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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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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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Your Sparkles Are Fizzling
Let’s retire the sparkle emoji, purple hues, and rainbow gradients for AI-powered features.
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Data Whisperers, Pinocchios, and Sentient Design
Podcasts from PDFs! Working code from pen-and-paper sketches! Discover the new AI-powered design patterns that liberate content from frozen formats—and create new experience paradigms.
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Has the “AI Edge” Become a Dull Blade?
Today’s cutting-edge technology is becoming tomorrow’s ho-hum office tool. And that’s a good thing.
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The Shape of Sentient Design
Use this diagram to think through and explore AI-mediated experiences in your product design.
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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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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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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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Jakob Nielsen: ‘Buy the Book Already’
Usability legend Jakob Nielsen offers a thorough review of Sentient Design (and a detailed comic-strip summary, too!)
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A Great Design Gathering
Leonardo De La Rocha describes his takeaways from a gathering of the tech industry’s top design leaders—and the special impact of Sentient Design on the day.
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Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”
Kirkus Reviews calls Sentient Design “an essential guide for building responsible and revolutionary AI-mediated user experiences.”
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Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
Google DeepMind’s new magic cursor feature provides the awareness and agency to respond to users in context—a tidy distillation of Sentient Design’s continuous copilot pattern.
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What does AI do to software?
Benedict Evans considers what intelligent interfaces will look like and concludes there’s “an enormous white space” to invent what’s next.
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AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp
The “magic” might be remarkable, Alberto Romero writes, but it shifts the effort to the wish. And most people (and organizations) aren’t very good at that part.
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When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’
A BCG study of US-based workers found that intensive oversight of AI agents can cause cognitive exhaustion that the researchers call “AI brain fry.”