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Headspace, the meditation company, has made meditation and mental health more accessible through its flagship app, serving over 100 million members globally. It adopted Figma's advanced features, including variables, to streamline its design system and accommodate growth.
Many creative workers use Pinterest, Instagram, Behance, Canva, and Figma to find images online and create mood boards. Pimento aims to simplify and speed up this process by letting creatives enter instructions alongside image references, returning them suggestions like images, text, colors, and other visual elements.
With an upcoming update, Google Calendar for Android is set to become more user-friendly with a quick switcher feature that allows users to seamlessly switch between creating a calendar event and a task in Google Tasks within the same page. This change eliminates the need to back out and tap a dedicated "task" button, making it easier for users to manage their events and tasks within Google Calendar.
Despite the lack of concrete evidence, five-second testing is often taken at face value with the idea that five seconds is just the right amount of time to gauge first impressions. This article examines how first impressions are affected by time, cognitive abilities, and the visual complexity of the tested picture and how product owners and UX researchers can ensure their users' first steps are on the right track.
ChatGPT is now integrated with Dall-E, allowing users to ask it to modify images based on feedback. This gives users more control for creating consistent images by using seeds.
UI Score’s Library is the ultimate resource hub for designers and developers. Projects and resources can be filtered by category or search.
PatternedAI Searches and creates thousands of royalty-free patterns for any surface you can imagine.
Using the new GPT4 vision model and an OpenAI API Key, this tool converts designs from sketches, wireframes, Figma, XD, and more into pixel-perfect code. It also allows you to add follow-up instructions to fine-tune and fix errors.
A report looking into the reasons why designers leave their jobs found that 14.3% of them were laid off, 10.2% of them were unhappy with the work they had to do, 9.6% lacked career progression opportunities, and 8.9% struggled with the low UX/Design maturity of their employer.
As of next week, Enterprise accounts in Figma will be able to designate workspaces as "hidden" for better control over sensitive content. Non-members of the hidden workspace won’t see it but will still be able to interact with individual documents they've been added to.
The Braun watch follows Dieter Ram's ethos by being minimalist, uncluttered, and clean. Braun + Paul Smith BN0279 Watches feature a matte gunmetal stainless-steel case, black PU straps, and a monochromatic design.
Best-in-class Design Systems with components and foundations references from top-tier tech companies and leading UI teams.
A free online book about how to do good user interface typography, from basic things and principles to building layouts and various design elements.