Amelia Wattenberger

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❤️ web dev, design, data viz, tools for thought, ML + novel uis

📗 Data Visualization course & book http://fullstack.io/fullstack-d3

✨ R&D @GitHubNext, views my very own

🍁 I live in and care about Oakland

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😅 please indulge a quick rant about why chatbots aren't the future of interfaces

https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots

Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces

I nominate the logo as the next-gen Clippy

some weekend progress on my AI writing buddy tool

✨ controls describing the piece to help guide suggestions
✨ filterable suggestion types
✨ a more expansive-feeling style
✨ and most excitingly! I made a cute lil logo for a new ChatGPT-suggested app name

after extracting the icon paths, I replaced the green colors with CSS variables, which are populated with one of four sets of colors
I spent some time collecting adorable icons from http://svgrepo.com, then recoloring them in Figma with a set of 5 greys and 3 greens.
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another day, another ✨ extra ✨ feature for my WIP article

I wanted example cards with icons that:
- were one of a small number of colors and shapes
- looked like things you would find outside a window

I'm also really digging these "related concepts" - something I've always wanted while writing.
sometimes we need praise, too!

I have some really fun directions planned for my little AI writing tool, focused on slowly teaching better writing style.

I'm increasingly bullish on using AI to help us think harder, lifting ourselves up, instead of using it as a crutch

When combining AI + data viz, it's really interesting to explore where you add structure and where to take advantage of AI's "creativity"

Here is the US, with AI-generated watercolor state flowers for each state.