29 December 2024 | Issue #75 In this issue: Top-clicked articles from the past year of After Design Midjourney Prompt: A marketer looking at statistics. Illustrated style --ar 16:9 Looking back on a full year of After Design, reviewing the links you clicked on the most is interesting. Earlier in the year, you tended to be more interested in AI and its impact to your job and career. As the year went on, you tended to click on articles focused on design and marketing. I use Bitly to track the...
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22 November 2024 | Issue #74 In this issue: PowerPoint is Here to Stay The Design Community Has Turned a Corner 9 Branding Tools To Use When Marketing Your Business AI Adoption Gap Found Between Executives and Entry-Level Marketers Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a designer using PowerPoint. --ar 16:9 Business Insider recently published an article lamenting the overuse of PowerPoint and how some high-powered individuals are trying to do away with it. (for the duration of this post, if you...
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8 November 2024 | Issue #73 In this issue: An Index of Aesthetics In Defense of Jaguar Achieve Your Creative Goals in 2025 Shopify / Canva Integration AI Literacy is the Key to ROI Design Quote of the Week How many times have you found yourself in a conversation, and the person you're talking with just doesn't grasp what you're trying to say? Or worse, you leave the meeting in alignment, but it turns out you were both talking about different things. This happens far too often and there isn't...
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24 November 2024 | Issue #72 In this issue: Do We Need Websites Anymore? Canva Design Trends 2025 25% of Google's Code is Generated by AI Coca-Cola's AI-Generated Ad Sparks Discussion How Many Colors Can You Name? New Survey: Designers' Views on Using AI Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a cartoon illustration. A hipster man with a beard and black-rim glasses is facing the camera, but his eyes are looking to the right side. Behind him is a robot. --ar 16:9, then modified in Adobe Illustrator...
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17 November 2024 | Issue #71 In this issue: Job Impact Stats Organizations Becoming Diamond-Shaped, Leaving Entry-Level People on the Sidelines Audi Launches New Car Without 4-Ring Logo Will AI Replace Illustrators? How to Have a Hybrid Career Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a giant, glowing blue diamond in the middle of the picture. Smaller people are looking up at it --ar 16:9 We've known that generative AI is transforming the job market, and now we can see some data to back that up. New...
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10 November 2024 | Issue #70 In this issue: The Creative Director's Checklist Chat.com Buyer Revealed to be OpenAI The Checklist Prompt Technique for GenAI Experimenting with Claude's new Computer Use Agent How Trustworthy is Your LLM? Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a person is sleeping with their head down on their desk --ar 16:9 I'm keeping it short this week. We're all exhausted. Whether or not you're a brand designer, there's a great chance that you have a role that is somewhat...
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3 November 2024 | Issue #69 In this issue: Will Robots Take My Job? Depends on the Job SearchGPT Launches as ChatGPT’s Real-Time Search Feature Tech Companies Report Earnings, AI Companies Do Well Why AI Won’t Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon First in the U.S.: 3-Year Bachelor’s Programs Coming to New England College Midjourney's New Editing Tools Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a robot taking a person's job --ar 16:9 According to WillRobotsTakeMyJob.com, graphic designers are at moderate...
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27 October 2024 | Issue #68 In this issue: Generative AI in Marketing Report AI-Generated Content vs. Human-Generated Content The Problem with Perfectionism in Creativity Stock Image Market Growth Canva Hires a Design Advisory Board Design quote of the week Prompt: AI-Generated Content vs. Human-Generated Content --ar 16:9 Ann Handley's great newsletter recently alerted me to Social Media Examiner's new Generative AI Marketing Industry Report. Much of this aligns with trends I've been reading...
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20 October 2024 | Issue #67 In this issue: Is design turning into a hobby field? Illustrator's impressive new rotation functionality Gallup results: AI in the workplace Kleenex logo update Growing brain cells to help power AI (reposted) Design quote of the week Prompt: graphic design as a hobby --ar 16:9 Confession: I didn't start out wanting to be a designer. My original career choice was comic book illustrator. For undergrad, I studied graphic design for two reasons: One of my then-favorite...
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