Curating Designing with AI 2025: What are the top AI skills that UX professionals need in 2025?
Ahead of Designing with AI 2025, I was asked: what are the top AI skills that UX professionals need to build in 2025? Here’s what I said:
So to recap, I think the top AI skills for UX professionals in 2025 are:
Critical thinking; and
A non-superficial understanding of how LLMs work.
These skills are challenging to develop right now, but our speakers at Designing with AI 2025 combine a strong degree of technical prowess, with critical and creative approaches to AI applications.
If you're looking for critical perspectives on AI applications, you'll especially want to attend talks by:
Ovetta Sampson, on managing the human risks of AI;
Aras Bilgen, discussing AI as a design material with unknown risks;
Patrick Boehler, on how to apply confidence levels to LLM-enabled research; and
Kanene Ayo Holder, providing an ethical lens on where AI is going.
And if you're looking to better understand what goes on under the hood with generative AI, you won't want to miss hearing from:
Tom Armitage, providing a technical lens on future AI developments;
Ian Johnson, showing how to visualize LLM embedding space; and
John Donmoyer, sharing how to bring your code generation experiments to production.
The degree of preparation and planning that has gone into their talks is second to none, and they're leading important conversations I'm not seeing anywhere else in the industry. So if these are the AI skills you're looking to build in 2025, don't miss out.