Blake Manzo

Design leader with a track record building teams that drive impact at the intersection of business growth and user experience.

Currently leading Player Experience at Sony PlayStation, shaping the future of gaming for 130M+ players through innovative, user-centered design.

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Teaching ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney

Level up your generative AI image prompts by teaching ChatGPT to generate them for you. Basic principles that apply to any prompt-based input on how to teach AI to prompt AI.

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All Grown Up: Rebranding Picsart

How Product Design drives and implements a new brand. We took a step back to think about the future and where we are headed as a company, and how our brand needed to adapt to support this vision.

Giant towering Barbie Doll next to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
From Toy to Titan: Innovative Marketing Activations behind the Barbie Effect

Out of the hundreds of activations, six stood out as innovate and well designed.

A cross-section artists’ rendering of Sphere, showing the bowl and atrium inside the structure.
The Las Vegas Sphere: a new horizon in immersive experience design

In an intersection of digital and physical, the dome-shaped building provides an awe-inspiring multisensory experience.

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Design for Moments of Delight

Google “The Last of Us” and you’ll get an easter egg button you can mash that slowly grows fungus on the screen. 🍄 It’s a perfect example of designing for ✨ moments of delight ✨ to create an emotional connection with people.

Screenshot of the Twitter onboarding experience, showing a puzzle to solve by moving a shape around to match an example image.
Twitter Onboarding Design: What Not To Do

The Twitter onboarding verification experience showcases what not do to pretty well. Recently going through this process for a new account, I encountered...

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Monday Midjourney Inspiration

Collating Midjourney examples each week to study complex generative AI image prompts.

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