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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.
Josh Clark at Amuse Conference in 2019: "AI is your new design material"
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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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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.
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Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?

Toby Ord finds that an AI agent’s chance of success drops off exponentially the longer a task takes.
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AI Has Upended the Search Game

The Wall Street Journal: “Websites in general will evolve to serve primarily as data sources for bots that feed LLMs.”
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Values in the Wild

Anthropic researchers studied the “values” of Claude and how they manifest in actual conversation with users.
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Welcome To the Era of MEH

Michal Malewicz explores what happens when AI commoditizes core design skills like research, craft, and taste—a race to the bottom. (But there’s an exciting way to move forward.)
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Redesigning Design, the Cliff in Front of Us All

Greg Storey exhorts designers to recognize that it’s a new era, like it or not. Don’t look back, he says—reinvent.
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How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use

A study by MIT Media Lab finds that heavy use of chatbots correlates to loneliness, emotional dependence, and other negative social impacts.
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TikTok Will Never Die

TikTok might not be chit-chatting generative AI, writes Damon Beres, but it’s the most widely and deeply impactful AI application we’ve seen so far.
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