Newsletter 114
Hola.
This week is being that of the AI. Now it looks like EVERYTHING is going to be somehow controlled by this technology. When there are these leaps in history there are always two sides: those who think that they will improve our lives, that they will generate more money and that we will all integrate it into our daily lives in some way. And those who think it's practically the apocalypse. Just as it was said that television would kill off radio, and the internet with paper (books, magazines...), AI is going to make it so that we don't need designers.
Well, I'm practically reading that the creative professions are at the beginning of their demise. And precisely I think the opposite. I think that after a while the role of the designer, as a person who is capable of thinking and solving complex problems, will become even more important. Like the role of the artist. When we are tired of seeing prompts generated by different AI tools, we will appreciate more the figure of the traditional artist, who knows how to use technology in a special way.
Or this introductory text has been written by ChatGPT and nothing I comment on makes any sense.
— W.
📌 The links
The future of design systems is complicated
Several industry experts talk about how they’re managing the future of design systems—from tooling to automation to accessibility.Design Psychology: 4 Principles that Empower Designers – Part 1
“Designers are psychology scientists with a pen.”
You might not know it yet, but you beautiful designer, have an almighty power in your hands: the power of understanding humans’ needs. By doing that, you’ve done 80% of your designer job. The other 20% is easy-peasy. By knowing and understanding your customers’ and users’ needs, you already have the keys to creating meaningful products that will help your users in every way possible. If you have not understood your users’ needs, you are creating something to fill the void as needs will not be met and users will not be engaged with your product.
Why are so many Gen Zers drawn to old-school digital cameras?
For a generation that’s grown up with smartphones, digital cameras are a nostalgic reprieve from an always-on culture.HIPHOP50: Classic Material Edition #1 Part 1 (1979-1983) mixed by Chris Read
In celebration of Hip Hop's 50th year, we've teamed up with London based ‘Classic Material’ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Edition #1 documents Hip Hop’s birth on wax and its formative years, 1979-1983, from the disco and boogie influenced sound of the late 70s through to the drum machine led tracks of the early 80s.A Link in Bio. But Rich and Beautiful. Your personal page to show everything you are, create and sell.
How we built our multi-platform design system at Booking.com
Building a design system that works is a challenge at any scale. Building a design system for 150+ product teams, used by 200+ designers and 800+ developers, and serving 4 different platforms? That’s a challenge requiring lots of special considerations.The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites
Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarchy, and utilize an underlying grid structure.Design Principles
A running collection of noteworthy design principles and guiding tenents.Design-by-wire
How AI will shape designers, not replace them.Meeting at the Middle Between AI and Creativity
When the potential of a new technology starts to become evident, we as an industry seem to make the cognitive “skip to the end.” The natter on LinkedIn these past eight weeks began with doom and gloom for the creative profession as more and more sophisticated uses of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, LaMDA and ChatGPT3 emerged.The design process is a lie
10 things people don’t tell you about designing products.UI Playbook
The documented collection of UI components.