How to use AI for content creation
Idowu Ola Fakomi
Product Designer || Designing and Sharing personal development growth paths on olafakomi.substack.com
I decided to get experimental today. To demonstrate a simple use case for AI. Enjoy the read.
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Hey there,
Let’s get experimental.
I have been seeing much about AI recently, as you have also been. However, I have not been able to engage with them as much as I would love to, so today’s issue is me showing you a use case for AI.
Brief context: I am trying to integrate more product design-focused content into my content creation. At least so that some random Joe would not ask me if I’m a graphics designer. LOL.
Today, I employed an AI to get into my business and interview me on my journey as a product designer. This was the prompt:
I'm a digital product designer and have been doing that since 2020. I initially started as a graphics designer but decided in 2020 to focus completely on product design. Create a list of interview questions for a newsletter post that focuses on personal and career development with me as the guest. Make it interesting and witty.
It returned a couple of questions which I would be answering. This is a demonstration of a very simple use case, enjoy the simple one, and I intend to go deeper subsequently.
Back to the Future: If you could time-travel to your first day as a digital product designer in 2020, what advice would you give your graphics designer self?
Hmm, I think I was lucky enough to get some things right very early. But I think it took me a while to get a mentor figure. Now, that I think about it, my growth timeline could have been way shorter if I had one. Regardless, the general advice would be to double down on everything and not waste time.
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I would stop there because there are other questions.
Design Diaries: Share a memorable "Aha!" moment in your career when a design solution just clicked, and you felt like a digital Picasso.
Well. I can’t exactly remember any of the older ones but in the last two weeks, my boss asked me to work on a design systems project for Tailwind UI, and the Team Lead for this project was another Senior product designer who was a design systems expert. I had no idea what I was doing and it took a couple of YouTube videos to figure stuff out.
Then, just last week, my boss asked me to set up a design system for the MTN website that he was working on, and the wild thing was, I just started learning this thing last week, bro, and I set it up in a day. Damn, I sabi.
It was a really nice feeling.
From Pixels to Pathways: How has your transition from graphics design to product design shaped your perspective on creating digital experiences?
Let’s say it made me better at the visual and aesthetic part of the work, which is UI design. The product design field is so large that you could be a just okay Visual designer and still succeed because, depending on the job, other skills may be more important or prioritised over Visual design.
Since I already have a strong background in visual design, it gives me an edge.
Tools of the Trade: If your design process was a superhero squad, which tools would be the Avengers and which would be the Justice League?
I don’t even really know what this means, but let’s assume I’m supposed to form a superhero team with my design tools.
are the other Avengers that came after the Battle of New York.
Justice League can rest. They’ve been doing trash. They deserve no form of recognition from me.
User Empathy 101: What's your secret to staying connected with end-users and ensuring your designs meet both their needs and desires?
Starting with extensive research helps. Also, make sure that throughout the design process, you keep re-reading those research results. You could also ask your users and get them to interact with the prototypes as you design. Let them be connected to the product.