Ai gave me a purple gradient, a 👋, and a "Quick Actions" grid. Looks fine. Looks like every other app, too. Even the stats were made up ("18 kg CO₂ saved 🌱", sure, buddy).
My version looks plainer on purpose, because I kept catching things AI never would:
Every person on your team has a different "user" in their head — and nobody ever says it out loud.
A proto-persona fixes that without needing a research budget or weeks of interviews. It's not research. It's your team's assumptions, written down and agreed on, so everyone designs...
The UX Research vocabulary is changing fast. These 6 terms are already showing up in job posts, team conversations, and research workflows — and most people don't have a clear definition for them yet.
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Before I share research findings, I ask AI to attack them first.
Not summarize. Attack.
It's easy to walk away from a few interviews feeling confident about a pattern. AI is good at making that confidence look even more solid — clean summary, clear themes, done. That's exactly...