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Speaking to Phillip Maggs on Design of AI had so many💡 moments:1. Want to use AI to get a career advantage? Consuming AI content isn't enough to get ahead, you need to experiment with the new material. Stretch what you believed was possible and you'll gain new capabilities.2. New careers and role are being defined right nowGenAI makes it possible for anyone to quickly learn about a topic or skill. You might think you're average but can quickly put together a unique skill profile that makes you a unicorn, especially if you're more committed to being curious about new technologies and how to leverage them.3. Much of design should be automatedWe forget that a lot of design tasks are literal assembly-line outputs: Banners, emails, ad variants. These rightfully should be automated because they exist in the world for such a short period. However, assets that represent your brand to millions or which will be in market for years must be hand-crafted.4. Design systems and brands are rulesThe more we codify what our products and brands should be, the more we unlock the augmenting powers of AI. Phillip imagines that a day will come when the LLMs about our brands will shine light on ideas we otherwise wouldn't have considered because of our own biases.5. A lot of AI design products are "party tricks"Sure a tool that can generate designs based on text prompts are cool but are they significantly saving time? Are they aware of what qualifies a good output for your brand? Do they understand how you communicate with customers? The outcome of these tools likely is not a significant ROI.Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple

AI tool of the week: Cove.ai

Cove.ai is like Miro meets Claude. You can prompt and build assets, just like in Claude. But what makes this tool fascinating is that you can save our work to a visual board and invite others to collaborate with you.

The most surprising finding from using this platform is recognizing that in a typical project I’m outputting so many assets. The volume makes infinite scroll interfaces painful, and even makes Claude Project’s interface seem deficient. The visual board interface is much more functional since I can sort dozens of cards into a work surface that makes sense.

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