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A Comprehensive Guide to Designing for Vision OS

Apple doesn’t have a ChatGPT rival of its own. But AI tools have played a behind-the-scenes role in iPhones for years.

OpenAlternative is a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications. Our goal is to be your first stop when researching for a new open source service to help you grow your business.

Let me set the scene — you’re a UX designer and you’re at a meeting discussing a new onboarding flow for users to create their profile. Someone asks “Wait, we should include a pronoun selector here, right?”

As cited by AI enthusiast Nick St Pierre, Stability AI employees supposedly infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole pairings of image and text prompts—crucial training data for AI image generators—last Saturday. Stability AI has been blamed for causing a 24-hour outage for Midjourney as a result of this action.

IBM Chief Design Officer Billy Seabrook talked about the company’s use of Adobe’s generative AI tool Firefly and how it boosted productivity for design staffers.

AVIF doesn’t just shrink file sizes — it enhances the visual experience. With support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG), images are no longer just pictures — they are vivid, deep, and dynamically rich scenes.

Google Maps’ Street View feature does raise some privacy concerns.

Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?