Digital Skills

If you want to put AI adoption at risk, ignore the design debt at your own peril. It doesn’t announce itself, but sits there, quietly, underneath every product decision you make, until one day the cost of moving forward is so high that you have to look down. This is a very accurate (and literal) way of … Weiterlesen

Designers are struggling to slow teams down for research. Here’s what helps. Continue reading on UX Collective »

They keep arriving with open arms and leaving with your wallet. That’s not an accident. It’s a playbook. You notice it only in retrospect, and with increasing frequency. A tool you’d started to take for granted, something you’d quietly woven into your process, turns out to have been in a probationary period all along. It … Weiterlesen

Claude, Anthropic, and why the AI you choose matters more than you think. This is the first piece in a series I am writing about AI: how it actually works, who builds it, and what it is doing to the way we think and work. If that interests you, subscribe. I work in tech education. And … Weiterlesen

The intelligence revolution won’t be televised — it will be automated over a longer arc If you want to understand where AI is taking us, stop staring at the future. Look back about 150 years. Highland Park — the birth of the modern assembly line at Ford Motor Company. The Industrial Revolution didn’t just change what people made — it fundamentally changed how work … Weiterlesen

Can multi-sensory experience take it one step further? Image created by AI tool ElevenLabs Big companies like XREAL and Meta have released their new AR glasses over the past few months. Unlike bulky VR headsets, they are much lighter and more comfortable, which means users can keep them on longer. I’ve tried some of them myself, … Weiterlesen

From making things to deciding things — how AI is forcing a renegotiation of what being a designer actually means. Photo by Meritt Thomas on Unsplash There is a persistent belief within the design profession that designers shape the trajectory of their own field, that we are collectively the authors of our own discipline. The truth is, designers do … Weiterlesen

Wall Street thinks “Stitch” is a job killer, but designers aren’t going anywhere. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Fraudsters prey on human psychology. The most effective AI defences win by weaponising theirs. There is a phone ringing somewhere in a call centre. A scammer picks up, settles into their script, and begins working through the familiar choreography of a con. Urgency, authority, manufactured trust. They have done this hundreds of times. They know … Weiterlesen