The Daily Index — Wednesday, April 10, 2024 · TLDR Index

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THE LEGO GROUP'S NEW DESIGN IDENTITY BUILDS ON ONE OF THE BRAND'S CORE VALUES

The LEGO Group's new brand identity, influenced by its heritage of fostering creativity through play, merges existing elements with comic book-inspired graphics to create a cohesive design system. Developed with Interbrand, it emphasizes storytelling, playfulness, and simplicity, aiming to maintain the brand's global appeal while remaining consistent and innovative.

creativeboom.com · 3 min

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GOOGLE RELEASES IMAGEN 2, A VIDEO CLIP GENERATOR

The new version of Google's enhanced image-generating tool, Imagen 2, has been launched inside the Vertex AI developer platform. The model family can create and edit images with text prompts, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney. With Imagen 2, users can now remove unwanted parts of an image, add new elements, and expand an image's borders to create a wider field of view. As part of the upgrade, users can create "text-to-live images," which are short, four-second videos from text prompts.

techcrunch.com · 5 min

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ADOBE OVERHAULS FRAME.IO TO MAKE IT A LITTLE MORE TRELLO-LIKE

Adobe has revamped Frame.io, incorporating extensive workflow and tagging features to simplify project management for creatives. It will be rolled out first for Free and Pro users, with team/enterprise updates expected later in the year. The update introduces a customizable metadata framework for organizing media and enhances the review process with detailed feedback options, including emoji reactions and anchored comments.

theverge.com · 2 min

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DESIGN SYSTEMS 102: HOW TO BUILD YOUR DESIGN SYSTEM

A comprehensive approach to building a cohesive and scalable design system, from laying the groundwork and aligning with company goals to defining design foundations and creating reusable components. By utilizing tools like Figma, teams can ensure consistency across products, streamline workflows, and maintain a shared design language to improve design practices steadily.

figma.com · 10 min

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OUR JOURNEY INTO COMPLEXITY VIA SERVICE DESIGN

Andrea Burgueño and Izzi Cain, co-leads of the Service Design Guild at IBM, have advanced the company's service design practice and mindset. They focus on holistic experiences and employee-customer interactions to deliver delightful products. Through education, cross-collaboration, and the adaptation of service design frameworks, they aim to scale the impact within IBM. They are exploring the integration of AI tools to further this goal.

medium.com · 3 min

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THE DETAIL, THE QUALITY

Attention to detail results in unique, beautiful, and memorable products. Nonetheless, the rush to ship fast and constantly makes it difficult to focus on user experience details. Yet, we must find time to make our products special and unique and, most importantly, consider the customer's journey.

mydesignside.substack.com · 3 min

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INSERT BIG IMAGE IN FIGMA (FIGMA PLUGIN)

With this handy plugin, you're no longer limited by Figma's 4,096 pixels image size limitation.

figma.com

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PROTO-TYPOGRAPHY: HOW TYPE IS DICTATED BY THE SURFACE IT’S WRITTEN ON

The medium has always influenced typographic design. Designers are now exploring new frontiers in type design, particularly in spatial computing and AR/VR, ushering in an era of experimental typography to redefine how typography is experienced and engaged with.

itsnicethat.com · 11 min

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RETHINKING PERSONAS: EMPATHY AND INCLUSION IN UX DESIGN

By critically examining Personas, we can see their value and more problematic consequences. We can overcome the limitations of traditional personas and celebrate the full spectrum of human diversity by embracing frameworks like JTBD and Empathy Maps and encouraging continuous user exploration and awareness, ensuring that every user feels seen, understood, and valued in the products we design.

uxdesign.cc · 7 min

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WHEN AND HOW TO MOVE FROM AN ASSUMPTION TO A HYPOTHESIS

Assumptions can make you move faster, but the problem is that they’re not based on facts. In some situations, it is more effective to turn ideas into hypotheses, which serve as starting points for proving or disproving a position. Translating assumptions into hypotheses reduces risk and enables you to build a learning process.

grillopress.github.io · 5 min

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ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE

Project commissioned by DeepMind that features interpretations by 13 artists on key themes in AI, aiming to demystify complex concepts through over 100 dynamic images and animations.

design.google · 2 min

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WHY DO WE NEED ICONS IN USER INTERFACES?

Using icons enables information to be conveyed quickly, universally, and memorably as they exploit our brain's ability to process visual information quickly.

blog.streamlinehq.com · 7 min

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HOW TO THINK ABOUT HTML RESPONSIVE IMAGES

Responsive images in web design fluidly adjust within CSS layouts based on properties like width, height, and aspect ratio to suit different viewport sizes.

danburzo.ro · 19 min