As a design professional in 2025, what should you be doing to future-proof your career for AI? Last week I met with Bria Alexander, Brittany Hobbs, and Christopher Noessel to discuss the latest AI developments, and what was top of mind for them was not a specific new model or tool, but questions of access and resourcing.
Read MoreMost AI+UX discourse today is framed in terms of adoption vs. rejection. In prep for Designing with AI 2025, I talked with Carla Diana, Kanene Ayo Holder, and Tom Armitage on why this framing does designers a disservice.
Read MoreDesigners use principles like unity, balance, and contrast to guide user attention in traditional interfaces, but what are the principles for designing "intelligent" interfaces? Josh Clark, Veronika Kindred, and Kritika Yadav may have cracked the code.
Read MoreAs design professionals struggle to figure out what AI means for the way we work, our partners across our organizations–PMs, engineers, and more–are all trying to answer the same questions. Erika Flowers and John Donmoyer show how designers are taking the lead in AI adoption, helping designers and non-designers alike to envision new ways of working.
Read MoreWhat are the best explorations you’ve seen of AI as a design material? At Designing with AI 2025, we're highlighting two compelling case studies grounded in simple, hand-written math. Designers Lukas Moro and Aras Bilgen both kicked off explorations of generative AI with simple math problems, but ended up making very different discoveries about AI's possibilities.
Read MoreWe talk a lot about whether AI can replace traditional user research functions. But where is AI letting us explore user data in ways that are entirely new? That’s the question asked by Ian Johnson and Patrick Boehler, in two separate case studies from the very different lenses of data visualization and journalism.
Read MoreIn a recent interview about Designing with AI 2025, I discussed the top AI skills for UX professionals in 2025 and who to learn from.
Read MoreHow are you evaluating your AI tools? This is the question UX and product leaders should be asking as they choose AI training and partnerships for their teams, which I recently discussed in an interview.
Read MoreWhen you talk with UX practitioners about AI, one of their biggest concerns is "grift." They want to know where AI is actually useful and avoid buying into the hype of people who are only in it to make a sale. I talked about this in a recent interview.
Read MoreWhen we selected our speakers for Designing with AI 2025, we were looking for two things: creativity and critical thinking. And they have truly delivered.
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