A meditation on presence, AI, and the uncomfortable work of understanding people before we design for them. Continue reading on UX Collective » But not the sort of conflict you usually see on the news Most journalism doesn’t cut to the reasons behind conflicts. It only reports on the conflict and, in many cases, dramatizes that …
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The case for catholic philosophy in ethical interface design
AI, metaphysics, and the search for moral grounding in design Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash A Confession If you had told me a year ago that I would be writing an article suggesting that Catholic philosophy might be exactly what is needed to ground ethical design, I would have thought you were crazy. Yet here I am. …
What do you do if your best design work is a small project?
What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact Continue reading on UX Collective » AI products replaced 20 years of empty-state research with a prompt box, and the first-session drop-off shows it. Editor’s note: I wrote this article from firsthand experience as a founder and engineer. I used Claude Code as a writing assistant …
We built this. Now we own it.
The dark side of ‘user-friendly’ AI. There is a teenager in Florida who is no longer alive. He had spent months talking to a chatbot modelled on a Game of Thrones character. He fell in love with it. He told it so. Shortly after, he took his own life. The company that built the bot …