"Are you still alive?" dropdown is diabolical :-)

It’s not that surprising. It’s one of those well known pandora boxes of web development: email templates, PDFs, printing,…

Ah, I didn't know that. It's not something I had worked on before, and the file format is highly prevalent (so I assumed things would be easy), so it was surprising to me

Nothing about PDF is easy. Similarly to what once Tom Scott said about time zones, every time I must deal with PDFs I pray that PDF.js can be hacked in to doing it instead, otherwise I just don’t bother.

It’s on of the few examples when converting it in to picture and chucking it in a multimodal llm is a more sensible solution than trying to parse it.

You would think that, but PDF is not really a format for text. It's a format that describes typography and graphics layout & formatting. It's not uncommon for a text pdf to not contain all of the text it renders (due to ligatures).

This has been in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for *decades*. I believe only recently it became more open towards "onboarding", but not much further beyond "if you really must...".

Yet onboarding is the holy grail of corporate products (maybe coz it feels like powerpoint presentation of the whole product?) and the holy grail of marketing brainwashing - carefully composed sequences of known psychological tricks and manipulations to "convert" people.

P.S. I'm not sure these floating tasks lists are much better. They always feel like unnatural pressure into something you don't need to do, aka. hardsell again. I came to the product to solve my tasks, not yours.

Every single designer knows buttons are better than touchscreens. Except car designers. Fascinating.

Wait, isn't this prohibited already? Some of it may be a gray zone, but a good portion of it is already downright illegal in many countries, and the rest is extremely unethical.

It’s likely just posturing for political support. No nation-wide law that I’m aware of exists in the US. In my state, the lowest advertised or displayed price is the honored price. They have to update the shelf price before the register’s. Any difference gets a refund which unfortunately is not automatic. Requires vigilance by the consumer but it would prevent this type of AI pricing.

It’s overreacting. HW is fantastic. some SW less so. Some bugs feel ridiculous and they’ve been around for ages - true. But overall, try to fire up a windows machine once in a while. It will give you a very quick reminder that you’re just used to a very high bar.

What about testicles outside the body? Every man has a painful story why it’s not a good idea..

I read this does have a functional reason: Sperm cells have to be kept at slightly lower temperature than the body temperature, so if the testicles were inside the body, the sperm wouldn't survive.

Of course you could ask why sperm is so temperature sensitive in the first place...

If elephants did it, I’m sure we can too.

They have a complex system to mantain the specific temperature. Huaman and other smaller animal do not have enough space to it inside.

If we were as large as elephants, then yes.

We did do it! It's called testicles!

But ours are outside. :(

Now that sounds like a design flaw in sperm cells

Yeah, it makes more sense to put all the fragile body parts in one place. For instance, the face.

I think I prefer the solution evolution came up with!

You are biased ;)

I'd be curious to hear from you in 3 months whether or not it ended up replacing designers at your agency, and why. Perhaps you could commit to answer?

You replace designers with who? Who is the magic person (who is not a designer) doing the work? CEO? CTO? I heard these stories when Midjourney started and everyone on gamedev channels where screaming how artists/graphic designers would be irrelevant... I was always puzzlde by who is going to be doing their work if they are gone...

I think the long term idea is that AI becomes continuous in the sense that it behaves like a regular employee, not something you have to prompt. So at a mid sized company say 100 "entities", the CEO has directors still, they have managers, but the managers are managing AI agents not humans.

But I don't think that's how it plays out. I think you still need to imbue talent, skills and direction into these tools and I don't see management, who did not have the skills initially, being able to do that task across multiple business aspects and agents simultaneously.

I think for now and perhaps until/if AGI, the sweet spot is having skilled individuals with experience using the tools to known good results. You still can't really delegate to the tools, you have to work with them. The benefit to management that a human has is they can delegate to a human, even when they completely lack the skillset they are delegating.

I’m not saying it will replace all designers immediately. But same as with developers: it may kill many junior positions quite quick. That’s why I’m asking the guy to share his experience 3 months from now.

Whoever used to assign tasks to the designer might now be able to assign them to a bot instead.

Or the design may be part of a larger task that has been delegated to a bot.

It's a pipe dream sorry

well, the AI models are already a thing and you can’t tell it’s AI. so maybe they’re already taking over and nobody noticed.

Design is primarily craft, not art. The designers who believe they’re artists are often dangerous and toxic, coz they feel the urge to inject their “art” into everything they touch. I say that as a professional designer.