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2025 Design Trends

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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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Pig Butchering

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A pig butchering is a gradual monetary scam where (seemingly random) victims are lured into making increasing monetary contributions in phony investments. It is akin to fattening a pig before slaughter, hence the name. It originated in Southeast Asia during the pandemic, where supposed perpetrators are victims themselves, often held, and tortured by gangs to perpetuated this vicious cycle.

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