There's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic). But looking past the hype headlines, their claims cover purely production-stage tasks.

When it comes to the work of understanding user needs and evaluating the opportunity space, AI actually makes your thinking worse. Studies show that it alienates you from users and colleagues, and flattens your thinking.

We need more human-centered practice, not less.

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#LLM #UX #AI #tech

Software is a coordination problem. AI can't help you with that.

The feedback loops of the product delivery lifecycle go through people. Adding AI makes it slower, not faster.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

This is a fantastic, factual, very technical, but readable and understandable breakdown of why and how every news website is bad UI design and decimates your device with tracking, negotiating, and modal pop up hell.

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#web #ui #ux #ads #news #media

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

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