The Daily Index — Thursday, January 25, 2024

NEWS & TRENDS

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LUMIERE IS AN IMPRESSIVE NEW TEXT-TO-VIDEO AI FROM GOOGLE

Lumiere is a new text-to-video diffusion model from Google AI that creates realistic, diverse, and coherent motion in videos. Instead of spatially distant keyframes followed by temporal super-resolution, Lumiere's architecture generates the entire video duration in a single pass, enhancing motion fluidity and coherence. Examples of early animations show remarkably smooth camera movements and complex object animations that span multiple seconds.

maginative.com · 2 min

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KITTL RAISES ANOTHER $36 MILLION FOR ITS BROWSER-BASED DESIGN TOOL

Kittl raised another $36 million just a year after raising $11.6 million during a Series B round led by IVP and including some existing investors. The startup intends to become the go-to tool for creating logos through its built-in illustration library and collection of copyright-free photos, t-shirt designs, cards, social media posts, and other media. It recently added AI-based features like AI background removal and image generation using Stability AI's and OpenAI's APIs as well as its own in-house technology.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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16 LESSER KNOWN ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES

Lessons learned during auditing a bilingual application for a public sector organization in Wales. This article contains sixteen specific accessibility insights, ranging from making context explicit for assistive technology users to considerations in design, such as using color effectively for interactivity and ensuring compliance with guidelines like GDPR in web development.

toward.studio · 7 min

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DESIGN TEAMS CAN PARTNER BETTER WITH DEVELOPERS — HERE’S HOW

Common roadblocks for designers and developers include communication issues, messy handoffs, and ineffective collaboration. This article offers tips on how to enhance workflows and collaborate more effectively, like adopting design systems to create a shared language and considering technical constraints when building the design vision.

wf-blog-2021.webflow.io · 5 min

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WHY ADOBE IS FRUSTRATING WEB DESIGNERS

The demise of Flash was followed by the introduction of Muse, which also declined and was eventually discontinued. We are nearly 30 years into the Internet age, and Adobe, the leading provider of publishing tools, still has yet to provide web designers with appropriate web tools.

creativebloq.com · 7 min

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HOW TO NAIL PRODUCT MARKET FIT WITH CLEAR JOBS-TO-BE-DONE

Letterboxd is an app where users can keep track of movies they watched, share their lists with friends, and discuss them, like a social network on top of IMDB. The app needs to stand up to user expectations because of a lack of focus on two main jobs to be done: keeping track of watched movies and engaging socially with other users.

growth.design · 4 min

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THE COST OF PERSONALIZATION

The “personalization paradox” refers to the clash between personalized experiences that save us time and concern about the personal data they require. However, privacy isn’t the only trade-off we make for the convenience of personalization. Personalized content recommendations are engineered to keep users on platforms longer and get users into a trance-like state.

humanebydesign.com · 10 min

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WE NEED TO DESIGN FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IF WE'RE EVER TO GET RID OF SINGLE-USE PLASTICS

Businesses can reduce single-use plastics by designing reusable packaging, but this has yet to be successful at scale. Consumer motivation for environmentally friendly behavior is high, but we shouldn't ignore people's tendency to prefer convenience, even when it has tragic consequences. While you can't control what people do with packaging once it leaves your premises, you can still influence them by considering behavioral psychology in packaging design.

dezeen.com · 5 min

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IF THIS IS WHAT AN APPLE SMART RING COULD LOOK LIKE, I NEED IT RIGHT NOW

Designer Jonas Daehnert has envisioned a new Apple Ring based on patents that suggest Apple may be working on a similar product. The ring features an exciting-looking OLED that is invisible when not in use and capacitive buttons that can be pressed to check the weather, monitor blood oxygen levels, and more.

digitaltrends.com · 3 min

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THIS ARTIST BRINGS DYING ART OF BOOK FORE-EDGE PAINTING INTO THE LIMELIGHT

24-year-old British artist Maisie Matilda is reviving the rare art of book fore-edge painting. She's got over half a million Instagram followers. Her process involves selecting a book, preparing it, and then delicately painting on the fore-edge.

designyoutrust.com · 2 min

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ISOMETRIC STUDIO’S BRAND IDENTITY FOR NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE PAYS HOMAGE TO ITS HISTORY AND POWER

The Brooklyn-based design studio created a system that amplifies the institution’s relevance, liberatory practices, and social consciousness. The project involved developing a new typeface and unified visual identity and creating greater consistency in the letterform design and spacing to align it more with the historical signage.

itsnicethat.com · 4 min

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