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Friday fun... The last post in motion 1 of 2. From last post... "Sharing some detail 3D work highlighted in the FY24 Studio reel I recently shared. Utilizing the new color palette from the Microsoft Brand these metaphors created for the Microsoft Cloud visual identity celebrate fluidity, harmony, diversity, transformation, and imagination. Waveforms showcase the human element, expressing these ideas organically with texture, imperfection, and inherent optimism." ACD's Juliet Park Tierney Cunningham 3D Artists Steve Lee joseph andrade Handel Eugene #Microsoft #BrandStudio #CreativeTeam #BrandIdentity #VisualDesign #Teamwork #Grateful #Brand #C4D #MicrosoftCloud #creativedirector #creativedirection #visualidentity #promotion #motion #motiongraphics #motiondesign

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Check out this episode of My Life as an ID: Best AI Tools for IDs! We took a look at Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Vyond. What are your favorite AI tools to use for instructional design? #AIforID #InstructionalDesign #AI #ArtificialIntelligence https://lnkd.in/gVshzRuP

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🚀 Today marks the next big step for Generative AI in Acrobat. An amazing set of features is here to supercharge document workflows including image generation in Acrobat powered by Firefly, transcript optimization for your Zoom and MS Teams meeting, and at long last… the ability to pull insights from collections of documents. 📃📃📃 For my part, I’ve been thinking about how we scale AI to work with multiple documents since July of last year. I worked tirelessly to craft a vision of the future of work with Acrobat that cumulated in a presentation to all of Adobe around Christmas 2024. After Actobat AI Assistant’s launch in February, I’ve been laser-focused on delivering the most ambitious update yet. This has been the most complex challenge of my career to date, piecing together complex tech with our customer's real-life needs and use cases at scale while being iterative and adaptive. If it seems simple, believe me, it’s been anything but. I'm looking forward to the many enhancements to come, but it’s time to take a step back, pop a bottle, and raise a glass before getting back to it. 🥂 Now it’s your turn to try it for FREE until Jun 28th on Acrobat web or desktop. Go to https://lnkd.in/gcTTu6aW, drop up to 10 PDFs, word docs, power points, and give it a whirl! Build connections, generate insights, and find what you’ve been searching for with the help of AI Assistant in Acrobat. 🎉 Big thank you to the many people who made this a reality. A few of the many notable contributors on our design team to highlight are Mei Av, Jennifer Hersh, Pragya Gupta, Justin Pray, James K. Yang, Peter Baird, Debasish Biswas, Kathryn Ankrum, Josie Elfassy , and Jennifer Hersh. I can’t even begin to mention all the other people across Design, PM, Eng, Research, and marketing teams who’ve contributed significantly along the way. #adobe #acrobat #adobelife #aiassistant #multidoc #productlaunch #generativeAI #designingwithAI  #futureofwork https://lnkd.in/gTF344Hk

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What does it look like to become your own behavior designer? In a recent episode, I had the privilege of having a conversation with Matt Baldwin PhD .Matt is a Behavioral Scientist on the User Research and Design team at Noom. Come and listen to us discuss a variety a topics around behavior, including: -The first steps in behavior change -Habit stacks and temptation bundling -Implementation of habits -Why motivation can only go so far -The importance of identity Behavioral Science with Matt Baldwin: Podgecast | 24 Check out this short clip, and catch the full episode on Noom Vibe (Link in the comments)

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This paper from Microsoft Research presents a very interesting analysis of how to support users given the unique metacognitive demands presented by generative-ai interfaces. Kudos to the authors for the paper’s recent success at the CHI conference. 👍🎉 #HCI, #CHI, #generativeai, #UI, #UX

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Have you thought about the physical accessibility of your digital designs? Getting physical controls right is really hard, and industrial designers spend a lot of time learning about how to use data as a starting point for making design decisions. As we create digital designs that we interact with using our bodies, it's going to become important for digital designers to understand physical ergonomics too.

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With enough #compute, one could imagine a cloud-hosted UX research platforms like @UserTesting building specialized analytical models. But it's likely out of reach for most small UX research teams, and certainly for any #independent UXResearcher. https://lttr.ai/AR3uS #UXResearch #UXDesign #uxresearch #HundredThousandPounds #UXR #Freelance #LargeLanguageModel

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We are long overdue in letting go of the term “user”. In early 2018, I worked on a study to understand “digital and people”, to help a company understand how to transition to being a “tech” company. While working on triangulating the research, a colleague kept saying, “It’s all about the user." That’s when it occurred to me: the tech world sought out to make sticky, addictive technologies for users, and they succeeded in creating addicts, aka users. Since then, colleagues, clients, and students I work with know the word “user” will not be seen in my work. Words are powerful as they set the intention. #designforpeople #humanitycentereddesign #designwithintent #ethicaldesign

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Products like Recraft are like the Perplexity for creating images with #GenAI. They are leaning into the benefits of going beyond a conversational prompt-based interface ONLY and integrating traditional, familiar GUI-based workflows with prompts to provide outcomes that creative people seek. In this example, they've notably improved the experience of creating multiple #images in a consistent style using #AI. In addition, they seem to be among the few (only one?) offering SVG export, making them a great option for #illustration. https://lnkd.in/eiGPqbKU

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The best features are inspired by real experiences (of course!). Nara is a perfect example of this. Nara is a native app that allows new parents to track everything about their baby. We’ve worked with Nara since it was founded (in 2018!) and have iteratively evolved the design to meet user’s needs. I want to highlight the latest feature, compare baby history, which was inspired by parents with twins. They requested an easy way to see trends across multiple babies. There aren’t many features out there that support twins! It’s a great example of how real user needs can shape the product experience. #digitaldesign #mobile #ParentingTech #BabyTracking #AppDesign #UserExperience #ProductDevelopment #TwinParents #Nara #InnovationInParenting #FeatureDesign #UserFeedback #ParentingApp #ProductEvolution #TechForParents #StartupGrowth #UserCentricDesign

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🚨 Important Update for Adobe Users 🚨 Recently, Adobe faced backlash due to ambiguous language in their Terms of Service (TOS) that led a lot of people to believe the company claimed ownership over user-created works. This misinterpretation caused significant concern among creatives who rely on Adobe software (myself included). Adobe has since acknowledged the issue and pledged to revise the TOS to clarify their stance, ensuring that users retain ownership of their creations. https://lnkd.in/dTyc6DMX #Adobe #CreativeCommunity #TOS #UserRights #DigitalArt #CreativeSoftware

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Catching up all of the GPT-4o updates, loving these use cases that'll be so powerful for accessibility https://lnkd.in/g5nfHrQ5

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“Tone deaf.” “Horrendously bad.” “Deeply offensive.”   Yikes. Must suck to be the company on the receiving end of those comments. Wait. What? These are referring to Apple?!?!? The darling of the creative class? The marketing masters that can do no wrong? What is this world coming to?   Now, I’m not going to weigh in on the advertising quality of the new Apple iPad Pro ad itself. That’s a field I haven’t worked in for many moons, and my sensibility is rusty at best. And truth be told, I found the ad more confusing than insulting when I first saw it. I get the backlash against the (literal) destruction of tactile creative tools, but what shocks me the most is the product feature creep this commercial alludes to. There was a time when Apple’s product strength was as much about what it didn’t try to do as what it did. They focused ruthlessly on narrower ranges of experience than their competitors because that allowed them to ensure higher, rather than broader, quality could be achieved. Yet here they are, promising that they have managed to (literally) cram every creative tool available to humanity into a flat glass rectangle. How do you excel at anything when you promise everything?   One of the hardest things about building great products is knowing when to say “no.” And for years, Apple always seemed to know when to do that. Trying to be all things to all people is the quickest way to lose focus. So, while the content of this ad does not offend me as much as it seems to other people, it does deeply concern me that practicing editorial control over what to deliver to customers is apparently as dead as the poor googly-eyed squishy ball that has given its existence in pursuit of ever more stuff to cram into the products that we make. R.I.P. restraint…and googly-eyed squishy ball—poor little guy. #product #experience #Apple #marketing https://lnkd.in/ebFxnrSK

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I’ve had an #iPad for years. I love it, but the new ad from #Apple demonstrates the conceit that the “new and digital” in the creative space is always superior to things hand-crafted with analog materials. I’ve encountered this numerous times and it always comes from people who are not especially creative. They are more interested in getting it done than getting it done right. They want the final product without the time necessary to inform that product. They’re the ones who pigeonhole creatives into a stereotype of self-absorbed, navel-gazers, who have no sense of the harsh realities of business or engineering. Whatever “creative” minds ginned-up this ad are echoing that misguided belief that technology is a solution creatives should be grateful for by “saving” everyone the trouble of learning a craft. AI, software, hardware; these are all tools. Creatives are adopting them and improving their results, but anyone who’s honed their craft and developed the sensibilities for visual design, music, writing, wood or metal craft, fiber, or photography, is always going to produce something more substantial with more dimension and depth than some spare random person who just bought an iPad. Technology may simulate an output requiring no skill but that lack of skill is glaringly apparent when compared with the genuine article produced by a practiced hand and imagination. The design community has always admired Apple and championed their products. This ad ostensibly hikes its leg on the folks who’ve supported it. Hugely tone deaf #TimCook

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I love using the iPad to sketch out plans and to make communicating easier. While you can open up a wire frame or diagramming tool or Figma or a mind map tool… the Freeform app on Apple platforms comes with your device and is just awesome at sketching out simple ideas as if you were in the same room drawing on a whiteboard. Being in the same room is not always possible. I just got off a call with folks from across the world to talk about Stripe product and plan architecture for new price and functionality tiers we have coming up at Law Insider and it made it easier for me to articulate my thoughts because I had drawn it out. Have you checked it out? P.S. forgive my handwriting plz #product #productmarketing

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Resharing Episode 211 of The World of UX. Ever heard someone say "Stop drinking the Kool-aid?" This metaphoric statement refers to a tragic event in American history where people either blindly or through coercion ingested something self-detrimental. Check out this episode to learn how and why this metaphor applies to UX today. https://spoti.fi/3KkIbs3

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Is it me, or does Workday not have the concept of a user profile that sits above corporate sites? It seems like a huge UX problem to solve right now. Why do I need to connect to LinkedIn (which consistently pulls over scrambled info, misses or disorganizes key data points, or just plain does not work)—when I could have my own profile that is already connected to all of the companies I used to work for that use Workday? * Applying for a UX lead role at Workday now...*

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