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{25} AI Assisted Design, Continuous Deployments & Your Style

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{25} AI Assisted Design, Continuous Deployments & Your Style

Featuring Ben Blaiszik, Manoela Ilic, Jimmy Cleveland, Bryan Hutchinson, and Tony Fadell

Dane Lyons
Feb 9
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Design: AI Assisted Design

Ben Blaiszik

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Ben Blaiszik @BenBlaiszik
The first company to add a #midjourney to web asset pipeline is going to make an insane amount of money. @justinstrong18 Rapid prototyping a new web dashboard with #AI art.
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2:15 AM ∙ Feb 9, 2023
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It’s a natural evolution to go from AI generated art to AI generated interfaces. What I’d like to see is an AI assisted design workflow. Here’s what I have in mind:

  1. A human provides the v1 design. This could be as simple as a napkin sketch or as complicated as a coded functional prototype.

  2. AI takes the initial design along with prompts suggesting the direction the team would like to take the design.

  3. AI provides a collection of variants that iterate on the initial design using the prompts as a guide.

  4. The team takes a promising variant and marks it up with suggested improvements, and adjusts the prompt.

  5. Steps 3 and 4 are repeated to refine the design until the team is happy with the results.


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Frontend: Reactive Shaders

Manoela Ilic

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Manoela Ilic @crnacura
New #tutorial + video by @tBlankensmith where you'll learn how to create audio reactive shaders with @shaderpark + @threejs🕺🎶🎨 tympanus.net/codrops/2023/0… #creativecoding #frontend #javascript #webgl #webdevelopment Thank you, Torin! 🙏🔥
3:54 PM ∙ Feb 7, 2023
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It’s amazing to see what browsers can do these days with WebGL.

Taking real-time data from an audio source and applying it to a shader might seem like a “neat trick” with no real-world application. To that, I’d say:

  1. Art is a real-world application.

  2. Adding techniques like this to your tool belt can come in handy in unexpected ways. Maybe one day, you find yourself working with streaming data from weather instruments. You need to find a way to make sense of it, and the static visualizations just aren’t cutting it. Suddenly you remember this tutorial and realize you can use Three.js to create a more dynamic visualization.



Backend: Continuous Deployments

Jimmy Cleveland

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Jimmy Cleveland @JimmyDCleveland
The first part of the Continuous Integration series is all live now, and the first video of the next part is up this morning. Today's video is about Continuous Deployment, using Vercel as an introduction to that world. Next will be Lighthouse CI.
youtube.comCI #7 - Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with VercelIn modern projects, Continuous Deployment is a common part of the Continuous Integration workflow. It’s commonly referred to as CI/CD, but the CD part is rea...
2:39 PM ∙ Jun 21, 2021

I’m a big fan of Vercel. I’m able to spend the majority of my time thinking about how my apps are designed and function without worrying about all of the supporting infrastructure that helps get my code from my personal laptop to the internet.

Even though Vercel automates everything for my preferred NextJS tech stack, it is still useful to take a deeper dive into continuous deployments. Jimmy walks you through using Vercel to deploy a minimal webpack javascript app. It’s particularly useful to see how preview deployments work on feature branches.


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Marketing: Honing Your Style

Bryan Hutchinson

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Bryan Hutchinson @bryhutch
Writing tip: Study what catches YOUR attention: • Why did you stop scrolling? • What compelled you to reply? • Why are you nearly p*ssing yourself laughing? You're a creator now, remember? Consume to improve, not for dopamine hits!
2:46 PM ∙ Feb 7, 2023

What I like about this tip is the emphasis on YOUR attention. You are not offloading your evaluation of “what is good” to the crowd or an external authority. This allows you to learn from the output of others while honing your personal style.

In addition to benefits to your writing and style, general awareness is living. Don’t shut yourself off to the outside world. Take it in.



Team: Design Everything

Tony Fadell

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Tony Fadell @tfadell
Everything that needs to be created needs to be designed - not just products and marketing, but processes, experiences, organizations, forms, and materials.
3:15 PM ∙ Feb 9, 2023
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The realization that you are not restricted by established conventions should be a freeing sensation. Your process, brand, schedule, work environment, revenue model, and everything in between is waiting to be designed or redesigned.

Each design is an opportunity to improve in some area. A simple shift can reduce cost, increase revenue, improve moral, add trust, or reduce effort.

This might feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to design everything at once. Do one thing at a time. Focus on making a single improvement, then move on to the next design opportunity.


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