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We Need To Talk About Our AI Fetish
In a powerful and historically grounded essay, Jeremy Wagstaff asks that we not abdicate the vision for AI solely to the companies who stand to gain from it.
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John Maeda: Josh Clark's 2019 talk on Design and AI
Design legend John Maeda discovers some old gold from Big Medium’s Josh Clark.
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Looking for AI Use Cases
What do we do with this thing? Benedict Evans writes that our imaginations haven’t quite caught up with truly useful applications for LLMs.
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AI + Design: Figma Users Tell Us What’s Coming Next
A survey of Figma users indicates that AI is making its way into most companies’ product pipelines, but the solutions they’re shipping are… uninspired.
sentient design
This is the Moment to Reinvent Your Product
Will you use AI to get better/faster at things you already do, or will you invent new ways to do things that weren’t previously possible?
sentient design
The 3 Capabilities Designers Need To Build for the AI Era
Designers have an opportunity to expand their roles and perspective in AI strategy, interaction design, and model design. How will we respond to the new problems and emerging interaction models that AI invites us to address and explore?
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Writer and programmer James Somers shares his personal journey discovering just how good AI is at writing code—and what this might mean both individually and for the industry.
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.
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Can AI Bridge the Dev/Design Gap?
Big Medium’s Kevin Coyle explores how AI can improve collaboration between product management, frontend and backend development, and design. Kevin shows how AI can bring us together instead of replacing or isolating us.
design
The Technology We Deserve
Smart gadgets often abuse their trust or overreach their capabilities. A personal list of favorite fitness devices yields some principles for good product design.
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How Machines Are Taking Over the World’s Stock Markets
Use machine learning “to identify new theories, and once you identify a new theory, you throw the machine away, you don’t want the machine.”
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Slack and the Decline of Bots
After customers found Slack bots hard to use, the company added traditional UI elements to bolster the bots’ simple vocabulary and hard-to-remember “slash commands.”
design
The Decade of Design
Figma interviewed a dozen experts, including Big Medium’s Josh Clark, to chronicle the rise of design in the past decade—and what comes next.
sentient design
You’re Not Late to Machine Learning
If you’re worried that you’re behind in getting in on machine learning, never fear: AI has not so much come of age as reached an awkward adolescence. You’re right on time.
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AI Dungeon
AI Dungeon is a pretty astonishing example of generative fiction—in the form of old-school text adventure game.
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What is the Role of an AI Designer?
Facebook’s Amanda Linden shares how AI product designers approach their work in Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence team.
privacy
With Brits Used to Surveillance, More Companies Try Tracking Faces
Companies use UK’s omnipresent security cameras as cultural permission to bring facial-recognition tech to semi-public spaces, tracking criminal history but also ethnicity and other personal traits.