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Previous Issues
- Graphic designers, do you have your escape plan in place?
30 August 2023 | Issue #12 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 why it's important to find a company that values design. More important than that, I explore ways to discover which companies value what you have to offer. I'd love for you to read the article and let me know what you think. NEWS AT THE INTERSECTION OF MARKETING, DESIGN, & AI 🤖 The Automation Revolution: Efficiency in the...Read more - AI will eliminate 83M jobs over the next five years! 🤯
23 August 2023 | Issue #11 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 web into our every day lives took a while to complete. I got my first school email address in 1995, even though I was using an internal messaging system a few years befoe that. The time between my first email address and my first personal email address was almost four years. I'm telling you, it took a while before the need and...Read more
- The AI revolution is about to crash into the global economy
18 August 2023 | Issue #10 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 will have on jobs. I summarized it in today's blog post. NEWS AT THE INTERSECTION OF MARKETING, DESIGN, & AI Generative AI use Will Continue Its Climb Across All Age Groups More than 100 million people in the US will use generative AI next year More than 52% of Gen Z and Millennials will be monthly users More than 100...Read more
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9 August 2023 | Issue #9 Adobe is hurting its customers 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 some other recent articles you may have missed. NEW RESOURCES FOR YOU Adobe employees are worried that the software behemoth is introducing AI tools that will cost graphic designers their careers. I dig into why this might be happening in my latest blog post. Gartner recently released its Hype Cycle for...Read more
- Who will be the first to create God? (yikes)
2 August 2023 | Issue #8 Riding the AI hype cycle! 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 – there is still plenty going on in the world of AI and design. It sounds like MAICON was a huge success (more below), and it was well timed with the release of the Gartner AI Hype Cycle. Click to see larger version The Hype Cycle shows that generative AI is currently almost at the top of the Peak of Inflated...Read more
- Gartner Predictions for AI and Jobs (it's a mixed bag)
26 July 2023 | Issue #7 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 net neutral by 2026. By 2036 Gartner expects there to be 500,000 new human jobs due to AI. While this sounds good, it may not apply to your job. Around 1900, 40% of the US worked on farms. Today that number is closer to 1.6%. Now this may sound really alarming, but these workers in 1900 didn't have career choices like SEO...Read more