The current generation of website builders, most notably Framer and Webflow, promises to finally unite the ease of use of a design tool and the clean code of a human developer. They ride along the wave of “no-code” tools that want to enable people to build software products without writing code. I …
Making something simple seems easy. Let's take a website. Many websites want you to do something, ideally spending money. They want to sell something to you. To achieve that goal, they usually do a couple of things: They tell you what the thing is they're selling. They try to convince you that you …
It's a hard truth to realize that when you create something new, nobody cares about it. That's the default with new things. The only one who cares about it is you. And one of the most important things to do right at the very beginning is to think about why anybody else should care about it. Title …
Last week I looked into ChatGPT for product design work. Since it is a chatbot, its capabilities revolve around text-based output (although this is starting to change). For designers, AI tools that output visuals like images or videos, are even more interesting. There are quite a lot of these AI …
AI is a hot topic right now, not only in the design field. Every day, there seems to be an endless stream of hype messages about what AI can do now and how that is going to transform our lives. I wanted to chime in, or at least better understand what the hype was all about. So I fired up ChatGPT, …