💡 Rapid fire of all the cool ideas, philosophies and tools from Collision:

🐰 Rabbit: Rabbit R1’s no-interface user interface is the way of the future. Its practical application evolves as you use it to help you take action. Voice will become the user interface of the future. Jakob Nielsen said in one of his blogs that right now it is not possible for Generative AI to design and evaluate UI and UX that addresses all disabilities; I think Rabbit may have found an answer.

🖥️ Penpot (my personal favorite): an open source software company that utilizes AI to help designers and developers create interfaces that is always expressed in code. I tried it out and this is my personal favorite. Real world applications mean designer-developer handoff is exponentially faster. Try it out, IT’S FREE.

⚡️ Faster Work Process: Articulate’s President Edwin Scholte says that if you dissect your process architecture, you will find steps that can be simplified and enhanced by implementing AI. Filling these gaps with AI Agents will give you more time. Philip Hunt echoed the idea, the use of AI should be of collaboration not of competition.

📱 Flutter Flow: an AI assistant that helps you develop any app in minutes. This is also one of my favorites, its generative AI capabilities allows you to kickstart your app development and the best part is it expresses your design into code.

📌 Quote of the day: ”I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” – Joanna Maciejewska

🎬 Higgsfield: a generative video AI that promises unparalleled control in content production. Their use case was replacing a product shot with another brand within minutes. The presentation sounded cool but they weren’t fully able to convince me– I’m familiar with the basics of generative AI within video, so to me it sounded like SD’s Automatic1111 with loads of control net paired with Deforum but with everything tied together by their own custom GUI. They did also promise that they’re using their own model. I’m excited to see how they execute.

🍿 Rembrand: a company that allows brands and creators to partner seamlessly through In-Scene Media utilizing Spatially-Aware AI™. The use case elaborated on stage was using generative AI to do non-destructive product placement within videos that have already been produced by content creators which are then handed out to Rembrand to be re-branded. 👀 This one had no product demo to show on stage but the CEO said they have already began testing with content creators and majority of the feedbacks are all positive– allegedly.

🔑 Our impact: mediocrity is not an option. Robert Brunner, founder at Ammunition, said on stage “you should care about the quality of everything you do.” He also said that human creativity has its own energy, and AI generated creativity also has its own. The connection that design creates with people cannot be outsourced. And if you look at images generated by AI, it lacks that energy that allows people to connect.

🧲 Amazon Q: a power move by Amazon to lead the AI Agent development movement among the big tech firms. They promise the most accurate generative AI assistant for software developers. Matt Wood encouraged developers to use Amazon Q to create next-gen AI and AI agents using–and this is the best part–AI.

📤 GoPinit: here’s a software company that developed a platform just like Airbnb, but for OOH. How it works is that you can sell or purchase available billboards and outdoor ad space in one HUB. The cool thing is that they integrated Google’s Street View mode which means you can do virtual location scouting. An amazing idea that takes away hours of phone calls and reconnaissance work.