AI Listings, Career Economics, iPhone, Data Privacy, and AI Translations
Weekly Roundup of AI, Technology, and UX
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Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
🛒 AI Listings
🕹️ Most Acceptable Product
👩💻 Career Economics
📱 Apple iPhone
🕵️ Data Privacy
🗣️ AI Translations
Podcast
In this episode, Anna Peterson, a product coach, joined me to discuss key skills for product managers. From overcoming imposter syndrome to stakeholder management to establishing a confident, executive presence, we explore many of the skills product managers and product leaders need to be successful.
News and Useful Reads
Amazon is encouraging sellers to use AI-generated product listings
I’ve definitely found that creating the titles, descriptions, key words, etc. to be a significant amount of work for the different shops I run (check out my t-shirt shop or my woodworking if you’re interested). But Amazon has an answer for that.
Amazon is launching a new AI tool that generates product listings for sellers. The feature uses a large language model (LLM) “trained on large amounts of data” to make it faster and simpler for vendors to describe their products. The company describes the tool as distilling the “significant work” of creating titles, bullet points and descriptions down to “just one step.”
The Most Advanced Yet Acceptable Products Win
For those of us creating new products, this is an interesting read. We have to find the balance between being advanced and being familiar. This is a tradeoff we often discuss when creating new products or features:
MAYA dictates that the ideal design sits between solutions that are completely novel and entirely familiar. Be too novel and customers will tune you out. Be too familiar and customers will look right past you. Or, in Loewy’s words, “The adult public’s taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.”
MAYA is the sweet spot: novel but familiar, advanced yet acceptable. And it can make or break the success of innovations.
The Simple Economic Theory That Explains Whether You’ll Have a Great Career
Time to dust off those economics lessons, because we need supply and demand curves. Which actually make for a good way of thinking about your career, and the skills or areas to focus on. I think about this a lot, so this was an interesting read on the idea:
skills are often the best starting point for building career capital. Reputation and connections tend to follow, not precede, excellent work, so the best place to start is building the skills that support doing excellent work.
Apple’s iPhone 15 Marks a New Era
Apple announced new iPhones and other devices this week, so we’d be remiss not to mention them here. The big news being the shift (finally) to USB-C charging. Because Europe made it mandatory (thank you Europe).
There's a new port on every new iPhone. After 11 years of the Lightning charging port, its time has come to an end. Replacing it is USB-C, the reversible charging port that's available on Apple MacBooks, iPads, Android phones, Windows laptops, and many more types of devices across various categories.
It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
This is really terrible. All car brands apparently don’t care about our privacy and are brazenly collecting and selling our data with reckless abandon.
While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines. Machines that, because of all those brag-worthy bells and whistles, have an unmatched power to watch, listen, and collect information about what you do and where you go in your car.
Useful Tools and Resources
HeyGen
HeyGen is an AI video creation tool that I’ve been playing with. But what really caught my attention recently is the beta feature for translating videos into different languages. What would have been SciFi a few months ago is becoming very real. And I’m here for it.
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