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The best genAI image generator is about to break free of its Discord jail
$200,000,000 annual revenue 14,800,000 users 40 employees $0 from investors These are the current Midjourney stats. And it hasn’t hit web browsers yet! How many

Adobe vs. GenAI: The Battle for the Future of Design
If you’ve been watching TV lately, you might have noticed Adobe Photoshop is back in the advertising game. Yes, the brand that has become synonymous

Balancing Act: The Pros and Cons of AI in Our Professional Lives
In a recent interview with CNBC, Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, explores the seismic shifts that artificial intelligence could bring to the job market, particularly
Graphic designers, do you have your escape plan?
Some companies value design. And other companies don’t. We’ve discussed how to show the value of design in previous issues. This week I dig into

AI will eliminate 83M jobs over the next five years! 🤯
For those of us of a certain age, we remember life before the Internet. It may be hard to remember, but the actual integration of

The AI revolution is about to crash into the global economy
Business Insider recently released an article that sounds like it could have appeared on the After Design blog. It talks about the impact that AI

Are you using metrics to show your value?
Hi all! I’m on a city-sized ship floating around the North Pacific right now. So instead of new news, I’ll share a new article and

Who will be the first to create God? (yikes)
Happy August (yeah, it’s August already). As many of us wind down our summer and we start to get distracted by football – both kinds

Gartner Predictions for AI and Jobs (it’s a mixed bag)
Industry analyst Gartner released some recent recearch on how AI will impact jobs. The TLDR version is that Gartner expects AI’s job impact to be