A review of high-tech shoe initiatives by Nike, adidas, New Balance, and Under Armour.

IBM Watson helped 20th Century Fox to create en engaging movie trailer. Looks like they're using this experiment at scale now.

It helps to refine fashion design. You can sketch changes to a bag or a shoe and see how it could look in a real product.

A good article series by Rob Girling from Artefact. He looks at skills that can be automated and tries to predict the future of design as s profession.

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.

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.