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UX, AI & Product
Hands-on experiments and analysis around digital platforms.
When AI Reads Along: Why Regulated Industries Need to Rethink Their Content
Expert content loses qualifiers and evidence levels under AI compression. What this means for insurance, banking and health.
Read ArticleFOMO Filter for AI News in Detail
I've been running a weekly AI briefing agent for months. Four hours to build, a few cents a month. Here's what actually works and what I had to rewrite.
Read ArticleVoice AI with Gemini Live: Prototype Set Up in 3 Hours
A bad screening call was the trigger. This prototype shows what Google's Gemini Live API can do today — for cents per call.
Read ArticleControlling AI Understanding with Schema and llms.txt
Schema markup helps Google but LLMs can't read it. What actually determines whether AI cites your content correctly?
Read ArticleWhy Google Clicks Are Disappearing — And How to Stay Visible
Page-one CTR has dropped to 15%. AI answers eat the traffic. Why users stopped clicking, what it means for SEO, and what actually helps.
Read ArticleHanzi Movie Method: AI as Screenwriter for Your Memory
Chinese characters encoded as movie scenes, generated by Gemini, remembered by you. The roles are clearly divided.
Read ArticleAI Progress: You Don't Need to Keep Up With Everything
The flood of AI releases creates pressure to stay current at all costs. Three filters help you ignore the noise and focus on what actually matters for your work.
Read ArticleAI Overviews Are Stealing Your Clicks: A GEO Playbook
When AI Overviews answer queries before users click, rankings alone do not protect traffic. This playbook shows how GEO can recover visibility and demand.
Read ArticleGerman AI Text Detection: Why Language Signals Matter
German AI writing leaves different traces than English. The Humanizer detects 57 language-specific patterns with voice calibration, false-positive guardrails, and a typography audit.
Read ArticleAI Overviews Favor Authority Over Expertise: What to Do
A broad AI Overviews analysis shows domain authority often beats expertise. Here is what that means for SEO strategy, content design, and brand trust.
Read ArticleVerbalized Sampling: More Diversity Without Fine-Tuning
Verbalized Sampling (VS) is a prompt-based trick to fight Mode Collapse in aligned LLMs—getting you more creative answers without any training.
Read ArticleWhy Bad UX Endangers IT Security (and Inclusion)
A CAPTCHA fail by the Federal Network Agency shows: when security, UX, and accessibility are split, systems become insecure and exclusionary.
Read ArticleContent Testing for Revenue and Culture
Why untested content is a business risk and how content testing boosts conversion while changing how teams make decisions.
Read ArticleAI Chatbots in UX: Why Reliability Beats Showmanship
Users trust chatbots that are clear, honest, and useful. This article shows what reliability in UX tests looks like and how to design for it.
Read ArticleTaxonomy in AI Prompting
How a fixed category structure (taxonomy) makes AI answers comparable, machine-readable, and reproducible, with a JSON example and clear limits.
Read ArticleAmbivalent Personas: Simulating Realistic Users with AI
Learn why consistent AI personas fail in UX practice and how targeted prompts help you model realistic user contradictions for better design decisions.
Read ArticleDark Patterns in UX Design at Banks
How a banking app uses a prize draw to extract data consent: the three manipulation patterns behind it, the legal gray zone, and what honest UX does instead.
Read ArticleWhat AI Reveals About Product Management
AI automates product artifacts but highlights what still matters: judgment, synthesis, and deep context. Learn where human product leadership adds value.
Read ArticleSEO 2026: 7 Strategies to Keep Your Brand Visible in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT
SEO isn’t dead, but visibility no longer ends with a click. Seven strategies brands can use in 2026 to stay cited, mentioned, and correctly described across Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT.
Read ArticleWhen LLMs Become the Browser: What Changes for the Web
If navigation shifts from links to answers, reach, discoverability, and brand presence all change. What that means for the web and for visibility.
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