Video - On March 22nd 2023 I spoke at AmsterdamUX at argodesign Amsterdam about the future of AI and how to effectively apply it to your creative design process right now.
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Although artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s, recent advancements have brought it to the forefront of technology. The first computers were great at performing repetitive tasks, but required us humans to communicate with them through programming languages. Over time, we developed increasingly sophisticated languages and interfaces, like the mouse and voice assistants, allowing non-programmers to use computers.
Today, a specific branch of AI called Transformers, and tools like ChatGPT, have exploded in the news due to their ability to generate content based on large knowledge bases. Many online tools have emerged that utilize generative AI, but their design seems to have taken things a step back…
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Wink sits in a corner or on a table, minding his own business. But glance over at the lamp-sized robot and it springs to life, looking up at you with all the anticipation of a loyal dog. “Wink, could you turn on that light?” you ask, pointing to a nearby lamp. Wink turns its head to face the light, blinks once like Barbara Eden, and presto, the light is on…
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In an enterprise environment, the justification for low-code platforms is simple: they serve to lower the barrier to entry, as well as return time to developers to focus on the hard problems. As a UX designer who’s worked on many such projects, this has always been my main goal and something I focus on imparting onwards to colleagues, clients and developers alike…
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The animated film industry has seen many seismic shifts over the last 100 years. From shadow play to the Zoetrope, printing on celluloid film to digital, hand-drawn to CGI — animated film production is ever-changing and evolving.
Yet, for all the amazing cinematic achievements these changes have enabled, they’ve also brought significant complexity to the production pipeline. The technical processes behind the scenes are far more individualized than one would imagine. In an industry in which creativity is front and center, that inventiveness extends to the ways in which its artists work….
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Urban Scooters are truly in vogue. A funky little vehicle adopted by parents to get their kids to school on-time, the tiny two-wheeler appears to have blossomed from the child’s sphere to adulthood replete with electric power. Seeing fully suited grown men whizzing about London town on electric scooters has taken time to digest. Yet, it certainly appears to be a growing trend for it makes radical sense in congested urban areas to offer e-scooters as rentable shared transport…
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