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Google's Bard Fail and the Major Usability Problem With Conversational AIs

Google’s conversational AI “Bard” failed spectacularly in the very first demo, by providing false information about the James Webb Space Telescope. A mistake that caused parent company Alphabet’s stock value to...

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Feb 14

Your hand as a mouse - exploring hand gesture interaction (1)

Building a hand gesture interaction design tool, Handzplay, and learnings from it. I recently built and released a website where you can try and...

Seungmee Lee

Nov 21

ChatGPT Is Constantly Tricked by People, but Who’s Fooling Who?

ChatGPT took the world by storm when it launched in November 2022. There are more sophisticated AIs out there, but ChatGPT fascinate us because we communicate with it in a natural language – the same language we use when we communicate with people. I can have a philosophical conversation with ChatGPT, it can write poetry, and it can advise me on my relationships.

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Feb 06

Conversational AI: The AI Companion Who Doesn’t Care

When Microsoft launched their conversational AI, Bing, it quickly became clear that it was capable of what seems like human behavior -it revealed itself to have a secret identity named “Sydney”, proclaimed love for a

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Mar 13

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Pixlr 2023 AI-Powered Editor

Branding

How the 3-Act Storytelling Structure Can Lead to Better Products

An overview of the three-act structure, and how we can use it as a framework to understanding how behavioral changes manifest in our users, and how to genuinely affect change.

Chris Ashby

Jan 27

How did Tropicana lose $30 million in a packaging redesign?

Tropicana’s redesign consisted of replacing the popular orange with a straw, with a generic glass of orange juice replaced. Tropicana’s orange juice became generic, and customers stopped relating to it.

Catalina Almeida

May 22

Huge type on the web

Big bold type makes a statement. I’ve always been fascinated with minimalistic, typography-focused design. Especially when the composition is proportionally aligned with a grid and when it includes big, even huge titles.

Matej Latin

Nov 14

Create a Design System — Values & Goals

In this first of three articles, I will share insights on the prep work required to build your organization’s Design System while using a fictional start-up to show by example.

Biagio Black Goetzke

Oct 09

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Psychology

Conversational AI: The AI Companion Who Doesn’t Care

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Mar 13

Instagram's Immersive Feed is a Pig Trough

Why Instagram uses behavioural design and prioritises addictive video content that's aims to suck your attention into their app longer.

Rob Díaz

Jun 29

The Web Can Be More Social—and it Should Happen Soon

Moving from destination-based browsing to shared journeys online. Our current model for the social internet is destination-based. We have to stop what we’re doing...

Charlie Gedeon

Oct 05

Design Psychology and the Neuroscience Behind Awesome UX

The user experience study of human cognition can be mushy, unscientific, and filled with false assumptions—perhaps it’s the fault of a lazy brain. Cognition is complex, and many factors play into gut reactions or an instant impression. When you ask someone, “Why’d you do that?” there’s a high chance they won’t be able to answer or that you’ll misinterpret their response. Enter neuroscience.

Miklos Philips

Mar 03

Psychology tools

iRise

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Accessibility

Touch-First Cursor: Round Pointers vs. Mouse Arrows

Apple reinvented the mouse cursor to be 'touch-first' on the iPadOS, building on the original mouse pointer, and adding 'Pointer Magnetism' and more accessibility features. Here's a look at rounded pointers vs arrow pointers.