Exploring Webpage and App Development

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2025

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I was not a big user of AI tools. You might be surprised, but I only recently got the paid version of ChatGPT and feel that I started really using it quite late compared to others. However, way back, around 2 years ago, I used a prototyping tool for the first time. However, since then, these prototyping tools have gotten better and have AI integrated into them. So here I want to bring attention to my experience with the two AI prototyping tools, which I recently explored: Lovable and Gamma.app. 

Introduced in our AI prototyping guest lecture, Lovable stands out as a tool that can develop apps and websites by merely chatting with an AI without any coding skills necessary, within a few minutes. I explored it for our course, testing how it works. To come up with a prompt, I went to ChatGPT to generate a prompt to then input into Lovable. It is really smart; you can continue to chat with it just like ChatGPT, to improve the web or app, and customize it however you like. It makes me think that anything is possible, and that this is a new way to develop our own webpages, apps, and scalable online businesses without coding expertise. However, of course, just like any freemium model, the free version has limits in functionalities, but the possibilities are non-negotiable. 

Gamma.app is also a great tool to develop presentations as well as simple webpages from prompts, focusing on ‘content-to-visual’ output, allowing for anybody without design skills or too busy to skip the manual work. It impressed me when I experimented with it for a pitch and needed a presentation. It generated matching layouts and colours while looking very professional. In this respect, one can focus more on what they want to say instead of how the design looks. 

I found it intriguing how AI has been moving into the creative realm and can now be a creative partner to many of us. These tools are also so simple to learn; there are so many different resources at our disposal. Simple YouTube tutorials can teach us how to use these tools and enable us to unlock new capabilities. 

Let me know in the comments your thoughts on these AI tools? Have you ever built a fully operational website using AI? 

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AR Glasses: The New Upgrade From Smartphones?

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September

2025

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We’ve all heard about the new smart glasses that enable you to augment your current reality, overlaying information onto our real view. Google made an attempt, Apple introduced Vision Pro, and Meta launched smart glasses with Ray-Ban priced at $200-500. The idea is to make life feel connected, and more efficient with the digital overlays. But are these glasses practical and here for good or just a hype?

Companies are beginning to make use of Augmented Reality, like the airline industry (e.g., Chinese Southern Airlines) and automotive industry. Porsche, for example, is implementing the “Tech Live Look” smart glasses designed to improve technical services in North American dealerships (Li, 2022, Porsche, n.d.). These smart glasses can be used for car repairs and inspections, supporting the mechanic by displaying diagnostics, errors, and components directly on the physical machine and allowing for a seamless interaction. For industries where efficiency and precision is critical to operations, AR glasses can add genuine value.

What are its use cases in everyday life? The promise is that it can be implemented in many ways, like paying with sight, reading reviews in coffee shops, and snapping moments by simply tapping the glasses. The Ray-Ban smart glasses Gen 2, among others, are the current version, offering AI functionalities in a classic wearable pair of Ray-Bans (Gibbs, 2025).

Responses to AR glasses indicate public skepticism about the practicality of the product. Issues such as increased cognitive load, overreliance, and redundancy, as the iPhone has many of these functionalities.

I think that this technology can be very beneficial for more niche situations, like mechanics, healthcare, as well as field jobs in farming. But, the adoption for day-to-day use should be further evaluated to understand where the true value lies and whether there is a willingness-to-pay. It feels like it’s a solution in search of a problem.

 

References 

Porsche introduces “Tech live look” augmented reality smart glasses. Porsche Newsroom. (n.d.). https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/company/porsche-tech-live-look-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-north-america-dealerships-technology-high-tech-software-14517.html
Gibbs, S. (2025, September 18). Meta announces first Ray-Ban Smart glasses with in-built augmented reality display. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/17/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses
Ting Li, Wang, J., & Fei Wu. (2022). How One Airline Is Using AR to Improve Operations. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 1–6.

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