

Intentmaking, Sensemaking, and AI Boundary Objects: How Advanced AI Helps Users Discover What They Want
Advanced AI work is not a simple prompt-response loop. Users discover their goals through experimentation, interpret machine output through boundary objects, and refine intent over time. The future of AI-UX is not chat, but structured discovery.


UX Roundup: Ecommerce Usability Fails | Social Media Less Social | Overseeing Agents | Your Team as Video Game Characters | UX Hero | Seedance
The two most conversion-killing ecommerce usability fails | Social media use remains strong but the platforms are becoming less about connecting with other people | The usability of overseeing AI agents | Team-building image idea: design video game characters | Professor Ben Shneiderman was one of the greatest early pioneers of user experience | Seedance 2 as PC software concept


Forward Deployed Designers: From FDE to FDD
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) can build powerful AI systems, but enterprise transformation requires more than technical deployment. Organizations need Forward Deployed Designers (FDD) who can map business outcomes, redesign decision rights, and convert AI capability into operational change.


UX Roundup: Scope Creep | Demis Hassabis on AI | Interpreting Probability Terms | Why People Use AI & Internet | Google AI
Video about scope creep | Demis Hassabis on the present and future of AI | Humans and AI have different interpretations of words to denote probabilities | Very different reasons why people use AI versus the Internet | Google’s disappointing AI announcements


Design Changing from Artifact-Production to Intent-Shaping
AI is not merely making designers faster at producing screens, prototypes, and research summaries. It is changing the object of design itself. The UX profession’s most valuable contribution stops being UI production and becomes the design of intent itself: defining what good means, encoding judgment into live systems, setting boundaries for agentic behavior, maintaining coherence across many parallel outputs, and preserving human purpose when software starts to act.


UX Roundup: Workflow Redesign in Games Studios | Living Without AI | Learning With AI | Job-Specific Streaming Media | Integrating Voice & Pointing
Case study of redesigning workflows for AI in computer game studios | Can you live 4 days without AI? | AI increases learning when used as a tutor and hurts when doing the exercises for the students | A streaming media platform for your job | DeepMind demos integration between voice input and pointing
