Digital Skills

Why designing for ongoing reflection matters Image of a character unpleasantly gift wrapped It’s that time of year again where apps confidently tell us who we are. This year, Spotify informed me that I’m 78 years old in Spotify years (I’m 33 in human ones). I personally thought my affinity for Chapel Roan would have shaved … Weiterlesen

Generative AI and the long history of artistic automation Image generated via Google Nano Banana The discourse surrounding generative AI in the creative arts is frequently characterised by a sense of historical rupture, a seismic shift unlike any that has come before. Critics often frame the emergence of Large Language Models and diffusion-based image generators as … Weiterlesen

Designing trustworthy AI for healthcare products. User holding a phone using an AI healthcare assistant AI is entering one of the most human domains: healthcare. It helps people track sleep, manage chronic conditions, monitor mental health, and navigate loneliness. It listens, advises, and sometimes comforts. Yet despite these advances, hesitation remains, not because the algorithms … Weiterlesen

The Future of Design is Tackling Uncertain or EvenAmbiguous Problems Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why do people pay for smells? Why is everything nowadays vanilla? How to indefinitely earn money on the same product? Continue reading on UX Collective »

Reflections on the 2025 DNDA Summit and Don Norman’s vision for the next era of design, community, and artificiality. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Opinion We are confusing motion with progress. In physics, this mistake has a name: speed without direction. In civilisation, it has a cost. Speed vs Velocity (generated with ChatGPT 5.2) Here’s a truth from physics that should concern every executive racing toward AI dominance: speed tells you how fast you’re moving. Velocity tells you how fast you’re … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “I never decided to go all in on AI, it just kept showing up. (…) I wasn’t forced. I didn’t plan it. It was just inevitable. When you get a sharp knife, you don’t keep cutting with the blunt one. But somewhere along the way, I started noticing that this … Weiterlesen

AI will kill most startups — and that’s a good thing When anyone can build the product, only authority differentiates the outcome. Image source: Adobe Stock Picture an ordinary person working in tech — a designer, developer, or product manager — who stumbles onto a genuinely good idea. Not a moonshot. Not a revolution. Just something that solves a real problem. In the past, bringing … Weiterlesen