1. AI-powered design
- Use to quickly explore ideas, refine visuals, and experiment with a styles.
- Pushes the boundaries.
- Some gen-AI tools:
- Midjourney (image generator: retexturing and personalization – custom model)
- Adobe Firefly (image generator: history, generative fill, upscale, composition and style references)
- Magnific AI (upscaling/detailing images, relight, Mystic generator, style transfer)
- Freepik (video /image generator. Reimagine – fastest variation generator, sketch to image)
- Dale-E (image generator)
- Recraft (vector art generator, with other features)
- Runway (video generator: worlds – sref equivalent, frames)
- Hailuoai (video generator)
- Sora (video generator)
- Wand (drawing with AI on iPad)
- Vizkom (product design: turning sketches into renders)
- Visual Electric (infinite canvas, collaboration)
- Ideogram (generate text, with an infinite canvas, Magic Fill & Extend)
- KREA (train: create custom gen AI model)
- Flair AI (generate product photoshoots)
- Blendbox (layering option for generated images)
- ChatGPT (writing scripts for Adobe tools, critiquing comps and more)
- Gemini (generate text)
- DeepSeek (generate text)
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龍 [龙] lóng
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: “dragon” radical in Chinese characters
noun
: dragon; imperial; symbol of emperor; (Chinese surname)
Kun Reading
竜 (龍) | たつ tatsu
noun
: dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)
: naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology
: promoted rook (shogi)
On Reading
竜 | リュウ ryuu or リョウ ryou or ロウ rou
NY design agency Order
Font: Söhne (Helvetica-like)
Expanded color palette
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1. Understand Audience
- Culture
- Industry/Context
- Demographics
- Tech savviness
2. Seamless Flow
- Negative Space
- Golden ratio/Rule of thirds
- Clear hierarchy: size, color, space
- Use grid
- Focal point
- Rhythm/pattern: F / Z-pattern layouts
- Use grid
3. Simplicity
- Prioritize content. Remove non-essential
- Organize in clear groupings
- Flows: logical + predictable
- Less is more
- Break huge tasks into smaller steps
- Optimize load time
