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What Shakespeare got right about AI
, UX Collective - Medium
From ink and quill to glowing code: Shakespeare’s exploration of prophecy and equivocation, the art of speaking truths that mislead, anticipates the central challenge of our own relationship with artificial intelligence.Every warning we need about AI was written four hundred years ago. What witches, a forged letter, and a haunted prince can teach you about talking to a machine.The sharpest words ever written about artificial intelligence came from a man who never had electricity, a telephone, or a single line of code. He’s been dead four hundred years, and he still wrote thirty-seven plays about it.
The obvious place to look for AI is science fiction, and plenty of people have gone looking. Patrick Neeman has spent a good chunk of this year grading Star Wars and The Matrix and Minority Report against the machines we actually built. It’s a great series.
The origins — the birth, lonely childhood, and adoption of software
, UX Collective - Medium
Side A, meaning is irrelevant to the problem
GPT-6 Astra for Web Design
, UX Planet - Medium
In this article, I’ll share the 4-step process I follow to craft a new web project with GPT-6. I’ll show you how to design a landing page…
Effectiveness of AI Moderators: A Literature Review
, MeasuringU
AI can replace research moderators.
Maybe yes; maybe no.
Most AI problems are really human problems
, UX Collective - Medium
The machine room is full; the chair that owns the decision is empty. AI assisted.The cause sits upstream: unread intent, missing oversight, thin context, loose language, unset expectations, no evals, fuzzy outcomes, and the wrong tool for the job. Here’s the AI checklist.Anthropic recently told its growth team to hire more product managers, not fewer. You’ll be surprised at the reason why.
Claude Code had turned its engineers into a team shipping at triple its headcount, and the bottleneck moved from writing code to deciding what to build, which is why everything is a research preview—so they can get user feedback.
Persistent lessons in human-centered automation
, UX Collective - Medium
What a 1980s photocopier study reveals about the Agentic UX eraA mixed-media recreation of a field observation at Bossa Nova Robotics, where a shopper attempts to scan a container of blueberries against an autonomous inventory robot.During my time as a User Researcher at Bossa Nova Robotics, I conducted multiple studies in grocery store aisles watching our inventory-assessing robot do its job. My objective was to identify moments when the robot had to pause because of obstructions or human interference. The goal was to find ways for the robot to better navigate the space and indicate what it was doing to nearby humans and, in doing so, optimize its efficiency.
One afternoon, I watched a woman walk up to the ~300-pound machine. It stopped. She held a container of blueberries up to its light panel. Nothing happened. She then lifted the blueberries to the top of its lidar stack. Still nothing. Frustrated, she muttered, “This thing is so stupid,” and walked away.
GPT-6 Astra vs Opus 5: Which one is better for product design?
, UX Planet - Medium
“Which AI model should I use for product design?” is the question I get asked most often right now. With so many AI models available, it’s…
GPT-6 Astra for UI Design
, UX Planet - Medium
GPT-6 Astra is the latest and most powerful AI model from OpenAI. The model has already received a lot of praise for its capabilities. In…
Figma Design Critique Using Claude Code
, UX Planet - Medium
Claude Code recently got a new plugin /design that lets you craft designs right in Claude Code. But you can also use this plugin to…
Nine Design Fixes for Your UX Research Reports
, MeasuringU
We’re known in the industry for metrics, for methods, and for defining UX research measurement.
But while we believe in using data to drive decisions, we also know that changing minds is not something you can just enter into an Excel formula.
