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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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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.
Making friends with the robots
sentient design

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.
Brad Frost, Josh Clark, and Dan Mall roundtable discussion
video

Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale

In this InVision video series, Brad Frost, Dan Mall, and Josh Clark share their know-how to help you build and use a design system.
Frustrating design tools
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Design Tools Are Running Out of Track

Our design tools are fundamentally disconnected from the realities and constraints of working software—which means that designers are, too.
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The iPhone’s original UI designer on Apple’s greatest flaws

In an interview with Imran Chaudhri, the iPhone interface’s original designer says Apple knew the phone would be distracting and attention-soaking—and chose to bury the controls to make it less so.
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Consider the Beer Can

In 1964, John Updike bemoaned the arrival of the modern beer can, offering food for thought to designers who would disrupt familiar experiences.
Dinosaur (maybe on a surfboard?) 4x3
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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.
Woody and Buzz of Toy Story
iot

Toy Story Lessons for the Internet of Things

Dan Gärdenfors ponders how to handle “leadership conflicts” in IoT devices.
sentient design

AI First—with UX

AI assistants have trouble understanding user context, Mike Loukides writes, and that’s a tasty UX problem.
Rosie the Robot
algorithms

Making Software with Casual Intelligence

Evan Prodromou observes that artificial intelligence may have the most impact in jillions of incremental little interventions and improvements, not just moonshot projects.
Designing for Touch - English, French, Chinese
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Designing for Touch—in French! And Chinese!

Josh Clark’s book Designing for Touch is now available in French, Chinese, and the original English.
Flight attendant in uniform
design

Airlines Redesigning Uniforms Find Out How Complicated It Is

The New York Times considers the commitment, iteration and heavy testing that goes into the design of airline uniforms.
Microsoft Surface Studio PC
process

Surface Deep

Microsoft’s unconventional Surface Studio PC emerged from design process that is equally unconventional (but shouldn’t be).
data

So We Redid Our Charts…

Video analytics provider Mux overhauled their data visualizations and shared the process.
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A Working Pattern Library

Ethan Marcotte on tailoring a pattern library to the habits of the people who use it.
Dan Mall UXPin
design system

On Design Systems: Dan Mall of Superfriendly

Dan shares insights about building design systems like true products.
You Keep Using That Word
process

MVP: I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

“Minimum viable product” somehow got corrupted to mean ”the crummiest thing we can get away with taking to market.” Use the real MVP to make better products and reduce risk.
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