On Empathy and why AI will never replace high-quality UX research

There’s no substitute for empathy—not in the doting sense of the term, but in the ability to perceptively inhabit other people’s psyches, and thus imagine what various stimuli will feel like to them. Brian Beutler I have been digging deep into AI the last 20 months or...

UX Reckoning – January 2025

Many UX professionals (myself included), rightfully, feel threatened by AI’s ubiquity. It is uncanny how long it has come in an extremely short time right before our eyes. I remember hearing about it at the Computer Science department where I used to teach, and...

Inclusive UX = Thoughtful Design

What is Inclusive User Experience? As the name suggests, users (people, site visitors, clients, customers, etc) feel that they personally are considered and welcome in that space, be it digital or physical. One example is the Humans come in all shapes and sizes,...

Python Data structures

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