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 I dismissively thought this was just a hobby for nerds. How wrong I was! We cannot dismiss AI’s capabilities anymore, no matter how much we want to. And boy, do we want to!

But, as Kate Moran and Sarah Gibbons point out in their clear-sighted article, our critical thinking, creativity, taste, and soft skills are superpowers that make us as needed (if not more) as ever. AI can serve as an intern and a first draft generator (thank you, Joe Natoli, for the amazing ideas you shared in your webinar)
My only concern is how we can convince business leaders and hiring managers to see it the same way and not rely on algorithms. Maybe I should ask perplexity about that:-)