Been spending a good bit of time at work discussing measuring the value of various AI projects and in particular some GenAI stuff. I found Gartner’s Measuring ROI for Generative AI helped me wrap my head around a few things in particular about first categorizing as a quick win, differentiating, or transformational use case.
The Disciplines Companies Need to Get the Most Out of Gen AI (cough, design, cough)
Want to not just throw money away investing in Gen AI? HBR article on The 6 Disciplines Companies Need to Get the Most Out of Gen AI says your company should focus on behavioral change, controlled experimentation, measurement of business value, data management, human capital development, and systems thinking.
Know what most of those sound like to me? Design. In other words, your company should invest in design.
Invision is shutting down
Pour one out for Invision: InVision design collaboration services shutdown | Inside Design Blog
Tools like Invision, Zeplin, and Abstract came about to fill in feature gaps in products like Sketch and Photoshop and as those products added similar functionality and then Figma came in and ate all their lunches. I wonder if Invision turned down acquisition by Adobe at some point or did they really thing they could build their own design tool and compete?
Adobe abandons acquisition of Figma
Adobe has abandoned their $20 billion acquisition of Figma due to regulator pressure from the EU. Great to see more and more scrutiny from at least some countries (and very occasionally the US) into these obviously bad for everyone company acquisitions.
If Adobe had properly invested in my beloved Fireworks in the 2000s, maybe they’d have stopped Sketch and Figma before they even got started.