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AI: The Emperor Has No Clothes

AI: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Experimenting with posting this on LinkedIn first. DeepSeek burst the hype bubble with Generative AI. A Chinese hedge fund using cheap labor (grad students, not Uyghrs this time), ‘borrowing’ work of others, has exposed the tech narrative that only a

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A Check-In on AI and UX

A while back I did a smarmy post about AI takin’ r jobs, and decided that since it couldn’t solve a critical UI conundrum–i.e. a meaningful icon to replace the obsolete floppy disk for ‘save’– that I would continue to

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A Generated Post to Contrast with the Human Post

As an experiement, I used ChatGPT4.0 to generate a post in 15 seconds to contrast with my human generated post that took 3-4 hours of thought. At the risk of enshittifying the internet to promote model collapse and general content

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The Enshittification of Figma

The Enshittification of Figma

I will admit as a UX designer I have never really been a fan of design tools. They are a means to an end, not an end in itself. I get in and get out, know or learn enough to

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Designers Will Be Out Of A Job!!!

TL/DR; No. So this strident post shows up in my LinkedIn feed, and I started my wise ass response.. but then paused and thought two thoughts: 1) don’t be a jerk, and 2) I should try it out before I

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Agile is Broken, But UX Saves it Anyway

Agile is Broken, But UX Saves it Anyway

Let me pause my daily Jira/Agile/Scrum busywork to say a few things about Agile. As it works today, Agile Scrum usually causes more problems than it solves. Sure, the common response (like the ‘Design Thinking Sucks‘ thread) is “you are

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Great Resignation, Personal Edition

Great Resignation, Personal Edition

TLDR: Businesses need to rethink how they deal with exiting employees; remember that ‘at will’ works both ways. So I joined the crowd this September and left my job. I’m now a consultant with Publicis Sapient. There are a bunch

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Design Skills for Teams

A while back I posted on UX Core Competencies, visualized through a radar chart, to show potential gaps individually and within a team for upskilling opportunity through practice or training. So that’s old news, what have you done for me

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Wicked Problems – Pandemic Edition: Education

If there is one thing we can learn from the pandemic it is that Everything Is Broken.. Public health, health care, education, supply chains, work, justice, democracy, economic inequality…our electric grid. Pandemic didn’t cause these but the crisis exposed problems

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A UX Hiring Manager Perspective

A year into pandemic work-from-home, UX Designers can be counted lucky that we have a job that affords that. Though we will be more productive and creative when we can do in-person design sprints, contextual inquiries, interviews and usability tests,

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