Here's something the UX world hasn't fully reckoned with yet: the user is changing. Not metaphorically. Actually changing - how they think, what they expect, what feels intuitive - all of it shifting in real time because of ever-evolving AI tech.
So what happens to User-Centered Design? The whole philosophy is built around understanding who the user is. But what if that's a moving target now? And before you think of it - AI-Centered Design isn't the answer either. AI isn't a fixed point to design around. It's evolving just as fast. So you've got two things mutating simultaneously. The human. The machine. Both moving, neither stable.
Every existing framework assumes something stays still long enough to design for it. That assumption is gone. Maybe the honest answer is that we need an entirely new design philosophy built around co-evolution - human and AI adapting together.
Or maybe - and this is the uncomfortable thought - there is no framework.
Just constant recalibration.