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A group of designers and creatives have come together to redesign the UN’s logo according to the organization’s projections for the rise of the sea level. The coastlines of continents have been retracted or reshaped, while some countries, like the Maldives, have been entirely deleted from the illustrated map of the world that the UN has used as its logo since 1946.
Figma is bidding farewell to 2023 by reflecting on its most significant moments, ideas, launches, and lessons learned. From the top things it shipped this year to the joy of mechanical keyboards, the Figma 2023 Handoff presents a year-end celebration of the big plays and deep learnings to carry into the next season.
Peach Fuzz, the color of the year according to Pantone, is velvety, gentle, and embodies togetherness, community, and collaboration. Motorola’s Razr+ phone is coming in Peach Fuzz in an exclusive partnership.
To improve an organization’s UX maturity, designers should establish foundational alignment with UX goals and communication channels, essential UX understanding of UX processes and vocabulary, and become “collaboration ready” with UX toolkits and research results.
Figma’s biggest new feature from 2023 — local variables — can be used for creating interactive prototypes and automatic switching between dark and light modes. However, designers can go beyond that — they can use the local variables to set up breakpoints and make their designs responsive, for example.
Carousels need to engage users effectively, overwhelm them, and be inaccessible. Once you determine what's essential and establish the proper hierarchy, better alternatives will become evident.
Start with a prompt for the AI generator and combine it with a template from a range of more than 1,000 prebuilt prompts to quickly create animated videos.
SVG spinners are a great visual cue when elements are loading or data is being fetched. They are practical, scalable, and can enhance user experience. This guide walks through how they can be implemented using only simple SVG attributes like stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset.
Easily create harmonious, accessible-first palettes and save countless hours getting colors for your design system.
AI has dramatically changed design tools in 2023. The latest tools survey shows that 65% of designers already use AI in their work, while 13% aren’t and aren’t interested in doing so. Figma still dominates the UI design tools market, followed by Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sketch.
Scroll fade, a new design pattern, is an animation triggered by scrolling: new elements or content fade in or out once the user scrolls down to a certain point on the page. It can cause serious usability issues when misused. Used sparingly at relatively fast speeds, it can draw user attention, improve brand perception, speed up page loading, and divide your content into smaller, digestible nuggets.
Models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney tend to amplify stereotypes about race, gender, and national identity. Likewise, DALL-E 3 has its share of biases and stereotypes. This article reveals the language-specific variations of DALL-3 and explores how it navigates diversity and transparency.
2023 witnessed a rise in email design trends that will continue to evolve in 2024: Interactive emails, gamified experiences, dark mode, creative typography, hyper-personalization, and less generic emails, to name a few.
Some common reasons make graphic designers dislike a typeface. This list features the most misused/overused, ugly, boring, clichéd, and dated fonts.