Article by UX Magazine Staff
Share:The Nervous System for AI: Why Every Product Manager and Designer Needs an Agent Runtime Environment
Share this link
- September 16, 2025
6 min read
We stand with Ukraine and our team members from Ukraine. Here are ways you can help
Get exclusive access to thought-provoking articles, bonus podcast content, and cutting-edge whitepapers. Become a member of the UX Magazine community today!
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.
When people with disabilities can’t access a website like others can, they naturally feel excluded. No one should feel irrelevant or isolated from technology.
“The rise in hiring conversational designers seems to be happening at a much faster clip than when companies started hiring internal UXers 10 years ago”
There’s a ton of noise, promises and exaggerations flying around. Here’s a breakdown of the sixteen conversational AI platforms in Gartner’s 2019 Market Guide.
Tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Baidu know that people aren’t filling their devices with apps anymore.
All the winners have been chosen! Take a look.
In an interview with Nir Zohar, we explored how Wix has affected the world of web design.
The place that Business and UX collide. Join us in Denver, for a unique interaction with Business and UX professionals, at the Curtis Hotel.
Enter to win a copy of Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s new book, Design for Real Life.
UX Magazine contributors give us their predictions for the trends and developments that will shape experience design in 2016.
Here they are! The winners of the 2014 international Design for Experience awards.
We’ve got some tasting notes for the Design for Experience awards private roast coffee.
Describe how good coffee tastes and enter to win a copy of Jon Kolko’s new book, Well Designed.
We’re developing a special coffee for winners of the Design for Experience awards
The application deadline in the Design for Experience awards has been extended to March 14.
You can get free book from Rosenfeld Media by recommending someone for a Design for Experience award.
Design for Experience award winner Lookback proves that giving UX practitioners rewarding experiences can be a recipe for success.
The discounted early application fee deadline for the Design for Experience awards has been extended to Friday, January 9.
You can get free book from Rosenfeld Media when recommend someone for a Design for Experience award.
UX Magazine contributors give us their predictions for the trends and developments that will shape experience design in 2015.
UX Magazine contributors give us their picks for the trends—both good and bad—that impacted experience design in 2014.
In recent years, product designers have changed the experience of using tobacco, can they change cultural attitudes as well?
A closer look at the results of the Experience that Makes a Difference category of the Design for Experience awards reveals the power of UX to improve lives.
The winners of our Intertwingled giveaway share stories of how they interact with their workplace culture.
The 2014 international Design for Experience awards program, presented by UX Magazine, is now accepting applications and recommendations.
The winners of our How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products giveaway share their favorite products that differentiate through design.
Enter to win a copy of Peter Morville’s new book, Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
The winners of our Drawing Ideas giveaway use sketches to imagine hypothetical uses for wearables.
Enter to win a copy of Poornima Vijayashanker’s new book, How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products.
We’re giving away two more copies of Drawing Ideas, and this time, the authors want to see what you can sketch.
The winners of our JavaScript & jQuery giveaway share their thoughts on what designers should know about the work developers do.
The battle rages on to create compelling experiences that bank of the connectivity and data social networking services provide.
Enter to win a copy of Jon Duckett’s new book, JavaScript & jQuery, from Wiley.
Five actionable insights from Debra Levin Gelman and the winners of our Design for Kids giveaway.
In the wake of a new implementation of brain-computer interface headgear, we asked three UX Magazine contributors about the trajectory of wearable technology.
Take a video tour of the new Wiley book, Javascript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development, by Jon Duckett
Enter to win a copy of Debra Levin Gelman’s new book, Design for Kids, from Rosenfeld Media.
A closer look at the results in the Interaction Design Innovation category of the international Design for Experience awards.
We’re on the ground at Forrester’s Forum for CX pros in NYC, June 24-25.
A closer look at the results in the Mobile Solution or Application category of the international Design for Experience awards, featuring the winner: we are experience.
A closer look at the results in the Bringing Order to Big Data category of the international Design for Experience awards, featuring the winner: Roambi.
The finalists in the Design for Experience awards are now posted in an online gallery on the official DfE site.
As the line between digital and non-digital experiences continues to dissolve, a look at some of our recent articles suggests ways designers can remain in-step.
A closer look at the results in the Interactive Component of an Advertising Campaign category of the international Design for Experience awards.
A closer look at the results in the Complete Customer Experience category of the international Design for Experience awards, featuring the winner: Workshop Cafe.
A closer look at the results in the Effective Agency Team category of the international Design for Experience awards, featuring the winner: JUXT.
The official website for the international Design for Experience awards is up and running!
We are thrilled to present the winners of the inaugural international Design for Experience Awards!
Two sketches and a video for the winners of our Drawing Ideas book contest.
Enter to win a copy of Drawing Ideas and the chance to have your design challenge turned into a video tutorial.
A look at what 2014 might have in store for users and experience design practitioners.
The application deadline for the international Design for Experience awards has been extended to January 19th.
A look at the trends that ruled the expanding UX landscape in 2013.
The digital advent calendar for the experience design and research community is back with UXmas 2013.
A collection of five wide-ranging UX lessons from an unlikely source: popular movies.
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Work Environment for Digital Practitioners
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Effective In-House Team
We’ve created a broader DfE award category with “Innovative Technique or Tool.”
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Experience for Children
Join us on a video tour of Drawing Ideas: A hand-drawn approach for better design, the new book by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel.
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Bottom Line Impact
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Experience that Makes a Difference
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Effective Agency Team
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Interactive Component of an Advertising Campaign
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Union of Design and Engineering
We’ve updated the URL for our RSS feed—please update your subscriptions accordingly.
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Mobile Solution or Application
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Public Sector
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Consumer Product
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Acessibility
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Complete Customer Experience Ecosystem
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Cross-Platform Experience
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Bringing Order to Big Data
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Interaction Design Innovation
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Foresight of User Needs
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Innovative Research Technique
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Academic Program
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Adoption of Experience Strategy
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Bridging Digital and Physical Experiences.
The Design for Experience awards program has a growing roster of judges who represent mastery in all aspects of user-centered research, design, and education.
UX Magazine is presenting the international Design for Experience awards, designed to recognize excellence and share what can be learned from success and failure.
You can now access new content on UX Magazine using Google+.
We’re giving away five copies of the new Wiley book, “Evil by Design: Interaction design to lead us into temptation.”
Empathetic design and total attention to detail make the experience of opening and installing a Nest thermostat richly empowering.
The new and improved UX Magazine Jobs Board is a free resource for employers and job seekers.
We’re giving away three digital copies of the new Rosenfeld Media book, Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience, by Peter H. Jones.
If you are or have ever been an IA, we want to hear about your skills, techniques, outputs, and responsibilities.
UX Magazine is now responsive and running on Drupal 7.
As the book “Make It So” points out, Star Trek has influenced the course of interaction design and continues to push the boundaries of design imagination.
Enter to win a copy of Jeff Gothelf’s new book, Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience.
The author of the new O’Reilly book, Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience, shares his thoughts on outcomes, iterations, and more.
Celebrating a social media milestone and looking ahead.
We’d like your help in figuring out how to leverage our magazine’s influence to the benefit of the UX community.
Answer a question and enter to win a book
We’ve partnered with niche recruiting agency Didus in order unpack the mysteries of the user experience job market.
Useful and timely surprises await in the UXmas advent calendar.
By helping us answer a simple question, you can win a copy of Tom Barker’s new book, Pro JavaScript Performance Monitoring and Visualization.
We’ve created a Seminars page where you’ll find a growing collection of educational resources for all your UX learning needs.
MySpace is back with a slick looking UI and features that have yet to be fully revealed.
UX Magazine is giving away two free passes to Lean UX Denver—enter to win on Twitter.
Enter to win one of five free copies of Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis’ new book, Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research
Enter to win one of five free copies of John Ferrara’s new book, Playful Design, published by Rosenfeld Media.
Win one of five copies of Rachel Hinman’s new book “The Mobile Frontier” published by Rosenfeld Media.
Answer a question for a chance to win a free two-day pass to Conversion Conference Chicago June 25-26.
Find UX sessions, connect with UX Magazine, and get a discounted pass for Conversion Conference Chicago.
A listing of current UX job opportunities available in the UX Magazine Jobs section.
There’s much to be learned about UX by looking at the aggregate of published articles, or job openings.
Answer a question to enter to win a paper prototyping kit or collaborative wireframing tool.
A place for recruiting and job seeking that’s specifically focused on UX professionals.
A look at five macro trends in consumer electronics ahead of this year’s CES.
We’re giving away free user testing! Enter by telling us what interesting things you’d use it to investigate…
A giveaway for two tickets to the 2011 Update Conference in Brighton in the south of England.
A giveaway of five copies of Greg Nudelman’s new book, “Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success.”
Enter to win a free copy of Susan Weinschenk’s book about psychology for designers.
Enter to win a copy of this new book on designing natural UIs for touch and gesture.
Visit the UX Magazine booth at the IA Summit to be interviewed about your thoughts about UX.
Enter in one of three free perpetual licenses for Justinmind Prototyper.
The problem-solving approach designers use can be very helpful in strategic discussions.
Join the UX Magazine community!
Stay informed with exclusive content on the intersection of UX, AI agents, and agentic automation—essential reading for future-focused professionals.
Hello!
You're officially a member of the UX Magazine Community.
We're excited to have you with us!
Tell us a bit about yourself so we can provide you with personalized content.
Thank you!
To begin viewing member content, please verify your email.