Use generative-AI tools to support and enhance your UX skills — not to replace them. Start with small UX tasks, and watch out for hallucinations and bad advice.
Thank you for this article. I'm really enjoying this whole series!
As someone who is new to design, here’s a concern I have for the use of LLMs in my learning process:
In my experience, LLMs often to regress to an artificial mean of okay-ness. A good example of this is in writing -- I see so much GPT-voice even in people who claim to have not used AI. It's as if people are inadvertently viewing ChatGPT's distinct, default writing style as just standard conventions of writing. This creates a feedback loop of a disproportionate amount of people including phrasings like "It's not a [BLANK]. It's a [BLANK]" in their work, or overusing specific active verbs like "elevate." Then, LLMs are further trained on these outputs, causing them to appear more and more in AI-generated suggestions.
I can tell when a writing suggestion is blatantly a product of this artificial mean. But as someone learning design, it's harder to tell when (or even if) a design-related suggestion, such as a font pairing idea or a feature idea, might follow this same pattern -- LLMs working off of new norms that don't quite reflect either 1) what the convention is for design in general or 2) what someone who is knowledgeable about design might advise. I can totally see how providing ample context, building a prompt library, etc… could help with this, but I'm still worried.
In your experience, are there any design suggestions that ChatGPT or other LLMs seem to especially lean on, in the same way that they like to overuse the “It’s not a [BLANK], it’s a [BLANK]” phrasing in writing?
Resonated with the "Start Now, Start Small" mindset. Thanks for sharing! I've also been exploring AI's practical potential in UX through my weekly newsletter: designwithai.co
Thank you for this article and the links to the YouTube AI intro videos. As you say, AI is here, understanding it -- it’s power and it’s pitfalls -- and how to use it is the key.
This is a fantastic article describing a simplified and human approach for using AI to assist in a UX designer’s future processes. We are probably missing some ethics and legal awareness of AI use towards our clients or employers.
So timely as I’ve been dabbling in asking / giving Chatgpt prompts this week as I work on a client brand and web project. Definitely some useful ideas here like saving what is working and not taking anything as exact truth.
Thank you for this article. I'm really enjoying this whole series!
As someone who is new to design, here’s a concern I have for the use of LLMs in my learning process:
In my experience, LLMs often to regress to an artificial mean of okay-ness. A good example of this is in writing -- I see so much GPT-voice even in people who claim to have not used AI. It's as if people are inadvertently viewing ChatGPT's distinct, default writing style as just standard conventions of writing. This creates a feedback loop of a disproportionate amount of people including phrasings like "It's not a [BLANK]. It's a [BLANK]" in their work, or overusing specific active verbs like "elevate." Then, LLMs are further trained on these outputs, causing them to appear more and more in AI-generated suggestions.
I can tell when a writing suggestion is blatantly a product of this artificial mean. But as someone learning design, it's harder to tell when (or even if) a design-related suggestion, such as a font pairing idea or a feature idea, might follow this same pattern -- LLMs working off of new norms that don't quite reflect either 1) what the convention is for design in general or 2) what someone who is knowledgeable about design might advise. I can totally see how providing ample context, building a prompt library, etc… could help with this, but I'm still worried.
In your experience, are there any design suggestions that ChatGPT or other LLMs seem to especially lean on, in the same way that they like to overuse the “It’s not a [BLANK], it’s a [BLANK]” phrasing in writing?
“AI cannot substitute for user research with real users.” This was an interesting perspective!
I write about humanizing the future of learning with my doodles.
🌸 I’d love your insights on my latest piece: How AI Learns from Shapes 🤖🌟
https://open.substack.com/pub/doodlesbydevika/p/how-ai-learns-from-shapes
Resonated with the "Start Now, Start Small" mindset. Thanks for sharing! I've also been exploring AI's practical potential in UX through my weekly newsletter: designwithai.co
Thank you for this article and the links to the YouTube AI intro videos. As you say, AI is here, understanding it -- it’s power and it’s pitfalls -- and how to use it is the key.
This is a fantastic article describing a simplified and human approach for using AI to assist in a UX designer’s future processes. We are probably missing some ethics and legal awareness of AI use towards our clients or employers.
So timely as I’ve been dabbling in asking / giving Chatgpt prompts this week as I work on a client brand and web project. Definitely some useful ideas here like saving what is working and not taking anything as exact truth.