Digital Skills

AI and SEO are converging. The combined pressure is reshaping how content gets made and read in ways that push the human reader further down the list of priorities. On a Tuesday morning in May 2024, Google quietly began rolling out AI Overviews to US users. The change looked small at face value: a paragraph … Weiterlesen

Writing discovery and onboarding content for “another” new feature, but this time it’s actually gonna get read. Continue reading on UX Collective »

You can’t talk about 1999 without Hamster Dance. That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design for AI — and who we become — now. If you designed for the web in 1999, you remember the feeling while the Hamster Dance video was playing in the background. Pages were handmade — for a lot of us, … Weiterlesen

But not the sort of conflict you usually see on the news Most journalism doesn’t cut to the reasons behind conflicts. It only reports on the conflict and, in many cases, dramatizes that conflict. But what if journalists were trained to think about conflict differently? Photo credit: Adobe Creative Commons / Adobe Stock. The ever-evolving conflicts in … Weiterlesen

How designers can save brilliant AI from dying in onboarding — before it’s too late. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A meditation on presence, AI, and the uncomfortable work of understanding people before we design for them. Continue reading on UX Collective »

We are all more productive, but are we still thinking? Credit @kovalto1 adobe.stock 47% This is the percentage drop in brain activity measured among participants in an MIT Media Lab study who used ChatGPT, compared to those who wrote without AI assistance. This is not a philosophical finding. It is a neurological one, recorded via … Weiterlesen

Validating a problem, an idea, or a solution is where most people begin discovery. The skipped judgment is whether to begin it at all. Generated with AI by Author “Customers keep asking us to add more dashboard widgets.” Someone raises it in a product roadmap planning meeting, and it sounds less like feedback and more like an … Weiterlesen