In this episode, discover the UX Pathway that Dr. Karl Fast followed, a self-employed Information Architect.

Listen to find out how to adapt your UX career in an age of AI. He states UX is not simply about making interfaces easier to use, but ultimately is helping people think, understand, decide, and act.

Top Themes

1. Keep learning beyond UX.

• The most valuable insights may come from psychology, philosophy, information science, systems thinking, cognitive science, or other disciplines—not from another UX methodology.

2. Design for thinking, not just interaction.

• The future of UX is bigger than interfaces. We design the environments, tools, systems, and relationships through which people understand, reason, collaborate, and make decisions.

3. Don’t ask what AI replaces, but ask what humans should do differently.

• AI is changing the capabilities of technology and disrupting organizational power structures. The opportunity for UX is to understand where human judgment, research, creativity, context, and sense-making create value in an AI-augmented system.