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Figma and Adobe have decided to terminate their pending acquisition after 15 months of regulatory review as they no longer see a path to regulatory approval for the deal. Despite the initial goal of accelerating their contributions to their respective communities, both companies plan to continue independently and explore opportunities for user partnerships.
Giant Apple bags have become part of the landscape in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, Munich, and Paris as part of Apple's minimalist holiday campaign. 'Wonder Awaits' was designed by the tech giant's advertising agency. It features no name or copy, but the simple design leaves no doubt about who is behind the campaign.
The design strategically positions the symbol as a connective element that appears across the Stereolabs ecosystem, harmonizing the digital and physical aspects of the business and showcasing how design can play a transformative role in tech companies.
When designing tabs, you should consider the context in which they manifest when choosing labels, states, icons, and orientations. It makes sense to use tabs when content is related, one level deep, and when users need to navigate between sections quickly.
Storyboards and personas benefit from depicting the same characters in various situations. Unfortunately, creating persistent characters using AI-driven image-generation tools is difficult since they are probabilistic.
Designers and researchers who get asked “What’s the insight here?” while presenting findings from research failed at their job. This might happen because the takeaway is unclear, the other stakeholders don’t understand why, or they feel lost about what to do.
Checklist Design is a curated list of checklists for the best design practices for website pages, UI components, branding assets, and more.
Roast for Figma lets you easily clean up an old or imported file, remix a community resource, or update all tokens to a current library.
The Figma to Webflow plugin allows you to import and sync your Figma variables and their associated values easily into Webflow.
The history of computing has been marked by its personal nature for the last 40 years, even though highly collaborative intentions marked the inception of digital interfaces. Researchers are now exploring interaction and interface design patterns for real-life collaboration.
From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, The Guardian's panel of experts picks the designs and designers of the year.
Christmas trees have become symbols of warmth and joy synonymous with the holiday spirit. However, the holiday season can also be a time of defiance and creativity, as evidenced by these examples of contemporary artists reinventing the iconic symbol.
Douglas Engelbart’s demo about the future of interfaces, the introduction of the iPhone’s multi-touch screen, the evolution of the Photoshop tool palette, the Web Design Manifesto 2012 by Jeffrey Zeldman, the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines, and the 37Better Project.