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The Design Museum in London and Intuit Mailchimp’s in-house creative agency, Wink, collaborated to resurrect the look, feel, sound, and smell of emails in the digital age. The exhibition ‘Email is Dead’ ushers visitors into the obsolescence of the decades-old form of communication, which has dwindled with the advent of DMs and instant messaging apps.
Jony Ive, Apple's former design chief, has invested in Cruz, a company known for its USB-C-powered bottle cap with integrated blades that turn drink bottles into portable blenders. The $129 BlenderCap, which Cruz launched at CES, comes with a 32-ounce vacuum-insulated bottle and is designed to fit other wide-mouth bottles.
Annice Jumani has a unique condition called synesthesia where she associates colors with letters and numbers. Despite feeling isolated and different due to her condition, she found solace in sports and later embraced her synesthesia as a valuable tool in her career as a design director. Through her journey, she learned to celebrate her differences and encourage others to do the same, recognizing that what sets us apart can be our greatest strengths.
The 4-hour work week, tailored for the industrial age, misses the mark for today’s creative and knowledge-based jobs. It presumes a linear relationship between the hours put in and the output that results; that one more hour of “work” will create one more output of similar value. However, the truth is that quality creative work doesn't behave like an assembly line. Sound judgment is far more important than the mere capacity to create output.
For the first time in history, users of technology can now talk in natural language to a computer and simply get stuff done. The technology of today and tomorrow is going to be increasingly conversational. Language is deeply multifaceted and therefore requires a multidisciplinary design approach that combines knowledge of language, technology, and human psychology.
Components are built and presented in isolation, which simplifies the QA process by enabling focus on specific parts of the UI. Well-structured design systems will also facilitate testing activities by featuring various states and variations, comprehensive documentation, and clear visual guidelines.
Typeform announced the public beta of a new product called Formless. It’s an AI-driven way to create forms and collect data. The Pro plan will be free during the public beta.
Learn from real product user flow recordings and screenshots. Organized into types of flows, products, and industries, this website also includes specific recordings and screenshots for desktop and mobile devices.
Jrnylist is a simple, easy-to-use Midjourney prompt generator that combines medium types, styles, and formats. Based on examples, the website allows you to copy the original prompt and use it as a template for your creations.
On August 29th of this year, Xiaoyuan Gao from Not Your Type Foundry posted a statement on her Instagram addressing the unauthorized use of her font files by a font distribution website. The website in question is Fontesk.com, a platform where users can access and download numerous “high-quality free fonts for commercial use” and “open-source fonts.” When confronted, Fontesk.com refused to remove the font in question and even went so far as to block Gao’s IP address from accessing its website.
Two massive A-brands, both with legacy design systems in place with over 150 touchpoints including web, app, and TV, and over 7 million users. The challenge was to merge these two brands into one design system with zero actual customers to test on. Here’s what challenges the merger of T-Mobile and Tele2 into Odido presented to their design teams and a look at how the design systems were merged.
Design tools are constantly evolving, with new features being added all the time. It can be tempting to want to learn all of the latest features, but it’s important to be strategic about how designers invest their time. Whether they should focus on learning new design tool features or honing their soft skills depends on their current skill level, their career goals, and the company they work for.
For designers, done means "quality" or "delight." For engineers, it's mainly related to objective measures of done (unit tests, performance benchmarks, etc.), while PMs tend to look for speed and usage data. Although the definition of done differs, product teams need common ground, preferably before any real work starts.
Design System expert Dan Mall answers the most common design questions, including queries about grid systems, color palettes, how-to-start design systems, and portfolio tips.
Well-designed buttons are also about labels. There are three common traps you should avoid: prefer "Continue" instead of "Next", be careful with "Done", and avoid "OK".