Digital Skills

AI is putting the future of UX designers in jeopardy, unless they are willing to become builders, makers, and system thinkers. Every few weeks, another business leader recites the doomsday line: AI will replace all workers. Their confidence is proportional to the capex. A company that just committed tens of billions to data centers has strong … Weiterlesen

Some of the world’s biggest technology companies are quietly elevating design from a support function to a strategic one. Something interesting has been happening in the background of all the AI hype, and I think it deserves more attention — especially after seeing Silke Bochat, Savannah College of Art and Design LinkedIn post. While everyone is focused on … Weiterlesen

An introduction for designers As a designer, I am optimistic about this one, and that is not my usual reflex with AI interface design. You have probably never heard of it. That is fine, almost no designer has. A2UI still lives in developer corners, written about in code. The idea underneath is worth meeting early, … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “I can usually tell when something was built by AI before I’ve read a word of it. There’s a face it wears: a centered hero with a confident headline and two buttons, rounded cards floating on a soft gradient, a sans-serif working very hard to seem neutral, spacing so … Weiterlesen

One Steve to rule them all, One Steve to find them, One Bill to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them (or, the role of the 7400… Continue reading on UX Collective »

The designer, engineer, and PM each evolve into different kinds of specialized ‘builders’. Not dead. (Photo by Tandem X Visuals on Unsplash) “Design is dead.” “AI is so good at design now, we don’t need designers anymore!” “AI will replace designers.” Our social feeds are flooded with posts like these. But they come from a … Weiterlesen

Trust in financial products isn’t built by branding. It’s won or lost in micro-moments most teams never design on purpose. Illustration generated by AI I’ve spent thirteen years designing financial and technical products. Six at PayPal, and almost five leading design at Highnote, a card issuing and embedded finance platform. And the honest answer, after all that … Weiterlesen

There’s a better version of the before/after that shows what employers want. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A practical method for setting how much an AI does on its own, plus six control patterns for human oversight. Continue reading on UX Collective »