The Values of Value in AI Adoption: Rethinking Efficiency in UX Designers' Workplaces — Cha et al. (2026)
Although organizations increasingly position AI adoption as a path- way to competitiveness and innovation, organizations’ perspectives on productivity and efficiency often clash with workers’ perspec- tives on AI’s economic and social value. Through design workshops with 15 UX designers, we examine how AI adoption unfolds across individual, team, and organizational scales. At the individual level, designers weighed efficiency, skill development, and professional worth. At the team level, they negotiated collaboration, responsibil- ity, and rigor. At the organizational level, adoption was…
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