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When Interfaces Design Themselves

Radically adaptive experiences change content, structure, style, or behavior—sometimes all at once—to provide the right experience for the moment.
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Wiring Interface to Intent

Create radically adaptive interfaces by telling large language models how to choose the right design pattern for the moment. A primer.
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Say Hello to Sentient Design

Sentient Design is the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Discover this framework and philosophy for working with AI as a design material.
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Sentient Design @ SXSW

Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred explore Sentient Design—and the AI opportunities for designers to create new, radically adaptive experiences.
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Workshop: Craft AI-Powered Experiences with Sentient Design

Reserve a private workshop to teach your product and design teams to imagine, design, and deliver AI-powered features and products.
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Sentient Scenes

Peek behind the curtain to see how we created the radically adaptive interface for Sentient Scenes. It’s a playful exploration of the serious possibilities of Sentient Design and AI-mediated experiences.
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Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX

Josh Clark introduces Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Learn to design radically adaptive experiences that feel almost self-aware in their response to user needs.
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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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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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Design in the Era of the Algorithm

Machine learning is technology’s new frontier, and designers have a crucial part to play. Josh Clark explores our new roles and responsibilities when we design for the machines.
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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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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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Values in the Wild

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