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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted this🌏 Feeling incredibly proud and grateful today ♥️ Fleet Space has been recognised with the Australian Financial Review’s Cognizant Engineering AI for Impact Award 2025, and this one means a lot to me personally. When we started Fleet, it was with a simple belief: that technology, used thoughtfully, could help us solve some of the planet’s toughest challenges. Seeing ExoSphere recognised for doing exactly that, combining satellite-enabled sensors, real-time data, and AI to help partners like Rio Tinto, GOLD FIELDS, and Maaden explore with less impact and greater speed, is a moment I’ll genuinely cherish. But what fills me with the most pride is our team. Their curiosity, courage, and relentless drive to innovate are what make achievements like this possible. To our partners, thank you for trusting us to help reimagine how the world discovers the critical minerals that power our future. This award isn’t the destination; it’s a reminder that we’re on the right path, and I’m excited for everything we will build next.
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted this🌎Fleet & Stanford Mineral-X: Agile Exploration Science Driving Global Impact 🌎 This year at the Silicon Valley Minerals Forum, our CEO & Co-Founder Flavia Tata Nardini delivered a keynote about how agile geoscience and AI-powered mineral exploration are reshaping the future of the global resources industry - and why it matters in the context of a shifting geopolitical order. 📈 - With Stanford Mineral-X, Fleet Space scientists and Stanford researchers are pushing the boundaries of science at the intersection of space tech, remote geophysical sensing, and AI to fuel faster, smarter, more sustainable mineral discovery with real-time exploration data. 🛰️ - During her keynote, Flavia outlined how Fleet Space vertically integrates frontier technologies into a single platform - ExoSphere - for the world’s largest mining companies and what unlocking data-driven exploration at an unprecedented speed and scale means for the future of the minerals industry. 👉 Check out Flavia’s keynote and SVMF panel with Fleet Space’s Head of ML, Jack Muir, and Doris Hiam-Galvez here: https://hubs.la/Q03TH2Fw0 Learn more about Fleet Space’s partnership with Stanford Mineral X: https://hubs.la/Q03TGW_70 #AgileGeoscience #MineralX #Stanford #AdAstra #Leadership #Innovation #Exploration #Discovery #EnergyTransition
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted thisAre your geological logs telling the whole story? 🔍 Cut through ambiguity using powerful geochemical analysis. Join us for an exclusive live webinar on November 11, 2025 featuring our Head of Geology, Dr Anthony Reid and world-renowned geochemist Dr Scott Halley. In this webinar, the team will showcase Comet™ and how geochemical data is transformed into reliable mineralogical insight. What you’ll learn: • How Comet™ workflows are applied to geochemistry data to produce a quantitative modal mineralogy model. • How to identify inconsistencies in traditional logging and understand their impact on your models. • Discover how specific geochemical diagrams are used to accurately map alteration styles and zonation. A 30-minute Q&A session will follow the presentation. See Comet™ in action. 📅 11th November 2025 ⏲️ 10am ADST Register Now 👉 https://hubs.la/Q03PqvWD0
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted this🌕🔎Arctic Circle: Building The Future of Off-World Exploration 🔴🔎 Fleet Space Technologies is proud to have joined NASA on recent expeditions to the Haughton Impact Crater in the Arctic Circle - also known as ‘Mars on Earth.’ There, Fleet Space’s real-time seismic sensors (Geodes) were deployed alongside NASA’s TRIDENT drill to test how agile geoscience and off-world drilling technologies can work together in lunar and Martian analogue conditions. 👩🚀 From building 3D subsurface models of the crater to experimenting with astronaut-ready sensor deployments, these missions are advancing the science and capabilities needed for humanity’s future on the Moon and Mars. 📈 These collaborations with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Haughton Mars Project are important steps in Fleet Space’s mission to deliver the next-gen tools for sustainable, data-driven exploration - on Earth and beyond. 👉 Learn more about Fleet Spaces expeditions with NASA to the Arctic Circle: https://hubs.la/Q03JHzsK0 #AdAstra #WeAreExplorers #NASA #AgileGeoscience #MoonToMars #SpaceExploration
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted thisWe're thrilled to be a part of GEOMIN in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from October 12-14! Come visit us at Booth EB-12 to learn how we are leveraging cutting-edge technology for data-driven discovery. You can also catch three of our technical experts on Monday, October 13th (local time): - Dr. Jack Muir will present on "AI applications using multimodal geophysics, geochemistry, and assay data for mineral targeting" at 12:00 PM. - Dr. Anthony Reid will deliver a keynote on "Fast, agile mineral exploration" at 12:20 PM. - Dr. Greg Turner will discuss "3D Integration of Geoscience Data for Enhanced Orebody Understanding" at 3:40 PM. We look forward to seeing you there and discussing how we can unlock new value from your exploration data! #GEOMIN #MiningInnovation #AgileGeoscience #MineralExploration Darren Burrows, Steve Ledger
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted this🚀 Fleet Space @ IAC Sydney: 10 Years of Australian Space Innovation 🌍 Ahead of IAC 2025 Sydney this year, Fleet Space Technologies opened its new 5,300m²+ global headquarters and spacetech hyperfactory at Adelaide Airport’s Catalyst Park, boosting Australia’s advanced manufacturing capacity for frontier space technologies needed to accelerate exploration on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. At IAC, we’re proud to showcase how Fleet Space is delivering on this mission: 🌕 SPIDER’ Deployment with Firefly Aerospace - the first Australian seismic technology to be deployed on the Moon with Blue Ghost Mission 2. https://lnkd.in/ggiXGPxn 👨🚀 Advancing Off-World Science with NASA - testing off-world seismic sensing and drilling technologies together in extreme lunar and Martian analogue environments in the Arctic Circle. https://lnkd.in/dGAq8AGv 🌋 Imaging Earth’s Largest Lava Tubes with MIT Media Lab - pioneering the use of Fleet Space’s real-time seismic sensors to deliver 3D mapping of lava tubes in the Canary Islands. https://lnkd.in/dHZSJyny 🛰️ Partnership with Stanford Mineral-X - advancing agile geoscience research to optimise parallel deployment of satellite-enabled geophysics and AI-powered drill targeting on Earth. https://lnkd.in/dYTcyGTM 💡 ApophisExL Mission with ExLabs - surveying near-Earth asteroid Apophis when it passes within 32,000 km of Earth in 2029. https://lnkd.in/dSUKAZdb From the Earth’s most remote mineral systems to the Moon, Mars, and asteroids, our team is building the next-gen technologies to explore faster, smarter, and cleaner - future-proofing Australia’s innovation pipeline for the global space economy. Come chat with our team at booth #409 at IAC to learn more! For a full overview of recent news, check out: https://lnkd.in/diGvCEB4 #AdAstra #WeAreExplorers #IAC2025 #OffWorld #AgileGeoscience #AdvancedManufacturing #SpaceExploration #Moon #Mars #EnergyTransition
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted this🌎🚀Horizon Global Summit: Fleet Space's 10 Year Anniversary🌎🚀 From a bold idea in Adelaide to becoming Australia’s most valuable space exploration company and global leader in agile geoscience solutions for mineral discovery, Fleet Space has spent the last decade pushing the boundaries of how humanity explores Earth and beyond. 📈 On our 10th anniversary, we’re proud to open our new global headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility at Adelaide Airport Limited's Catalyst Park. This state-of-the-art hub will enable the next phase of our company's growth with capacity to produce thousands of next-gen geophysical sensors and hundreds of satellites annually, cementing South Australia as a global centre for space, AI, and climate technology innovation. 💡We also welcome global industry leaders to Fleet Space's inaugural Horizon Global Summit, creating a platform for multi-disciplinary experts and scientists across resources, mining, space, and academia to discuss the urgent exploration challenges and opportunities defining the course of the 21st century. 📡 Hosting speakers from BHP, Rio Tinto, Maaden, Koloma, F1 ACADEMY, Robinson Aerospace Systems, DeadlyScience, and explorers like Tim Jarvis AM and Jennifer Lopez - we're honoured to convene visionaries from around the world to sketch the future of exploration and how agile geoscience technologies are fueling discovery on Earth, the Moon, and Mars today. 🎉 Here's to the next decade of exploration and discovery ahead of us - we look forward to building the future alongside you! Learn more about Fleet Space's new GHQ facility: https://hubs.la/Q03KWJST0 #AdAstra #WeAreExplorers #HorizonGlobalSummit #AgileGeoscience #DataDriven #Exploration #SPIDER #Innovation #Discovery
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted this🚀 Fleet Space Delivers First Payload for Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 2! 🌕 Last week, Fleet Space Technologies visited Firefly Aerospace's HQ - The Hive - in Austin, TX to test our lunar seismic technology, SPIDER - the first payload to be delivered for Blue Ghost Mission 2! Led by Fleet Space engineers, Braeden Borg and Lawrence Trevor, we successfully demonstrated SPIDER’s communication with and deployment by the Blue Ghost lunar lander - a major technical milestone and portal into the future of off-world exploration. SPIDER is the lunar variant of Fleet Space’s ExoSphere technology - used by leading mineral exploration companies to rapidly image the subsurface in extreme environments across five continents - and will be deployed on the Moon to advance humanity’s geological understanding of the lunar regolith. 👉ICYMI - In March 2025, Firefly became the first commercial company to land on the Moon: https://hubs.la/Q03tYWLQ0 🔎Learn more about SPIDER: https://hubs.la/Q03tYQbH0 🚀Blue Ghost Mission 2 Details: https://hubs.la/Q03tYPds0 #WeAreExplorers #AdAstra #Innovation #Explore #Discover #Beyond #BlueGhostMission2
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Gia Romano reposted thisGia Romano reposted thisAdelaide Airport is pleased to announce that the Fleet Space Technologies Global HQ building at Catalyst Park has received its Certificate of Occupancy, with Fleet now moving into the 5,300+ square metre purpose-built facility. The new space will house up to 200 Fleet Space team members and play a central role in the research, development and advanced manufacturing of next-generation space technologies. We will continue supporting Fleet as they complete their fit-out, but today we celebrate a major milestone for Catalyst Park, Adelaide Airport, and South Australia’s growing space ecosystem. Take a tour of the new building with James Sangster and Nicholas Cook. Catalyst Park welcomes forward-focused business like Fleet Space, looking to grow in South Australia. Adelaide Airport stands ready to deliver purpose-built facilities tailored to your needs. Learn more at www.catalystpark.com.au
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Gia Romano reacted on thisSo, I have been working on something for about a year now. I am excited to join the Bridgewest Ventures NZ portfolio. I cannot wait to share what we are building! I really want to thank our incubator, Seen Ventures under the innovative leadership of Husain Al-Badry 🇵🇸 and Midu Chandra for their very early stage support which made this possible.Gia Romano reacted on this15 million. That is the projected global shortage of healthcare workers by 2030. The problem isn’t a lack of willing students, it’s that we literally cannot physically train them fast enough. Clinical placements are scarce, and physical simulation labs cost millions to run. To close the healthcare gap, we have to break the training bottleneck. That is why we’re really pleased to announce that we have led a $2M pre-seed round in AegrosAI, a venture co-founded by Seen Ventures. "You can't solve an 80-million-person shortage using the current physical system," notes Kate de Ridder. "Aegros AI is building the scalable infrastructure the world desperately needs." Aegros AI uses fine-tuned AI avatars to deliver hallucination-free, assessment-grade clinical training at global scale. The company is led by Mark Christian, a serial entrepreneur with three successful exits, who previously partnered with NHS England to keep clinical training running throughout Covid. "We are finally at a point where AI can deliver clinical simulations at scale," says Mark. "We aren't just changing how healthcare workers learn, we are removing the physical limits on how many we can train." We are incredibly proud that Mark has chosen to relocate to New Zealand to build Aegros AI here, bringing world-class IP into our local ecosystem. Welcome to the Bridgewest portfolio, Mark! Read more about why we invested in Aegros AI here: https://lnkd.in/e4gYXf9q #Innovation #DeepTech #AI #Healthcare #NewZealand #NZ
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Gia Romano liked thisGia Romano liked thisMost people want to become a UI/UX Designer. Very few actually know the roadmap. 👀 They jump between: • random YouTube tutorials • endless Figma inspiration • scattered design tips • confusing advice online …and end up feeling stuck for months. The truth? UI/UX Design becomes much easier when you follow a structured path. ⚡ That’s why I created this complete UI/UX Designer Roadmap — to help designers understand: 🎯 What to learn first 🎯 Which skills actually matter 🎯 How to practice effectively 🎯 What projects to build 🎯 Which tools to master 🎯 How to grow from beginner → job-ready designer A strong designer is not someone who only makes beautiful screens. A strong designer understands: • users • psychology • hierarchy • systems • usability • accessibility • business goals • real product thinking The designers growing fastest today are the ones who: ✅ learn consistently ✅ practice intentionally ✅ build real projects ✅ improve every single week And honestly… You do NOT need: ❌ expensive degrees ❌ perfect talent ❌ 10-hour study days You just need: ⚡ consistency ⚡ curiosity ⚡ proper guidance ⚡ real execution Also — if you want a complete step-by-step roadmap to become a Product Designer faster, I created this ebook specifically for designers 👇 🚀 PRODUCT DESIGNER IN 90 DAYS https://lnkd.in/ghguV_yv Built for: • UI/UX Designers • Beginners • Students • Freelancers • Aspiring Product Designers Save this roadmap. Your future design career might start from this post. 🚀 #UIDesign #UXDesign #ProductDesign #UIUX #Figma #DesignSystems #ProductDesigner #WebDesign #DesignThinking #CareerGrowth
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Gia Romano reacted on thisGia Romano reacted on thisToday was my first day as Chief Revenue Officer at VRIFY, and I couldn’t be more excited to join this incredible team. I’ve been watching VRIFY for quite some time and have consistently been impressed by the company’s vision, innovation, and the impact its technology is having across the mineral exploration industry. The opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, data, and exploration is what I’m pumped about. What excites me most is helping geologists unlock the full potential of their exploration data and accelerating better decision-making through AI-powered technology. A huge thank you to Steve de Jong and the team for the warm welcome. I’m looking forward to working alongside such a talented group of people and contributing to the next phase of growth for VRIFY. Excited for what’s ahead (did I say that already?!). 🚀
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Gia Romano liked thisGia Romano liked this“Can you send your updated portfolio?” Honestly… who has time anymore? The industry is moving faster than ever. Design leaders aren’t just delivering screens during the day and then polishing static case studies on the weekends— we’re shipping continuously, reshaping product strategy, and defining how the next generation of designers think, build and launch products for customers. No big deal. Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, examples of the products they have built and how they built them still matters. But the way we evaluate designers probably needs to evolve with the way modern design leaders move and influence. The best product people today may be too busy building the future to constantly document the past. Does that make them less valuable to your team? So in a world of GenAI, rapid iteration, and continuous shipping — how should companies evolve the way they discover, evaluate, and source design talent? #genai #productdesign #ux #uxdesign #ai #design #hiring #portfolio #designer #leadership #hire #jobs
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Gia Romano reacted on thisGia Romano reacted on thisLeadership lesson: don’t burn all your tokens fixing bugs you might need one to save the product. #technology #ai #workplace Follow me if you are looking for an honest, sarcastic and funny perspective on technology and workplace.
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Gia Romano reacted on thisGia Romano reacted on thisIf a recruiter reaches out to you about a role and your first question is "what is the salary", you're instantly rejected for your audacity. I must have seen this rhetoric 100 times from recruiters because if that is someones first question it means money is their top and only priority. No it doesn't you massive goose. It might mean the rest of the information was interesting but they'd like to sense check the salary is enough for them to buy groceries, pay rent/mortgage etc. But the opportunity they say. The salary/compensation is part of the opportunity Dear Sir/Madam, if you can just give them a range to begin with they can make sure a conversation is worth having. Because recruiters - don't lie to me here - if you were approached to join another agency, how long until you ask what the base and commission structure is? Hmm? You would beat Gout Gout to that one. Now I know you see me as a bit of a bad boy in recruitment that doesn't follow the rules and does this a little differently so this might be a far fetched idea but what if you just gave them the salary range when you reach out? What would go wrong? AND before you say you don't have a budget - because I have been in that situation - explain that, explain why but give them the range you are expecting based on your knowledge of the market. Then ask if their range is above that to let you know so you can take that to your client to check if they will pay that much and henceforth & voila, establish a budget. But also how very dare you ask what the salary is you money hungry peasants.
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Gia Romano liked thisGia Romano liked thisYour design portfolio needs to show two things: 1. You use AI in your work. 2. You can design apps that use AI. Most design job ads mention AI in some form. Some want you to design AI products. Some want you to use AI tools daily. Some want you to prototype with code. Some literally say: "You're AI-native in how you work." True: Most designers match some of these requirements. Also true: Most portfolios do not reflect that. So, how to show it? Forget "just adding AI to your skills section." That's table stakes. I've put a lot of work into preparing this guide for you. It's a list of 20 tips on showing that you can use AI and you can design apps that use AI. Whether you're junior or senior, there's something here for you. I'm giving it for free with one caveat: Like and repost this if you found it valuable. ✌️ P.S. Share your tips in comments!
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Jon Fukuda
Limina.co • 4K followers
I heard something on the Lenny Podcast this week that I think a lot of design teams are already feeling. https://lnkd.in/gT5KdpSX Jenny Wen (Design Lead Claude CoWork) said: “This design process that designers have been taught… we sort of treat it as gospel. That’s basically dead.” Strong statement, but listening to the conversation, I don’t think the real story is that design process is dead. I think the real story is that the through line of design work is changing. Some things Jenny shared that stood out: - The classic process is breaking down. The research → diverge/converge → polished mocks pipeline many of us were trained in can’t keep up with modern engineering velocity anymore. (~5:15) - Design work is splitting into two modes. Supporting execution as engineers rapidly build and iterate - Creating short-horizon direction (3-6 month vision prototypes instead of 5-year decks) (~6:30) - The pie chart of design work has shifted. A few years ago design might have been 60-70% mocking and prototyping. Now that may be closer to 30-40%, with much more time spent pairing with engineers and shaping implementation. (~18:00) - Even in an AI world, someone must still decide what matters. Models will get better at taste and design. But accountability for what gets built still sits with humans. (~28:30) That last point is the one I keep coming back to... If design is no longer primarily about producing polished artifacts up front, then its enduring value may look more like: - keeping execution coherent as things move fast - translating principles into real implementation - helping teams decide what actually matters - protecting trust and quality under speed In other words: Design’s role may be shifting from artifact production to decision stewardship. - A small exercise for design teams - Try this with your team this week. Sketch the actual pie chart of your work today across five buckets: - Mocking / prototyping - Research / learning - Pairing with engineers - Implementation / polish in code - Direction-setting / short-horizon vision Then ask three questions: 1) What does our work actually look like now? 2) What do stakeholders still think designers do? 3) Where does the through line break between those two realities? I’d be curious what people discover when they run this exercise. Where is your design role already evolving- and where is the organization still expecting the old model? Stealth launch note: I’m quietly launching a new series with this post called Through Line. The idea is to surface the signals shaping the future of research and design and help leaders translate them into action. Each entry will include: - A signal from the field - A perspective to frame it - A practical tool teams can apply today - A question for the community to explore together The future of our field won’t be defined by tools alone, but by how clearly we see the through line of value in the work we do. #amplifydesign #Throughline
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Jurnii
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Your UX Team Isn't Measuring What Matters (And It's Costing You) For too long, UX teams have focused on metrics that don't speak the language of the boardroom. We've championed usability scores, task completion rates, and qualitative feedback – all valuable, but rarely tied directly to revenue, retention, or growth. Here's the uncomfortable truth: If your UX team can't explicitly demonstrate how their work impacts gross revenue, reduces churn, or boosts conversion rates, you're missing a critical opportunity to prove your value. It's time to shift from measuring outputs to proving business outcomes. UX isn't just about making things easy; it's about making the business better. And until we align our metrics with commercial objectives, our impact will remain undervalued. Watch the video in the comments with Fraser Dunk to dig into UX metrics and how to measure ROI. What are your thoughts? How are you connecting UX efforts to undeniable ROI? #UX #ROI #BusinessImpact #Productivity #DigitalTransformation
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UDig
9K followers
What should you ask in a UX discovery session? Violet shares her go-to strategic questions that help teams uncover real user needs, build alignment, and design with purpose, not assumptions. Here’s a preview of the five key focus areas and the questions she recommends asking: 1. Understanding the User - Who are the users, and what are their goals? - What problems are they trying to solve? - What does success look like for them? 2. Understanding the Workflow - What are the key tasks users need to complete? - Where are the pain points or inefficiencies? - What systems or tools do users interact with? 3. Understanding Business Goals 4. Understanding the Ecosystem 5. Understanding Constraints & Risks Dig in on our website for the full list of questions.
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Marielle Lee
Kmart Australia Limited • 2K followers
To designers: If you are asked to design something that feels wrong, always speak up, test how your users think and feel. Use 'deceptive.design' as your tool, show your product owner / stakeholder how it could lead to legal risk. To Aussie businesses: If you are relying on dark patterns (e.g. fake countdown, subscription trap), you need to rethink your approach NOW. Regulation is on the way. -- 🟢 "90% of Australians say they would re-engage with a business if the cancellation process were easy." 🟢 Ethical design is not just the right thing, it’s good business sense as well. -- Huge thanks to Chandni Gupta for such an incredible seminar on global dark patterns. It was fascinating to learn how different countries and governments are addressing digital harms and dark patterns. Thanks Dr M.R. (Mark) Leiser for answering my question and thanks to the legal experts from around the world for sharing your insights and recommendation to the Australian government regarding dark patterns. -- Source: 'Made to Manipulate' full report https://lnkd.in/g3d4KQFb -- #darkpatterns #UX #UI #CX #userexperience #design #software #advertising #marketing #digitalmarketing #ethicaldesign #designers #developers
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Christopher Noessel
Autodesk • 6K followers
An attendee to UX Australia asked about a seeming contradiction in two papers I cited. The first describes a benefit to teams working with AI, the other (not to mention my own studies…) shows detriment if there is no design intervention. I’ll say this more clearly next time but the difference is in *the time scales*. Lots of individuals and teams see productivity and even quality benefits (as long as the AI recommendations are right) in the short term. It’s in the longer term that we begin to see the dependence that results in deskilling and over-reliance. And that long-term is where we need to keep focus, and where the right design can make the difference. Additionally (and I didn’t talk about this in the presentation, there was not time) there’s a complicating personality trait in all this called Need for Cognition (NFC), where low-NFC users are more prone to overreliance. We’re going to have to figure that one out, because to my knowledge no one has found a good intervention that can help these people, yet. I talk about all this in depth in the forthcoming book. https://lnkd.in/g76DeT5t #UXofAI #UX #AI #DesignForAI #overreliance #deskilling
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Service Design Jobs
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Are service design practitioners leaving their jobs for a bigger paycheck? The "flight risk" in our field looks high, but it's actually not about the money when you look at the numbers. Our data shows that 63% of professionals currently have one foot out the door (32% definitely leaving, 31% considering it). But when we asked *why* they are eyeing the exit "Career Growth & Opportunity" outranked "Compensation" nearly 2:1! People aren't chasing the gold. They are chasing a fulfilling career path. The reality is that many organizations that hire service design practitioners are stuck. They offer a generic middle-management track if you're willing to step away from the craft, but they completely lack something like "Master Practitioner" or a high-level strategy track for those who want to advance the discipline. Have we built an ecosystem where practitioners are paid well to stand completely still... 🤔 Do these numbers surprise you? Share your thoughts in the comments. ~~~ ☕ The Sunday Briefing ~ Stay on top of the (invisible) forces that truly drive service design: https://lnkd.in/g4vKfzaA ~~~
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Alex Sviryda
Propeller • 9K followers
Six agents audited my Nudget app before the last release. The report was more useful than any design review I've had in months. Saw it mentioned in the Claude Community Australia. To start, you just type "review with council of agents" in Claude Code. That's it. Claude spawns six different agents, each reviewing your app from a completely different perspective: product, UX, engineering, QA, whatever the council covers. Then it produces a single prioritised report. It caught things I'd genuinely stopped seeing. Not because they were hidden, because I'd been staring at the same screens for weeks. That's the quiet risk of building solo with an AI team. You move fast. You ship fast. But you also stop questioning decisions you made three weeks ago. Council of Agents is like getting six fresh pairs of eyes in ten minutes. No onboarding. No context-setting. Just a report telling you what to fix first. Running it often now.
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Nightingale Design Research
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Explore our growing collection of blogs and practical guides for teams looking to build stronger research habits and make clearer product decisions. Want help putting it into practice? Get in touch. https://lnkd.in/gr2wRS8 #DesignResearch #UXResearch #ProductDesign #UserExperience #ResearchOps #DesignStrategy #ProductTeams #UXMethods
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