How to ensure design changes get made when Engineering is overloaded

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“We could argue all day about which things are fundamentally different in an AI-first world, but one undeniable difference is that the more intelligent technology gets, the fewer visible interfaces a human sees. (…)

With each automated decision, we remove a choice, a slice of agency, from the user. As we do this more often, we begin to leave some of our personality behind. If the algorithms are an average of our calculated habits, then living on autopilot will leave us regressing toward the mean.”

Reclaiming your humanity in an algorithmic world →
By Joe Bernstein

Editor picks

• What does it mean to have an “experience”? →
  Different definitions shape product perspectives.
  By Roger Laureano
• AI and cognitive offloading →
  Sharing the thinking process with machines.
  By Tetiana Sydorenko
• Making product quality a team sport →
  Two intentional rituals you should try.
  By Aletheia Delivre

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The challenge with design sprints, by Elan Miller →

Make me think

• Ethical web principles →
  “These principles are not merely theoretical; they constitute a call to action. They encourage everyone involved in the web’s evolution to assess their contributions’ societal and environmental impacts. We can create a web that truly benefits everyone by adhering to these principles.”
• Resist summary →
  “The output of Large Language Models (“AI”) is an aid to learning extremely simple things, and it is an impediment to learning anything complex or creative. I worry that without a complex model in one’s own mind, one may never notice complex relationships that are otherwise missed. A loss of attention to detail.”
• The web is too big, or scaling down →
  “Ultimately, though, the problem with this situation isn’t that Mozilla or Firefox aren’t good enough. It’s that the web is too complicated. A browser is an extraordinarily complex piece of software.”

Little gems this week

What we can learn from the 7 worst designs →
By Ben

Redefining chatbot design in the age of AI →
By Wojciech Wasilewski

How tabs changed the way we browse →
By Elvis Hsiao

Tools and resources

• Rewards strategies →
  How Duolingo, Nike, and Amazon use rewards to keep you hooked.
  By Angele Lenglemetz
• Should AI write your alt text? →
  It’s time you write alt text on every meaningful image.
  By Allie Paschal
• UX storytelling →
  Practical advice, not vague analogies, on how to use UX storytelling.
  By Kai Wong

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