This time of the year is great for focusing on self-development and learning. For all designers, the recent rather radical developments of AI and especially the generative tools, offer a fast-moving space with lots to learn. To make it a tiny bit less overwhelming to keep up with, this month's Design Breakfast focuses on AI topics for designers.
Meet our curator of the month
Jymy is a versatile designer and maker from Helsinki, specializing in creative product development around emerging and experimental technologies. His professional background spans from startups to enterprises, from NGOs to automotive OEMs. In recent years, he’s been mainly working with car companies on R&D and design management topics. On the side, Jymy also lectures at universities on design topics, including the use of AI.
Yeah, “the best humans”... We have basically reached the seminal point where it’s becoming hard for people to compete with AI on any level of creativity whether it’s artistic creation or lateral thinking. This begs the question: what is the role of designers in the future?
Midjourney is one of the leading image generators at the moment, especially suited for creating expressive and stylized stuff. I actively use it to visualize concepts, user journeys etc. This video is a great compact 101 instructional that comes with a lot of links to useful guides and libraries.
Everyone’s hyped up about GenAI but there’s so much more to AI, like computer vision and biometrics. Teachable Machine is a super nice and easy-to-use web-based tool that lets you create custom no-code machine-learning apps.
