📰 3 THINGS TO CHECK OUT
ChatGPT's New Image Model Lives Up to the Hype
- ChatGPT's newly updated image model has significantly improved the Generative AI’s capability in consistency, crafting detail, and creating type, allowing creators more flexibility and control.
- With these steps forward, potential diverse applications for use are increased, such as product prototyping, educational content, marketing assets, and more—check out the article in full for visual examples.
- “No AI tool is flawless, but this release genuinely raises the bar. Getting familiar with these capabilities now could provide a real advantage in your creative and professional endeavors.”
Cracking the Code of Vibe Coding
- AI entrepreneur Pete Sena delves into the current prevalence of "vibe coding," a new trend in software development where AI tools help quickly transform ideas into functional apps.
- Vibe coding emphasizes speed and ease, but risks software robustness and creativity due to AI dependence, with potential scalability issues if early errors are missed.
- “Vibe coding is real, I’ll also make a case for embracing it without losing your soul, including frameworks to optimize your success with the good vibes from creating genuinely helpful, well-crafted software and apps.”
Design Career Journeys: From Business School to AI UX Designer
- Mihn-Ahn Vuong, a UX designer on the Machine Intelligence and New Technology team at Adobe, deconstructs how she coupled her prior business experience with a UX bootcamp education to land a role at Adobe.
- Vuong, who now drives AI-driven design experiences, underscores the importance of flexibility, willingness to network, and continuous learning in navigating one's career path, particularly in UX.
- “Looking back, I realize my career has been less about following a set trajectory and more about seizing opportunities and adapting.”
💜 PORTFOLIO INSPIRATION
Celeste Lo, a UX Academy graduate, has a strong sense of UI as a through-line in her UX work. Each project showcases inviting interfaces, strong branding and color choices, and accessible features. Strong research backups up her UX decisions, with a clear understanding of both users and competitors. This can be seen showcased in her project work for Rembi, an organization and note-taking app, as well as her designs for Skylines, a responsive flight booking site.
Got a portfolio you love that you’d like to share with our audience? Email your suggestions to hello@designlab.com.
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A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. — Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple)
🧪 FROM THE LAB
⭐️ New Course Announcement: AI for UX Design ⭐️
This week, we announced the launch of our most requested course topic ever: AI for UX Design. The course is built for UX and product designers ready to work faster, think bigger, and stay ahead.
This 4-week course offers practical, real-world applications of AI in design, teaching how to streamline research, ideation, prototyping, and testing, using tools like ChatGPT, Uizard, and Figma plugins. Built in conjunction with long-time mentor Chrissy Welsh (formerly UX Director at ING) you’ll leave ready to make AI a force multiplier in your career.
AI for UX Design features weekly live sessions led by Chrissy, hands-on projects, expert mentorship, and peer groups for collaboration, with a special rate of $699 ($100 off the regular price) for our inaugural cohort.
This launch is limited to 50 enrollments to ensure the best student experience possible, so if you’re interested, secure your spot today.
🚀 Courses Launching Soon
Advanced Figma (Launching 4/4):
- Perfect for: Experience designers wanted to become more efficient with complex Figma features
- You’ll learn: Proficiency with Figma’s auto layout feature, reusable components, and design systems
- How you’ll do it: Asynchronous lessons and projects supplemented by consistent feedback, and live peer sessions facilitated by expert mentors
- Course length: Four weeks
AI for Visual Design (Launching 4/4):
- Perfect for: Entrepreneurs, designers, marketers, or anyone wanting to gain proficiency with industry-leading generative AI tools
- You’ll learn: Prompt crafting, working with complex visual ideas such as branding and storytelling, animating with AI, and more
- How you’ll do it: Asynchronous lessons and projects supplemented by consistent feedback, and live peer sessions facilitated by expert mentors
- Course length: Four weeks
Design 101 (Launching 4/4):
- Perfect for: Marketers, educators, or other non-designers who create or collaborate on visuals. deliverables. In this 4-week course, you’ll gain practical design knowledge
- You’ll learn: Foundational design principles that will have you designing better (and more effectively) fast
- How you’ll do it: Asynchronous lessons and projects supplemented by consistent feedback, and live peer sessions facilitated by expert mentors
- Course length: Four weeks
UX Academy Foundations (Launching 4/7):
- Perfect for: Those totally new to UX design looking to learn the fundamentals in a supportive structure
- You’ll learn: Visual and UI design foundations, proficiency in Figma, how to iterate on design work, integrating AI, and more. Be fully prepared for UX Academy upon completion.
- How you’ll do it: Asynchronous lessons and projects, how-to videos and guides, and 1:1 expert mentorship.
- Course length: Flexible over four to eight weeks
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