Anyone who has remotely worked in the digital product landscape must have heard some version of the phrase “design for stupid users.” On calls, in meetings and in our daily conversations — the idea of simplicity is propagated using dumbed-down phrases like these. But what does it mean to design for ‘dumb’ users and is it worth following this flavour of product design?
AI won’t replace designers, but designers who use AI will replace those who don’t.
While some users may try to hide that an image was generated using AI, others are honest and indicate the real source of their image. Sometimes the purpose of using AI image generators is to demonstrate the tool’s performance, in which case it is necessary to indicate on which software the image was produced.
I feel like Google’s search result quality has been steadily declining since at least five years, and from what I’m reading both on HN and on other platforms, people feel the same.
OpenAI’s plugins could represent the second major phase in the rise of AI chatbots.
A few derisive reactions to the new design shouldn’t have surprised anyone, but they might not have expected quite so many memes.
This announcement will send shivers down the spine of giants like Google, who have just released Bard to US and UK users. In fact, I don’t think anyone expected OpenAI to do this so soon, which might also indicate that they had been working on adding Plugins support for quite some time already.
Turning bar charts into progress bars
The new We❤️NYC logo shocked the internet, is the reaction just a sign of the times? Does the new logo better represent New York and its people? Do people dislike it because it’s an unexpected change, or because it actually isn’t a good design?
The new Spotify user interface is here. But is it a transformative or incremental change to the Spotify experience?
