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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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The Cascade Effect in Context-Based Design Systems

TJ Pitre explains how to bake context into your design system, which pays dividends in AI-powered automation but also next-generation Sentient Design experiences.
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Boring Is Good

Scott Jenson suggests AI is likely to be more useful for “boring” tasks than for fancy outboard brains that do all our thinking for us.
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The 28 AI Tools I Wish Existed

Sharif Shameem pulled together a wishlist of fun ideas for AI-powered applications.
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How Developers Are Using Apple's Local AI Models with iOS 26

TechCrunch gathered a collection of apps that are using Apple’s on-device models to provide casual intelligence that’s free, easy, and priveate to the user.
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Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?

Toby Ord finds that an AI agent’s chance of success drops off exponentially the longer a task takes.
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Values in the Wild

Anthropic researchers studied the “values” of Claude and how they manifest in actual conversation with users.
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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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How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use

A study by MIT Media Lab finds that heavy use of chatbots correlates to loneliness, emotional dependence, and other negative social impacts.
2025: The Year Ahead
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2025: The Year Ahead

AI shifts from tool to design material. Product design moves from consolidation to innovation. Generative AI loses its sparkle. Sentient Design comes to the fore. Josh Clark unpacks the signals reshaping design, strategy, and creativity in 2025.
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MS Copilot Flying Straight Into the Mountain

Vaclav Vincalek ponders what happens when anyone can casually create agents and set them loose.
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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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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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Introducing Generative Canvas

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