Artificial Intelligence Articles & Videos

  • Designing AI Agents: 4 Lessons from China’s Qwen Agent

    A study of Qwen's AI agent reveals 4 design lessons: support discoverability, reuse familiar patterns, handle personal data carefully, and protect user autonomy.

  • Information Seeking in China: A Different Ecosystem, Familiar Behavior

    Information seeking in China is driven by mobile social-media apps. But how users prompt and engage with genAI mirrors what we've seen in the West.

  • 10 Guidelines for Designing Your Site’s AI Chatbots

    Helpful site-specific AI chatbots clearly state their capabilities, offer relevant prompt suggestions, and quickly signal they know what users are looking at.

  • Use AI Responsibly in Analysis

    AI can assist your UX research analysis — but shouldn't lead it. Discover four responsible ways to use AI as a thought partner while keeping critical thinking and interpretation in your hands.

  • Less Chat, More Answer: Site AI Chatbots Need to Get to the Point

    Users turn to site-specific chatbots for quick answers, not a conversation. Design responses that are direct, scannable, and easy to expand when needed.

  • AI Agents as Users

    AI agents now interact with digital interfaces alongside humans. Designing for both requires rethinking what "user" means and prioritizing accessibility.

  • Handmade Designs: The New Trust Signal

    In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.

  • A Concrete Definition of an AI Agent

    An AI agent pursues a goal by iteratively taking actions, evaluating progress, and deciding next steps. Useful agents must be reliable, adaptive, and accurate.

  • AI Can Help with Survey Writing, But It Still Requires Human Expertise

    AI can produce polished survey drafts quickly, but experienced human review is still needed to catch subtle survey-design flaws that weaken data quality.

  • AI Interviewers

    AI interviewers can conduct user interviews on your behalf, but they come with real limitations. Learn how they work, how well they perform, and the best use cases for adding them to your research toolkit.

  • GenUI vs. Vibe Coding: Who’s Designing?

    With generative UI, the AI system decides to generate an interactive element or entire product in response to a user need. Vibe coding is when users request the AI to build it.

  • Outcome-Oriented Design: The Era of AI Design

    Outcome-oriented design shifts how we approach UX in the AI era. Instead of designing single interfaces, designers now define adaptive frameworks that respond to individual user goals rather than optimizing for average user needs.

  • What Is Your Site's AI Chatbot for? Users Can't Tell

    Users see little reason to use site AI chatbots. To prove their value, chatbots must solve problems that existing site features don't.

  • 3 Tips to Make AI a Better Editor

    Although AI is (usually) good at editing, it doesn’t mean good prompting practices should be ignored. These 3 tips will help take AI edits to the next level.

  • The Most Exciting Development in GenUI: Buttons and Checkboxes

    AI chats generate simple UI elements to gather context, reduce typing and memory load, and produce more useful, personalized results.

  • GenAI for Complex Questions, Search for Critical Facts

    Users choose AI to explore and synthesize information; but they rely on traditional search when accuracy and trust are critical.

  • What UX Consulting Clients Expect in the Age of AI

    Clients still seek strong judgment and critical thinking, research rigor, and respect for real-world and user constraints from UX consultants.

  • Service Design Metrics Shifting

    As AI becomes central to service delivery, traditional service metrics must evolve — new measures will assess AI-to-AI performance, human-AI collaboration, data quality, and user trust.

  • How AI Literacy Shapes GenAI Use

    Using generative AI often doesn’t mean using it well. AI literacy requires both prompt fluency and the ability to assess outputs.

  • AI-Moderated Interviews: If, When, and How to Use Them

    AI interviews offer faster feedback at scale, but they're not a replacement for in-depth, human-led semistructured interviews.