Designers Should Look to Demis Hassabis. Not Jony Ive (suffsyed.com)

Why would anyone look up to Jony Ive? He was never a good designer. He made stuff thin…

  When Ive transitioned Apple from Scott Forstall's skeuomorphic richness to the spare simplicity of iOS 7's flat design, he wasn't just updating an interface. He was teaching the world a new visual language

How do you say "Metro" in this strange, new visual language?

I'm sorry, this article reads like AI slop.

It has all the hallmarks: grandiose writing ("everything changed"), the classic "It wasn't X, it was Y" (about five times in the first minute of reading the article), undue emphasis on symbolism...

All those indicators are coupled with an unpleasant level of obsession with how statistical models are "a new kind of mind"—even after claiming to "strip away the hype cycle".

As a reader, the overuse of "not this, but that" in this article was particularly painful. Which is ironic in an article about a designer who deeply cared about aesthetics.

> We are shifting, rapidly and irreversibly, from a world defined by pixels and layouts to a world defined by weights, prompts, context, and policies.

Such confidence. Just like web 3.0 bros.

a) nothing is irreversible; b) nothing is rapid — just get outside your bubble into the real world.

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-lab...

It's a bit comparing apples to oranges. Ive is a designer while Hassabis is more of an engineer/scientist.