The explosion of AI solutions is shaking up experience design in ways we’re only beginning to understand. But what if the key to staying ahead isn’t about more automation or better interfaces—but about something much older? In this special Ask Us Anything episode of Invisible Machines, Robb and Josh tackle a listener’s question about AI’s […]
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Hopefully, the first generation of AI products is over in this era! Some of these were simply prompts on ChatGPT/Dall-E/StableDiffusion to demonstrate a use case. Many of them got millions of users, no, sorry, viewers on Twitter and then vanished a day later. Then, there were others that were thin-wrappers on ChatGPT and masqueraded as […]
Large language models are great at answering questions, but only if the answers exist somewhere in the AI’s knowledge base. Ask ChatGPT a question about yourself, for instance, and unless you have a unique name and an extensive online presence you’ll likely get an error-filled response. This limitation is a problem for UX designers who […]
Agents were all the rage in 2024 and are a rage as we move into 2025. I have been thinking about this topic for quite some time as well and wondering what role would a product designer play in helping shape these various agents. A big value prop of agents is that humans can ask […]
You can now build an elegant, fun, clickable user experience in minutes for your product without any specialized knowledge of design, using AI. In this article, we’ll show you how. We’ll share step-by-step instructions that leverage v0.dev to transform ideas into a working frontend 100 times faster than traditional coding. We’ll also create a design system and […]
In the middle of the famous science fiction novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov is a mathematician, Hari Seldon, who predicted the imminent collapse of the intergalactic empire in which he lived, followed by a dark age lasting 30,000 years. However, he created a model according to which this grim period could be reduced by 30 times if […]
What does it take to lead one of the world’s most complex organizations through an era of transformation? Just ask Dan Goldin, NASA’s longest-serving Administrator. From 1992 to 2001, he pioneered the “faster, better, cheaper” approach, proving that innovation doesn’t have to come at the cost of safety—or budget. In the latest episode of Invisible […]
This is a rather speculative article because we’re right on the cusp of something new. Whilst we’ve seen an explosion in interest in LLMs in recent times, and we’re seeing plenty of AI integrations in existing products, there’s another angle emerging: products built from the ground up around an AI engine. I call this next […]
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have captured global attention, particularly since humanity’s uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk jumped on the bandwagon by founding Neuralink Corporation in 2016. Herein, I explore the already existing interface between humans and computers which, thanks to one of the brain’s most astonishing properties, has augmented our minds for decades already. The possibilities the most […]
The evolving landscape of AI-generated content is raising new legal questions, and the latest report on copyrightability from the U.S. Copyright Office answers some questions while raising new ones. In this episode of Invisible Machines, Robb Wilson and Josh Tyson welcome back Ed Klaris, Managing Partner at Klaris Law and Columbia Law professor, for a […]
In today’s technology-saturated world, it’s easy to get caught up in the digital when considering user experience. We obsess over pixels, optimize for clicks, and A/B test every button color. But what if I told you the secret to truly innovative UX lies beyond the screen, in the analog world around us? We often think […]
A conversation between a deaf developer and a UX designer After meeting Emmanuelle Aboaf at Paris Web, I wanted to explore how deafness can be addressed in UX design. Emmanuelle, who was born deaf, describes herself as “bionic” due to her two cochlear implants. A Fullstack Angular .NET developer and tech enthusiast, she is also active in feminist communities. […]
When I first started my PhD three years ago, I was very new to the world of academia and the process of publishing in journals and conferences. Coming from Computer Engineering, my PhD involved design research, and I felt that the publishing process for human-computer interaction, design, design engineering, design research, and other related spaces […]
This article details our approach to understanding consciousness by offering our analysis in relation to a presentation at the World Science Festival, What Creates Consciousness?, made last month by physicist Brian Greene, philosopher David Chalmers, and neuroscientist Anil Seth. We compare and contrast Extended Naturalism’s framing of consciousness with their discussion, and explain why it […]
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In this episode of Invisible Machines, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, CTO of Technology & Society at Google, returns to the podcast to discuss his new work, What is Life?. This limited-edition, pocket-sized book marks the first installment of a broader project with MIT Press and Antikythera titled What Is Intelligence?. Blaise draws interesting parallels between […]
Project overview Space matters. We read space like we read people’s faces. Space is the foundation for the expression of our cultural values. Space is an instrument of collaboration and innovation. At MICHR, we realized that our workspace played a big role in how we functioned. As a result, the Rethink Space team was created […]
Microsoft PowerPoint is a widely used tool for creating presentations, but designers often find it challenging due to its limited design capability, restrictive templates, and typically poor design outcomes. While more sophisticated design tools and technologies are readily available, PowerPoint remains a widely used application in various professional settings, for a variety of reasons. For […]
Ever heard a designer sigh at the mention of PowerPoint? If you’ve been around creative circles, you might have caught wind of the frustration that can accompany using this near-universal business tool. But why does PowerPoint get such a bad rap among designers, and more importantly, how can we turn this around to make it […]
In the kickoff episode of Invisible Machines season five, Robb Wilson and Josh Tyson welcome Dr. Anna Lembke, a clinical psychiatrist and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She has conducted extensive research around addiction and the chemical processes in the brain that drive it. Her book Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors […]
Advances in artificial intelligence are poised to deepen our understanding through metacognitive reflection. This piece discusses how AI not only accelerates the research process by identifying patterns and clustering insights but also prompts deeper thought on overlooked or underappreciated findings. One of the best parts of building experiments in public is how the ideas can […]
My bookshelves are filled with happy accidents. I’ve come to think of stumbling into ‘Aha!’ moments — where you suddenly realize a connection between ideas — as a gift. There’s something revelatory about accidental discoveries. They impart truths in a way that being told what to think never can. An app I designed and built […]
This morning I found myself writing a long response to a question somebody posted on a design leadership Slack about the difference between UX, UI, and Product Design. Yes, I know, we’re all fed up with conversations about “defining the damned thing”; something I find deeply ironic as most digital designers work in a domain […]
Designers often look to design maturity models as benchmarks, comparing their own companies to idealized industry standards and thinking, “We’re so behind!” This can spark a drive to “improve” the company’s design maturity, which often translates into attempts to “educate” leadership on what they’re doing “wrong” or how the organization can “catch up.” But is […]
Who am I? Am I just a biological machine with a limited lifespan? What happens to my awareness when I die? Will it just fade away? Are my fellow humans as aware of themselves as I am? These are the questions one poses to oneself when battling with probably the most enigmatic riddles of human […]
