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A look into design as a craft through the lens of neuroqueering.Illustration by Kristina Gushcheva-KeippiläI remember reading Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality at a strange threshold: in my mid-twenties, a few years into design as a profession, still in...
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How AI, metrics, and career anxiety are reshaping designAn endless staircase for endless metrics. Planning a linear ten-year ascent assumes the steps will remain stable. When corporate staircases twist into unpredictable loops, real career resilience comes...
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The film gave us rain, ziggurats, and androids; the real machine arrived as a blank place to type.The film is a design masterpiece and a lousy weather forecast, and the gap between the two tells you where real AI is heading.Ridley Scott set Blade Runner in...
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Technological efficiency meets high-end service: a luxury hotel lobby where AI-driven recommendations are seamlessly integrated into the check-in process, offering convenience while raising questions about the role of the human touch.Everyone’s spending a...
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A story of inputs, outputs, and the tools between.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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The future the film imagined was analog, cramped, and rain-lit — and it got the feeling of the work exactly right. AI assisted.A 1982 film and its 2017 sequel predicted the design problems we are still failing to solve, from synthetic memory to the...
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Design isn’t becoming lame. Your screens don’t vouch for you anymore.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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A model for AI-enabled UX research where the researcher governs.A UXR researcher governing AI (AI generated)For a few years now, the UX research field has been arguing with itself over whether AI is coming to replace us or whether AI can’t do “real”...
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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Online used to be a place you could leave. We designed the exit out of it because an exit reads as a leak. Here is why building it back is a design responsibility, and what that means now that AI...
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It’s brilliant at generating color, but it can’t predict contrast — and there’s a better number for your palette weights.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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Why people can’t begin from nothing, and won’t touch anything finished.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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Modern creative work was assembled in the mid-century ad agency, and UX inherited the whole show. Now is time for a reset in the age of AI. AI assisted.The rituals of the 1960s ad shop — the whiskey, the pitch room, the account man, the campaign— still...
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