Digital Skills

If screens don’t work as a unit of measurement, what does instead? Continue reading on UX Collective »

The science and design behind wearable stress tracking (Image source) Many wearable devices have moved beyond counting steps and tracking heart rate. Now they are trying to measure something more complicated: stress. Oura sorts parts of your day into states such as Stressed, Engaged, Relaxed, and Restored. Garmin condenses stress into a score from 0 to … Weiterlesen

Designers, leave your intimidation at the door. Nobody becomes a designer because they’re excited about compliance. It sounds boring and it sounds like someone else’s job. Most of us are glad it is. But what if we’re wrong? What if no one else is doing it? What if no one else cares? Picture a project as a timeline, … Weiterlesen

The internet’s founders governed a technology nobody agreed on, without kings, presidents, or voting. Congress still can’t figure out how. The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable. One after another, the people building the most powerful AI in the world have … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “A designer is not an artist. A designer is a commercial problem-solver, hired to take a client’s half-formed intent — a vibe, a feeling, a vague sense of “make it look professional” — and give it form. That is the job whether the tool is a pencil, Photoshop, or a prompt box. AI … Weiterlesen

Designing an interface between writers, readers, and AI Continue reading on UX Collective »

They used to be all over the web; now they’re almost extinct. What ever happened to “Download on the App Store” buttons? What buttons? Not too long ago, every website that tried to get its users to download an app to their phone had these buttons: “Download on the App Store” for Apple iPhones and “Get it … Weiterlesen

Why AI and Design Thinking were made for each other. Design Thinking and AI were made for eachother. Before a single pixel illuminates in a prototyping tool, Design Thinking asks the same question it has always asked: “What problem are we trying to solve?” Agentic AI hasn’t changed that question. It has changed who or what … Weiterlesen

The floor plan and the flexibility policy were chosen deliberately, by people who had an outcome in mind. When the results arrived, they… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Nader’s fight was never about one car, and neither is this one. AI assisted. Detroit spent a decade calling crashes driver error. The AI industry is running the same defense, now we’re all sitting in the same seat. Now is a great time to act. Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965. Only one … Weiterlesen