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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 Mortensen

Mar 13

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

Stable Diffusion

Seungmee Lee

Jan 31

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 Mortensen

Feb 14

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Superflow Rewrite (powered by ChatGPT)

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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

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

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

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Psychology

What happened when I stopped using Emojis

<p>Emoji cross-platform translation could be insignificant. Emojis are encoded and represented by Unicode standard, just as any text character.</p>

Clo S.

Jun 25

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

Design Psychology and the Neuroscience Behind Awesome UX

The user experience study of human cognition can be mushy, unscientific, and filled with false assumptions—perhaps it’s the fault of a lazy brain. Cognition is complex, and many factors play into gut reactions or an instant impression. When you ask someone, “Why’d you do that?” there’s a high chance they won’t be able to answer or that you’ll misinterpret their response. Enter neuroscience.

Miklos Philips

Mar 03

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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Howuku

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How to use huge type on the web

Last week’s post looked at websites that dared to use huge type and did it well. With this week’s post I’ll explore what it is that works well about the...

Matej Latin

Nov 24

Design Through a Neurodiverse Lens: Exclusive vs Inclusive

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 […]

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

May 17

Irrelevant Search: How Results are Ruined by Paywalls

Should a poorly researched blog post published on a gated platform be supported by search engines equally to high quality professional reporting?

Rob Díaz

Jun 03

Designing Better Hyperlinks: A Detailed Guide

Why are “click here” and “by this link” poor choices? And is it acceptable to use “read more”? All these phrases have become so common that many people don’t see any problems with them. How many times have you encountered or composed the following on websites, in emails, or on intranets? In this article, I’ll explain popular wording and formatting mistakes and will show more accessible and informative alternatives.

Slava Shestopalov 🇺🇦

Sep 26

Accessibility tools

Epilepsy UX

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Product Design

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...