I created a website in <5 minutes with VZY | This Zumie is a Tiktoker and Product Designer
Read about my experience plus a brief on AI for healthcare professionals and a lovely chat with a TikToker/Product designer.
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Intro
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..plus a tech use-case for healthcare professionals (to āem doctors) and a fire-side chat with Semudara Abayomi, a TikToker/Product designer.
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āI donāt have a website.ā VZY has made it easy for you š
So, I tried out one of these AI website builders. This one is called VZY and it is Nigerian built. The product promises to help you build websites 10x faster with AI. Now, for someone who has never built a website before š-or does a Google site count?- I figured it was worth the try to see what the experience for a newbie would be like.
The page is pretty straightforward, and the sign-up was easy enough since I always sign up/in with Google. It asks for pretty basic information; what category does your business fall into, and what does it do? This second part is supposed to be a description. I put on my vivid imagination cap and typed the description for my cosmetics business: āWe sell customisable makeup products to young, fun and sentimental Africans. They can customise palettes, and kits, as well as add names and messages to the packaging.āĀ
I hit send and allowed VZY to cook.
My first try took quite a while until I realised the site was down. It said it was ā boosting speed for visitorsā, āmaking it beautiful for all devicesā, ācollecting emailsā, ācomposing positive feedbackā ācreating a unique brand storyā etc.. So it's clear these are some of the features it promises to build into your spanking new AI siteā¦ The second time around, when the site was working again, it took about 5 minutes or less (I forgot to time exactly š)
What was the result?
Iām a CEO guysss š„ŗcuties.vzy.io. This is what VZY produced, untouched by me.
You can check out the features available here for all plans and the pricing attached.
VZY runs on a base template, uses images from Unsplash and gets copy from OpenAIās GPT. Its founder, Evans Akanno says the future of the product is being able to generate blog posts, create content and products, as well as booking, email and SMS integration.
FYI, you can choose more themes when the site is generated.
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š§āš¬ Giving Doctors a 48-hour head start
Brief: AI-assisted diagnostic imaging refers to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to aid healthcare professionals in interpreting and analyzing medical images. This approach has the potential to improve the accuracy and efficiency of medical diagnosis, making it a valuable tool in modern healthcare.
Organizations/projects on this: Envision Radiology, DeepMind Health, Zebra Med..
āThese guys say it can give doctors a 48-hour head start on life threatening diseases
Meet a Zumie š¦
What was your first job and how did you get it?
My first job as a Graphics Designer then, I earned 500 naira, I got it from a family member who knew I did design and someone needed to design a banner so he contacted me. I eventually transitioned to Brand & Product Design
What tools do you find the most helpful and you canāt do without as a product designer?
Figma is my most used tool as a designer, it's actually industry standard. There are others like Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision but the most widely used is Figma. This is also because it's free and has a very low learning curve.
What got you started in creating content related to technology and products?
People complain a lot about how thereās so much non-educative content and how TikTok is showing us what will make us duller and less productive and I always asked what is the ratio of content creators that are making content that is educative and just pure cruise. This is because TikTok will not import educational content from another country and show us what people in our immediate environment create. So I took it upon myself to start tech info-educative content.
What social media is your favorite channel for making connections?
Before now its LinkedIn, but right now its Twitter
What has been your favorite video to make?
Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: Nigerian Fintech Founders: We are banking the unbanked.
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If you could swap jobs with anyone for a day, who would it be and why?
Maybe the President of Nigeria and remove the minimum charge for data, new players should be able to come in and drag the price lower.
What's your go-to way to de-stress after a busy workweek?
My woman
What's the most exciting thing youāre working on currently?
Experimenting with my TikTok content is the most exciting thing Iām working on now, Iām running it like a start up.
Whatās something in the future of products or tech you think people should really pay attention to today?
I would say AI and Cloud
Where can people find your work or follow you?
On Behance. Some of my stuffs are here but NDA, I canāt share most of my exciting projects.
Until next week,