The Daily Index — Thursday, January 11, 2024 · TLDR Index

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APPLE’S VISION PRO AD WANTS TO MAKE IT COOL TO WEAR A HEADSET

Apple has released its first video ad promoting the company’s Vision Pro, aptly titled “Get Ready.” The ad aims to make strapping a bulky set of goggles to one’s face cool by pulling scenes from films and TV shows with noteworthy, inspiring characters that don various masks, goggles, headsets, and helmets.

petapixel.com · 2 min

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MERCEDES-BENZ TAPS WILL.I.AM TO CREATE AN ‘INTERACTIVE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE’ FOR ITS CARS

Mercedes-Benz wants to design an interactive musical experience with the help of Will.i.am. MBUX Sound Drive links music to driving with the help of sensors and software. The German automaker claims that the system composes musical accompaniment to regular functions like recovery, acceleration, steering, and braking, thus turning the whole vehicle into an orchestration machine.

theverge.com · 2 min

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APPLE'S POWERFUL VISION PRO ISN'T THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING

Apple's new Vision Pro AR headset looks incredible. Hardware- and software-wise, it might be the most impressive gadget we've ever seen. However, unlike the Mac and iPhone, it won't change the computing world.

lifewire.com · 4 min

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58 RULES FOR BEAUTIFUL UI DESIGN

The right UI can elevate an application from functional to unforgettable, differentiating between a user who engages once and one who returns repeatedly. This article compiles 58 rules across eight categories to form the Elegance Formula: Empathy, Layout, Essentialism, Guidance, Aesthetics, Novelty, Consistency, and Engagement.

uxdesign.cc · 10 min

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A GLOBAL DESIGN SYSTEM

An extraordinary amount of effort and time has been put into designing, building, documenting, and maintaining the same components over the past few years. There are so many established best practices that it's time to consider creating a Global Design System. A project like this would improve web accessibility and quality, save product teams millions of hours, and enhance our collective human potential.

bradfrost.com · 20 min

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QUESTIONING THE QUESTIONS: HOW TO DESIGN A SURVEY THAT NOBODY HATES

Create a survey that engages your audience, not one that interrogates. Create a clear "why," ensure the participants are the right ones, and then guide them through a logical flow using everyday language and star ratings. Respect their time and save demographics for later.

uxplanet.org · 7 min

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ARTISTS ARE MAKING CREATIVE COMPANIES APOLOGIZE FOR USING AI

Creatives recently noticed that Wacom was promoting its Intuos pen tablet with a dragon illustration that looked like an AI-generated image. Several days later, in a contrite statement, the company said that its online AI detection tools failed to flag images purchased from a third-party vendor. A similar situation occurred to the publisher of Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, which apologized on Sunday after using an ad with AI-generated elements.

theverge.com · 6 min

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TO LEAD DESIGN, YOU MUST HAVE AN AGENDA

Agendas don't have the baggage of "vision". They also make clear that you have a political point of view and a cause for which you're advocating as a leader. You can share an agenda with your team or keep one for yourself. Making this concrete will enable you to make better decisions throughout the year since you'll have a clear organizing principle to follow.

petermerholz.com · 3 min

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DESIGN SYSTEM MYTHS

A central team should wholly make design systems without outside contributions, and any component built by any team should be made, documented, and maintained there. They will only succeed if a company has more than one design system.

medium.com · 1 min

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PABLO DELCAN’S NON-A.I. ART GENERATOR GOES VIRAL

Prompt-Brush is the first non-AI Generative Art model. Artist Pablo Delcan created an art project that involved asking his audience for illustration prompts and creating what they asked for. Delcan quickly built a website to showcase the results after the project went viral.

printmag.com · 7 min

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HOW I'M WRITING CSS IN 2024

2024 will bring cross-browser support for nesting, :has(), container queries, and more. It's never been easier to write great styles without additional tooling. Designers and developers might not need Sass and Less anymore.

leerob.io · 7 min

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