The Boagworld Ux Show

AI is changing far more than the speed at which designers produce work. In this episode, we talk with Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred about their book Sentient Design, how intelligent interfaces can respond to people in the moment, and why designers need to understand the character of AI before they can use it well. --- Use the code SENTIENT-BOAG to get 20% off the book through Aug 31 at rosenfeldmedia.com. --- Designing With AI as a Material Josh and Veronika describe AI as a design material, much as paint, paper, code, or the web itself can be materials. Every material has a grain. It has qualities that make some things easy and other things awkward, unreliable, or downright foolish. Designers get better results when they understand those qualities rather than forcing the material to behave like something familiar. Large language models are probabilistic. They can interpret intent, adapt tone, change formats, and produce many plausible variations, but they may also give different answers to the same questio