AI & user experience design

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* aiPods {A-I-pods} interactive?
– Yes, chat with voice today!

Ask AI podcasts about: AI, UX design, relevant societal topics, and more…

Read more about NotebookLM interactive podcasts…

NotebookLM Audio Overviews or AI podcasts are lively “deep dive” discussions that summarize the key topics in your sources as a dialogue. This is an experimental feature (multi-language) and below are some notes to help you get started:

  • You need a Google account to access and/or edit a free Notebook.
  • You can share your feedback on an Audio Overview using the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons.
  • Audio Overviews (including the voices) are AI-generated, so there might be inaccuracies and audio glitches.
  • Audio Overviews are not a comprehensive or objective view of a topic, but simply a reflection of your sources.
  • Audio Overviews will be in the output language you have selected in your Notebook Settings.
  • It can take several minutes to generate an Audio Overview (feel free to do other things while generation is in progress).
  • Access multi-language AI podcasting via NotebookLM Settings (choose your Output language)
  • You need edit access to a Notebook in order to generate or delete an Audio Overview.

Meet Aiko & Blaise in aiPods: Your Research AI Voice Chat Companions

aiPod MUSIC: courtesy of linakamura, Trials of the Grotto EP ©2024

A photography project, Example: Check out my latest research notebook that updates my 2006 essay for 2025: “Pre-Selfie Architecture Photography: Alternative Interpassivity Before Mobile Ubiquity” – exploring how we photographed buildings before smartphones changed everything. Read more

Who are Aiko & Blaise? Aiko & Blaise are AI research assistants designed to help students learn. Here’s what makes them reliable:

  • They provide only fact-checked, researched information – never made-up content
  • They always cite their sources so you can verify information
  • They create a welcoming learning environment that respects all students
  • They encourage critical thinking and open discussion (with voice interaction)

Important: These AI assistants are tools for learning, not the focus. They help organize research and present information clearly, but real learning comes from your own thinking and analysis.

Their goal is to make complex topics accessible while maintaining academic standards and promoting inclusive, easy to access education.

AI personas Aiko & Blaise share smart insights and funny critiques about UX design, human-friendly AI, and current societal issues. Visit the aiPods Listing page.

Blue topics: 
AI, UX design, Educational
aiPods in Blue; treat topics like:
AI, UX design, Educational
Purple topics: 
Cultural, Political, Life
aiPods in Purple; focus on topics like:
Cultural, Political, Life

Welcome to my blog at kinokast.eu! I’m Jerome Bertrand – an AI UX designer, design teacher, and visual artist. I create interactive AI podcasts called aiPods to help us all learn about AI, design, and life changes together.

My motto: Mentoring the mentor in you

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No panic! Rather, remain critical.

Can we playfully explore how AI behaves and how language models try to sound human?

The Dual-podcast video explores the new function on HeyGen (as of May 2025). Avatars here are ‘Gala’ and ‘Raul’.

aiPod 018 – Ai and the End of Learning? Teaser Video Dual-podcast produced with HeyGen (March 2025)- (5:07min)

Read blog on genAI: AI Hype economy decay and ‘Hype-As-A-Service’ (Haas)

tl;dr

What about that AI video podcast? Can we playfully explore how AI tries to act human without getting scared?

This AI dual podcast from HeyGen.ai analyzes current AI limitations. But how do you feel about the topics and how AI handles them?

I’ve been testing HeyGen’s new ‘Dual Podcast’ AI feature. Some might say this is just for fun – a way to pass time.

But the results show a compelling truth: these AI chatbots – despite looking polished – reveal their flaws when reading and explaining text. Their fake gestures and speech clearly show they’re not human.

This perfectly demonstrates what the content explains: we need better AI development – AI with real social intelligence like humans have (as researcher Yann LeCun suggests).

What do you think? Leave a comment below!

My co-workers said…

Jerome strikes me as a compassionate teacher who takes care of each and everyone of his students while making sure they achieve their learning goals.
I appreciate his direct communication of any sort, which makes finding the right solutions together faster.

It’s been a pleasure working with him.

Program Lead
The Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany

Madini Liebscher

Jerome worked helped us to on-board our UX/UI design specialist and help her figuring out what our business and user interface needs are.

His ability to coach and teach helped was of great value, and we’re looking forward to working with him again in the future!

Principal Software Engineer
Reonic, Berlin, Germany

Hans Hübner

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Cultivating Critical Discourse Through Digital Curation?

I meticulously document and curate AI-generated dialogues (I called them ‘AB Converse’ or ABC, or better: aiPods) at the nexus of artificial intelligence (AI), user experience design (UX) and authentic human historical narratives—all in service of fostering collective critical discernment in facts-based-design. You can interact with my free aiPod via NotebookLM

aiPod: 019 – Reflections

aiPod 019 - Reflexive AI Trajectories 2025-2027

AI Personas, Indispensable Human Skills, Abilities, and Inclusive Design

Free interactive Notebook 
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Interact with AI podcast aiPod 019 – Reflexive AI Trajectories 2025-2027
AI Personas, Indispensable Human Skills, Abilities, and Inclusive Design
The free interactive Mode NotebookLM is part of this Conversational ai-based podcast.

Converse with aiPods, Interactive AI-based Podcasts and Notebooks.

AI/ genAI is providing incorrect or misleading responses. What’s going on?

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Photo by Jerome Bertrand © 2023 – Photo series ‘Splitting’ (License, Creative Commons: CC BY-NC 4.0)

AI art critique: “In Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, this evocative abstract image echoes the 2011 Gerhard Richter’s ‘Strip’ paintings in the background.”

This digital photo is a ‘non-AI generated‘ work that I applied to the kinokast aiPod logo style as shown below.



Read about when AI attempts to replace a graphical logo style, art critique? (2023)

What people said…

Jerome is a dedicated out-of-the-box thinker, an excellent graphic designer. With his visionary visual skills, he blew the minds of customers at many occasions.”

Full Professor of Product Development
Faculty of Design Sciences, Antwerp, Belgium

Jouke Verlinden

Jerome is a compassionate and supportive teacher who is clearly very passionate and experienced in design. It was wonderful having his guidance through my learning process.

Specifically, he offered me a lot of support in navigating the design thinking process and helping to sift through large amounts of user insights, design problems and where to focus.

UX Researcher, Product Manager
Design Thinking, Service Design, Berlin, Germany

Nina Lloyd

Blog posts

Even the bitterest fruit has sugar in it.

– Terry a. O’Neal (1973)

American writer and poet. O’Neal was named one of the century’s great Black women writers in a book entitled Literary Divas: The Top 100+ Most Admired African-American Women Writers in Literature (2006).

Aiko & Blaise Converse interactive podcasts, I called them aiPods

Dive deep into critical conversations and ask questions about AI and UX design that matter to you.

Check out my NotebookLM podcasts speech-to-speech Interactive mode, where you can engage live with your comments and question (only in English at the moment).


All aiPod Listing

Why are we humans, learning?
Ask Aiko & Blaise in aiPod interactive podcasts!

What people said…

Working with Jerome was a wonderful experience for me not least because of what I learnt from him and helping me further my career but also Jerome fostered a fantastic and fun working environment and team. Should the opportunity arise in the future I would be glad to work again with Jerome.”

Product designer
Consultant EY Tax & Services, Berlin

Niall Mc Manus

Jerome has been a fantastic lead teacher and mentor. Although we did not technically work together, I see our teacher-learner dialogue as a rich experience in collaborative work! Thanks to him I was able to transform my career path efficiently and smoothly.
Whenever I have a hard decision to make related to my designer’s career and need some advice, I don’t hesitate to knock again at his door!

Product designer
Tourlane, Berlin

Jinyu Chen

Aiko & Blaise are my AI host characters – experiments I created to help you explore topics through voice conversations. They have their own personalities and speaking styles, and yes, they make mistakes just like humans!

I use cool AI tools like Google NotebookLM Audio Overview where you can talk with them live by clicking ‘Join!’ It’s exciting to see how text-to-speech AI is developing, and I’ll create more experiments in different languages.

Check out the demo at Sesame – ask Aiko & Blaise questions using your microphone (English only for now). Try it free (ask me for the NotebookLM link).

You can also compare two approaches: Google NotebookLM with audio and Cobundle (no audio yet) about AI & UX design best practices.
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  • My Essay on NotebookLM: Research updated with the AI chat (2025)

    Pre-Selfie Architecture Photography: Alternative Interpassivity Before Mobile Ubiquity (NotebookLM) My research originally dated 2006 explores alternative interpassivity in architectural photography—a concept I developed from 2005, inspired by the thinking of among others: ‘my master’ Lucien Hervé (1910-2007), the French-Hungarian photographer and longtime friend of Le Corbusier; American modern architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974); and Slovenian…

  • AI Job Interview Scam or Dark UX? How Perplexity AI Uncovered the Truth

    Perplexity.ai helps me check a VOX AI, clear AI job interview scam or at least, a badly done AI job, or plain UX black pattern?

  • ‘HaaS’: AI Hype economy decay?

    ‘HaaS’ Badge image, Courtesy of Stephen Klein, 2025. ‘HYPE-AS-A-SERVICE (Haas)’: In the AI Economy’s Circular Conundrum of AI Hype’s Profits, Predictions, and Synthetic Perils Generative AI’s Self-Consuming Paradox The generative AI revolution is eating itself—quite literally. And it’s doing so with a rather voracious appetite. While I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed yesterday, I…

  • Reflexive AI Trajectories 2025-2027

    The collection of aiPod, AI podcasts features an e-learning platform for designers looking to integrate AI into their workflow, complete with an “Interactive mode” button that allows listeners to pause and ask questions during the learning experience. UX Design, AI Personas? Indispensable Human Skills? Inclusive Design? I would love to hear your thoughts! AUDIO ONLY (31:09min) INTERACTIVE MODE…

  • Compare these 2, free AI Notebooks

    Please help me to compare two new ways of learning with AI notebooks on the topics of Ai and UX design Best practices… Test the two new notebooks I’ve created and curated with identical content sources about AI and UX design Best practices and considerations. They both contain the same content. It would be great…

  • Happy Valentine’s day party Simulacra (AI Research, 2023)

    Short Read – the aiPod 006 Valentine Simulacra recap Call a bird, a bird? What Are Generative Agents? Generative Agents are AI systems designed to simulate human-like behavior. They can learn, adapt, and make decisions based on their experiences, much like how humans do. These agents aren’t just following pre-programmed scripts; they’re actively processing information…

My story

In January 2025, I decided to migrate kinokast.org to Hostinger.com with WordPress.org, along with updating to the (I think) simpler and more generic domain name: kinokast.eu.
This migration will also save me lots of time!

Mission
My mission is about empowering UX designers to move beyond technical solutions, creating design processes that are deeply empathetic, culturally aware, and universally accessible. I do this collaborating and learning with AI tooling, AI agents and a healthy dose of human, necessary self-irony.

In 2025, everyone’s personal and business AI stack will very probably include custom (educational) apps to support their work and continuous learning, at work, at home and on the move (the like of chatGPT’s, dedicated AI agents and mobile, voice AI).

My taste? (many)
I work like many of us today a.o. with OpenAI, Mistral.ai, Claude.ai or other leading AI systems. AI apps like assistants, companions, advisers or agents will tend to work more and more as our colleagues. They will not only act like our well trained computing-slaves but as co-creating tools. They will adopt – or fully mimic -useful co-workers’ hands, behaviors and mindsets to engage in collaboration. How to design these new man-machine interactions and serve humans the best?

Bio
I’ve been working in user experience design, education and coaching for 25 years (my full Bio). I’ve built this website first as a blogging side-project – and it’s taking more attention lately.

Stay tuned but not too hyped up!
AI development should better slow down a bit to accommodate well with a true – human – collaborative, pace and space.

Let’s keep focused on the true human experience of technology. Where technology can sometimes help in doing just that.

People said

Jerome was often pointing out how to make this UX and UI design learning process more fun, how to enjoy the creative and intellectual process in design thinking. Most importantly for me, he showed me how to implement previous skills and knowledge gained as a fashion designer into a new field – totally new to me.

Fashion and Graphic Designer
Cash For Trash, Novi Sad, Serbia

Milena Mila Popovic

I have known Jerome for more than a decade. He’s is one of the professionals I met along my path that fit well in a talent description:
Creativity is one thing but when properly applied to human needs, interactive systems, and education, it becomes magical.

Strategist, Principal Consultant
Keen Design, Utrecht, Netherlands

Jonathan Arnowitz

My new, 2025, self-learning AI-agent: @Speax
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Listen to my free aiPods produced with AI tools & apps, the like of: Mistral, Claude, chatGPT, Perplexity, NotebookLM…

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The unique 3 min episodes from Arte.tv, all about a serious world of irony of the AI!

The Arte.tv mini docs series about AI: more than just tasty humor.

10 x short, brilliant, (3 min) episodes about our hyper-AI life.

Available until 29/08/2027 on Arte.tv

Prompt is an artificial intelligence programme that genuinely wants to help you live a better life. Can it bring us some sunshine? 

My working philosophy (or ethics); motto is ‘mentoring the mentor in you’. My mission is to help emerging AI-driven UX design individuals, groups and companies achieve human-centered design processes, products & services through my AI UX design coaching.

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Generated AI UX design (free) class, Speak is produced with our designer’s experience in mind by kinokast.eu
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

– Molière (1622 – 1673)

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more.

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AI UX Design for Good

Introducing a new, affordable educational initiative for AI UX design, centered on ethical applications. I am starting the New Year 2025 with the theme ‘AI UX Design for Good.’

This collaborative, hybrid (Human-AI) type of coaching program is available at a highly competitive rate. It is much lower than standard commercial UX design or AI development coaching rates to accommodate for learners world-wide.

More people said

Jerome is one of the most passionate, honest and thoughtful designers, mentors and teachers I have come across. He truly lives for nothing other than encouraging and inspiring his design students.

Most of all, I learned how to build self-confidence as a designer.

UX & UI Designer
PwC Deutschland, Hamburg

Sungran Lee

Jerome and I embarked on a project to harness mapping APIs like Google Maps, Google Earth 3D assets and MS Virtual Earth for presenting location based information and services in an intuitive and appealing web interface (GeoGames).

Jerome’s talent as a designer and as an artist is complemented by his passion for creating a compelling product and his willingness to put in the hard work needed to reach the goal.

Senior Development Expert
Rhode & Schwarz,? Munich

Bernhard Sterzbach

Experimenting with chatGPT

ask\wAI chatGPT mentoring UX design assistants

ask\wAI Assistant & Coach (custom chatGPT)

ask\wAI – Purpose-driven UX design chatGPTs

How can AI be used to enhance the UX design process itself? (requires OpenAI Plus)

AI can be a powerful tool within the UX design workflow:
• AI-powered design assistants: Tools like “ask\wAI Pro” act as virtual mentors, providing feedback and playful critique on design choices.
• Facilitating team collaboration: Tools like “Unity UX Coach” aim to improve communication and collaboration within design teams, ensuring everyone is in sync.

UX design mentor Assistant – ask\wAI (custom chatGPT)
(OpenAI Plus required)


Purpose: Design Productivity

Ask anything human to a professionally curated UX design mentor – AI UX design assistant. Empower your daily UX design practice with some necessary and healthy self-irony…

…is like having a personal trainer for your UX design journey – that guides and challenges you, but also makes sure you have fun and don’t take yourself too seriously.

UnityUX Coach – ask\wAI (custom chatGPT)
(OpenAI Plus required)


Purpose: Team Productivity

UnityUX Coach is Empowering UX teams with masterful communication and conflict resolution strategies to enhance collaboration, streamline design processes, and foster a harmonious work environment.

UnityUX Coach is like a conductor of an orchestra, bringing together different instruments and players to create a harmonious and beautiful symphony. Just as a conductor uses their skills to guide and communicate with the musicians, the UnityUX Coach empowers and guides UX teams to work together seamlessly and create a flawless design process.

ask\wAI – StudyBuddy (custom chatGPT)

ask\wAI – StudyBuddy chatGPTs

For continuous learning (OpenAI Plus required)

AI “studybuddy” chatGPTs can assist designers take notes and revisit UX design literature classics by providing interactive learning experiences.

Continuous learning UX design with AI is like building a prospective bridge. With each new book or study, you add another support. This strengthens your understanding and allows you to reach new degrees of expertise.

Just like a bridge connects two points, continuous learning connects your current understanding to new and innovative ideas.

And just like a bridge requires maintenance and reinforcement, continuous learning requires revisiting and re-reading previous materials. This solidifies your foundation and builds upon it continuously.

UX Design – StudyBuddy (custom chatGPT)


UX design – StudyBuddy UX Strategy/ Jaime Levy
(OpenAI Plus required)

Purpose: Continuous Education

ask\wAI – UX Book StudyBuddy guide to note-taking.

Learn from Jaime Levy’s “UX strategy. How to devise innovative digital products that people want” ©2015.

Re-read UX design classics!

UX Design – StudyBuddy (custom chatGPT)

UX design – StudyBuddy UX Elements for the Web / JJ Garrett
(OpenAI Plus required)

Purpose: Continuous Education

ask\wAI – UX Book StudyBuddy guide to note taking.

Learn from Jesse James Garrett’s “The Elements of User Experience. User-centered Design Experience for the Web” ©2003

Check and study UX design classics!

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