The prompt isn’t the most important part. User control is. Get that with a structured experience. — In “A better experience than just chatting,” we discussed how writing open-ended prompts puts cognitive load on the user. This article provides a process and examples for creating structured experiences to minimize the user’s effort to get predictable and useful results. An example of the problem of pushing too much…

Liminal Design is intriguing but only seems to be applicable in architectural design - I would consider the booth to be architecture because it is a constructed space. Have you been able to apply this beyond spaces?

Jaron Lanier’s “There is no AI” New Yorker article starts the conversation. Start learning about the broader philosophical issues so you can have a voice in how they get resolved. — I knew going into Jaron’s article that he has an idealistic bent. Let’s look at what he talks about and ponder a few questions about where AI might go or be going. There Is No A.I. There are ways of controlling the new technology-but first we have to stop mythologizing it. As a computer scientist, I…www.newyorker.com c

The problem with these problems is they focus on a specific aspect of problems. For example, in the Opinion problem, part of the problem for the writer is getting started, creating structure and doing research. AI tools are good at that. So you can't discount AI in that work, only in the fact that the output should reflect the users thinking. I doubt Karri minds getting deliverables faster, as long as the quality is there. AI <can> help users deliver quality faster, and so isn't THE problem, it's ANOTHER problem that needs to be monitored.

How and why point-and-click experiences will augment and sometimes completely replace AI chat. — What comes after chat? Structural AI user experiences augment the flexibility of natural language with the structure and organization of point-and-click (PaC) experiences by exposing options and formatting results instead of having them entered or displayed via conversation streams. While LLM Chat experiences are only a fraction of AI capabilities, their ability to derive…

Minimally you need to get these things right. If you want to stand out, you need to do more. — I’ve seen approximately 75+ portfolios in the last 4 months, and this article summarizes the advice I have given about almost every one. First, assume that hiring managers will not read all of the painstaking steps you participated in to complete projects. They are trying to decide, “Will this person…

Answers to questions asked during mentoring sessions about UX’s future, UX process and values. — I have run over 70 mentoring sessions on ADPList.org and have received many similar questions. The answers are… How did you start in the field? I complained about a product — I went to a computer graphics conference and saw some animation software. Since I was well-read, I impressed the guy in the booth with my knowledge…

Protect your business from the changes LLMs bring. Processes and practices will change, and new businesses will be created…and destroyed. Don’t let yours be the latter. — Large Language Models (LLMs), a subset of artificial intelligence that has been trained on vast quantities of text data to produce human-like responses, will disrupt many businesses and be the engine of creation for many others. Already hundreds of companies are being funded to take advantage of the technology. Many…

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