Can I build myself an object detection desktop app?
I decided to do it. I bought myself a PC tower so that I could run LLMs locally and have enough processing power that it wouldn’t take me three minutes per query. I vetted some specs with a couple gents…
Teaching Others to Teach Yourself
“You just need to stay 20 minutes ahead of everyone else,” a quote from a fellow AI enthusiast about trying to teach a topic you’ve only just learned. In January, I watched a video by Riley Brown in which he…
In Review: Learning 23 Tools in 9 Months
Lately, a friend and I have been texting about the little creative pursuits we do on weekends, the art and tools that bring us joy and give us the opportunities for growth and creativity that we don’t get to explore…
AI Layout Assistants
As part of my Midjourney class, I was also introduced to Relume.io as part of a bonus class demo. Relume takes a text prompt and then generates a site tree and functional wireframes using their component library, which can then…
Blending Images
By far, the most helpful two features I’ve learned while using MidJourney are the parameters for image weight and the ability to blend images together. Having a basic understanding of syntax construction became important as I started using more camera…
Marketing Assets
While understanding the foundation of AI technologies seems pertinent to improving my skill set as a UX designer on web and software applications, the driver for my hands-on usage of many of the content creation tools out there is because…
Stylize Parameter Permutations
While I’d had a passing familiarity with the stylize parameter, which formulates whether to display an image closer to the prompt, but less artistic (low value), or more artistic, but less accurate in detail (high value), I had not known…
Prompt Writing
As I was researching AI and design, I stumbled upon the learning platform, Maven and because I joined the waitlist for a class on designing for AI and they now had my email address, Maven used that opportunity to pitch…