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13 Jun

UX & Thinking

UX Collective

Thinking

A shortlist of one: how AI became our shopping adviser

AI is increasingly influencing consumer choices by acting as a personalized shopping adviser, creating a highly curated and potentially monopolistic recommendation landscape.

We stopped clicking, and AI became the Internet

AI has become integral to the internet as user interaction has shifted beyond clicking.

Design for pain: how to make the worst moment better

Designers can improve the user experience during difficult moments by creating empathetic and supportive interactions.

The gesture and the instruction

Designers consider the relationship between gestures and instructions in user interfaces.

Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI.

Dieter Rams' ten design rules remain relevant for designing artificial intelligence systems.

AI design isn’t ugly. It’s fluent — and that’s the problem.

AI-generated designs often exhibit a consistent visual language due to their shared algorithms and data sources.

AI has become the third wheel

Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into human interactions and relationships.

You’re still archiving. Your files have already become substrate.

Files serve a second function with a different architecture.

The psychological cost of moving too fast

Rapid progress can have negative psychological effects on individuals and teams.

Employment expiry and the end of workplace loyalty

Workplace loyalty is declining as employment expiry becomes more common.

Your user doesn’t care about your organization chart

Users are unaffected by internal organizational structure and its potential flaws.

AI meets Sturgeon’s Law

Increased content creation does not necessarily lead to higher quality output, as seen in Sturgeon's Law.

Foreman, guardian, team builder: all this is a box

A moving company's box design reveals the long-lasting impact of subtle design decisions.

The register shift

Designers consider the impact of the register shift on user experience.

AI Token Scarcity and Arcade Economics

Rising computing costs prompt designers to reevaluate their expectations.

Who is your content actually for?

Designers consider the intended audience for their content creations.

Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999

Designing for artificial intelligence today mirrors the user experience challenges of designing for the internet in 1999, emphasizing the need for foundational usability.

29 May