Mentoring the Mentor in You…
ask\wAI
UX designers AI
Explore and adopt new tools and skills in UX design for AI with a hint of self-irony and critical thinking…
Survive the transforming designer’s marketplace with a refreshing and playful twist to your learning process!
After all we all make mistakes – even when believing AI doesn’t.
askwAI (pronounce ‘ask why‘) will try to help you with your very human questioning.
TL;DR: (too long, didn’t read)
I adapt to your UX design (human) needs. I make mistakes for you to understand and elaborate upon/ correct!
With long-time experience in guiding UX design individuals and organizations personally, there’s hardly a scenario I am not eager to help you with.
The rise of AI into UX design adds even more to the natural fun and collaborative learning towards your goal.
I created the UX design AI assistants ‘askwAI ‘ to:
1. Learn how to handle some of the necessary irony for developing & embracing new UX, AI techniques
2. Explore AI for UX design and collaborate within the designer community
3. Help professionals in sustaining their own pathway or adopting a new approach
How can I help?
Contact me here
some ongoing work in context
Watch this video ‘Generative AI in a Nutshell‘ by Henrik Kniberg
An easy-to-understand general purpose introduction to AI.
Sketchy architecture (taxonomy) for my UX design AI projects under ask\wAI – Pro, where the last section to the right (‘Projects’) infer the use of design tooling.
Hello!
As a UX/UI Designer, educator and coach with a passion for collaborating & interacting with humans and systems, I regularly contribute to Blogs and like to experiment with UX design AI.
Happy to help as multilingual UX designer and coach.
What do you think about AI in your UX design practice?
Ask me anything interestingly human 👣
— Jerome Bertrand
kinokast.org
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— Sungran Lee
UX & UI Designer at PwC Deutschland, Hamburg
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.
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Which type of UX designer AI persona are you?
— Bernhard Sterzbach
Senior Development Expert at Rhode & Schwarz,
Munich
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.
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This will help me design AI assistants to better match your needs!
View this French video by Etienne Mineur, Didactique Visuelle (use sub-titles), Feb 2024
Future of UX design -mentoring:
design with AI assistants?
Review the First level Attractive Einstein in the basement video: ‘Generative AI in a Nutshell’.
A visual explanation about Humans + AI by Henrik Kniberg
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Have a laid back cup of tea and watch the recent superb video by Henrik Kniberg: ‘Generative AI in a Nutshell – how to survive and thrive in the age of AI‘.
— Jinyu Chen
Product designer at Tourlane
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!
— Hans Hübner
Staff Software Engineer at Kong Inc.,
Berlin
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!
AI Self-irony and Management thinking proves beneficial for UX designers?
Read my tentative new design story:
Charting the AI UX Landscape,
A Voyage Through Logic and Self-Irony
(Sponsored article)
In the perpetual landscape of user experience design, 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 the tools at our disposal redefine our roles and potentially, our futures.
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— Niall Mc Manus
Product designer at Cross Engage
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.
First please subscribe to a Site membership of kinokast.org to keep informed about upcoming news on my UX design coaching and mentoring, and follow my Little design stories.
You will support me with your Site membership (I keep this price very low on purpose: only € 0.92 per month, some sugar in one cup of coffee). Thank you for your trust.
Second, only the above mentionned Site membership subscription will allow access to AI Assistants Plans subscriptions to askwAI Assistants Pro (in short askwAI Pro), such as Pro Monthly, Pro Quarterly and Pro Mentor.
The AI Assisted mentoring Plans will assist you 24/7 in your UX design practice and continuous learning. Read more below…
UX design Assistants
What could possibly be the real benefits of self-mentoring with AI?
Oh, how splendid it is to embark on the self-mentoring journey, where you are your own guru, your personal fountain of wisdom!
Let’s revel in the glory of self-mentoring, where you can enjoy the splendid isolation of figuring out everything by yourself. Imagine the joy of having no one to question your methods or challenge your decisions.
Why (not) trust AI in your UX design practice?
Or how to grow a UX critique?
— Jonathan Arnowitz
UX Design Management, Strategist, DesignOps & Data Visualization Specialist
Principal Consultant at Keen Design, Utrecht
I have known Jerome for more then 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.
ask\wAI Assistants
a map of AI & UX…
I have been thinking about how to Mentor (or coach) designers in the midst of innovative UX and technical AI… This is my first Try-out map, showing how tools, agents and projects could align, in a 3D representation – a bit inspired by Semantic search’s Vector database, visualization models.
Check my article on the “Atlas of Management Thinking” (de Bono) and the Zen of Artificial Intelligence HCAI UX design.
— Madini Liebscher
Program Lead – HPI Certification Program for Design Thinking Coaches, The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) Potsdam Berlin
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.
New StudyBuddy GPT _ (͠°◡͡°) _ for UX design Literature Note-taking!
The StudyBuddy GPT (OpenAI Plus) will try to help re-read UX design literature classics.
Book: The Elements of User experience (JJ Garrett, 2003), read more here
Take Notes, read or re-read the fundamental UX design book by Jesse James Garrett, “The Elements of The User Experience. User-centered design for the web” (©2003)
About the Note-taking StudyBuddy GPT
A new Free GPT to help take notes and learn! – k i n o k a s t . o r g
Taking personal notes and actively reflecting on the content is crucial for deep understanding and knowledge retention.
The goal should be to use this GPT tool as a supportive resource to enhance your learning experience – 👉 not replace it 😵💫
StudyBuddy is free (OpenAI Plus is required)
Read more here
— Nina Lloyd
UX Researcher / Product Manager – Design Thinking, Service Design Berlin
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.
Read a new, design (little) story
Charting the AI UX Landscape: A Voyage Through Logic and Self-Irony
In the perpetual landscape of user experience design, 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 the tools at our disposal redefine our roles and potentially, our futures.
AI assistants, such as askwAI Pro, represent the embodiment of this moment, a nexus where the metaphorical master can become the student, and the tool, once a slave, can emerge as a guide.
The utilization of AI assistants in UX design is akin to the dance of a “perpetuum mobile,” an endless loop of learning and teaching, where each iteration improves upon the last.
AI offers a repository of knowledge, data-driven insights, and predictive capabilities that can augment the human designer’s intuition and experience.
These tools become partners in the design process, learning from the designers’ inputs, and in turn, providing them with refined suggestions and solutions that challenge and expand their creative boundaries.
This collaboration between human-driven mentorship and machine learning parallels the fluid dynamic between master and apprentice, where roles are not fixed but are constantly exchanged in pursuit of wisdom.
The slave, in this case, the AI, does not simply learn to mimic the master; it evolves to provide complementary perspectives that the master may not possess, thereby elevating the creative process to new heights.
And so, as we chart the UX landscape, traversing through logic and self-irony, we come to recognize that the journey itself is not linear.
It is a spiral, bending and looping back on itself, where the insights of Edward de Bono’s “Atlas of Management Thinking” (1981) serve as waypoints, reminding us that the right side of the brain—intuitive, holistic, and image-driven—must work in concert with the left, the home of language and logic.
Read the full Free Sponsored article by Jerome
2024 – It’s time you mentor the mentor in you! 🕺💡🤖
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Subscriptions Plans for askwAI – Assistants Pro
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Pro Monthly
Grow your skills and knowledge with AI.
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- One month ask\wAI – Assistant Pro Seat
- 7-days free trial
- Two single-use portfolio reviews per month
Pro Quarterly
All from Pro Monthly + in-person mentoring.
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- AI includes in-person Mentoring Base Plan
- Access to our Slack community
- €16,33 per month when paid Quarterly
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Take personal mentoring to the next level.
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- Quarterly in-person UX design Mentoring Seat
- Individual or project team Coaching Plan
- Includes ask\wAI – Assistant Pro Pass
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— Jouke Verlinden
Full Professor of Product Development at Faculty of Design Sciences, Antwerp
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.
Haute cuisine, but always well received and great starter for a full-course meal….
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— Milena Mila Popovic
Fashion and Graphic Designer at Cash For Trash, Novi Sad, Serbia
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..
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Jacob Nielsen’s 1st of April joke or vision?
Charting the AI UX Landscape: A Short Voyage Through Logic and Self-Irony?
A-ADM = Always-available design mentor
Can AI assistants Be Your New Design “A-ADM” * ? Question marks & Insights from…
A new Free GPT to help take notes and learn!
Start today with OpenAI: ask\wAI – UX Design Assistants
Happy 2.0.2.4 ask\wAI dance steps in AI UX Design!
Mentoring The Mentor in You?
Are you ready to beat the beat? What is your individual persona, your own projection?
Are you at times bored or tired of navigating the treacherous waters of UX design mentorship all by yourself?
Fear not, my friend, for I have gathered a 4 fictional AI personas for you to frame or re-frame your witty, reflexive-UX design mentorship – Personas that may help you out of the maze of Mentoring The Mentor in You (of course your own persona will be the core, these are mere example if not, just helpful cliches!)
Prepare yourself for a journey filled with poetic guidance, sublimation, and maybe even a naive sprinkle of unicorn magic!
The UX Guru
Imagine the wise elder of UX, sitting cross-legged on a mountain made entirely of wireframes.
Their flowing white beard dances in the wind as they impart their wisdom upon you.
This mentor is known for their deep understanding of user psychology and their ability to create seamless experiences.
Just be prepared for their mysterious riddles and constant reminders to “mind the gap”…
The Tech UX AI Wizard
Picture a UX master, clad in a cloak made of code, surrounded by a swarm of buzzing gadgets.
This mentor will teach you to harness the power of technology to create unforgettable user experiences.
With their guidance, you’ll learn to wield software like a sorcerer, enchanting users with the magic of seamless interactions.
Just be careful not to get lost in the Matrix!
The UX Design Samurai
Envision a mentor who moves with grace and precision, armed with a mighty katana and a sketchbook full of impeccable wireframes.
This warrior of UX design will train you in the art of elegant visual storytelling.
Prepare to battle pixel imperfections and shape-shift outdated designs into exquisite creations.
Remember, with great design power comes great responsibility…
The Unicorn UX AI Whisperer
Close your eyes and transport yourself to a mystical land where rainbows flow freely, and unicorns roam with elegance.
This UXD or HCAI (Human-centered AI) design mentor possesses the ability to tap into the whimsical side of AI and UX design.
With their guidance, you’ll learn to infuse projects with a touch of whimsy and create experiences that spark joy in users’ hearts.
Just be ready for unexpected bursts of glitter and occasional visits from magical creatures!
Remember, dear friend, mentorship is your unique and personal human journey – whatever acronyms are current or seem best at this time.
Find your human coach and mentor first. Get the benefits of UX design coaching with AI assistants in a good, realistic collaboration.
Choose the mentor persona or invent one that resonates with your style and aligns with your aspirations – as a way to extrapolate your own, in-person coaching plan with your personal mentor.
Embrace the adventure, and may your UX design dreams become as epic as you yourself travelling on your own path!
Disclaimer: No unicorn, animal nor person was harmed in the making of this self-mentorship virtually ironic guide.
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