In Conversation With Ux Magazine

Robb and Josh talk about the elevated levels of risk and experimentation required to move hyperautomation forward.

Robb and Josh talk about the ways conversational AI can transcend our app-cluttered professional and personal lives—bringing us closer to technology by obscuring the messiness happening behind the scenes.

Robb and Josh talk about the ways generative AI and hyperautomation might change the way we think about productivity and our relationship to work.

Microsoft 365’s new workplace analytics joins a handful of invasive surveillance apps, trading trust for a potential boost in productivity.

When an old coffee grinder stops working properly, it endears itself to the author by seemingly trying to get itself going again—revving its motor as he continually presses the start button until it gets back up to regular grinding speed. This affords a potent little design lesson: sometimes a product’s shortcomings create opportunities to bond with a user. In the case of conversational design, a chatbot or intelligent digital worker (IDW) can make overt attempts to solve problems outside its abilities, just to let a customer know that it’s trying its best to help. Even though the IDW can’t deliver the desired outcome, before it passes the interaction on to a human agent, it can create an enduring sense of empathy that will carry forward

We talk with Alan Cooper about skateboarding, fatherhood, design, ethics, and the responsibility that comes with getting our seat at the table.

We talk with Joe Natoli, enterprise UX consultant and author of the new book, Think First: My No-Nonsense Approach to Creating Successful Products, Memorable User Experiences and Happy Customers.

We talk with Greg Nudelman, mobile design strategist and author of the new book, The $1 Prototype.

We talk with Sergio Nouvel—co-founder of Continuum in Lima, Peru—about his controversial UX Magazine article "Why Web Design is Dead"

We talk with Dan Ward—author of The Simplicity Cycle—about R2D2, design for dentistry, and why simplicity isn't the point

We talk with information architect Alberta Soranzo about mountains of data, mixtapes, and the digital legacy you leave behind.