The Daily Index — Thursday, November 9, 2023 · TLDR Index

NEWS & TRENDS

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GOOGLE ADDS NEW SHOPPING FEATURES TO LEVEL UP HOLIDAY GIVING

Google revamped its shopping experience to help its users find good deals. The new features include a dedicated deals page, active promotion notifications on "Resume browsing" cards, price insights in Chrome on the desktop, and price tracking on products you're searching for.

lifewire.com · 2 min

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THE GULF BETWEEN DESIGN AND ENGINEERING

The way most organizations produce digital products is fundamentally broken. The elephant in the room is a dated understanding of the role of both design and engineering, which in turn shapes how organizations hire, manage, and produce digital things. These companies invest billions of dollars building teams, processes, and tools on top of an immature discipline and an outdated waterfall model that ends up being detrimental to productivity, team happiness, and ultimately, the resulting experiences we bring to life.

designsystems.international · 14 min

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BUILDING A DRAWER COMPONENT

How to rebuild the Apple’s Sheet component but for the web using React. To close it, users can just “flick it” instead of dragging it down. Dragging it upwards beyond its size will cause a minor slow-down animation to reflect how items move in real life. Scrolling inside the drawer is also made possible and the background gets animated just like it does on iOS.

emilkowal.ski · 9 min

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SYSTEMS OF HARM: 3 PRINCIPLES FOR CREATING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE DESIGN SYSTEMS

Proponents of design systems emphasize their efficiency, consistency, and scalability. Nevertheless, efficiency is only valuable if it enables us to improve our products and services faster. Consistency is only valuable if we standardize things to a high standard. Scaling things is only worthwhile if they are worth reproducing. Our work is irrelevant and even harmful if we don't reorient the design system practice towards real value.

amyhupe.co.uk · 17 min

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SITEMAP GECKO (FIGMA PLUGIN)

Create sitemaps from scratch or import them from a website's URL, all within Figma. After the sitemap is built/imported, it's displayed as editable frames.

figma.com

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FROM IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS TO AI: PHOTOSHOP THROUGH THE YEARS

From simple cropping and image adjustments to layers and cloud support, Photoshop has been on a long and winding road over the last three-and-a-half decades. With twenty-four versions, over a dozen logo changes, and a rich history of updates, Adobe’s magnum opus has cemented itself as the one true king of image editing platforms. And yet, despite the platform’s rich history, Generative AI will likely enter the records as the most significant Photoshop update ever.

webdesignerdepot.com · 14 min

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ORGANIZING YOUR CREATIVE WORK

Organization and communication are unavoidable inefficiencies in work processes, but you can minimize their impact. A system of organization, especially when powered by AI, lets you focus on creating rather than moving stuff around.

ansondotdesign.substack.com · 5 min

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GET CREATIVE WITH GENERATIVE AI IN PERFORMANCE MAX

Performance Max enables advertisers to access all their Google Ads inventory from a single campaign. The tech giant announced Performance Max's generative AI features at Google Marketing Live earlier this year and now it is rolling them out as a beta to all US customers. Based on the performance data of previous campaigns, users can create new text and image assets in just a few clicks. Google Ads will also feature AI-powered image editing capabilities that enhance generated and existing assets. The invisible SynthID watermark will be applied to all generative AI images created in Google Ads.

blog.google · 4 min

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DESIGNING BUTTON STATES: TUTORIAL AND BEST PRACTICES

Several factors should be considered when enhancing buttons, especially the many ways they can manifest to users. This article includes best practices for covering states, defining button sizes, their typical anatomy, and button types you should consider.

blog.logrocket.com · 9 min

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TYPE FOUNDRY DINAMO CREATES RIVETING NEW DOT FONT BASED ON FURNITURE SCREWS

German type foundry Dinamo collaborated with art and design studio BNAG to create a new dot matrix font that works hand-in-hand with its new line of spontaneous metal furniture brackets.

creativeboom.com · 2 min