The #17 edition of 8percent.
Your weekly growth and product upskill, in 8 minutes.
Here’s what we have for you this week.
-
Growth
🛠 Tools: Intelligent video localization at scale.
📚 Resources: Web3 mega bundle.
💡 Tip of the Week: Portable retina monitor.
Product
🛠 Tools: Generate videos from a prompt or a selfie - Check new AI tools.
📚 Resources: Let’s talk about dark patterns.
💡 Tip of the Week: A free event by Figma
Growth.
🛠 Tools 👇
Rask.AI → Intelligent video localization at scale. (paid)
Awesome translation, lip-syncing, voice cloning… All the wonders of A.I. for videos, done right.
📚 Resources
Looking for a huge Web3 outreach?
2000+ projects, 1789 Twitter handles, 454, Youtube influencers, 2183 podcasts, 236 news publications, and 197 Telegram channels.
Here’s where you can buy it.
💡 Tip of the Week
Working on the go?
One of our mates bought this portable monitor, we gave it a test last week, and it’s awesome.
Product.
🛠 Tools 👇
Higgsfield → Like Sora (check our #11 Edition), but already available.
Powered by a custom text-to-video model, Higgsfield’s first app, Diffuse, can generate videos from scratch or a selfie.
Launch by Alex Mashrabov, the former head of generative AI at Snap.
-
Toolify.ai → Like Hugging Face (check our #14 Edition), discover the new AI Websites&tools.
What’s great with this one?
Tools are sorted by month, category, and revenue (with the monthly visits).
A list of AI Browser extensions.
📚 Resources
In 2010, Harry Brignull, a UX specialist, came up with a new expression: dark patterns.
If you are unfamiliar with the term, dark patterns are deceptive UX/UI design techniques that trick users into making decisions they didn't intend to.
Common Types of Dark Patterns:
Confirmshaming: The user is emotionally manipulated into doing something they would not otherwise have done.
Disguised Ads: The user mistakenly believes they are clicking on an interface element or native content, but it's a disguised advertisement.
Fake scarcity: The user is pressured into completing an action because they are presented with a fake indication of limited supply or popularity.
Fake social proof: The user is misled into believing a product is more popular or credible than it is because they were shown fake reviews, testimonials, or activity messages.
Fake urgency: The user is pressured to complete an action because they are presented with a fake time limitation.
Hard to cancel: The user finds it easy to sign up or subscribe, but it is very hard to cancel when they want to.
Hidden subscription: The user unknowingly enrolls in a recurring subscription or payment plan without clear disclosure or explicit consent.
Hidden Costs: Adding extra charges at the last step of a purchase that were not disclosed upfront.
Trick wording: The user is misled into taking an action due to the presentation of confusing or misleading language.
Dark patterns raise ethical and legal concerns, particularly regarding privacy laws (like RGPD in Europe).
It’s a real challenge, requiring designers, companies, and regulators to balance business objectives with the rights of users.
deceptive.design is a website
listing all types of deceptive patterns ;
listing the laws and real cases that have been won ;
creating a hall of shame with real examples
You can access the ressource here.
💡 Tip of the Week
Framework by Figma is a virtual event focused on “empowering you to build, scale, and contribute to design systems.”
the latest features for design systems and variables
new methods for aligning design and code
best practices
April 16 - 9 AM PDT / 6 PM CEST / Free event / Online
We’ll see you next week.