Your Next User Is a Machine
The most valuable artifact a designer writes this year may not be a screen, but the semantic layer that helps a machine design on their behalf.
I build UX organizations that stay ready for what's next.
I'm Tate, a UX design and research leader based in Salt Lake City. Over nine years I built a UX function at a healthcare staffing and workforce technology company from one hire to a 21-person organization. Lately I've been focused on how UX teams work with AI: training the team, making the design system infrastructure, and defining a new role for the work. I also write about design, AI, and the experiences we haven't built yet.
The Space Between the Components
A mature design system makes the build faster. The opportunity is to spend that saved time on the work that determines whether anyone can actually use what we ship.
Better Judgment Makes AI Faster
AI has made output cheap. The hard part now is knowing what deserves to get shipped.
The deck
Building Toward What's Next: UX leadership for the AI era. 17 slides on the foundation, four investments, and where the role goes next.
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