Notes

Sherry Jiang(co-founder of Peek) on Twitter shared how their LLM was able to read the context of their users' personal finance data and suggest that the right time to nudge them for spending check-in is on Thursday/Friday, to preempt their weekend splurging habits.

This simple nudge at the right time, in the gentle messaging tone, enabled them to increase their week-3 retention rate to 3x of what it was before (10% to 28%). The even more interesting part: this insight for consumer enagagement increase was discovered by their LLM triaging the consumer data and finding patterns in spending habits.

This photo is from a few sundays ago: I unpacked my handbag before going to a cafe on a sunday afternoon. today, I tried recreating this collection of items as airbnb-style skeuomorphic 3D icons.

I think design, like all other software/media, is going to lean more into IRL look-and-feel as people are saturated and tired with the flat screens and everything flat inside the screens. They want to see texture, materials, and somewhat realistic 3D design languages in the everyday consumer products they use. It will be interesting to explore the balance of how much we can create this look and feel with generative AI tools and how much human craft and curation will make the difference

playing around with 3D object curation, style: neobrutalist revival

interactive 3D user-experience is becoming more common in consumer products beyond just gaming.

brand poster for crypto multi-signature asset custody platform, style: minimalist intentional

focused on conveying trust, utility and minimalism

redesigned a socially shareable profille card for flexing your bio-age, for the personal healthtech startup superpower

is it more braggable or less than the old one with more data in it?

People don’t like feeling lost or worse, feeling stupid when using your product. At all times, they need structure to lean on. They want to know where they are, so add useful structure to fill the gaps in the user-experience. This helps you orient the consumer. When they know where they are and how to find what they need, they feel at ease.

Designing the information architecture of your app is one form of adding structure, a well-curated dashboard for monitoring is another. Actionability Cards during onboarding flow or while guiding a user through multi-step action plan can also add useful and much appreciated structure.

Designers have an artistic side to them and they tend to get consumed in that. That can be a good thing sometimes, for an artist but designers need to keep an eye on the real-world context in which the product you designed is actually needed and will be used. Go talk to the people who will be using the product and observe them using it in the real context.

Market Research and surveys devoid of context won't give you the clarity you need to make major design decisions. Context, by definition, depends on the real-world use-case & somewhat subjective to the audience. That means, as a designer, you need to get clarity on who specifically you are designing for, and even more importantly, what is the exact context the intended user are going to use the product in.

People like sharing their tastes and preferences, specially when they are useful in a group quest. Let people express and let people share by enabling an interaction mechanism in your product or experience — that allows them to curate, with friends.

I can go curate shopping list with my girlfriend, or investment together in DAO with creator friends. We can have a shared bulletin board with my social hangout buddies in the city or we can have a shared list of gigs and professional intros that our small network of professional acquaintances can make for each other. If your product can incorporate this, you are gonna experience of magic of user-retention that most consumer founders only dream of and never reach.

Never rush it. Trust can never be chased, forced or bought. You can only earn it gradually with the integrity you show through the major decisions made in your approach to design, pricing, marketing, and customer service

In this example you can see the number of elements with a singular purpose - earning enough trust from the potential customer.