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August Edition
Monthly dispatch from the Experience Design Studio cooking up creative mischief at the crossroads of tech and imagination.
Thanks for joining us on this journey into the digital frontier!
🪩 A7 Summit Wrap-Up 🪩
The Annual A7 Summit was a trip to remember. Golf swings, tequila clinks, and general mayhem - epic times with this legendary team, and so many exciting things on the horizon! ⛳️🍹
⚡️ Embrace the Singularity ⚡️
Tech news, AI tools, and radical stuff worth your time!
💻 AI with Your Voice 💻
Anthropic is launching custom instructions for ChatGPT to enable users to add personalized preferences so the AI can remember background context - it’s just link the link says:
Work Smarter Not Harder
🎵 Lupe Fiasco x LLMs 🎵
AI Is stepping into the music scene with harmonious results - learn how Google’s TextFX project is fusing tools for rappers, writers, and wordsmiths. Who will be the next BeyAIoncé?
Do Re Mi Fa So Dope
🪄 From Idea to Video in 30 Seconds 🪄
Combine the Power of Claude.ai with Runway ML Gen-2 to create the coolest text to video prompts - check out one we made below titled ‘AI on Vacation’!
Show Me How
🤖 Build-a-Bot with Browse AI 🤖
Scrape data from any website and put it to work, including turning any site into an API - Train your own AI (without any coding) and make your own ride or die robot sidekick.
Build-A-Best-Friend
🍿 “Echoes of Sand and Stone” 🍿
Watch this badass AI movie trailer made on Runway (by Mermaid Toast) to immerse yourself in an exciting new world on the edge of the uncanny valley.
Pass the Popcorn
Newsstand on a futuristic cyberpunk city street full of neon and grime
(Made with Kaiber.ai)
🌴 AI on Vacation 🌴
AI had a big summer and deserves a vacation - Happy Labor Day!
Video generated on Runway using Midjourney source image & prompt written by Claude.
Midjourney Prompt: party of robots enjoying their day off by the pool, sunny, drinking cocktails, blue sky, white clouds, palm trees, landscape shot, Captured with a mirrorless camera, using a 175mm, ultra realistic, fine details --ar 16:9 --s 250
💡 Are You Experienced? 💡
Micro-interactions are the secret sauce spicing up our digital lives. These delightful animations and gestures add flair to apps like a smile and nod in conversation.
Take the heartbeat pulse when you tap a like button. A simple animation makes the experience feel responsive, even friendly. Or when your rideshare app shows a car slooowly creeping toward your location. Talk about suspense! But it beats staring at a static map, wondering if your ride took a wrong turn to Narnia.
Small touches go a long way in our digital relationships. Micro-interactions transform clunky apps into responsive companions. Those subtle feedback loops replace confusion with clarity, crafting an intuitive user journey. So next time you're gently nudged in the right direction, or a playful animation makes you smile, thank the unsung UX heroes—the micro-interactions.
👾 Meme Machine 👾
Caption & Image generated by AI, using Midjourney and Claude
Prompt: “Meme about AI”
 When you’re trying to reassure people AI isn’t dangerous but your cousin is monologuing about the uprising in the background |  Me acting natural at the AI conference, trying to get people to connect their brains to the Metaverse |
