The Daily Index — Tuesday, April 23, 2024

NEWS & TRENDS

TLDR Design

COCA-COLA PULLS APART ITS ICONIC RED-AND-WHITE LOGO TO ENCOURAGE RECYCLING

In an innovative effort to encourage more recycling, Coca-Cola's latest campaign depicts the Coke logo as crushed and distorted, mimicking how it would appear on a recycled aluminum can. The campaign aims to motivate consumers to recycle their empty Coke cans and bottles by tapping into the incredible brand recognition of the red-and-white logo, which research shows is recognized by 94% of the world's population.

links.tldr.tech · 2 min

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META'S LLAMA 3 INTRODUCES THE FASTEST AI IMAGE GENERATION WE'VE SEEN

Llama 3 has been praised as the best free large language model. Meta is demonstrating its capabilities with real-time AI image generation in WhatsApp. The company says Llama 3 produces sharper and better images than Llama 2 with improved text rendering. Additionally, the model can animate images and create GIFs. Users with access to the beta version of Meta AI can now try the new features.

links.tldr.tech · 3 min

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SAMSUNG'S VISUAL DISPLAY OF ESSENTIAL, INNOVATIVE, HARMONIOUS DESIGN AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2024

Samsung Electronics unveiled its forward-thinking design philosophy, "Newfound Equilibrium," at Milan Design Week 2024. Designed to inspire over 1500 Samsumg designers across seven global studios to keep their design language fresh and relevant for their customers, the framework focuses on drawing inspiration from people and shaping the future. Through interactive installations, the exhibition shows off the company's big ideas about the future of technology and design, living together, and improving people's lives.

links.tldr.tech · 3 min

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ETHICS IN TIMES OF GROWTH DESIGN

Growth design projects require balancing growth and ethics, ensuring ethical solutions benefit the business and users, and prioritizing genuine user value over harmful growth hacks or psychology tricks. Aligning ethical design principles with company goals, prioritizing user needs, and advocating for ethical decisions are crucial in growth design.

links.tldr.tech · 8 min

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MAKE PRODUCT DESIGN GREAT AGAIN

Product design has become predictable and is in a general crisis. It needs more creativity. The main problems in the industry are expectations that unicorn designers excel in multiple areas, chaotic design recruitment, the prioritization of “Ops” over creativity in DesignOp, and how companies use Figma. The way to solve them is to go back to the basics.

links.tldr.tech · 12 min

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CRAFT AT MOBBIN

Craft doesn't happen automatically and often results from slowly honing and refining - the definition of craft. For the Mobbin team, craft means obsessing over the details, knowing which details matter, and finding the right balance between form and function.

bit.ly · 5 min

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FONTSCANNER (FIGMA PLUGIN)

FontScanner helps you get all font families, weights, sizes, and quantities in a Figma project. It can also select fonts based on type or size on the current page or get the names of pages that use them.

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3 MODELS FOR FRAMING SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY

Recognizing software complexity early aids in setting realistic design constraints and expectations. Using visual metaphors like Layer Cake and Back-End Iceberg, designers can guide teams to tailor their approach for balanced, engineering-centric, or design-centric projects, with discussions that empower informed choices and high-quality outcomes.

links.tldr.tech · 4 min

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HOW MONZO DOES ASSUMPTION TESTING

Monzo's learnings on how to run good user research: Make sure you're sampling the right users, don't try too much in one question, avoid leading questions, try to replicate a real-life scenario to test assumptions, and work out what you're trying to test ahead of time.

links.tldr.tech · 9 min

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THE DECLINE OF DESIGN

User-focused design has shifted to org-focused design, which has much to do with the current state of the web. There needs to be more tension between honoring the craft and meeting deadlines, which might be causing quality to slip.

links.tldr.tech · 2 min

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JESÚS LÓPEZ REBRANDS A BOUTIQUE MEXICAN HOTEL TO REFLECT ITS LOCAL HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE

In the heart of Hermosillo, Sonora in Mexico, lies the small boutique hotel, Champ. Its latest branding, designed by Jesús López, employs vivid colors, striking typography, and dynamic layouts to capture the hotel's eclectic aesthetic and cultural resonance, resulting in visually engaging designs.

links.tldr.tech · 3 min

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TWELVE KEY INSTALLATIONS FROM MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2024

This article highlights 12 of the world's most prominent architects and designers with their most ambitious and intriguing designs for leading brands like Google, Kohler, Amazon, and Porsche.

links.tldr.tech · 6 min

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NOTHING'S SENIOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER EXPLAINS WHY THE EAR A ARE YELLOW

Frank Lin, Nothing's Senior Industrial Designer, says that the bright yellow Ear A earbuds emphasize the company's brand, enhance the fun factor, and complement the device's futuristic and nostalgic design with bold primary colors.

links.tldr.tech · 4 min