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...
A practical guide to choosing usage units, designing spending limits, and explaining AI costs before, during, and after the work.Every AI response has a price. People often discover it only when a limit hits or a bill arrives.A quick edit and a long-running...
Cracked, maxxed, and forward deployed: a field guide to AI’s boys’ club.My 4-year-old’s Halloween cat and the general vibe of this articleIn a single meeting recently, I heard that someone had one-shotted a prototype, that we should spin up a tiger team,...
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...
When safety is optional, and capability is urgent, incidents are not accidents. They are what we (consciously or not) designed and built for.AI makes headlines almost every day. And most days, they read like science fiction. Except they are not.Last year,...
A practical model for deciding what AI can do, what humans must still own, and where product teams should draw the boundary.Image created by the author with OpenAI image generation.An AI tool clusters hundreds of customer comments and names the largest...
A judgment call, wired in like any other function.Typed answers at keystroke speed let the interface act, suggest, or ask. How UX designers can put a decision model to work today in their applications.On September 15, 2026, a San Francisco lab called...