Category: k i n o k a s t

  • My Essay on NotebookLM: Just Research & Join the LIVE chat!

    Pre-Selfie Architecture Photography: Alternative Interpassivity Before Mobile Ubiquity’ 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 Marxist…

  • 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…

  • The 2025 aiSauce promises us all the best of UX ever-after! (BTW why all this Sci-Fi graphics?)

    Hello, how are you today? Hugh?From ‘i’ to ‘ai’: A Playful & and Grimm Look at Tech Naming & conversing Trends Remember when everything was “i-this” and “i-that”? Back in 1998, Steve (not Ballmer) created and destroyed Jobs unveiling the iMac, proudly announcing that the “i” stood for “internet” – could have been anything from…

  • The Deeper Perversity of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Dany-Robert Dufour from Elucid.media (informed from the French)

    Speak aiPod004 NotebookLM (Google AI) You’ll need to give your Google account details here (I am not from Google!) Summary of this (Google) NotebookLM This resource is a collection of notes. It includes a (free) study guide that I found necessary to create. This NotebookLM was carefully derived and edited from the excellent master interview…

  • Navigate AI Integration in UX Design – Speak aiPod001 – NotebookLM

    November 18, 2024 (under construction . . . , you’ll need your Google account to access the free NotebookLM) Speak aiPod001 – Your NotebookLM 1. What is Speak aiPod001? Speak aiPod001 is a free, AI-generated audio guide that explores the world of AI UX design. It aims to break down the jargon. It humorously highlights…

  • Exploring AI Conversations with Aiko and Blaise (man or machine?)

    In Speaking terms with aiTeam Aiko and Blaise on AI UX design?

  • Speak aiPod is Out!

    After some (human) real sweat and tears, happy to let this out in the open! A podcast on AI user experience design that I, humble human, started, with AI & non AI tools. I hope you enjoy it and tell what matches expectations or not In this Speak aiPod 001, we (the AI & I)…

  • Exploring the Limitations of AI in Podcasting: when my narcissistic designer’s bias is feeding AI audio?

    I have tested a new AI Podcast app functionality from Google NotebookLM called ‘Audio overview’. Listen to this AI-generated Audio guide of kinokast.org => Beware of my obvious personal bias that translated into AI bias in maximized marketing grandiosity, very north Americanized? AI generated conversations look still very much like this bad ‘Stock photo’ picture…

  • Decoding AI UX Design: A Guide for All Levels, the new AI UX Speak 001, AI podcast?

    Ever wondered what UX designers and researchers actually mean when discussing AI projects? Let’s decode the corporate-speak across designers’ experience levels, shall we?

  • Extraordinary Job posting in 2024 for a UX designer…

    I have found this rather extraordinary, real-life UX design Job posting by accident. Try read it loud at the office (if you dare)! Question: what is really completely totally wrong? Find the clue

  • Continued Growth in AI Companions in 2024?

    In the enthusiasm of AI’s popular launch of 2023, like many others before, with or after me, I indulged some free time in testing my luck with new textual prompts to create graphical devices with AI- say logos and images. One fast and furious example is the image above. The summery prompt given to the…

  • Jakob Nielsen’s 1st of April joke or vision?

    Nielsen, April 1st 2024: ‘Of most interest to me is that this improved AI capability will finally allow the ultimate in discount usability: the complete removal of expensive humans from all user research. It’s common to pay study participants around $100 just so that we can watch them stumble through our product for an hour.…

  • Charting the AI UX Landscape: A Short Voyage Through Logic and Self-Irony?

    Charting the AI UX Landscape: A Voyage Through Logic and Self-Irony UX design Assistants with AI – In the perpetually moving landscape of user experience design (UXD) customer experience (CX), where the dualities of mastery and apprenticeship, human insight and artificial intelligence, creativity and logic all intertwine, we arrive at a turning point—a moment where…