“What a Product Designer learned using AI to make a music video.” (Starts @ 53:48)
AI for Designers Presentation
Role:
Guest Speaker
Organization:
AI User Group
Date:
Dec, 2024
Location:
San Francisco
My Key Points
Summary of my talk.
Working on a creative project with (at the time) new AI tools (like Midjourney and Photoshop’s AI features) was very eye opening for me. I used to think everyone else knew everything about AI and I was on the outside knowing nothing. Now I just think there are the people experimenting and learning, and there are the people who just don’t experiment or play around with it. In other words, all the merit is in just trying.
My opinion about AI and Product Design:
Designing valuable digital products that use AI all comes down to user flows, and whether the product eliminates steps without adding new ones. If an AI tool saves me 30min of work, it is successful. If an AI tool saves me 30min of work, but then creates 40min of problems I need to fix, it is not successful. To me all scenarios are a variation of that premise.
The Music Video
Overview of how I made the music video.
Photos
Photo Edits
Animated Photos
AI Art Added
Sketches
Song
Using AI Tools:
I used Midjourney and Photoshop back and forth on this project. Both products do have the ability to do both image creation and image editing, but most of the time I used Midjourney for image creation and Photoshop’s AI features for image editing. Sometimes though I would have trouble getting a desired result and I would switch use cases.