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What no one tells you about personalization

Taking a more human-centered approach to personalization in the age of AI.

8 min readMay 23, 2024

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AI image in the cartoon style of 1960s. Personalization as a prism or as a portrait. UX lessons from Google about AI personalization algorithm and what we should do about them.

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Is your UX team a space ship or a pirate ship?

How two different UX leadership styles use loyalty and dissent to supercharge their teams

11 min readOct 31, 2023

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Is your UX team a space ship or a pirate ship?

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When to book and when to fly? Explaining prices in Google Flights

A case study from the Google Flights UX team about designing new AI tools that help users better understand flight prices.

9 min readMay 6, 2020

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When to book and when to fly? Explaining prices in Google Flights

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Is AI killing human passion?

How to find your passion and purpose in a world where AI is better at everything

9 min read3 days ago

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Three-panel comic strip in a 16:9 horizontal format, focused on a young Caucasian girl in a world where AI has automated most jobs. In the first panel, the girl is in a sprawling futuristic cityscape filled with robots and drones performing various tasks, with her looking on skeptically and thinking, “Do I even need to do anything?”. She is at home, sitting comfortably in an automated living room with robots doing chores, while she idly plays with a gadget, her expression one of boredom.

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UX Interpreter: the GPT store’s game changer in AI design feedback

Why you’ll never ask a human for design feedback again.

6 min readNov 15, 2023

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Screenshots of the UX Interpreter GPT, Birthday GPT and Dream Interpreter GPT on the ChatGPT app store.

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When to test and when to leap: How I learned to trust my UX intuition

How to make good UX decisions quickly, even if you don’t have all the answers.

7 min readNov 5, 2023

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A woman trusting her gut feeling finds a new way (illustration)

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This interview with the AI of George R.R. Martin perfectly captures one thing about Game of Thrones

The surprising outcome of my interview with the AI replica of the author of Game of Thrones

9 min readMar 27, 2023

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Interview with the George R. R. Martin AI (Image by the author)

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This AI clone of Scarlett Johansson outshines the artificial intelligence in the movie Her

The surprising outcome of my interview with the AI replica of the famous Hollywood actress

19 min readMar 27, 2023

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Scarlett Johansson in traditional japanese dress AI art

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I interviewed the AI clone of Joe Rogan and it revealed the psychedellic secret behind his podcast

The surprising outcome of my interview with the AI replica of the podcast legend

18 min readMar 24, 2023

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Joe Rogan AI Art smoking weed on a podcast episode

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This interview with the AI of Julius Caesar completely changed my mind about Ancient Rome

The surprising outcome of my interview with the AI replica of the Roman emperor

9 min readMar 20, 2023

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Interview with the Julius Caesar AI (Image by the author)

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Slava Polonski, PhD

Slava Polonski, PhD

UX Research Lead @ Google Flights | 20% People+AI Guidebook | Forbes 30 Under 30 | PhD | Global Shaper & Expert @WEF | Prevsly @UniofOxford @Harvard

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