Category: User Experience
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ElevenLabs (Product Review)
My summary of Eleven Labs before using it – ElevenLabs turns text into voice. How does ElevenLabs explain itself in the first minute? On its website ElevenLabs explains that its users can create natural AI voices instantly in any language. How does ElevenLabs work? I select a language – English – and sample text is…
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Raycast (Product Review)
My summary of Raycast before using it – Raycast is a productivity tool, making it easy to search, launch programmes and run tasks. How does Raycast explain itself in the first minute? “Supercharged productivity” is Raycast’s key promise on their website. “Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate,…
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Generative AI and Tesler’s Law
We talk a lot about the new innovations enabled through generative AI, but we haven’t talked as much about how we expect users to interact with AI applications. Because of the more unpredictable nature of generative AI, user interfaces will shift from deterministic to probabilistic user interfaces. In mathematics, a deterministic mathematical model is meant…
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Spotify AI DJ (Product Review)
My summary of Spotify AI DJ before using it – I expected a personalised music feed. Similar to the “Wrapped” mix Spotify gives you at the end of each year, I expect the “AI DJ” to do something similar on the fly. I also expect that the feed will include personalised music recommendations. How does…
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How Substack recommends
Last year Substack introduced a new recommendation feature which I want to highlight here. In case you’re unfamiliar with Substack, it’s a platform that lets writers and podcasters publish directly to their audience and get paid through subscriptions. The principle behind Substack’s recommendation feature is as simple as it’s powerful: a writer can select several…