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
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
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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
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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
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
In the age of AI, “working” is a commodity while “winning” is the new mandate. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “In the last week of February 2026, something unusual happened. A sitting US president took to social media to brand a private technology company a political threat. The Secretary of Defense designated that same company a supply chain risk, a classification previously reserved for foreign adversaries. And hours later, … Weiterlesen