Everyone seems to be asking whether AI will replace UX designers. I think that’s the wrong question.Following the numbers gets you a picture but doesn’t make you an artist | Russell PinkstonIn March 2025, the Computer History Museum and IEEE Spectrum staged...
A long workbench split down the middle, finished tools stacked on one side and a single open notebook on the other.My list of tasks I give models without a second thought and what I review until the tools evolve.I’ve used generative models for almost four...
Teaching students how to prototype with AI tools instead of Figma revealed exciting possibilities and uncomfortable trade-offs. It also offered valuable insight into how non-tech people can create apps with generative AI.I teach digital prototyping to...
A product team weighs a purchased tool against an internal build at the same table.Artificial intelligence made building cheap and buying easy. The trade-off now turns on who owns the upkeep, the seams between tools, the chat surfaces, and the data.For most...
Somewhere in this room is the one person who can tell if any of it is actually good. AI made everyone else look exactly like them.AI lets a solo founder produce a product, but it can’t help them understand whether that product is actually good…yet. That...
The switchboard operator’s job was automated out of existence. The work it became, the invisible systems that now connect every call, is worth more than the job ever was. AI is about to do the same thing to the app.The people buying AI are blunt about the...
Two readers, one page. The agent never sees the surface you designed; it reads the structure underneath. AI assisted.The semantic structure screen readers have used for decades now also decide whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity can read...
Why I’m reconsidering a principle I’ve believed for years.I’ve always believed that imperfect research is better than no research at all.Synthetic users have made me reconsider that. When synthetic responses are treated like findings from real users, they...