sentient design

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?

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.

Salesforce is piloting a radically adaptive, AI-mediated dashboard for CRM users. Look out, enterprise, here comes Sentient Design.

The more that AI models can reliably return structured data, the more we can design interoperable and radically adaptive experiences with them.

A personal account of how algorithmic personalization can lead to a creeping blandness and a "corporation-centered” experience.

Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots.

This Google project uses AI to generate NPR-style podcast conversations from academic papers.

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?

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?

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

Wired’s Elizabeth Stinson considers whether we really want human personality from our bots—or whether it’s just unhelpful misdirection.

Designer Yury Vetrov collected a wide-ranging set of design projects and tools where bots are the designers.