“Interface design has known this for decades. It’s baked into one of the oldest usability heuristics in the field — Jakob Nielsen’s sixth, recognition rather than recall, which asks designers to minimize memory load by making elements, actions and options visible, so that nothing has to be carried from one part of the interface to another.”
Nobody wants a blank page. Nobody touches a perfect one. →
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Editor picks
Researcher-in-the-loop →
A model for AI-enabled UX research where the researcher governs.What nobody tells you about AI ethics →
Making the human behind the machine visible.AI has a hospitality problem money can’t fix →
Everyone’s spending a fortune making AI smarter.
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Make me think
Futurism is always extreme →
“Quantitative models usually have better time resolution: you turn the crank until you reach some desired time t, and examine the state of the world. You can talk about both the journey and the destination. For obvious reasons, models that make detailed, fine-grained predictions only work for the near future.”Design’s legibility gap →
“When you’re asking for budget: “You want to talk 10 people? We already know what our customer wants.” When you’re presenting your findings: “You only talked to 10 people? How is that credible?””I dream of quieter computing →
“Everything these days is glass and refresh rates, is clouds and cloud-shapes, is brought to you in feeds and in troughs. It’s hard not to pine for a forested internet, an imagined one of searching and finding, of patient and aimless wandering.”
Little gems this week
Sterling Cooper built your UX process. We need to redefine it. →
Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis →
What luxury bags can teach designers about adaptation →
Tools and resources
When judgment becomes a material →
Inside the making of our Responsible AI audit skill.What will the UI for agentic commerce look like? →
The empty box primes nothing.The secret of good metaphors →
Paper, touch and parrots.
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