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The birth of the superhuman UX designer: how AI is changing the game
The ultimate guide to integrating AI into your design thinking process
As a mother of 3, most of my dinner table conversations revolve around comics, anime, and superhumans in general.
What I’ve learned from these passionate discussions and debates is that some superhumans are scientifically made or receive their powers by accidental exposure to something. Others got bit by a magical creature. And many are just born…super.
Those of you who watched the live demo of Chat GPT-4 on Tuesday are most likely still walking around in a post-mindblown daze like myself. While the newest release seems to be primarily aimed at developers, since the central current use is text and image-based, there were many exciting nods to how this will affect and support UX researchers, designers, and writers as well.
While things seem to be moving faster than any of us can keep up with, it’s important to recognize that we are experiencing a pivotal moment in history right now.
This is the beginning of a new era of artificial intelligence that is revolutionizing the way we create, build, and interact with each other within the tech startup ecosystem. It has the potential to make us superhuman founders, UX practitioners, and designers.
As leaders in the space, we can either be part of this moment, dive in head-first, and help shape it…or we can sit on the sidelines plugging away at our current process and be forced to play catch-up later.
Since part of my mission with Founders Who UX is to make the design-thinking process accessible to early-stage, underrepresented founding teams, I prefer to be at the forefront.
While many UX practitioners worry that AI will replace us, I believe that we are actually in one industry that will ALWAYS require humans to be at its core. AI is not stripping away the human factor from design. It is stripping away the heaviness and tediousness of UX roles so that humans can move lighter, act quicker, and make…
