My post asking you all for volunteer resources to keep me busy in my retirement was a great success. LOTS of suggestions, Thank you! I've summarized them into a github repos: https://lnkd.in/gjnuJ8nd There is a mountain of people in the tech space that want to help and having a resource like this could be helpful. Any suggestions/improvements are welcome!
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Typing into an LLM is like typing in the command line. It's primitive. What is the Graphical User Interface equivalent? No one knows because all they can do is spit out text. As soon as #LLMs can output something more structural, we can 1984 this technology and actually do something interesting. https://lnkd.in/gvXSPqPE
4K Restoration: 1984 Super Bowl APPLE MACINTOSH Ad by Ridley Scott
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I think this is brilliant: 1. Use #LLMs to prompt YOU to explain your idea 2. Paste LLM output into your app attributing it to an LLM 3. Have a "Paste Edits" command the *merges* the new text over my own, making the changes clear and allowing me easily review/correct.
The amazing writing app from Information Architects株式会社 (iA) is adopting patterns to integrate #AI in a novel way. instead of promoting the AI as an equal creator, it's consciously designing interfaces that keep the human-created work in the foreground. Would love to see a version of this approach explored more actively with the design tools that are actively promoting AI-created layouts and concepts (looking at you, Figma AI)
Turning the Tables on AI
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And the AI bubble, all too predictably, started to burst. https://lnkd.in/gjwCfD22
Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?
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Months of programming can save you days of critical thinking
"Build, measure, learn" is predicated on the mistaken idea that only code artifacts "matter." Embracing "output, measure, learn" (or better yet - "learn, output, measure" - because there are usually *already* outputs out there) is the key to minimizing the waste incurred through mistakes. If you think that design process "slows us down" - do I have bad news for you about requiring every speculative artifact to be produced at the fidelity of working code in production. Teams new to design struggle with this because they are not used to building a research plan. Code in prod is extremely forgiving in this way because you can measure whatever you want. But in order to realize their time savings, lower-fidelity artifacts require a really good idea of *what questions you are asking.* This may sound like a drawback, but it is actually a strength. The forced rigor around learning makes this a much better way of getting useful answers.
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This talk my Marcin Wichary is a complete delight. It works on so many levels. The ideas of course, but the slides, OMG the slides had me slack jawed. And then the interactive session! And the sorting! It just kept building. I dream of building slide decks like this. https://lnkd.in/gnQTNGiZ
Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel (Marcin Wichary, Director of Design, Figma)
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I'm looking into how #LLMs are working and finding that, like any tech, they have pros and cons. FIgma's recent announcements are a perfect example. The things most focused on "text based" interaction, e.g. renaming layers, appears reasonable functions as expected. Not earth shattering, but nice. The 'build from a text prompt' is a toy and everyone that has used it, so far at least, is less than impressed. The "find something like this" functionality however, looks amazing as it allows me to find a fully fledged, human created example with components and autolayout (something the AI tools either don't do or are very toy-ish) So understanding what #LLMs can do well and what they're kind of "meh" at is important. I'm not saying you're wrong, we CAN build some of these features, but the rush into 'it'll be awesome' is looking a bit premature. It's understandable that people want to see the tech prove itself out. People are just SO FOCUSED on being first, being the thought leader ahead of everyone else. You don't HAVE to be first. The mobile apps that had the most success were the ones that came much later, after the dust had settled.
Why do so many UX designers are “looking into AI” to make their jobs easier, but are so disinterested in learning to actually design AI driven systems?
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How dark mode killed good design https://lnkd.in/guNdcSJE I love this Youtube channel and I love how a person that is NOT a UX designer can explore and understand a topic that is actually better than most that discuss this issue on social media. There is nothing ground breaking here, but I felt it was very well told.
how dark mode killed good design
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Early alpha tester of the #Figma "AI tools": "Those of you worried about the AI functionality, hopefully this eases your mind a bit: it’s pretty useless and gimmicky in its current state. Very few of us in the test group even cared about it. Did not speed up my workflow at all whatsoever." This doesn't mean proper generative AI will never come, but like I've been saying for awhile now, it's actually much harder in visual domains than people think. https://lnkd.in/ghrHWQA3
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