
The 3 Roles of Context for AI Agents
AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).
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AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).

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AI tools make it feasible to build fully interactive prototypes of complex interfaces so you can test them with users earlier in the design process.

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AI lets teams build faster than UX can evaluate. UX can adapt by building shared judgment, accelerating evaluation, and guiding AI-generated designs.

AI can help you organize research you’ve already collected, but it can’t create research evidence about the specific, messy experience of real users.

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