+Issue 180
Product Design & UX
Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences
Looking back at history to help us design for the future.
The future of UX, according to its grandfather
Dr. Jakob Nielsen and Sarah Gibbons explain what will happen to AI, layoffs, and bad managers.
AI & Machine Learning
Meet EMO — Alibaba’s AI That Makes Pictures Into Videos
Untangling Religion From Our AI Debates
Is it inevitable that we infuse our AI debates with religious rhetoric?
“Ideas like existential risk are treacherously well-shaped and thus especially susceptible to filling the gaps left by the frustrated expectations and promises of older religions.”
What’s next for AI in 2024
MIT Technology Review looks at fourtrends to watch out for this year
Design
Craft: On dedication and love for the invisible work.
“It appears inevitable that all digital products must eventually trade craft for scale. (...) It’s simply so much easier to keep 10 people in sync than 10,000. Each additional person makes it harder for everyone to stay focused and in sync.”
George Kedenburg III, The Cost of Craft
The Hidden Factor
Mark and Gesture in Visual Design
Branding
TWYG by Seachange
Last year saw the launch of ‘TWYG’ – a resolutely all-caps, vowel-free luxury skincare brand that hails from New Zealand as is, of course, pronounced ‘twig’. It’s a rather sweet name really, but perhaps one that doesn’t scream ‘luxury’; or at least, that is, until you see the superb branding and packaging created by fellow New Zealander Seachange, an ever-impressive brand and design agency based in Auckland.
Typography
Publi Fluor
A self-taught typographic letterer, Chrystel Crickx used to cut out letters by hand and sell them by the piece in her Publi Fluor shop in Schaerbeek, Belgium. Commercialized between 1975 and 2000 for local advertising and signage purposes, these letters have since been digitized and made more widely available to users outside of the Belgian borders and in other contexts.