The Daily Index — Wednesday, April 3, 2024 · TLDR Index

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HARPER COLLINS MADE A TINY TWEAK TO ITS BOOK DESIGN—AND HAS SAVED THOUSANDS OF TREES AS A RESULT

Harper Collins designers are refocusing their skills to reduce the publishing house's carbon footprint by tweaking fonts, layouts, and ink. They have successfully saved 245.6 million pages and 5,618 trees to date. Using a mix of experience and intuition, they have applied their sustainable design methods to their entire book range, meticulously reducing pages by multiples of 16 and ensuring a seamless reading experience for their consumers.

fastcompany.com · 5 min

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MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES NEW TOOLS TO ENHANCE SECURITY AND TRUST IN GENERATIVE AI APPLICATIONS

Microsoft wants to make generative AI applications more secure and trustworthy with new tools in Azure AI that help product builders deal with prompt injection attacks, hallucinations, and content risks. These include Prompt Shields to detect and block direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, Groundedness Detection to identify text-based hallucinations, and Safety System Message Templates to help mitigate misuse and harmful content. Azure AI Studio lets organizations measure an AI application's susceptibility to many threats.

maginative.com · 2 min

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SUPERCHARGE YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT: 10 SECRETS TO SUCCESS YOU WON’T LEARN IN SCHOOL

Starting a career in user experience research poses challenges. This article shares ten crucial steps to enhance research impact, from using "risk" as a research guide to ensuring stakeholder alignment.

medium.com · 8 min

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PROMPTS SHOULD BE DESIGNED — NOT ENGINEERED

AI technology necessitates deliberate design rather than being perceived as magical, emphasizing the importance of thoughtful implementation. Prompt engineering involves programming a versatile model for specific tasks, requiring comprehension of user requirements and iterative refinement based on insights from both users and the model.

uxdesign.cc · 6 min

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EARN THE RIGHT TO ABSTRACT

Like great artists, you must embrace the journey of abstraction and systematically refine and distill an artifact down to its purest essence. Move incrementally towards meaningful simplicity rather than jumping straight to the end, as Picasso did. This iterative process benefits you because you're gaining a deeper understanding of your work and the audience. After all, it's not jarring at the end and feels more natural.

betterbydesign.cc · 2 min

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EMAILIFY HTML EMAIL BUILDER (FIGMA PLUGIN)

Emailify exports responsive, production-ready HTML templates with one click, no coding required.

figma.com

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REINFORCING THE VALUE OF WEB DESIGNERS IN THE AGE OF AI

AI won’t replace designers. However, it may be time for designers to reinforce the message of who they are and what they do. Unlike AI, designers offer personal service and better communication and pay attention to details.

speckyboy.com · 4 min

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HOW WE REDESIGNED THE LINEAR UI (PART Ⅱ)

The team behind Linear, a modern software development planning app, introduced a more cohesive, timeless UI. This case study reveals how they started with concept exploration, created prototypes, tested early, and shipped a complete redesign while also working on other projects.

linear.app · 12 min

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ENHANCING FIGMA TEXT STYLES WITH INTEGRATED COLOR VARIABLES: A CASE STUDY

Figma lets designers set text styles and color variables separately without a direct link between them, which can be a problem. This article proposes a seamless integration of color variables into text styles, allowing designers to assign specific color variables to text styles directly within Figma. Color variables in text styles improve consistency and adherence to color guidelines, streamline design tasks, and free up time for creativity.

medium.com · 4 min

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RAZORPAY: BOOSTING DESIGN SYSTEM ADOPTION, AND DESIGN-TO-DEV COLLABORATION WITH FIGMA

One of India's fastest-growing and largest financial services companies, Razorpay, explains how it adopted and measured design systems, the challenges it faced in cross-functional collaboration, how it improved team workflows, and how Figma has increased productivity and design system adoption.

figma.com · 7 min

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HOW TO KILL THE CASCADE

One of CSS' major flaws is creating and managing CSS files and ensuring styles only apply to intended elements - combining CSS and HTML in one file allows for easier control.

robinrendle.com · 9 min

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ARE WE TOO PEDANTIC WITH SEMANTIC?

Figma now supports scoping, so it might be best to skip semantic colors altogether.

read.cv · 5 min