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Framer has raised a $27M Series C funding round led by Meritech Capital. The company plans to further scale up its product and commercial teams with the new round, especially in Europe and the U.S. That means introducing features for larger sites, like localization, custom forms, and additional enterprise-level integrations.
Zapier has been moving to offer its customers more complex integrations and workflow automation. The company's new tool, Canvas, helps its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes. Canvas is powered by AI, allowing users to explain the problem they want to be solved and then have the service generate a process for them.
Meta is starting to roll out AI stickers across its apps. Users will soon be able to edit their images or even co-create them with friends on Instagram using the new AI editing tools, restyle, and backdrop. Meta is also launching beta versions of 28 AIs with unique interests and personalities. Some are played by cultural icons and influencers, including Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, and Naomi Osaka.
The car industry still needs to catch up in prototyping adoption. This article reinforces the required mindset, recommended tools, and the process for testing automotive interfaces.
A new study by Koivisto and Grassini compares human and AI creativity using the gold standard test of divergent thinking. Over 200 participants were tested against three AI chatbots - ChatGPT3, ChatGPT4, and Copy.Ai. The findings indicate that current AI surpasses average human creative production. However, highly creative humans can still compete by making surprising connections between concepts.
People from feminine countries usually undersell themselves because humbleness is a virtue while those from masculine countries might oversell themselves because of their competitive nature. This can have a significant impact on designer’s careers, promotions, opportunities, and generally how well they work with others.
Screen Studio makes your screen recordings look beautiful. The tool automatically offers innovative zoom capabilities, has high-quality effects, and counts with an intuitive and easy-to-use editing mode. Several branding and style customizations are also available.
Connect your iOS screenshots folder and let the magic happen. This AI-powered tool understands, organizes, and makes screenshots easily searchable.
Animated backgrounds are a fun way to make your content more engaging but they’re hard to make. This collection of free 4k looping animated backgrounds is a great starting point for your next project.
Shipping software to production, regardless of whether it delivers any value to its users, is the norm in most organizations. That reality makes it difficult for product teams to justify to their stakeholders that more time needs to be spent on discovery. Jeff Gothelf proposes a smart move, putting a key question in the center of each sprint. Once the focus changes from what needs to be built to what needs to be learned, discovery becomes a necessity.
Didem Yagci is the Plywood Picasso. Her work transforms layered plywood panels into mesmerizing wall sculptures that brighten any space. Known as the "Monarch of Hues" on Instagram, the artist's enchanting creations use gradients and fluid shapes to dive into a world of depth and dimension.
Focus Order is a Figma plugin by Microsoft’s Design team that helps designers create designs for keyboarding and screen reader users. The plugin now integrates with component libraries so that components can be annotated faster. Links to the code documentation are included.
Not paying attention to how things look can considerably affect the bottom line. Visual testing needs detailed specifications, thoughtful planning that includes static and dynamic modes, and methods for covering edge cases.
Hustle culture is about working long hours and pushing yourself to the limit as the path to success. It's not sustainable in practice. Being driven by curiosity, interest, and even some obsession can be an alternative that better fits the way designers operate.
You might have noticed that not every interactive element gets a cursor by default. You can quickly add that behavior to any element by using a few lines of CSS.