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Lessons from sidestepping Microsoft 365's aggressive subscription renewal tactics A few weeks before my long standing Microsoft 365 Family subscription was due for renewal I received an email stating that it will automatically-renew, one thing it failed to mention was the new price was 30% more than last year. In the first email received there’re no mention […]

How the myths of Prometheus and Pandora expose the price of unchecked ambition, hubris, and curiosity in the pursuit of innovation. “Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids” (1872–79) | Photo by Christian Paul Stobbe on Unsplash Long before the rise of Silicon Valley and neural networks, the ancient Greeks were already grappling with questions about technology, power, […]

How the myths of Prometheus and Pandora expose the price of unchecked ambition, hubris, and curiosity in the pursuit of innovation. “Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids” (1872–79) | Photo by Christian Paul Stobbe on Unsplash Long before the rise of Silicon Valley and neural networks, the ancient Greeks were already grappling with questions about technology, power, […]

What the Scottish Avalanche App reveals about the stakes of product design Continue reading on UX Collective » User Experience is paying the price. An AI tool generated this approximation of a kitchen in a home I once visited. Several articles with provocative titles starting with “User Experience is Dead…” started appearing in my feeds. I’ve read […]

User Experience is paying the price. An AI tool generated this approximation of a kitchen in a home I once visited. Several articles with provocative titles starting with “User Experience is Dead…” started appearing in my feeds. I’ve read about a dozen of these and will summarize them for you at the end, BUT there’s something deeper […]

How to manage the inherent uncertainty of AI. Figure 1: The trust continuum: No trust is harmful, but overtrust is dangerous. You need to pull your users into the golden middle of “calibrated” trust. Trust makes relationships go round — whether it is between people, businesses, or the products we rely on. It’s built on a mix of […]

Key challenges slowing AI adoption — and how to overcome them Optimizing vehicle design — image designed by Freepik Imagine an automotive engineer optimizing a new vehicle design by running high-fidelity (detailed and realistic) simulations. Typically, running such simulations (also referred to as virtual-prototyping) for crash tests, aerodynamics, and structural integrity, takes days. Now, imagine an AI-enhanced system that cuts that […]

We redesigned mobile email replies with a UI for inserting local responses while reading, optionally with AI. Image by the author. Many UI designers are currently tasked with extending existing interfaces with AI features, such as “copilots” and chatbots. On desktops, these are often added in sidebars — but on mobile devices, where screen space is limited, AI […]

How many of you remember the Spices Girls or Backstreet Boys? The late ’90s and early 2000s were dominated by iconic girl and boy bands. We couldn’t get enough of them. I remember those teenage years, locked in my bedroom, belting out their tunes and perfecting their dance moves (or at least trying to). But […]

Creating efficient, consistent, and flexible typography for digital platforms using modern design system principles. When designers no longer have to reinvent the wheel for every project, the entire process becomes much smoother and more efficient. This is the beauty of a design system, it makes the whole process smoother and faster. As weibel explains, beyond […]