I started my relationship with LinkedIn Learning back in 2007 through Lynda.com. Along the way, I became associated with Video2Brain, which was later acquired in 2013 by Lynda.com. Lynda.com was then acquired by LinkedIn in 2015, which itself was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Despite all the upheaval, one thing remained constant: authors always felt welcome by everyone.
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Don’t mourn the passing of Flash. Instead, celebrate those who got us here. Flash was nothing more than a tool or as Josh Davis said, “Code is just as artistic as using paint and a brush.” But what a brush!
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As designers, our job is to bring something new to life, whether it be a UI, an image, a video or words. The AI is clueless when it comes to the word “new”. It is trained on what has been done. The word “new” to an AI is as foreign as my first immersion in the Chinese language in Beijing. The disconnect between the designer and the AI is language.
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Even more dangerous is the increasing number of posts claiming AI will solve our UX ills. They won’t. AI will reduce our “busy work” load by automating processes, aiding research, and so on. What they will not do is turn UX Designers into curators merrily clicking away or writing “killer” prompts. It is a classic case of not falling in love with the User, but falling in love with the technology.
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As we move through our lives, we all have profound experiences. Marriage. Birth of a child. Death of a parent. New job. Loss of a job or some other experience. There is a small group of us that have an experience that is unique to us. Discovering you are not alone in the world.
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In the middle of all of this swirling chaos stands a teacher trying to make sense of it all by asking a simple question: “What do my students need to know to get in on the “fun” and what do I need to know to teach it?” The answer involves two stark choices: Do what you have always done and hope “God sorts it out” or take a deep breath and leap into the center of the maelstrom whirling around you. The pundits call it “disruption”. I call it “exhilarating”.
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Eventually, though, you are going to encounter a client who asks, “Do you own the rights to this image? “ Is it ethical to say you do if you started with a stick tree?.
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