Reducing all interfaces to text prompts is a failure of imagination and inhumane.
tag > Design
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Cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines is an incredible catalyst for innovation. Unearthing gems from one domain and applying them to another can unlock refreshing creative perspectives.
Image adapted from SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant (video)
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“I rarely listen to anything with drum machines in it. I tend to like more softly played music - music that's created in that beautiful space between silence and whispers" - Roger Linn, legendary electronic music instrument designer
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What is the role of "Design systems" in the age of Generative AI and how will they change?
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"Design is about making decisions. A person can only make a certain amount of decisions each day, [i]t's really important to keep your mind empty." - Oki Sato
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Making music with AI is extremely fun
With features such as "Generate from Text-Prompt", "Generate variations", "Generate continuations", "Fill the gap", "Interpolate" and "Style Transfer", these tools offer endless possibilities for experimentation. 🎵 🤖
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The Digital Audio Workstation Disconnect
Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) were designed to unleash musicians' creativity, yet their user experience often feels like operating complex and dull business software or sitting in a fighter jet cockpit. How did we end up with such a disconnect between intention & reality?
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Kai's Power Tools, released in 1992, introduced many innovative ideas how to playfully interact with Generative systems, that are still relevant today.
"The interface is the padded cell, you just can’t hurt yourself. Whatever you do, it invites you to play with the buttons and click on everything." - Kai Krause, early 1990s
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The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
‘Engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension. Beauty and simplicity gave the practice of engineering an aesthetics, an affective pull. I think that engineering and art are very closely related.”’
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Shout out to whoever designed the "non-fiction" icon in Apple Books
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As coding with ChatGPT is so fast, it results in rapid experimentation of ideas (often bit silly)
