The UX butterfly effect
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“As designers, we constantly make decisions. Whether we design objects, devices, websites, apps, or policies, we choose one option over another, setting parameters for subsequent actions to unfold.
The law of unintended consequences observes that every decision made can have both positive and negative outcomes that were not foreseen by the person making the decision.”
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Editor picks
Nostalgia as product strategy →
The emotional design behind AI marketing campaigns.How to approach privacy in the age of smart glasses →
New opportunities for scammers, perverts, and cheaters.The novelty and acceptance of Conversational AI →
Managing trust and social influence.
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Make me think
Designers should look to Demis Hassabis, not Jony Ive →
“Designers went from niche artisans to cultural icons. Apple became not just a company, but a symbol of design perfection. For thirty years, this was the pinnacle of what it meant to “design technology.” Ive’s era gave us the form language of the modern world: clean, minimal, achingly precise. But that world is now dissolving beneath our feet.”OpenAI Is just another boring, desperate AI startup →
“To be clear, many of these are ideas that OpenAI has leaked specifically so the media can continue to pump up its valuation and continue to raise the money it needs — at least $1 Trillion over the next four or five years, and I don’t believe the theoretical (or actual) costs of many of the things I’ve listed are included.”Team dynamics after AI →
“So much of the discourse around AI assumes an inevitability to adoption, seeing quality as the only barrier to that. Downstream of inevitability we have the discourse of feasibility, of how we get it all to work, which tends to treat inevitability as given. I think we ought to be talking instead about desirability.”
Little gems this week
The “£532,000” dot job: Why small design changes cost big →
AI interface: When intelligence outgrows its container →
The world is more complex than ever →
Tools and resources
Color psychology →
The 12 emotional journeys.A framework for emotions →
Mapping emotional needs to design decisions.When case studies become anti-UX →
Drowning clarity in a flood of process and detail.
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