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“Today, my house and life are painfully void of craft. I live in a new build with pumped out, builder-grade (aka cheap) materials. I have plastic wood lookalikes rather than hand-carved wood. None of my furniture causes that moment of awe where you stop to marvel at it. My dining room table is a constant reminder of how far we’ve departed from the craft and moments of splendor when creating fast furniture.”
AI-generated UI is fast design, not UX →
By Sophie Shrimpton
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Editor picks
- What the AI era owes you →
No one is going to save your career from AI.
By Dan Maccarone - Are synthetic users (really) the future of UX research? →
Limited use, if at all.
By Arin Bhowmick - How apps know us better than we do →
And how they influence our decisions.
By Bas Wallet
The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices and helps designers think more critically about their work.
Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute? →
Make me think
- AI invasive design →
“Businesses, teams, and people are performing cargo cult rituals to market themselves as AI native, while working from a definition that’s driven by mechanics and not outcomes. It’s isomorphic mimicry, adopting the outward appearance of successful peers as an empty signifier of your own credibility.” - Chat is AI’s command line →
“Let me directly change the thing we’re working on! What if AI automatically visualized the day we’re planning on a timeline? Let me move lunch a little later, make room for the zoo, swap between dinner options. The computer keeps track of travel time and opening hours while I tweak things directly.” - On being anything other than a designer →
“My frustration around the debates of right now — regardless of your sector — is we’re centering the wrong stories, the wrong people and the narratives that place the technologist (engineer, strategists, managers, transformers) at the heart of the solution rather than the people we purport to care about.”
Cool finds
Creative Intelligence Report →
Careers & more
- The taste paradox →
Why the skill everyone says matters is the one we’ve stopped building.
By Nicole Alexandra Michaelis - Jev: How to use it for UX →
And how to put a decision model to work.
By Patrick Neeman - Beyond streaks and nudges →
Ethical gamification & AI design.
By Melinda Jacobs
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AI-generated UI, What the AI era owes you, Amazing Glass, Jev for UX was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
