sentient design
sentient design
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.
sentient design
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.
design
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.
agents
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.”
copilot
How Many Products Does Microsoft Have Named ‘Copilot’?
“There are now Copilots inside Copilots, Copilots for other Copilots, and a physical Copilot key on your keyboard for summoning them,” writes Tey Bannerman.
sentient design
Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
Ethan Mollick reviews the research that chat interfaces introduce heavy effort that undermines complex, specialized work. He says the future is radically adaptive interfaces.
events & workshops
Sentient Design Workshop Courses
Learn to create intelligent interfaces in this two-day online workshop course.
agents
“I Suppose You Would Call It an Interface for the User”
Nicholas Evans on LinkedIn: What happens when we go all-in on a single AI interface to do all the things.
sentient design
Why AI agents need to learn to read the room
Fin researcher Genna Bridgeman shares practical findings about how AI interactions are affected by social expectations of the specific communication channel.
workflow
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.
ai
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.
ai
The 28 AI Tools I Wish Existed
Sharif Shameem pulled together a wishlist of fun ideas for AI-powered applications.
apple
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.
agents
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.
ai
Values in the Wild
Anthropic researchers studied the “values” of Claude and how they manifest in actual conversation with users.
design
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.)
chat
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.
design
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.