UX professionals need to stop expecting their employer to care about their career advancement as much as they do for themselves.

The Product, UX, and Engineering industries are in flux. You already know this. Between economic chaos, political instability, and AI upending everything we thought we understood about our work, teams are losing headcount while the workload doubles.

Teams fall in love with shiny demos, skip the boring strategy work, then wonder why nobody trusts them later. The real problem isn't the technology, it's jumping to tools before defining governance.

Companies are spending millions on AI that doesn't work because they're solving the wrong problems. Here's how to avoid the common disasters and build systems people actually use.

I'm cutting through the AI hype to deliver seven principles for UX leaders who want actual business results, not just talk about how they are "experimenting" with AI to keep the executives off their backs.

The machines are reading our minds now, or at least pretending to, and the whole digital interface landscape has turned into a kaleidoscope of predictive notifications and proactive hand-holding that would make any psychic reach for their tarot cards to revise their predictions.