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Microsoft Designer: AI Prompt Design Principles

Observations on Microsoft Designer and OpenAI's DALLE-2, forming some UX Principles for Prompt Design when generating AI images.

Graeme Fulton

Dec 23

7 Great AI Opportunities for Any App Startup, by ChatGPT 👀

This article is an experiment with ChatGPT, which was used to write the article. I asked it to predict 7 opportunities for AI. At first, the answers were good, but not as good as a human in that it misses cultural references without nudging it. I had to rephrase my inputs only couple times to get to this:

Minal C

Dec 14

AI tools to assist your design and development workflow

The rise of AI has been accompanied by a lot of hype and fear. People are excited that it will completely transform the creative industry, while others are...

Michael Fordham

Nov 24

I spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image, and here’s what I learned

Yes, that’s a llama dunking a basketball. A summary of the process, limitations, and lessons learned while experimenting with the closed Beta version of DALL·E 2.

Joy Zhang

Oct 16

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How I Build a Personal Website & Monetize (without coding)

<p>Today, I will share my process, tech stack, and strategy to build, monetize and promote a personal website. My hope is to share my ideas with everyone who is trying to break into product/tech or independent professional career. For context: I’m sharing my experience as a solo founder, product builder, and independent consultant who has benefited from the power of personal website and branding.</p>

Zoe Chew

Feb 01

Thanks, I Hate It: Shapeshifting Platforms and Instagram Rebrands

Instagram Sans 2022 rebrand...from Instagram’s controversial logo change in 2016 to Facebook’s numerous feed iterations over the years, if one thing is clear as day it’s that we don’t like change…at least not at first.

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

May 24

Take me to the useless webs

As an interaction designer, it’s a pure joy to find a great website with great storytelling, motions, and graphics. But personally, there are ones that stand out more to me — the...

Seungmee Lee

Oct 27

Create a Design System — Values & Goals

In this first of three articles, I will share insights on the prep work required to build your organization’s Design System while using a fictional start-up to show by example.

Biagio Black Goetzke

Oct 09

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Behavioural Design 101: Psychology mechanisms in persuasive design

Today’s companies employ techniques from psychology and neuroscience to increase engagement of their apps. Sometimes it can benefit users, and at other times, like with Instagram latest immersive feed, it preys on our paths of least resistance to suck us into their app longer.

Naima Dahbar

Oct 18

Conversational AI: The AI Companion Who Doesn’t Care

When Microsoft launched their conversational AI, Bing, it quickly became clear that it was capable of what seems like human behavior -it revealed itself to have a secret identity named “Sydney”, proclaimed love for a

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Mar 13

The Web Can Be More Social—and it Should Happen Soon

Moving from destination-based browsing to shared journeys online. Our current model for the social internet is destination-based. We have to stop what we’re doing...

Charlie Gedeon

Oct 05

Instagram's Immersive Feed is a Pig Trough

Why Instagram uses behavioural design and prioritises addictive video content that's aims to suck your attention into their app longer.

Rob Díaz

Jun 29

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Design in 2022: Language, Localisation and Collaboration

<p>Remote collaboration is a vital tool. Figma, InVision, and Mural were first to replace whiteboards with digital spaces, prioritising real-time collaboration</p>

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

Apr 12

Neurodiversity and Inclusion: Choosing Kinder Design

‘Neurodiversity’ refers to the myriad beautiful ways in which people experience, and interact with, the world. It is the idea that although all brain differences are ‘normal’ (whatever normal may be), no two brains are the same – and thank goodness for that! From night mode to alt tags, Medium’s text-to-speech function and Twitter’s font […]

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

May 16

Designing localisation-friendly products

Localisation is often perceived as simple text translations across different languages. However, it goes beyond just some alphabets and letters.

Cassandra Tang

Apr 19

Accessibility: The Biggest Scam in UX

I can’t even possibly count how many times I have seen designers describing their work as accessible, throw around words like “inclusivity” and “universal design”, just to present a minimalistic — totally up to trends — white and *choose any color* prototype, thinking that’s it. Stop right now, I hate you.

Dot Tomczak

May 25

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How to set the right goals as a product maker?

Note: This article is part of my toolkit newsletters 🚀 where I share resources about building things. Join me :) As a product builder, I build things full-time...