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podcast
Design Better: Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred join the Design Better podcast to talk about intelligent interfaces beyond chat, intergenerational design, and what designers can learn from Wile E. Coyote.
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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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Video Series: Foundations of Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred lead a three-part video series to introduce the principles and practice of Sentient Design and AI-mediated experiences.
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When will AI Replace Us?
Kevin Coyle addresses and subdues fears about AI taking out jobs. (Spoiler: This isn’t a new problem.) Instead, he shows how your new robot colleagues can help you do your job even better—right now, today.
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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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Of Nerve and Imagination
The future is sitting right in front of us in plain view, waiting to be assembled. Do we have the nerve and imagination to piece it together?
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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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A Protopian Frontier
Jenny Johnston offers a provocation to think beyond what you’re pushing for right now—and reorient to the future you’re pulling toward instead.
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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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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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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?
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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.
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Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor
Grooming data for the machines has a human cost.
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Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers?
Nolan Lawson considers dystopian and utopian possibilities for the future, with a gentle suggestion that front-line technologists have some agency.
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The Juvet Agenda
The Juvet Agenda lays out the urgent themes surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning—and presents a set of provocations for teasing out a future we want to live in.