Has anyone used Remarkable (2) before? Is it worth the price? I struggle to see it's full value and every-day usage. What are your thoughts?

I came across this: https://www.syntheticusers.com "Test your idea or product with AI participants and take decisions with confidence." End-to-end AI user research. No scheduling, no interviewing, no synthesising… And NO people. I haven't tried this myself, and I don't want to unfairly dismiss it. But I can't help but think that if this is appealing to you, why not just scrap user research entirely if you can't be bothered to talk to real people, instead of going through the motions of simulating it. I am sure AI can make user research much more efficient and reduce the amount of administrative tasks, help with analysis, scheduling, etc., but I think this is just dumb and a step in the wrong direction.

… the Adobe / Figma merger isn't happening anymore. https://www.figma.com/de/blog/figma-adobe-abandon-proposed-merger/ I, honestly, didn't care either way. I know a lot of people dislike Adobe, but I have always loved their products. I think they are unmatched when it comes to photo and vector editing. I think this might be bad news for Sketch, I know they were trying to lure users that dislike Adobe, or find CC too expensive, from Figma to their product.

Just saw this thing announced on Linkedin. Cool video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/figma_cmd-g-ctrl-g-your-shortcuts-introducing-activity-7140344800485990400-htX3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Store page: https://store.figma.com/products/figma-creator-micro-keyboard As an owner of an Elgato Stream Deck for triggering macros etc. I'm not sure I see the point though unless this thing can be used for more software than just Figma. Very interesting that the product page has like zero specs, I get that it's a preorder page but come one, what am I really pre-ordering here? What's your take on this?

The other day there was a discussion about IDEO's layoffs and the design thinking being dead. For those where design thinking "did not work" probably a part of the problem lies in not measuring the results and not iterating based on them. A couple of days ago, I finally received this book about design thinking and innovation metrics, and it seems interesting and relevant to this topic. Has someone already read it? What are the impressions?