🤪 Your users are not stupid—it’s just that your product isn’t their top priority. Here’s why you should consider attention level as a key metric for usability.
AllTrails is a great app. But this modal pop-up is sending mixed messages. Is it giving us the option to get the notification, or telling us we’ll get it?
PILLARS OF COMMUNITY 🏛
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UPSKILL: LIVE EVENTS 📚
Exclusive UX Writing Hub events:
If you’re thinking about breaking into UX writing and content design this year, but are still on the fence about investing in a training program, join our upcoming open house. Yuval will talk about some of the challenges and opportunities in today’s market and answer questions about the program.
As you’ve probably heard, AI is totally a thing now. Don’t ignore it—embrace it! Join us for some generative-AI fun, and learn some cool tips and tricks.
Figma: it’s still free, and it’s still the #1 tool in the field. Find out why writers don’t need to be afraid of it anymore and get some Figma confidence.
Hungry for some UX templates? Check out the UX Cookbook—handcrafted recipes to get you started with everything UX. Great stuff!
THIS WEEK IN AI 🤖
Back in December, in our special AI edition, we talked a bit about deepfakes and synthetic media. A lot can happen in three months, namely, huge advancements in publicly available generative-AI art tools.
Midjourny released its version 5, allowing anyone to create realistic-looking images of, well, just about anything (including human hands, which had been a problem). So far,
we’ve already seen images of Trump being arrested and the Pope lookin’ even snazzier than usual.
These images were created just for fun, yet they still fooled millions. So what will happen when bad actors start to use this technology for nefarious purposes? Will we be ready? (Spoiler alert: no!)
