How Generative AI Helps UX Design | A PechaKucha Story

How Ai Image Generation (e.g., Dall-E) can support Design students with low confidence in drawing or struggle to communicate ideas visually.

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00:00 -
00:24 - Meet Isaac Stark (personality) - Keen, sits at the front of the class, always ready to write notes with his iPad and Apple Pen
00:47 - Yearning to feel accepted as a UX designer since switching from computer science to UX for his Masters degree
01:11 - The new module starts and the lecturer explains communicating ideas and user journey through visuals (e.g., sketching) is critical to the marking scheme
01:34 - Isaac remembers being at school, he created art he was immensely proud of, but the teacher said his drawing was terrible.
01:57 - Issac is conflicted. The idea of showing drawings feelings of shame so deep he begins to shake while submitting post-it note descriptions (as before) will mean low grades
02:20 - Isaac begins working, fighting his fear
02:44 - while working on his designs, Isaac sees his peers producing wonderful drawings with little effort
03:07 - Isaac overhears a peer saying how terrible his sketches are
03:30 - Isaac gets down to work, taking his time, practising, trying, all the time with fear and insecurity chilling his chest
03:54 - Submits his coursework and scrapes a pass, but the feedback is how his visuals are unsatisfactory and underdeveloped
04:17 - Issac is angry at himself for not being able to draw, at the course for not teaching him drawing, and his peers for their crude remarks
04:40 - The major project is starting and Issac knows he cannot carry on with his current visualisation and he needs higher grades get the degree he desires
05:04 - Weeks later, Issac watches a design for AI lecture and realises how AI can automate tasks, as if giving users superpowers
05:27 - searching online, Issac discovers Discover Dall-E, just one AI image creation tool
05:51 - Issac takes his journey map, currently outlined through sentences arranged on post-it notes and enters the terms into Dall E
06:14 - Dall-E generates surprising images
06:37 - For the first time, Issac feels confident in communicating his ideas, selecting images that match the vision in his head in ways he could not otherwise achieve
07:01 - Embracing the idea that artistic skill need not be a limit to idea expression
07:24 -In his major project, Isaac uses Dall-E to create deeply imaginative visuals, elevating his ideation process