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The Browser Company, which owns the popular Arc web browser, has hired Charlie Deets, one of Apple's top designers for Safari. Deets previously worked at Meta as a Lead Product Designer for Facebook and WhatsApp.
DALL-E images can now be modified using a new editor interface from OpenAI that lets users describe changes using text prompts. Users can use the new select button to give specific instructions for a particular part of an image. Alternatively, users can make general changes to the image by entering a prompt in the chat sidebar.
Apple's Personas, designed for their Vision Pro headsets, have evolved from initially "nightmarish" avatars to more lifelike versions, with ongoing improvements. The latest update introduces "spatial" Personas, enhancing collaboration by integrating them into various apps via SharePlay. The feature utilizes the Vision Pro's sensors to place the Personas in physical space.
Digital humans, utilizing technologies like ChatGPT for dialogue and NVIDIA Audio2Face for 3D face animations, enhance human-machine interaction. While they can foster emotional connections and guide users with a human touch, their overly human appearance may evoke discomfort and distrust, leading to potential user discomfort and disappointment.
Cognitive biases are errors in thinking that affect judgments and decisions. We can design products that help users make more rational, objective decisions by mitigating them.
Easily capture, organize, and share impactful feedback from customer conversations in a fraction of the time.
With Outline, you can improve your developer hand-off by marking spacing specs in various colors.
Elevate your designs and websites with enchanting effects, motion, and interactivity.
In design, we often strive for Dieter Rams' ideal of "less, but better," but how do we know if our "less" achieves "better"? We have to view it in the context of "more." Start with the fullness of the idea: the whole "bull." Get something tangible before people first, even if it's not the final form. Then, systematically refine and distill it to its purest essence over time.
Zero UI seeks to eliminate barriers to technology and create experiences similar to talking to a friend. With this approach, people can access technology more conveniently without going through all the hassle and addiction that comes with using screen devices. Siri, Kinect, and smart watches paved the way for a new generation of disruptive devices that can blend in with people's environment without becoming a disturbance.
Google's new sign-in design isn't significantly better than the old one. Instead, it might have caused new problems, such as longer browsing paths, unclear text information, confusing button labels, and a layout that demands more responsive work.
Despite being able to generate complex images, a request for a “simple white background” dumbfounds the leading AI image generators, which find it impossible to follow.
Textile artist Rianne Aarts, who creates stunning woven wall hangings using only natural materials such as hand-spun wool, cotton cords, and non-toxic dyes and pigments, has a new fiber wall hangings collection called REFRAMED that continues her previous work, which used hand-dyed and placed strings to create beautiful gradients and geometric patterns.
Atari is having a renaissance in 2024, returning to being both a publisher and a game developer, even building new hardware like the Atari 2600+ console.