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Apple's former chief design officer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are allegedly considering a partnership to build a hardware device powered by AI. It's unclear what kind of device it will be or if OpenAI or a third-party manufacturer will create it.
The Red Dot Award for Design Concepts celebrates the power of conceptualization, showcasing designs that embody creativity, collaboration, and impeccable execution. This year's edition features a clock that displays the time using Styrofoam grains resembling snow, an intelligent rotary stove, a design toolkit for saving the Earth designed for kids, and many other exciting projects.
Google is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the most fun and exciting facts about its offices and data centers across over 200 cities worldwide. The list includes Google's desert office, the company's sticky-note art gallery, and its first office on the moon (!).
Problems like reduced creativity and exploration can be solved by starting designs in lower fidelity. Rigid ruling can be solved by shifting the nature of the design system from “rule-based” to “principle-based.” A lack of context on when a component should be used and how can be solved by starting with basics and getting those right first.
The benefits designers get from a design system include a flexible tool that facilitates their focus on solving user problems, a useful set of constraints when starting new, nebulous work, freedom from designing the same things over and over again, and a higher likelihood of consistent execution of their designs. Engineers get a UI that's DRY, waste less time on specific one-off UI bugs, and spend more time building meaningful features and quality UI with less effort.
When choosing a font for responsive web interfaces, consider the platform needs, the languages that need to be supported, how the design system might grow, and how its needs might change. When it comes to font personality, evaluate font legibility and readability, how they look when set at a small size, the fonts’ numbers, and lean towards functionality instead of expression.
Effective color choices always consider what needs to be communicated and reinforced. Spectrum Art brings the latest color trends and briefly explains what they help achieve. It shows a full-page composition using the color palette for each color detail page.
This fantastic collection includes 1,490 free animated icons. Lordicon offers several customization options depending on the icon family and allows users to download them in multiple formats like GIF, Lottie, and MP4.
Rayon is a browser-based collaborative design tool for the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. The Paris-based startup wants to improve the design process by making it more collaborative and accessible to teams and stakeholders. The platform can also be used as a central object library repository compatible with the most popular image formats, PDF, and CAD documents (DWG, DXF).
Every task must have a purpose, and more importantly, an understanding of how it will evolve. The only thing stopping you from doing a better job is yourself. Don’t ask for permission but be proactive and ask for forgiveness if things go wrong. Encourage stakeholder's expertise and involvement and let them drive the initiative.
The tactile experience of flipping through a beautifully designed magazine remains unmatched. For graphic designers especially, print magazines offer a source of inspiration that's tangible and immersive and presents content in a completely different visual way to digital. This article features the best magazines for graphic design inspiration, including Eye Magazine, Communication Arts, Idea, Creative Review, Slanted, Typeone, and Wallpaper.
It's rare to hear about successful product teams that don't have a product manager, ditch metrics, are fully remote, and don't run A/B tests. Linear's unique story helps shine some light on alternative formats and workflows for creating a superb product without following the usual script.
Halfsies, a new game from Brilliant, will test your cutting skills. Let's see if that designer's eye of yours is as powerful as you claim!
Small user interface adjustments can significantly improve user experiences. This simple but effective list teaches or reminds you about these low-hanging fruits.
Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics for user interface design are well-known in the design community. However, there's no equivalent in content design. Jas Deogan wants to change that by proposing 10 heuristics to guide how designers deal with content.