Every few years, market analysts and pundits invents a new buzzword. A way to explain – cleanly, dramatically, and from a safe distance – why a bunch of “can’t miss” companies suddenly look very missable. Lately, a word getting passed…
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UXcelerator.ai Launches: AI-Powered UX Agents Created to Support Designers Worldwide
UXcelerator.ai, a groundbreaking suite of AI-powered agents designed to help UX and Product Design teams work smarter and faster, officially launches today. Created by Joseph Dickerson, an award-winning Product and UX Design leader with over 15 years of experience shaping…
Technology, UX Articles
DesignOps: The Work That Makes Design Work, Work
DesignOps rarely gets much credit. There’s no big launch. No dramatic reveal. When DesignOps is done well, most people don’t notice it at all. That’s not a failure. That’s success. DesignOps is the work that allows design to scale without…
Technology, UX Articles
Ethics in Product Design: Balancing Innovation and Responsibility
Innovation is exciting. It pulls teams forward, accelerates roadmaps, and fuels the next big release. But here’s the little truth we often forget: every design decision—every “tweak,” every “quality-of-life enhancement,” every “nudge” we introduce into a user journey—has an impact…
UX Articles
How the inverted pyramid model can make your UI documentation more useful
If you’ve ever opened a design-system page or UX specification and thought, “Just tell me what this thing does!”, you’ve experienced the pain of poor information hierarchy.Writers have long solved this in journalism with the inverted pyramid — and it’s…
UX Articles
Lessons in #UX: UX and compliance
User experience and product design is more than just creating a usable interface or desirable product. It’s about negotiating and understanding how your offerings need to comply with regulations. Ensuring compliance with (often) multinational regulations is not just a job…
Technology, UX Articles
Building a Practical AI Strategy for Real-World Impact
At a previous employer, I played a key role in helping define the company’s strategy for the use and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Developing an effective AI strategy took time, and required deep collaboration across product, data science, and…
UX Articles
Lessons in UX: Balancing usability with persuasive design
Balancing functional product design with marketing design means creating experiences that are both useful and persuasive—delivering user value while motivating action. To me, product and interaction design is about usability and marketing design is about influencing. I tend to start…
UX Articles
How to add AI to your product, the right way
I have been fortunate enough in my career to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technology into several products, most recently creating a “ASK AI” chatbot with default prompts to help marketing professionals. I even (many moons ago) designed a…
UX Articles
Lessons in UX: The power of a pattern library
A pattern library, often an integral part of the design system, provides substantial benefits in product design and development. Here’s a deep dive into why incorporating a pattern library can be a game changer for your projects: Consistency and Cohesion…
Movies, TV
Halloween: The Series was a parody I wrote… Now it’s actually happening
In the early 1990s I was watching the syndicated Friday the 13th, The Series when I had a “Eureka” moment. The premise of that series had nothing to do with the film series save for the title… But what if…
Music
Meeting your heroes: Alan Parsons
They say, ‘never meet your heroes’, as you are bound to be disappointed. I have to disagree with that sentiment, as I have met quite a few of them… And have always been pleased with the opportunity. The latest was…
Movies, Neglected Cinema
1994’s Maverick is a forgotten delight
In the history of Western films, 1994’s Maverick stands out as a delightful blend of comedy, adventure, and charm. Directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner, Maverick wears its heart on its sleeve, offering…
Movies
RIP Roger Corman, Legend of Independent Cinema
I mourn the passing of a true legend, Roger Corman. As a director, producer, and mentor, Corman’s impact on the film industry is immeasurable. Known as the “Pope of Pop Cinema,” he leaves behind a legacy that shaped and inspired…
Neglected Cinema
Murder by Death is light stupid fun
I recently finished watching Feud Season two, which is focused on the life of Truman Capote and his “Swans”, socialite women who Truman betrayed by publishing a fictionalized tell-all in Esquire. In one scene the docudrama recreates the set and…
Geek, Movies, Technology
The Rise and Fall of RCA Videodiscs: A Forgotten Era of Home Video
In the history of home entertainment, few stories are as fraught with ambition and failure as the tale of the RCA Videodisc. This relic from the early 80s serves as a fascinating case study of technology that almost was. Let’s…