Writings
The best design
The best design is, possibly, just text. Why? Because, if written concisely and if it includes what's needed, it's the most compact use of space, using the space fully to provide the most useful and valuable information. When designing anything, you'll often find that the goal is to explain things clearly, whether in a subtle way (a color in a specific place) or less subtle (words explaining exactly what's needed to be understood), and so you'll find that many design problems can be solved with just text, more text or text that already exists, rewritten. The problem that comes up when you do that, is something like too much text, too many elements, but if you find a way to remove the unnecessary elements, you'll often find text to be the most useful type of element, solving the core problem of design: is it clear how things are, what you can do, how to do those things, etc.? That's one of the things possibly explaining the success of ChatGPT and chat-based interfaces — it's text, guiding you through anything, not burdened with problems of how to organize visual elements, but simply using the provided space in the best possible way, depending on user's situation, request, goal, etc. Design strives to make the best use of space, and a well-written text does just that. Other means also help, but nothing comes close to contributing to achieving simplicity (basically, keeping only the essential) and clarity in design.
A platform for sharing text
What’s missing is something like Instagram for text, i.e. a platform for sharing text. Text is where you can talk, where you can talk about what you’re thinking, explain and express almost anything. X (formerly Twitter) is the closest to being a place for sharing text, but they still don’t focus enough on text and what kind of text can be shared. The question is not only how can you share short-form and long-form text and content, but how can you say and share as much as you want to, using text and anything else included inside the text, so you can share anything from a short-form text consisting of one or a few words, to something like essays, reports, and even books and collections of texts hundreds of pages long. If we see that the world wants to share photos, and all that goes with it (slideshows, stories), but realize that words are needed to talk, capture and express more, much more, why is there still not a platform focused on text sharing (with ability to include stuff inside text), where anyone would be able to share texts of any length, to be able to say and share anything, and also be able to organize it all in the way they want to, such as categories, rather than just having to have just one timeline of all posts ever published. Rather than limiting people, provide more ways to share more types of content, organized in more ways, so people can properly express themselves, share and store knowledge, etc. with anyone, or with specific individuals and groups.
Text editor instead of a whiteboard
You can use a text editor instead of a whiteboard. It’s faster way of putting things down, you can put down much more, much faster, you can edit everything easily, and you have infinite space, so you can take as much as needed to fully solve a problem, specify a flow, etc. For example, a flow can be written as a list. And, you can also do something which is hard to do on a whiteboard: describe the solution, rather than necessarily breaking it into a flow. Can’t pretty much all designs be described with words only? Sure, some things can’t be precisely captured into or specified with words, but not everything needs to be specified. Words can get the important stuff, and details can be solved later, in visual, or even during development. Design is not details, but rather a description of how the world should be, and what gets built and implemented, is ultimately just an approval of that, a decision about how the world should be, or at least a part of it which you’re trying to design, or change the design of.
Value of words
With words, one can explain the world, and talk about what cannot be seen or heard.
ChatGPT as a teacher
How I use ChatGPT: like a teacher you can ask questions 24/7. It's a vast collection of knowledge, and you can get precisely what you need instead of searching for it through books and websites, which would take significantly more time, and some things may simply be impossible to find (books not accessible, websites on the last page of Google, etc.).
Content and design
Design is content. Doesn't a shift from cinema and television to computers and smartphones show that content is a part of design, rather than existing separately or design being inside of content?
ChatGPT confidently presented what's most often repeated about a subject as something most likely correct (problem)
Problem with ChatGPT (when not asked to give just facts and numbers, but to explain how something should be done): gives you the average of all it knows, but it doesn't seem to think through on its own what the right answer is, so you might get what's popular, what's been repeated most often, but not what's essentially a correct model of the world. It may advise too much based on what's been said, rather than just explaining how things are. ChatGPT should be setting people free to do things any way they want to, and only providing what's been proven to be a fact, but sometimes it can say things confidently for which there is no real proof, but just simply happens to be average of what everyone has said about it up until that point.
That's all, for now.