#human-centered-ai

Why Community Products Need Supervised AI

An AI assistant changes one sentence:

AI Should Lower the Cost of Expression, Not Replace Judgment

Suppose someone records a short voice note:

Liberation Technologies: Cybercafes and the Death of the Amateur Web

I’ve always lived with divided loyalties between art and science. I love drawing and painting and making things, but I also love…

Aegis Pulse: Designing an AI-Powered First Aid Guidance System for the Golden Minutes

By Amdjed Mohamed Dariadi

As AI Begins to Act for Us, Will We Still Know How to Choose?

When AI Starts Taking Action for Us,

當 AI 開始替人類行動， 人類是否仍然能保有判斷與選擇？

當 AI 開始替我們行動時，

Designing a Conversation, Not a Chatbot

A few months ago I started an experiment: design an interaction that helps visitors to my personal page quickly find what they’re actually…

The Brake Is the Point

Why a government pulling the plug on its own frontier model — even clumsily — is a quietly human moment

The System 3 Trap: Can Multimodal AI Restore Human Conscience?

A couple of weeks ago on Feb 28th 2026, as I sat at my desk reviewing the latest progress on our Multimodal AI Lab, a news notification…

Can Humans and AI Flourish Together?

The goal of advanced AI should extend beyond optimizing transactions or merely amplifying intelligence and creativity. It should also…

The Future of Human-AI Interaction Design

The future of human-AI interaction design is about trust, not intelligence. Models are now a commodity. The interface is the moat. By the…

Your AI Synthesis Is Only as Good as Your Research Notes

Why researcher judgment matters more, not less, in the age of AI-assisted analysis

Don’t Send Generic Emails — Embrace Personalization for Greater Profits

Discover how personalized emails can transform your engagement and profits, making your outreach more human and effective.

Working with AI Without Losing Your Voice

A practical and reflective guide to using AI as a thinking partner rather than a substitute for judgment, creativity, or human discernment.

One Thing AI Cannot Take From You

What you can draw honest conclusions from is your own process, and only your own.

What Happens When You Combine AI, Automation, and Human-Centered Problem Solving for Mental Health?

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The Mirror We Hold Up to AI: Ethics Starts With Us

We are living through one of the most consequential technological shifts in human history. Artificial intelligence is no longer a science…

Building AI That Understands Humans: Why Human-State Awareness Matters

Most AI applications today are intelligent.

AI Accelerates Research Outputs Faster than Human Expertise Can Develop — and that Should Concern Us

While removing inefficiency, it can also erode human capability development.

Whose Fingerprints Are These, Anyway?

Building an AI tool that handles the vision and the geometry, so the potter can focus on the flow

You’re Using AI. But Do You Actually Understand It?

I want to be honest with you about something. Most of us — myself included at first — have been learning AI the wrong way.

Phony AI Coaches, Evangelists & Experts — Stop It.

Let me say something that might ruffle a few feathers.

AI Doesn’t Know Your Story — But It Should

Let me ask you something.

Beyond the Chat Box: What Building a Multi-Agent Studio Taught Me About Human-Centered AI

Early on in building an AI-native comic studio, I set up what felt like a natural experiment: a swarm of agents inside a single chat. I…

Why Human-Centric AI Has To Run on the Edge. Empathy Matters.

The first essay in Human-Centric AI & Design — a journal on building intelligent systems that serve the human in the room, not the system…

Meta’s New Tool: What Employee Keystroke Recording Means for You

Meta’s keystroke tracking could reshape work dynamics. Here’s what it means for employees and our communities.

How Human-Machine Teaming is Transforming Underwater Exploration

Discover how human-machine collaboration is reshaping underwater exploration and what it means for our lives and communities.

AI, AI on the Wall

Using AI to understand which stock will beat them all

Rethinking Work in the Age of AI: A Human-Centered Perspective

Explore how AI is reshaping work and community, opening doors for people and enhancing everyday lives.

The Applied Scientist’s Identity Crisis: Why We’re More Than Model Builders

As someone working in Agentic AI at AWS, I’ve been asked countless times: “If you’re not building models, what makes you an applied…

Real Questions, Imaginary Participants

Synthetic Data for Your Next HCI Research

When Should Organizations Choose Angelic Intelligence Over Traditional AI?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force across industries, enabling organizations to automate processes, analyze…

How Small Business Owners Can Use AI to Improve Website Messaging & Customer Experience

For many small business owners, your website is more than a digital brochure …it’s your first impression, your sales conversation, and your…

IDEO’s Futuring vs Anticipatory Design

Beyond the Futures Cone: How anticipatory design bridges the gap between imagining futures and building them responsibly

Thoughtpiece : The Invisible Interface- My Thoughts on the Future of UX

5-El día que el médico volvió a mirar a los ojos

Cómo la automatización silenciosa le devolvió tiempo a la atención en salud

AI-Dad: Preserving Legacy Through Conversational Intelligence

Building an AI to keep wisdom, voice, and love alive.

Why the Future of AI Is a Parenting Problem, Not an Engineering One

When societies encounter powerful new technologies, the instinct is almost always the same: turn to engineers. We ask for stronger…

How AI is making talent acquisition more human at Ascendion

Originally published at https://ascendion.com.

I Asked Manus AI to Evaluate Itself — Here’s What Happened

An experience designer’s first impressions of Manus AI

The Evolving Role of Human-Centered Strategies in a Shifting Business Landscape

The perception that human-centered strategies are becoming less critical for businesses has been gaining traction across professional…

On AI Anthropomorphism: Commentary by Mary Lou Maher

by Mary Lou Maher (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US)

Cognitive Strategy Prompts for Human Centered AI Opportunity Detection

This article is based on the publication “Cognitive Strategy Prompts” (Creativity & Cognition 2022, ACM), co-written with Daniella Tsar…