Is AI a Boon or a Bane for the Design Industry?
Is AI a Boon or a Bane for the Design Industry?
PLUS: Tech news
Hello, Spark family! I hope this month started out on the right foot and you are crushing your goals!
Here are the highlights for today:
AI and the Design Industry
2 separate tools for “Centralising workflow” and “Improving hybrid work culture”
Your go-to place for Customer and Employee management tools
Interview with Rolland
Top tech news
Is AI a Boon or a Bane for the Design Industry?
Artificial intelligence is looking to disrupt every industry as we know it. But, are you aware of how it would impact the design industry?
This question gained prominence in the design industry after "Diagram" announced that they were working on "Genius," an AI assistant that can potentially disrupt the UI/UX design industry.
The AI assistant "Genius" will work alongside designers and add buttons, columns, rows, etc. according to the layout of the content. For example, if you add a picture of a coffee to the template, Genius will detect it and add a "Buy Now" button at the bottom of the image by itself.
It would be similar to your phone’s predictive texting, but for design.
So we discuss, Is artificial intelligence a boon or a bane for the design industry?
Products that caught our eye 👀
2 separate tools for “Centralising workflow” and “Improving hybrid work culture”
⚡Sense — Your Artificial Memory: Did you know that there is a tool that can help you centralise all your workflow into a single tab? In today’s fast-paced work environment, we use a host of different applications to manage our workflow.
Google Drive, Slack, Dropbox, Figma, Miro, Airtable, and the list is endless. Each application has its own use case and importance. This leads to multiple tabs and utter confusion when searching for something.
This is where SenseAI will be your best friend. Sense AI helps people manage their time and work efficiently by centralising all of their chats, files, etc. in one place. 📝
⚡Litespace: Remote work has been gaining significant traction over the past few years. This led to the emergence of a hybrid work culture where you come to the office for only a few days per week. However, this new work culture often disconnects you from your work peers and happenings in the office.
Litespace is on a mission to fix this disconnect and promote social bonding within the organisation.
It helps recommend the best days to visit the office based on data points like when the person sitting next to you is visiting the office or when the next biweekly meeting is for any department. It also informs everyone of new hires, improves productivity, and much more! 🧑💼
News from our Mate 💙
Your go-to place for Customer and Employee management tools
Finding the right products, tools, and partners to accelerate your growth without hampering your business needs is always a priority.
Freshworks is a SaaS company that offers multiple products to help companies delight their stakeholders. They accomplish this by enabling better customer (CX, CRM) and employee (ITSM, HRSM) experiences.
Freshworks has supported more than 5,000 startups globally and has a client base exceeding 60,000+ customers. One of their differentiating factors is that they are a relationship-first company and strive to offer the world's best services to their clients. 👍
This partnership helps startups within the Sparkmate ecosystem access the full suite of services from Freshworks at an attractive discount! Their recently launched offer for early-stage startups with a multi-year growth plan enables funding-based support and scalability.
Startups working with Sparkmate can potentially save over $100k when opting for Freshworks services!
Get in touch with us to learn more about it!
Interview with Rolland 🧑💻
A serial entrepreneur with over a dozen product launches under his belt
By the age of 18, he had already launched his first startup, gotten incubated by Google, and raised over $500k via Kickstarter campaigns.
We are talking about Guillaume ROLLAND, a serial entrepreneur and the current head of innovation for the emosia Group. Sparkmate had the pleasure of hosting Guillaume as a guest speaker at our office in Paris.
Guillaume ROLLAND is the go-to person for hardware products. He has scaled several businesses from scratch to generate multi-million-dollar revenues and launched over a dozen tech products.
At our “Give the Spark” event in Paris, our community of builders asked Guillaume about his journey, the difficulties he faced when launching products, and how he overcame them.
You can watch a 10-minute clip of the video here.
Top tech news 🗞️
Google announced its I/O conference on May 10th
The event will be broadcast online for everyone to watch. Everyone is looking forward to hearing news about Bard (the Google competitor for ChatGPT), the next version of Android, and over 20 artificial intelligence products that Google has scheduled to launch this year.
Slack integrates ChatGPT
The feature will first be available to beta testers. It will automate replies to colleagues and help summarise meetings. Salesforce, the company behind Slack, also plans to launch the Einstein GPT. The software would mainly focus on customer relationship management (CRM).
You can now make your AI twin and hire virtual models
Deepagency, a startup based in the Netherlands, recently launched an AI photo studio and modelling agency. With their software, you can potentially make your digital AI twin and take photos without actual backgrounds. You can also input prompts and generate a customizable model.