I think most people who are not playing with these technologies are way underestimating the speed of advancement in "creative" AIs & how much of an impact that is going to have on many jobs, soon.
AI language & art models are growing at 10x a year. Beyond Moore's Law pacing. 1/
Prototyped a little app that allows you to take frames from Figma and 'pull them into space'.
The frames stay linked to the canvas and update on any changes
Apple's Design Secret.
I found out how Apple and Steve Jobs built principles where product design can be insanely great.
10 design lessons from Steve Jobs that every designer must know (Genius Strategies):
yiwenl.github.io/Sketches/exps/…
Interactive fluid animation with tensorflowjs.
It's heavy so you'll need a powerful machine to run it. Pretty satisfying to be able to track the hand poses with just regular camera.
I try not to be nostalgic. But with regards to my use of outdated things; barely any tool or visual idea has ever been so completely optimized as to be finished. Why resort only to the defaults your age provides. Move forward. But progress can be added from any point in history.