Dan Maccarone le 26/08/2026

AI has a hospitality problem money can’t fix

Technological efficiency meets high-end service: a luxury hotel lobby where AI-driven recommendations are seamlessly integrated into the check-in process, offering convenience while raising questions about the role of the human touch.Everyone’s spending a fortune making AI smarter. Hospitality and r

D Dan Maccarone
AI has a hospitality problem money can’t fix
The function — the role of software in society
Patrick Neeman le 25/08/2026

What Blade Runner got right about AI

The future the film imagined was analog, cramped, and rain-lit — and it got the feeling of the work exactly right. AI assisted.A 1982 film and its 2017 sequel predicted the design problems we are still failing to solve, from synthetic memory to the interfaces we now argue about daily.Ridley Scott’s

P Patrick Neeman
What Blade Runner got right about AI
What luxury bags can teach designers about how to adapt to a changing deal
Jennifer L. Bowie, Ph.D. le 25/08/2026

Researcher-in-the-loop

A model for AI-enabled UX research where the researcher governs.A UXR researcher governing AI (AI generated)For a few years now, the UX research field has been arguing with itself over whether AI is coming to replace us or whether AI can’t do “real” research and we need to hold the line. Is AI comin

J Jennifer L. Bowie, Ph.D.
Researcher-in-the-loop
Fabricio Teixeira le 25/08/2026

No log off, How to become an AI Designer, vibe coded portfolios

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Online used to be a place you could leave. We designed the exit out of it because an exit reads as a leak. Here is why building it back is a design responsibility, and what that means now that AI is dissolving the last seam.”We used to lo

F Fabricio Teixeira
No log off, How to become an AI Designer, vibe coded portfolios
Kevin Muldoon le 23/08/2026

Stop using OKLCH lightness for your color scale

It’s brilliant at generating color, but it can’t predict contrast — and there’s a better number for your palette weights.Continue reading on UX Collective »

K Kevin Muldoon
Stop using OKLCH lightness for your color scale
Nobody wants a blank page. Nobody touches a perfect one.
Sterling Cooper built your UX process. We need to redefine it in the age of AI and systems.
Patrick Neeman le 20/08/2026

What The Matrix got wrong about AI (so far)

The change arrived without a battle — quiet, ordinary, already at your desk. AI assisted.The film feared a superintelligence that would rise up and rule us, but the generative AI we built asks for our trust instead — and mostly gets it.The Matrix feared a machine that would wake up, decide we were t

P Patrick Neeman
What The Matrix got wrong about AI (so far)