mortenjorck

The design of the UI wouldn't be covered by copyright anyway; Figma would have had to file and be granted a patent, which has a much higher bar (IMO not high enough, but that's a different discussion).

The really weird thing is going to be when people start internalizing the LLM voice and writing that way. It's probably happening already.

My own profile picture? Can’t edit some public figures. A famous Norman Rockwell painting from 80 years ago? Can’t edit some public figures.

Safety’d into oblivion.

Air gap. If you don’t want content to be used without your permission, it never leaves your computer. This is the only protection that works.

If you want others to see your content, however, you have to accept some degree of trade off with it being misappropriated. Blatant cases can be addressed the same as they always were, but a model overfitting to your original work poses an interesting question for which I’m not aware of any legal precedents having been set yet.

Image verification has never been easy. People have been airbrushed out of and pasted into photos for over a century; AI just makes it easier and more accessible. Expecting a “click to verify” workflow is unreasonable as it has ever been; only media literacy and a bit of legwork can accomplish this task.

What qualifies this as an LLM sentence is that it makes a mildly insightful observation, indeed an inference, a sort of first-year-student level of analysis that puts a nice bow on the train of thought yet doesn't really offer anything novel. It doesn't add anything; it's just semantic boilerplate that also happens to follow a predictable style.

OLED screens do not have a backlight and thus don't have a diffuser.

Hard to imagine nearly two decades later, but for a brief moment in time, it was cool to be on Facebook.

There are so very many opportunities for a better surface transport system than buses. Dynamic routing and scheduling, capacity somewhere between a city bus and a taxi, and potentially better economies of scale all make this far more appealing than what exists today.

Also – and I know acknowledging this will not go over well in some circles – requiring an app and a credit card will go a long way toward keeping riders of a certain disposition off the vehicles. No, it's not a perfect proxy for who will and won't make riding unpleasant or unsafe, but riders will intuitively understand it even if they don't want to think about it, and it will make a difference.

No way, that’s why the wipes took over the switcher screen and where that peculiar vertical line pattern came from?

I can still remember these with an odd intensity from playing with the Toaster at the studio where my dad worked 30 years ago.

This is in stark contrast to ChatGPT, where an edit prompt typically yields both requested and unrequested changes to the image; here it seems to be neither.

Given the other restrictions on internet use in China, it should have come as no surprise, but I had no idea this was the law of the land there.

I literally cannot imagine 56K on the modern web.

I decided to give it a try. It’s pitched as a Figma alternative, but as essentially an expensive advertisement for Icons8 (the stock marketplace is built into the app), I didn’t have very high expectations.

Honestly, I was blown away. As a product designer who relies on a lot of advanced Figma functionality, I wouldn’t rely on it as my daily driver, but for a side project? I would choose it over Sketch. It covers all the basics of a modern UI design application, and even a few of the more recent additions to Figma like color variables. I’m surprised I haven’t seen more coverage of it.

One of the bulbs recently burned out, and I picked up a replacement at Menards. Even though it was just a basic Sylvania, the new one clearly has a rectifier circuit as it does not exhibit any flickering that I can detect.

So anecdotally at least, the cheap bulbs without rectifiers seem to be going away from the big box stores (although I’m sure you can still get them with unpronounceable all-caps names from Amazon).

Perhaps the worst offender I've ever seen was the Mafia remake by Hangar 17, which loads every time with a sequence of studio logos with white backgrounds that cut from black. The RGB(255,255,255) backgrounds get stretched to maximum HDR nits, and the jump from RGB(0,0,0) (especially on an OLED) is absolutely eye-searing.

I literally had to close my eyes whenever I'd load the game.

This… sounds like a very good problem to have?

In a way, that almost makes it more dreamlike, in that you have what feels like high local coherence (just enough not to immediately tip you off that it’s a dream) that de-coheres over time as you move through it.

Fascinatingly strange demo.

Which is a roundabout way of saying: I love that this is a website.

I’m trying to find any kind of news or blog post about this and I’m coming up empty-handed.

Edit: it looks like you were referring to Lava, which is a video format, not a vector animation format. Airbnb is using Lava micro-videos now in some places where they previously used Lottie animations, but Lava appears to be more a modern approach to animated GIFs rather than Lottie’s modern approach to Flash.

https://medium.com/@waldobear002/airbnbs-new-lava-icon-forma...

That is what he is world-class at. Not designing comprehensive product experiences or ideating new greenfield products (and definitely not designing app icons).

If IO or OpenAI also has a product visionary of the caliber to fully utilize Ive's singular industrial design talent, they'll rule the world. Otherwise, they're sinking billions into the next Humane Pin.