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[AI-UX] The Emergence Of The AI Interaction Designer

UX is shifting away from a focus on rigid graphical interfaces, and towards the design of collaborative workflows between humans and machines using auto-generated multi-modal interfaces.

AI-UX: Using ChatGPT From Your Apple Watch

What if you want to speak to ChatGPT from your wrist? There isn't a watch app yet, but it is possible to use Shortcuts to script an interaction with the ChatGPT API.

Security UX: Why "Don't Click" Is Unrealistic and Misses The Point

The cybersecurity field should use methods that are realistic, effective, and respectful. This article is part of a series highlighting common sub-optimal practices that try to"blame the user".

AI-UX: The End Of Information Architecture As We Know It

Information Architecture (IA) has long held that information should be structured in "logical" categories for users to navigate - but the premise is flawed, and AI query paradigms offer better UX.

Designing Optimal Agentic AI Experiences

Agentic (agent-based) AI offers tantalizing UX benefits and increased efficiency. However, how should they be designed to behave and will they really make users more productive?

Cybertruck UX Design Review

User Experience review of the Cybertruck covering FSD, the car itself, and common use cases.

Leveraged ETF Case Study: SOXL

Since the Nasdaq just went into a bear market, it is a good time to review the behavior and potential upsides of L-ETFs using a current example.

Stock Market Myths

There are no shortage of theories and myths about what causes the market to go up or down. Most of these already have multiple examples disproving them, but they continue to be perpetuated.

Test Results: Long-Term Leveraged ETF Investments

Most investment advisors and mainstream media advise against holding leveraged ETFs long-term. There is no reason you can't, and there are large benefits to doing so.

For A Balanced Portfolio: The Equal Parts Cocktail Model

We can learn a thing or two about balancing a financial portfolio from one of the world's best cocktails.

Yearly Returns For Various Investment Options

There are a confusing array of different investment choices, and many of them do not clearly communicate the typical yearly returns you can expect. Many of them are surprisingly low.

How To Live Tax-Free (In Retirement)

Roth retirement accounts offer strategies to cease paying taxes after you retire, which is one of the best passive income strategies around.

AI-AR-UX: The Compelling Future of Augmented Reality Glasses and How They Should Be Designed

"Smart" glasses offer very little value and VR goggles are extremely isolating and disorienting. Why don't we have glasses that augment vision and overlay useful data?

AI-UX: Chat-bot Intelligence Gradient Mismatches

Users will assume high-intelligence for bots that are incapable of it, resulting in high abandonment rates. This provides an opportunity to produce products that are genuinely smarter.

AI-UX: Generative Intent-Based Product Interfaces

Save us from the PMs and UX designers who ignore primary use cases and purposefully disempower users. AI may yet save the day with generative interfaces that focus on your goals.

What can we learn about the stock market from a drawdown chart?

Drawdown is an underused and hard to find metric for understanding stock market behavior.

Joining Substack and Transitioning From Medium

A selection of my previous articles.