McKinsey analyzed 800 jobs to find how easily they can be automated. Lots of interesting insights. Here's a website to check your job. It started to happen with creative jobs in 2023 (see examples: IBM, Axel Springer, Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group Co.).

Advice to designers about how to continue being useful in this new era and how to use various data sources to build and teach algorithms. The only element of classic UX design in Spotify’s Discover Weekly feature is the track list, whereas the distinctive work is done by a recommendation system that fills this design template with valuable music.

The team learned how to answer the question, “What will the booked price of a listing be on any given day in the future?” so that its hosts could set competitive prices.

An experimental tool for autocompleting illustrations and animations. Shadow Draw is a similar concept.

Travis Gertz shows that many websites already look the same. It happened before algorithms even for professional design agencies. The article is incredibly insightful if you want to understand the reasons of this homogenisation.

It takes a broader view of UX personalization and anticipation of user wishes. We already have these types of things on our phones: Google Now and Siri automatically propose a way home from work using location history data However, the key factor here is trust. To execute anticipatory experiences, people have to give large companies permission to gather personal usage data in the

A well-though-out model of adaptive interfaces that considers many variables to fit particular users by Liam Spradlin. Here's another application of this idea by researchers from Aalto & Kochi Universities.

A script that changes text color according to the background color.

A tool based on the idea of generative design:

1. An algorithm generates many variations of a design using predefined rules and patterns.
2. The results are filtered based on design quality and task requirements.
3. Designers choose the most interesting and adequate variations, polishing them if needed.

It made a lot of noise and prompted several publications from UX gurus. Autodesk built a new Toronto office using these ideas.

A home page generator using similar ideas. The algorithm finds every possible layout that is valid, combining different examples from a pattern library.

Next, each layout is examined and scored based on certain traits. Finally, the generator selects the “best” layout — basically, the one with the highest score.