-powered experiences in this podcast conversation about Sentient Design, their new book, moving beyond the chatbot, generational views of technology, and much more.
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Online Event: AI and Design Systems
The Big Medium team shares the many ways that we use AI to build and maintain design systems. (You can totally do it, too.)
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When will AI Replace Us?
Kevin Coyle addresses and subdues fears about AI taking out jobs. (Spoiler: This isn’t a new problem.) Instead, he shows how your new robot colleagues can help you do your job even better—right now, today.
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Your Sparkles Are Fizzling
Let’s retire the sparkle emoji, purple hues, and rainbow gradients for AI-powered features.
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Data Whisperers, Pinocchios, and Sentient Design
Podcasts from PDFs! Working code from pen-and-paper sketches! Discover the new AI-powered design patterns that liberate content from frozen formats—and create new experience paradigms.
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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.
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.
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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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The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop
The New York Times explores the test kitchens of People Inc. to explain the how and why of creating tons of original recipes. (What AI is and isn’t good for.)
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Sinceerly: AI to Mess Up Your Writing
Sinceerly is a (tongue-in-cheek?) Gmail plugin to undo AI writing and make emails messy and human.
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Jakob Nielsen: ‘Buy the Book Already’
Usability legend Jakob Nielsen offers a thorough review of Sentient Design (and a detailed comic-strip summary, too!)
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What does AI do to software?
Benedict Evans considers what intelligent interfaces will look like and concludes there’s “an enormous white space” to invent what’s next.
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AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp
The “magic” might be remarkable, Alberto Romero writes, but it shifts the effort to the wish. And most people (and organizations) aren’t very good at that part.
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An Anti-AI Moral Stance?
What do you do if you find the whole AI enterprise so immoral that you find its very use to be ethically unacceptable?
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When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’
A BCG study of US-based workers found that intensive oversight of AI agents can cause cognitive exhaustion that the researchers call “AI brain fry.”