The AI I’m using in my UX work
Right now, these are the AI tools I am using/learning/checking out to help me organize and create better work overall:
For taking notes and summarizing during Zoom presentations: Fathom and Otter. They are about the same but Fathom is free.
For transcribing audio recordings into written text: Otter. I was using a free one (which I can’t even remember the name of) and Otter was significantly better, but it costs $15 a month.
Creating visuals for projects: Dall-e and Midjourney. As a human artist, it takes something for AI to be anywhere near interesting visually, but it is still super cool to play around with.
For fixing up my writing: Wordtune, but I’m also checking out others. I do not currently pay for the higher option but am thinking about it to edit a long piece of writing I have.
For creative ideas or questions: Chat GPT and Bard. I currently pay for GPT 4.
For design work, I don’t yet like the AI that exists like Uizard and Galileo enough to use it but I am paying attention to how it evolves.
However, there are some really good Figma plugins that help increase the speed of design work. One of my new favorite plugins is HTML to design, where you can take any website you enjoy and paste their UI into your Figma art board as a starting place.
Figma is also adding new tools every few months, like variables for automatic responsive design.
I am constantly learning these updates with the help of places like Moon Learning, Molly Hellmuth’s Design System course, and good articles on the UX Collective in Medium.
For UX and AI news, I primarily follow the Superhuman AI newsletter here: https://www.joinsuperhuman.ai/
I also follow Jakob Nielsen's newsletter because he founded UX and has been around for a long time. He is also very amusing in his humor, which I greatly enjoy. Here is some of his stuff:
