Perspectives

Ideas, methods, and experience from the work. Explore a practical question, follow a project’s decisions, or find another way to look at a familiar problem.

46 perspectives

Subjects describe what each perspective covers. A piece can have more than one.

Intelligence

Before an AI speaks for your business

ChatGPT's Business Hub brings business information and customer conversations closer together. The useful question is where an answer ends and an authorized action begins.

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After AI builds the first version

AI helped me build the Handyman Harman website when I was struggling to move it forward on my own. Adding a contact form showed me how much work I still had to do.

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However beautiful the system

A month of Facebook posts helped me recognize what my system could already do—and where it still needed work.

Intelligence

AI BYTS — 2026-11-02

Two small checks help keep source material separate from instructions and reveal what a workflow does with an untidy request.

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My first AI skill was blocked. Now what?

Voice Development began as a way to carry writing decisions forward. Trying to distribute it has opened a different question: how do we turn useful skills into services people can use and support?

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Where an AI policy becomes a decision

What happens when an AI agent can access a system but a particular action still needs to stop? Follow a policy into the decision and its evidence.

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Show AI what you mean by useful

An example can make your expectations easier to explain. The useful part is knowing what to carry into the next result.

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The Art of AI

A living introduction to how I define the work, direct AI through a wider system, and check what comes back.

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The rules behind the wireframes

Shared controls, conditional behavior, and task-specific exceptions gave RLI’s wireframes a structure another team could build from.

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Explain Like I'm in the Band

When an AI explanation is hard to follow, you can simply ask for an easier one. A familiar comparison or a little humor can be part of that request, too.

Case study

Project Butterfly

Our fortune 100 industrial machinery client had a dilemma. They had found gaps in their experience design that could derail their agile process. Do they fall behind or bring in a team to get back on track?

Case study

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse

BJ’s Brewhouse wanted to break away from the pack and produce a unique, best in class online ordering experience.

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Brunswick Billiards

Brunswick Billiards, one of the most respected and well-known brands in the billiards industry, needed an online experience worthy of its namesake for both consumers and internal business partners.

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Classic Cinemas

What if you could take the best parts of the movie going experience and streamline them all into one app, only better?

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Dome Beauty

Dome Beauty had a simple goal: launch a successful eCommerce platform featuring their new line of beauty products. For a predominately male team this was uncharted territory.

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Gallagher One

Gallagher’s intranet was in need of a refresh to meet its user’s needs. A GV Design Sprint let us hit the ground running.

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Unified Process

Over the course of just two hours, five teams came together to share their processes and learn how to work together as one.

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Mondelēz International

The importance of accuracy within a companies data increases every year. This was no different for Mondelēz International.