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The deceptive side of robot cuteness
And the different kinds of cute design techniques. Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash Many designers are applying cute design to their robots for good reason: research shows that cute design enhances social presence, helps people form attachments faster, and makes users more forgiving when things go wrong. At CES in recent years, cute robots have been … Weiterlesen
Why safe AGI requires an enactive floor and state-space reversibility
With LLMs, we have built the peak of synthetic cognition without the base — and the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff shows us what that costs. In early March 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused the Pentagon’s demand to remove all safeguards from Claude. His core argument was structural, not political: frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to operate … Weiterlesen
What happened to the car designed for women, by women?
Lessons learned from the Volvo YCC and feminized crash test dummies Continue reading on UX Collective »
Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated
Should product design teams be 100% creative, effective, or a middle ground between both? How do you know a product design is succeeding? What is our actual reality in business? These questions, and many more, are part of a deep reflection on our presence, impact, and issues in tech companies. No matter how big, traditional, … Weiterlesen
Why B2B UX features fail
The one question you always need to keep in mind for B2B projects Continue reading on UX Collective »
We thought AI feedback was making our designers faster. It was making them shallower
The designs shipped faster; the designers grew more slowly. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Sycophancy: the emperor’s new clothes
Why AI’s real danger isn’t hallucination — it’s agreement. The conversation about AI risk over the past years revolved around accuracy, the ability to pass tests and whether it is conscious. Yes, large language models (LLM) hallucinate, and they confidently fabricate citations and invent facts. Remember when Google’s AI made headlines in 2024, and then it recommended … Weiterlesen
The calm and charm of cosy games in a chaotic world
What this gentle genre of design reveals about building digital products for anxious times. At some point in the last few years, millions of people arrived at the same conclusion: what they needed was a smaller, slower, quieter world. One with fish to catch, vegetables to grow, and absolutely no breaking news alerts. And so we … Weiterlesen
Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.
In the age of AI, “working” is a commodity while “winning” is the new mandate. Continue reading on UX Collective »