Design | Experience
Let’s start with my favourite one that will surely blow mind. So Figma becomes really powerful when you combine auto layout, interactive components and smart animate. Think about it, auto layout will automatically fill up any freed space. So if you are creating interactive components with … Read the rest
The many deaths of UX design
How UX was proclaimed dead (again), what do AI and Elon Musk have to do with it, and what poses a real treat to the discipline of design.
https://uxdesign.cc/the-many-deaths-of-ux-design-85a255e3676f
Designing for AI means designing for a human-machine relationship that is in flux. This is in contrast to non-AI design where the relationship is static.
Data tables vary in size, complexity, content and purpose. Regardless of use-case all well-designed data tables provide clarity on the information presented and help users make insights and take action.
When deciding how to style and format the table, prioritize readability and remove any visual clutter that may distract the eye.
Row … Read the rest
integration of GPT3 into google sheets
This is a simple add-on to Google Sheets that, given only row and column headings for a table, can fill out that table with no further input from the user.
This is done using OpenAI’s GPT3 artificial intelligence. While there is no guarantee the tool will give accurate information, anecdotal evidence suggests that it … Read the rest
Conducting high quality, rigorous research is tough, regardless of how seasoned you are, because each research project is completely unique. In addition to actually doing the research itself, aggregating and organizing research notes can be overwhelming. Making sense of research data during synthesis and writing up a research report takes a lot of time. And if you don’t organize research … Read the rest
Balsamiq Studio has a unique sketching style that is hard to mistake for anything else. If you’re searching for a rapid low-fidelity prototyping tool that you can learn in no time, look no further. The first version of Balsamiq was released in June 2008, and now the tool comes in 3 versions — web, desktop app, and plugin. Balsamiq … Read the rest
Everybody’s talking about how #Bard, Google’s new chatbot, made a factual mistake when answering a question – which, unluckily for the company, made it into their press releases. Sure, it’s quite stupid not to know demo data and not to check what you put in media.
But I personally think that Google did us all a favour by showing … Read the rest
There are a plethora of ways we can use ChatGPT as designers – there are almost endless ways of using it. But after two months of using it regularly, we have found a handful of tasks we find are the most useful, and efficient use of time.
We have found that ChatGPT has been most … Read the rest
Occam’s Razor is a problem-solving principle devised in the 14th Century that states that simplicity is better than complexity. It has many applications, running from detective work to deductive reasoning about the cosmos.
Think of Apple. Steve Jobs’ philosophy embraced Occam’s Razor. His iPad and iPhone, for example, are the proof: one button on the front of a seamless, self-contained … Read the rest