Digital Skills

Knowing what a user wants is only half the problem. The other half is knowing how, and how much, to respond. This is the third piece in a small series on product design in AI-driven systems. The first article explored how our role as designers is evolving, and the second looked at how signals tied to … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The invisible walls for designers have been broken down. Maybe we don’t know it yet, but this year is the perfect time to start reframing the influence and vision of product design within and beyond companies.” Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage? →By Kike Peña New … Weiterlesen

Three of the world’s largest tech companies have published guidelines for responsible Human-AI Interaction. Here’s what they got right, and where the gaps are. Ask ten people in the industry what responsible AI design means and you will get ten different answers. Ethics frameworks, trustworthy AI principles, responsible innovation checklists: the vocabulary keeps growing. But underneath … Weiterlesen

With critical thinking skills on the line I built a real-time AI collaborator, Thia — with vision and voice capabilities to keep early ideas raw, the loop tight, and the thinking mine. Sketching on a whiteboard with an AI collaborator — image generated by AI You don’t typically notice changes in your own behaviour until they become more pronounced. I recently … Weiterlesen

A unique design challenge Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash AI has changed so many parts of our lives, for better and for worse. Beyond the uses we see every day, it’s also quietly serving groups that don’t always get much attention. There are over 1 billion people aged 60 and older, and over 55 … Weiterlesen

Learnings from designing open source technology Landscape artist Thomas Moran, created around 1876 — Boston Public Library I have been reflecting on the past three and a half years and realized there have been many ‘firsts’: my first time working in open source, building offline first experiences, and working on a fully remote async team. Of course, any time … Weiterlesen

When adaptation becomes uncoordinated, journeys fall out of sync — like improv comedy gone horribly wrong. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The case to stop designing human conversations for non-human participants Image by Harli Marten As a content designer and passionate writer, conversation design has been intriguing to me since its infancy. From the little blurbs Microsoft’s Clippy spat out, to how Spotify’s Wrapped campaign addressed users in a dialogue-mimicking way. To me, it’s fascinating how small … Weiterlesen