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Read our latest deep dive into the world of LLMs. From interaction to implementation, our designer Jaden Flores breaks down the implications and opportunities in the software experience landscape.

How LLMs are reshaping digital experiences - thirteen23 An exploration into how large language models can support and enhance traditional software experiences

Leveraging LLMs, a cheerful visual identity, and strategic data visualizations, we partnered with Fixify to design a platform that empowers frontline analysts to respond with speed and diligence through conversational AI.

Fixify - thirteen23 - Case Study We partnered with Fixify to change the face of IT, supporting analysts with AI.

Sometimes it takes a global holiday to make you stop and smell the roses. This Earth Day, we wanted to share some of the ways thirteen23 incorporates our collective love of the outdoors into our daily work lives.

Celebrating Earth Day - thirteen23 Nurturing our love of nature

As experience designers, we're always on the lookout for technologies that can help us break down barriers and make digital experiences more accessible to a wider global audience. That's why we’re so intrigued by the latest advances in generative AI for translation and transcription. Recently, we sat down to explore a few of these emerging speech and language models.

Lost in translation - thirteen23 Using generative AI to translate video

The team at thirteen23 has been focused on designing solutions that improve health and longevity, with a particular focus on aging and in-home care. Our latest newsletter touches on our partnerships with visionaries like Ray Kurzweil, delves into assistive technologies, and explores the potential impact of AI on healthcare.

Designing for health and longevity - thirteen23 Starting this week, the streets of downtown Austin will be filled with high-tech attendees for this year's SXSW Interactive.

We’re proud to share that Inc. Magazine has recognized thirteen23 as one of the fastest growing companies in the Southwest! In a state where bigger is often seen as better, we’re happy to break the mold.

Following the Inc. 5000, the Regional list identifies the most successful private companies across the US. This year, 1,132 companies made the cut with a median growth of 135%, representing $75.9 billion in revenue and adding 96,129 jobs to the U.S. economy.

We made Inc’s 2024 Regionals list! - thirteen23 We made Inc’s Regionals list!

As the adoption of technology increases with each generation, designers have an opportunity to empower and create a better life for America's aging population. Our design director, Morgan Ge**er, takes a closer look at designing for this demographic.

Design boom - thirteen23 Often dismissed as the designer’s edge case, America's aging population is set to become larger and more tech-savvy than ever before.

Sal Kahn, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, has predicted that AI will revolutionize education. Could custom language models adapted to individual student needs help tutor students effectively?

The idea of machines teaching children has been around for more than 60 years, but with sites like Khan Academy and the emergence of large language models, it's not as far-fetched as it sounds.

Will Chatbots Teach Your Children? New A.I. tools could enable a Silicon Valley dream: bots that customize learning for pupils. Prior attempts have not lived up to the hype.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr

Congrats to our partners at Bose on hitting this early and impressive milestone at CES. Happy New Year!

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/best-of/b/bose-quietcomfort-ultra-headphones.aspx

Gathering to celebrate the holidays is one of our favorite traditions at thirteen23. From our studio to you—may your holidays be filled with joy and the coming year bring you bright ideas. 🎁 🎊 🍣

Currently making the rounds in the office. https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-work-louder-custom-keyboard/

We're catching up on all the news on Google Gemini. Here's a video demonstrating its multimodal capabilities. If this shakes out, it should be a real competitor to ChatGPT.

Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI Gemini is our natively multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, audio, video and code. This video highlights some of our favorite intera...

Encouraged by the recent announcement of "The AI Alliance." An international consortium including Meta, IBM, and over 50 other companies, universities, and organizations with a mission to advance open and responsible AI. Other notable participants include NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dell Technologies, and The University of Texas at Austin.

AI Alliance A community of technology creators, developers and adopters collaborating to advance safe, responsible AI rooted in open innovation.

The team at thirteen23 has been working with AI and assistive technologies. Here’s another great example of how these are being used to improve the lives of the visually impaired.

Seeing AI App Launches on Android – Including new and updated features and new languages. - Microsoft Accessibility Blog As we celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), we are launching the newest version of Seeing AI, powered by the latest advances in AI at Microsoft, and sharing that it is now available for the first time on Android devices via the Google Play Store. With today’s Android...

Beyond accuracy issues, regression, and the occasional hallucination, our current language models are also prone to significant bias. In addition to education on their use, we'll likely need open standards, organizations that provide independent oversight, and more transparency in their training.

AI language models are rife with different political biases New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.

AI Could Change How Blind People See the World Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.

Congratulations to our friends at Bose for being recognized by Fast Company. Proud to partner with such a great brand!

These consumer brands are going above and beyond for their fans This year's Brands That Matter Consumer Products honorees are connecting with their shoppers in unique ways.

New sticker packs. Appropriately user tested.

In our latest newsletter, we look at the design opportunities presented by machine learning and computer vision. We’re particularly interested in how these technologies can support more natural and implicit forms of interaction. We envision a future where screens are contextual, content is the interface, and technology becomes invisible.

Designing invisible interfaces - thirteen23 - Updates With all the buzz around artificial intelligence, and more specifically machine learning, new models of interaction are beginning to emerge. This is particularly evident with the recent announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro.

Following our explorations into natural interactions, we built our own model to support American Sign Language (ASL). Big thanks to Doug Cook, Morgan Ge**er, Natalie Vanderveen, and Jaden Flores for helping bring this to life.

Speaking in gestures - thirteen23 - Updates Designing a gesture library using hand tracking

From field games to craft corner to pizza night, our retreat was the perfect blend of fun, learning, and play. Reconnecting and recharging amidst stunning scenery, all topped off with some great eats! If this is what ranch life is, then sign us up!

Special thanks to our caterer shaking and Baking for the delicious food. We’re still thinking about it.

Last month, the team ventured to a serene ranch for this year’s retreat, Camp ’23. Surrounded by nature, we found a meaningful space to connect, celebrate the past year, and explore a vision for design and technology to positively impact those around us. We’ve already started planning our next retreat!

Machine learning and AI are creating opportunities for more intuitive interactions with digital interfaces. Recently, our team set out to explore the possibilities of natural interactions using hand tracking. Check out our thoughts and explorations, courtesy of Doug Cook, Morgan Ge**er, Ky Le, and Natalie Vanderveen.

Interacting in space - thirteen23 - News Natural interactions using hand tracking and gestures

gowalla is back!

Gowalla raises $4 million from GV and Spark for its AR social app – TechCrunch The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augmented reality world, and they’ve raised some new funding to make it happen. The AR startup tells TechCrunch that it has raised $4 million in seed funding co-led by Google’s venture arm GV an…