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in an email. "It's a shift that raises important questions for the industry — including whether AI will be implemented in ways that reinforce user control, or in ways that reduce it."

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"What we're seeing right now is a broader transition: Tried and tested tactics are degrading user choice and experiences on the web and now translating to AI," Griffin further explained to The Register

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Instead, introducing a certain amount of disfluency into the design — making the text less legible — may actually increase the reader’s ability to remember and process the information.

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Surprising, though, transparency may actually work against understanding the authors message if it becomes too easy to read or fluent.

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The goal of readability is to allow the reader to move through text as effortlessly and quickly as possible, with the typography becoming transparent to the author’s underlying message.

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Readability is the quality of text that makes it easy to follow for sustained periods with minimal strain to the reader. Traditionally, readability is achieved through the use of highly legible typefaces, highly contrasted colors, and well proportioned line lengths and spacing.

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Typography style guide showcasing different font styles, including "Open Sans" with examples of letters and numbers.

Typography Is About Understanding, Not Readability

When legibility and readability are a problem

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In an agile environment, you will often have coders, project managers, product managers and people from other disciplines sitting in to give feedback, and you need to know how to quickly get them up to speed on the expectations if you want to get anywhere fast."

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If done well, design critiques allow everyone on the team to feel as if they have been heard and allow clients to give valuable feedback.

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Ask More Questions. | How To Run A UI Design Critique — Smashing Magazine | https://archive.smashing.media/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629/4aac6155-f7c6-4b73-ad6b-ca5f4bec7a94/questions-500-opt.jpeg

How To Run A UI Design Critique

"Design critiques are an important part of any product exploration. A good design critique is meant to explore the design, find where it is working and where it could be improved.

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Here are a few questions that I have found open dialogue for exploring designs in a collaborative, rather than combative, way, which you can suggest to your team.

The key is to ask the right questions.

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Framed poster on a wall reads "ASK MORE QUESTIONS," flanked by two wall clocks and fabric swatches below. Ask More Questions. | How To Run A UI Design Critique — Smashing Magazine | https://archive.smashing.media/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629/4aac6155-f7c6-4b73-ad6b-ca5f4bec7a94/questions-500-opt.jpeg

How To Run A UI Design Critique — Smashing Magazine

Asking The Right Questions

Plenty of questions and statements work against strong cooperation in a design critique.

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Computers are stupid. We often forget that because they are so fast at doing math. But a computer has no intuition and can't make assumptions about a persons actions, that takes the intelligence of a designer.

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18 ways Doctor Who can make you a better designer | Creative Bloq

04. The trouble with computers is, they're very sophisticated idiots. They do exactly what you tell them at amazing speeds

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