The Daily Index — Tuesday, September 12, 2023 · TLDR Index

NEWS & TRENDS

TLDR Design

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EXECUTIVE

Charlie Wen is Epic's new Chief Creative Officer. He'll be responsible for driving the creative direction of Fortnite. Wen was the visual development supervisor for Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers.

theverge.com · 2 min

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WHAT IS GLASSMORPHISM

Glassmorphism is a design style known for its glass-like effects, featuring translucent/transparent elements on colorful backgrounds. It adds a touch of minimalism and modernity, popularized by tech giants like Microsoft and Apple, to web and app interfaces.

uxplanet.org · 7 min

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IS AI BETTER AT PICKING AND PAIRING FONTS THAN YOU?

Fontjoy, an AI-powered tool for pairing fonts comes up with compatible font pairs based on their visual parameters. ChatGPT can make more meaningful font pairing recommendations. The AI’s capabilities for pairing fonts are at the level of a junior designer. To improve, it would need to be trained on knowledge and experience of senior designers, instead of all related content on the internet.

betterwebtype.com · 10 min

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REWRITING DIGITAL CONTENT FOR BREVITY

Research shows that, on average, users read about 20% of the words on a web page. Long text can intimidate users, making them likely to click away or skip the content entirely. Some useful advice for shortening content: distance yourself from your work, remove unnecessary words, remove unnecessary determiners and modifiers, use adjectives instead of nouns, and avoid passive verbs.

nngroup.com · 11 min

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CREATE YOUR OWN DESIGN SYSTEM: CHAPTER COLORS

Basics of color theory, concepts like the color wheel, harmony, properties, and its role in design systems. Steps for creating a comprehensive color palette for design systems and Figma plugin for creating color variations.

uxplanet.org · 7 min

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SQUISH MEETS STRUCTURE: DESIGNING WITH LANGUAGE MODELS

Underneath the deceptively simple chatbot interfaces we’ve all been talking to is a huge mathematical model of human language. These language models can be deceptive or plain wrong, yet still treated like geniuses by most people. Transparency on how these models work and increasing the predictability of their results are key to improving the interactions with these models.

maggieappleton.com · 24 min

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UX-DRIVEN ROADMAPPING: ALIGNING USER NEEDS WITH PRODUCT STRATEGY

It's unlikely that a company will build a user-centric product if its roadmap isn't built with that in mind. Ongoing user research, feedback, and design iteration must be implemented as processes that feed your product roadmap.

uxmatters.com · 8 min

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THE DESIGN EXECUTION GAP

Although design tools have been getting closer to how developers implement user interfaces, there's still a gap between what's designed and what's implemented. Surprisingly, it might be that developers should be the ones working more on closing the gap.

betterbydesign.cc · 5 min

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GLOWING BLURRED BACKGROUNDS WITH CSS

A beautiful effect of a glowing blurred background can be easily made with CSS’ clip-path: polygon() and filter: blur() functions. The animation is highly performant because it’s done with pure CSS.

andrewwalpole.com · 2 min