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“So much of our creative communication as human beings so deeply depends on the emotion, connection, and meaningful context created and consumed between the creator and consumer. If I (the author) tell you (the reader) I love you, that’s very different from someone you actually care about, someone you have a history with telling you they love you. Real, true communication between people, especially through art, requires emotion, connection, context, and meaning.
Unfortunately for some, but to the benefit of the rest of us, those are all things that artificial intelligence lacks within the content it generates.”
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Editor picks
- What is AI really costing the planet? →
A growing environmental bill nobody wants to pay.
By Dora Czerna - How AI may reshape elderly care →
A unique design challenge.
By Catherine Chu - The forgotten conversation problem in AI chat →
Why persistent context is a usability must.
By Adi Leviim
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Make me think
- Do I belong in tech anymore? →
“You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss.” - Output isn’t design →
“Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. New tools keep promising to generate interfaces faster, move words to product instantly, or collapse design directly into code. The assumption behind them is clear: that design is the act of producing.” - Field notes from the in-between →
“Then AI coding tools showed up. A handful of people started saying something I hadn’t heard before. Not designers should code. Not designers should learn to code. Designers can code now. That’s a huge shift. But I still waited.”
Little gems this week
The most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers →
By Pawel Klasa
The right touch: mapping AI presence to user intent →
By Bradly Zavakos
The most dangerous pronoun in design →
By Pedro A. Brêtas
Tools and resources
- UX Research with AI →
The right tools, in the right context.
By Ashlee Edwards, Ph.D. - 10 UI patterns that won’t survive the AI shift →
Examples of what’s replacing them.
By Taras Bakusevych - Designing with AI without losing your mind →
Keep early ideas raw, the loop tight, and the thinking yours.
By Heenesh Patel
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