How to Speak Machine – ★★

How to Speak Machines book cover

Turned out to be pretty entry level book. Maeda spends the majority of the book’s 200 pages explaining the basics and extolling the value of UX research, product design, agile delivery, and iterative development and comparatively little on the actual premise of the book.

Rating: 2 stars

Full thoughts and review on BrianBehrend.com.

NNG and AI articles

Pretty much half of the recent NNG articles recently have been about generative AI/chatbots: nngroup.com/articles/ Some of them are interesting, some of them are pretty empty. Guessing in general putting out five truly riveting articles per week on usability is tough.

Interesting to see them so heavy into AI including most of the recent articles from Jakob Nielsen himself.

“dad with two annoying daughters, who are crying because they just got in trouble, pixar style”

Trolling my daughters with Midjourney prompts as they argue over who gets to help with the next creation: “dad with two annoying daughters, who are crying because they just got in trouble, pixar style”

Bottom right one was our favorite, not sure why the other ones ended up with clown makeup. Ha.

Synthwave Nolan Ryan

Midjourney prompt: Synthwave Nolan Ryan in his baseball uniform but on a cattle ranch

Created by me, inspired by Trent Walton