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Google's Bard Fail and the Major Usability Problem With Conversational AIs

Google’s conversational AI “Bard” failed spectacularly in the very first demo, by providing false information about the James Webb Space Telescope. A mistake that caused parent company Alphabet’s stock value to...

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Feb 14

I connected Stable Diffusion with my smartphone camera. And here's what I learned.

Stable Diffusion

Seungmee Lee

Jan 31

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

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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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

From Design System to ‘NFT Design System’: Creating TinyFaces

Max spent lockdown learning 3D design, leading to a venture into NFTs. He shares the stigmas and challenges of entering the NFT space.

Graeme Fulton

May 03

Framer Sites: Building Landing Pages to Tell Stories, with Olvy

Creating a landing page for a waitlist in Framer Sites - using gradients, illustrations, and motion to tell a story.

Graeme Fulton

May 30

Huge type on the web

Big bold type makes a statement. I’ve always been fascinated with minimalistic, typography-focused design. Especially when the composition is proportionally aligned with a grid and when it includes big, even huge titles.

Matej Latin

Nov 14

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Psychology

Design Through a Neurodiverse Lens: Exclusive vs Inclusive

<p>The Source is a fortnightly letter from Prototypr for its community of ~600k viewers. Written by Sophie Clifton-Tucker, The Source tackles taboo topics, exposes unseen truths, and gets the scoop on the latest in the tech and design sphere. It’s estimated that between 15-20% of us are neurodiverse, so a product that isn’t optimised for […]</p>

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

May 17

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

Discovery Search: When Recommendations Ruin the Search Bar

Deceptive UX: how discovery pages and recommender systems (on Instagram) ruin search experience – they're now deceptively designed to spend longer on an App.

Graeme Fulton

Jun 13

Collaboration Tools and the Invasion of Live Cursors

Collaboration cursors on real-time collaboration tools make software for teams really fun to use. From video cursors in Pitch, to Google Docs text cursor, lets see how collaboration cursors are evolving.

Graeme Fulton

Jun 08

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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

Designing for Different Cultures: Localisation ≠ Translation

Localisation isn’t just translation. From Typography to colour, here’s how to localise your product for different cultures and regions.

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

Mar 14

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 […]