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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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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: 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.
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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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Why Machine Learning and AI Matter for Design Teams
There’s a critical role for design in the era of the algorithm—and your organization almost certainly has what it needs to jump in today.
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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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Designing with Artificial Intelligence: The Dinosaur on a Surfboard
On the Presentable podcast, Josh Clark joins Jeff Veen to consider the role for designers in a world of algorithms and machine learning.
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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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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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When Combinations of Humans and A.I. are Useful
A research study raises challenging questions about collaborative AI interfaces, including the value of “human in the loop” interfaces and explanations of AI logic and confidence scores.
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This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
AI pioneer Yann LeCun reminds us that just because LLMs are good at language doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
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Beware of Botshit
Botshit is hallucinated content that makes its way into human communications or screws up decision making.
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A Radically Adaptive World Model
A research project generates a world based on Counter-Strike, frame by frame in response to your actions. What happens when you apply the same thinking to the design of websites, dashboards, or canvas apps?
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Exploring the AI Solution Space
Jorge Arango explores what it means for machine intelligence to be “used well” and, in particular, questions the current fascination with general-purpose, open-ended chat interfaces.
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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?