The Persona Paradox in the Age of AI
Why static personas break adaptive AI, and how audience factors capture the shifting behavioral state a system can actually use.
ReadEssays on anticipatory design, AI-UX and trust, behaviour change, UX measurement, and the ethics of adaptive systems: the thinking behind the toolkit.
Why static personas break adaptive AI, and how audience factors capture the shifting behavioral state a system can actually use.
ReadForesight imagines possible futures; anticipatory design builds the path to act on them. Why product teams need both, not one.
ReadWhen AI makes screens cheap, the design job moves upstream to defining intent. What that shift asks of designers.
ReadWhat period-tracking apps after Dobbs reveal about designing for a world whose legal context can shift overnight.
ReadWhy the AI slump is a design crisis, not a technology one, and where value actually comes from: redesigned workflows, not raw capability.
ReadWhy accuracy is not adoption, and a 23-item, respondent-backed way to score AI experience across trust, transparency, and agency.
ReadWhy statistically optimal AI decisions can still be humanly wrong, and how averages erase the context where real experiences live.
ReadWhy anticipatory design stalls in business, and how transparency and accountability let it finally earn user trust.
ReadHow AI moves design from reacting to clicks toward anticipating needs and supporting behavior change, without taking away user agency.
ReadA practical, jargon-free path through the System Usability Scale, from survey to scoring to dashboard, handling the messy data too.
ReadWhy linear UX maturity ladders misread how teams actually grow, and what an adaptive, systems-thinking model looks like instead.
ReadHow to read perceived quality with the Gap Model and a triangulation of metrics, and turn UX data into business influence.
ReadWhat design debt really costs, the ten signs it is piling up, and how to quantify it into a fundable, prioritized plan.
ReadThe mental models users bring to AI, the three forces that shape them, and how each one calibrates or breaks trust.
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