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UX Principles for AI art tools, The Digital Divide, How artists get paid from streaming...
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User Experience
UX principles for AI art tools like DALL·E
Setting a course for better image-generation tools.
Digital literacy and standard design patterns
Are our standard design patterns good enough for the entire spectrum of digital literacy or are we just designing for ourselves?
A history of user interfaces
An archive of screenshots dating back to 1973 with Xerox Alto
Tech
The Digital Divide Is Coming for You
More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf.
That impact can be felt in small issues—having to drive farther to a physical bank branch now that local ones have disappeared—as well as more significant ones. “Internet availability was one key factor in whether people survived the pandemic or not,” Chakravorty says. He and colleagues at Digital Planet analyzed data to find that a 1 percent increase in broadband access across the US resulted in a 0.1 percent decline in Covid mortality rates. That’s partly a result of access to healthcare: Since the start of 2022, 38 percent of Americans have had a telehealth appointment, up from 0.7 percent in 2019.
How artists get paid from streaming
It is commonly understood that artists make money when their music is played on streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, Tidal, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music. But the mechanics of how those payments actually work is unknown to most of us. This site breaks down some fundamental principles that dictate how artists get paid from music streaming.
Watch this impressive AR demo ‘reset’ a room using latest Apple tech
Shopify’s prototype is just an internal experiment for now
UK regulator’s order for Meta to sell Giphy is under review — again
The CMA has agreed to ‘reconsider’ its decision
AI & Machine Learning
Inside Midjourney, The Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E
With a short text description, the tool can create surreal sci-fi environments and stylistic fine art—for a price.
Design
The vanishing designer
What happened to design heroes? In this article Chuánqí Sun explores how streamlined processes overtook design visionaries
Penguin Classics Releases Marvel Collection As Its First Comic Series
The legendary works of Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and various other Marvel creators are finally taking their place on the publisher’s long list of literary giants
Branding
Bulletproof's Redesign Of Toblerone Is Peak Triangle
Bulletproof studio added bright hues of colour to Toblerone’s visual identity as well as a bespoke, archive-inspired typeface.