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The "State of the Designer" report by Figma explores the impact of changing work styles on designers' job satisfaction, productivity, and relationships. Despite the challenges of the past three years, including a shift to remote work, 69% of designers report greater job satisfaction, with individual contributors feeling the most positive.
Google Chrome's 2023 redesign for its 15th birthday introduces the Material You design language with rounded corners and taller elements like the tab strip and address bar. Significant changes include the removal of the lock icon from the Omnibox, replaced by a site control icon, and a focus on legibility with outline-style icons and reorganized menu items.
Imran Chaudhri, cofounder of Humane, speaks about AI Pin, an AI-powered game-changing device announced last week. The former Apple designer discusses everything from privacy and partnerships with "frenemies" to the end of the App Store.
Common dark patterns include confirm shaming, fake urgency, bait and switch, privacy suckering, nagging, sneaking, disguised ads, intentional misdirection, the roach motel pattern, preselection, price comparison prevention, trick questions, sneaking into the basket, friend spam, and forced continuity. To avoid dark patterns, designers should prioritize transparency, user control, and ethical design practices, fostering positive user experiences and long-term customer loyalty.
As a designer, it is your job to contribute to the business's success. However, you should sometimes ask yourself if you want the business to grow and who is profiting from it.
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A collection of accessibility guidance that helps designers use colors, typefaces, media, and layout in a way to create accessible experiences.
A superfamily of five fonts for coding with three variable axes: Neon a neo-grotesuqe sans, Argon a humanist sans, Xenon a slab serif, Radon a handwriting font, and Krypton a mechanical sans. All of them use "texture healing", a feature that improves the spacing between letters to make reading an easier and more pleasurable experience.
Musho converts prompts into near-complete, developer-ready websites with simple layouts, excellent copy, and stunning imagery.
A new magazine from The Guardian dedicated to long-form journalism hits newsstands on November 11. When designing the magazine, a lot of attention was given to packaging its large volume of text – clocking in at 55,000 words – to make the reading experience as relaxing as possible, from body type size to column widths.
With design validation, you can ensure your design is user-friendly and considers the business goals. In this practical guide, you will learn how to formulate a design validation plan, tools, and common mistakes to avoid.
AI-assisted design is poised to change design forever, but most people are stuck on the beginner level. To become proficient, they should try to use it for rapid prototyping of conversational interfaces, user persona generation, generating and iterating on design ideas, copywriting and content creation, usability testing scripts, accessibility and inclusive design, personalized user experience, and microscopy.
AI-powered systems often overlook people with varying cognitive abilities and disabilities. Researchers are looking for ways to create more accessible intelligent systems that empower users across the spectrum of human ability.
Google Fonts now provides two open-source fonts by Dmitry Ivanov (Linefont and Wavefont) that let you make simplified, small to medium line and bar charts based on data. These might be useful when you want to embed small charts in body text.