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Published in UX Planet

·Mar 31, 2021

Trends in 3D graphic design and game design uncovered in interviews

How I came about to collecting these insights I was about to jump on a plane to Oslo three times and each time I had to cancel. First, it was my own doing, I stayed a few days longer waiting for my second Covid vaccine shot. Then, just 36 hours before my second flight, Israel, where I reside…

3d Modeling

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Trends in 3D graphic design and game design uncovered in interviews
Trends in 3D graphic design and game design uncovered in interviews
3d Modeling

10 min read


Published in The Startup

·Dec 4, 2020

Training a Machine to Draw

A review of methods I’ve used to train a machine to draw. What worked, what didn’t work, and future directions. — — modified 12/08/2020 — Summary In this set of experiments, I used 4000 flat art illustrations from various artists. Most images contained a person doing something. To train, I used a Pytorch pix-2-pix implementation and a few other libraries. Training objectives were: To improve the machine’s ability to color images without…

Machine Learning

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Training a Machine to Draw
Training a Machine to Draw
Machine Learning

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Published in Antler

·Nov 30, 2020

Why Norway? The story of one unicorn

Why Antler Norway is especially appealing for founding a consumer-facing software startup — My connection to Kahoot! This January I’m going to Oslo to join a VC backed accelerator - Antler, with the intention of founding a company. I’m from Israel, a country roughly the same size as Norway, that has more than twenty tech unicorns. Yet I’m going to an accelerator in Norway. A few people…

Enterpreneurship

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Why Norway? The story of one unicorn
Why Norway? The story of one unicorn
Enterpreneurship

4 min read


Published in UX Collective

·Nov 10, 2020

Perceptions of AI in the creative community

AI moves from pattern detection to “patterned” creation and most designers are optimistic about this change. — AI opening new creative options Ask an Uber driver what he thinks about self-driving cars and you’ll probably get a mix of denial, dismissal, and dread. That should not surprise, as the profession is projected to become obsolete when self-driving cars finally hit the road. By contrast, when designers are asked about the impact Artificial…

AI

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Perceptions of AI in the creative community
Perceptions of AI in the creative community
AI

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Aug 23, 2020

Case in Point: Machine Learning is a Practical Tool for Designers

I set out to check if Machine Learning can become a standard tool in a designer’s tool-set. Can it be used not just for eccentric art but also for commercial use-cases such as illustrations for websites, landing pages, application flows, and blogs? In the first test that I ran, I…

Machine Learning

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Case in Point: Machine Learning is a Practical Tool for Designers
Case in Point: Machine Learning is a Practical Tool for Designers
Machine Learning

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Jun 17, 2020

Designers getting creative with machine learning imagery

Designers already use machine learning on a daily basis without paying much attention to it, since machine learning is embedded into common features. For example, smart lasso cropping in Photoshop uses edge detection ML, and autofocus on a camera uses object detection ML. But can designers use ML not just…

Design

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Designers getting creative with Machine Learning Imagery
Designers getting creative with Machine Learning Imagery
Design

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Feb 23, 2016

Find Results Faster with Visual Search

Search engines and recommendation engines display results ranked by relevance, in a list or a thumbnail layout. That’s useful in many cases but sometimes it’s more useful to also explore the relation between results. Consider the human mind. …

Associative Search

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Find Results Faster with Visual Search
Find Results Faster with Visual Search
Associative Search

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Jan 13, 2016

How Publishers And Ad-Tech Companies Can Stem Ad Blocking

Originally published in MediaPost With the threat of ad blocking looming ominously over both publishers and ad-tech companies, it would be an easy way out to pin the blame on Flash or rich media — the very tools whose ad revenues have long allowed publishers to thrive. Although this easy…

Ad Tech

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Ad Tech

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Avi Latner

Avi Latner

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At the midpoint of technology, design and strategy, I build innovative products. Linkedin.com/in/avilatner; Building https://sloyd.ai

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