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Adobe’s new design system adds more splashes of color to make its tools even more intuitive, inclusive, and joyful to use across platforms. Parts of Spectrum 2 can already be spotted in recent Adobe web apps like its Firefly generative AI service, Adobe Express, and some of the new Adobe Acrobat web experiences.
Apple has introduced spatial video capture for iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, allowing users to record special moments in three dimensions. These spatial videos can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro, offering a unique and immersive experience. Users can access their spatial videos across devices with iCloud. The feature arrives ahead of the Apple Vision Pro debut.
This year's Adobe Creative Trends Report highlights the visual styles and themes expected to become increasingly popular. As users reimagine how creativity is made, this edition reflects their desire to experiment, play, and create. 2D and 3D worlds increasingly merge into fantastical AI-generated visuals and simple, beautiful images.
Components accelerate design-to-engineering timeframes and increase return on investment (ROI) for design teams. However, the first step is adoption. This two-part series discusses best naming conventions, indexing/search, auto-layout best practices, and how to motivate your designers to use your complex, well-built system.
Many design systems start when a designer and engineer makes a handful of components they don’t want to keep making from scratch repeatedly — that’s one side of the spectrum. On the other side of the spectrum are teams who see the value of working directly with the people who use their components but take it too far and turn it into a design system as a service.
There are eight guidelines that designers within the car industry should follow (and those from other industries can learn from): Safety first, simplify then add lightness, optimize for learnability, be aware of the context, use multiple modalities, communicate the system status, proactive error prevention and graceful recovery, and bridge disciplines.
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dYdX's design system is now open source, enabling designers and developers to build their products utilizing dYdX's assets, logos, patterns, components, graphics, and more.
The Not-Checklist won’t teach you WCAG from front to back, but it covers the essentials in accessibility practically and effectively.
Design, like any other business, is a form of servitude. We exist for others (for a fee). To ignore the other side and pick numbers out of thin air is an easy way to serve no one. Our “worth” is what someone else is willing to pay us for the work we provide, so charging more or less doesn’t make us more or less worthy as professionals than other designers.
AI uses context to understand complex relationships, but it relies on data gathered or previous interactions. Information architecture (IA) is the missing link that provides an effective framework for analyzing big data when dealing with unstructured or partially structured data.
A designer's role requires you to shift your perspective from personal preferences to customer-centricity. The only way to design solutions that resonate and elevate the user experience is to remove personal preferences, understand users, and iterate constantly, with user-centered victories becoming the gold standard for evaluating design efforts.
CosMcs, a McDonald's spinoff, recently opened its doors in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Modern and contemporary, its branding and menu still represent McDonald's familiarity, including the Golden Arches and signature yellow, paired with dark blue.