A new navigation paradigm
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“To navigate is to read the world in order to move through it, whether it means scanning a crowd to find a familiar face, deciphering the logic of a bookstore’s layout, or following the stars at sea. This ability has always been mediated by tools (many of them disruptive and transformative). Still, the rise of artificial intelligence presents us with a radical promise: a world where we no longer need maps, because the information or the product ‘comes to us.’
Faced with this transformation, this essay begins with a central question: Is AI truly eliminating navigation, or is it simply shifting its agent and its form?”
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Editor picks
Silicon clay →
How AI is reshaping UX design.Most AIUX is just search with extra steps? →
AI products are still a fancier text box.The business is the only stakeholder →
UX and Market Research should start working together.
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The barcode as a design object →
Make me think
Public design systems are worth it →
“Now let’s fast forward. The marketplace went bankrupt. Sharing ideas for the sake of sharing? How quaint. We’re very much in the, “what’s in it for me?” phase of the web. I’m not mad–I’m disappointed. Ok, fine, I’m a little mad. But this seems to be the cycle. To quote Eric Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI? →
“The scope of what designers, developers, and product managers do is expanding, and the boundaries between them are blurring. As workflows shift, a bigger question emerges: What happens to job titles—and the ways of working and sense of identity that comes with them?”Holes in the web →
“For many people, GenAI is becoming their primary way to learn about the world. (…)These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising alternative ways of knowing, especially those encoded in oral traditions, embodied practice and the languages considered ‘low-resource’ in the computing world, such as Hindi or Swahili, both spoken by hundreds of millions.”
Little gems this week
ChatGPT talks too much and it’s ruining learning →
The dark pattern that cost Amazon $2.5 billion →
Is there such a thing as mindful scrolling? →
Tools and resources
AI coding tools →
Addressing the design-engineering gap.The slow death of magic →
Why feature bloat kills products.Building a haptic feedback vocabulary →
iOS Haptics system from design to code.
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