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Being Designerly 95 has curated content to boost your creative mindset. This issue has designerly insights and inspiration about ChatGPT prompts, Apple Intelligence eroding creativity, curiosity as a superpower, using AI to suppress anger in voices, AI icons, AI and product designers, AI UI, Promptframes, and BBC's Alt text.
FEATURE
Is Apple Intelligence artificial?
A longish but interesting read about how Apple's strategic vision for AI has been decades in the making, emphasizing the usability and value of its technology offerings, and how their approach to AI is centered on delivering practical and user-friendly applications, deviating from the trend of cloud-based generative AI. The author also presents an interesting take on "artificial" ...
appleinsider.com
CREATIVITY
16+ ChatGPT-4o advanced brainstorming prompts and techniques
Brainstorming is a collaborative process that enhances creativity and fosters a sense of ownership and engagement among participants. Incorporating advanced techniques and tools like ChatGPT into brainstorming sessions can further enhance their effectiveness. Tools like ChatGPT can facilitate this process by quickly generating ideas, offering fresh perspectives, and helping to organize thoughts coherently. By integrating these advanced techniques with AI tools, teams can push the boundaries of traditional brainstorming, resulting in more innovative and practical solutions.
geeky-gadgets.com
Apple's AI will erode human creativity one prompt at a time
Apple Intelligence could have been the company’s new ‘Think Different’ moment. Instead, it’s using AI to think for us.
fastcompany.com
CURIOSITY
Make Curiosity Your Superpower: The Art and Science of Lifelong Learning (and Fulfillment)
Curiosity is often the basis for entrepreneurial success, if only because you can always get smarter. You can improve your decision-making skills. You can improve your ability to learn quickly, and retain and use what you've learned.
Read what Mark Cuban, Charlie Munger, and scientific research say about the lasting power of curiosity
inc.com
EMPATHY
Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI
Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing "emotion-canceling" technology powered by AI that will alter the voices of angry customers to sound calmer during phone calls with customer service representatives. The project aims to reduce the psychological burden on operators suffering from harassment and has been in development for three years. Softbank plans to launch it by March 2026, but the idea is receiving mixed reactions online.
arstechnica.com
VISUAL
Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense
The thing is, no one knows what AI looks like, or even what it is supposed to look like. It does everything but looks like nothing. Yet it needs to be represented in user interfaces so people know they’re interacting with a machine learning model and not just plain old searching, submitting, or whatever else.
Until AI is itself a bit better defined, we can expect icons and logos representing it to continue to be vague, unthreatening, abstract shapes.
techcrunch.com
EXPERIMENT
What LinkedIn engineers learned while building in generative AI
LinkedIn engineers set out to improve user experience and engagement by embedding generative AI capabilities into its platform. They wanted the technology to improve experiences and engagement. But the final product required more tweaking than previously thought.
ciodive.com
UX
What product designers need to do to work effectively with AI
Product designers can drive the creation of more human-centric processes, practices, and metrics that will guide how emerging AI technologies and solutions will influence the world around us.
fastcompany.com
Why user interface design is important for AI technology
More and more diverse industries are beginning to adopt AI into their services and technologies, and its interfaces should be able to support its advancements. To create a sense of familiarity, the user interface (UI) of AI technology should also be considered to ensure a robust user experience.
fastcompany.com
Promptframes: Evolving the Wireframe for the Age of AI
From NNG: Promptframes complement traditional wireframes by integrating prompt writing and generative AI to increase content fidelity and accelerate the path to user testing. Never use lorem ipsum again.
nngroup.com
INCLUSIVE
Improving alt text image descriptions at the BBC
"Graphic showing what’s in and out of the inflation basket" - chances are you wouldn't have visualized the image above just hearing that. Yet that's how many images are described for people in ALT text - not inaccurate, just useless. Read about BBC's efforts to ensure that blind people aren't left behind in the visual data revolution.
bbc.com
