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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  17 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
Boring AI
is Good AI
Gordon
Why AI Scaffolding
Matters More than Use Cases
Flowers · S6
Decentralized
AI is the Future
Goertzel
Canonical
Knowledge is Key
DosSantos
What AI as
Cheap Prediction Means
Gans
Cheap Prediction,
Expensive Change
Goldfarb
Folk Law &
Fax Machines
Pahlka
Inside The
Infinity Machine
Mallaby
Crisis Is
Your Opening
Nitze
The Confabulation
Machine
Ratliff
No Strategy
Without Vision
Evergreen
When Agents Have
Wallets, Trust Is Currency
Cohen Freue
Nuclear Fusion,
No Power Lines
Frankle
The Checklist Your
Deck Is Missing
McMillan
Knowing Before
Doing
Hasbe
The Pyramid Was
Always Wrong
Barzun
Structure Before
Features
Schwartz
Selling to
Machines
Scheibenreif
What Agentic
Orchestration Actually Means
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Contributing Author

Elias Parker

UX Magazine Fellow
EP

For around 10 years I've been observing companies and non-profits create conversational applications, artificial intelligence experiences, and chatbots. ...I won't refuse a great espresso or a chance to interview interesting industry leaders over a bike ride.

Contributions to UXM

15 pieces
1
Class of 2016

The Anthropology & Future Of Chat-Bots & Conversational-Commerce

2016-09-23◆ Class of 2016
2
Class of 2014

These 7 Ingredients Can Revitalize Customer Experience

2014-10-28◆ Class of 2014
3
Class of 2014

Making a Case for Animations and Interactivity

2014-08-14◆ Class of 2014
4
Class of 2014

Four Mobile Design Tips for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers

2014-02-25◆ Class of 2014
5
Class of 2014

Eight Guidelines for Successful Acceptance Testing

2014-02-17◆ Class of 2014
6
Class of 2014

Three Steps for Improving Mobile UX

2014-02-03◆ Class of 2014
7
Class of 2013

Coin Builds a Bridge, Can it Cross the Divide?

2013-11-15◆ Class of 2013
8
Class of 2013

Adapting UI to iOS 7: The Side Menu

2013-10-24◆ Class of 2013
9
Class of 2013

Blurred Lines: Integrating development, management, and design to deliver great products

2013-10-17◆ Class of 2013
10
Class of 2013

Home Automation: The next frontier for UX?

2013-02-26◆ Class of 2013
11
Class of 2011

Yes, Experience Can Be Designed

2011-12-13◆ Class of 2011
12
Class of 2011

Is Your Brochure An Interesting Read?

2011-07-11◆ Class of 2011
13
Class of 2010

Redesigning The Bloomberg Interface

2010-03-24◆ Class of 2010
14
Class of 2008

Only what you are looking for

2008-03-18◆ Class of 2008
15
Class of 2005

It's All Unimportant Until It's You

2005-12-22◆ Class of 2005