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A new company called Clicks Technology has announced an iPhone case with a built-in keyboard on the bottom. Clicks brings the tactility and precision of a physical keyboard to the iPhone so people don’t have to wait until they return to their desks to create or communicate with the satisfying feedback only actual buttons can provide.
Dutch startup Nuwa has developed what they claim to be the "world's most advanced pen". The Nuwa Pen uses an inbuilt camera system, motion sensors, and algorithms to capture handwritten text on any paper, storing the notes in their app and allowing users to organize, share, and integrate them with various apps.
Three lessons from InVision’s rise and fall: marketing hype can only take you so far, teams need to prioritize small wins and improvements before it’s too late, and acquiring great companies instead of catching up with the paradigm shift doesn’t help.
Pagination makes it easier for users to transverse many results by presenting them in defined amounts per page. Designers should use numbered representation, truncate page navigation, consider using “first” and “last” buttons, show the count of items per page on top of long lists, and consider using an infinite scroll.
Feature quality — usability, accessibility, performance, and consistency — starts high and stays high. The quantity of completed features resembles an “S curve” over time, accelerating gradually before flattening as the launch approaches. Feature stability increases throughout implementation, but reversals are common and expected to refactor things already made based on what was learned.
A competitive usability evaluation looks at how competitors do things, what's working, and what's not. With it, you can make objective decisions, reduce risks, improve value-driven design, and understand different approaches to similar design challenges. The two methods of conducting these evaluations are competitive reviews, which involves looking at a series of related products, and competitive testing, which consists of testing your and your competitors' designs.
Turn SVGs into high-quality 3D renders that can be adjusted with parameters such as resolution, lighting, and shadow effects.
With Kartiv, you can use AI to turn product descriptions into compelling and customizable images and videos easily and quickly.
Uniqode allows you to upload your brand’s logo and add it to the center of your QR Code, change code color and background, and download it in many formats, including SVG, EPS, and PNG.
Designers, entrepreneurs, and founders answer, “How has entrepreneurship changed your perception and practice of design?” They share lessons on value creation versus performance theater, how to pick battles, shifting to a revenue-generating mindset, finding a balance between revenue, impact and effort, and seeing the big picture.
Naturally, designers will prefer library components that cover more stuff, including interactions and animations. However, that only sometimes provides the best output. In some cases, Figma needs to be more sophisticated to demonstrate an interactive behavior adequately.
Three new categories are being introduced for the 13th edition of Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards: Interior Design, Advertising, and Type Design. The distinguished panel of judges includes design anthropologist Dori Tunstall, Google's VP of Design Ivy Ross, Pentagram's Giorgi Lupi, and Marcus Engman, IGNKA's creative director. Entries are judged based on innovation, impact, and aesthetics across over 50 categories.
Test your usability knowledge by taking NNG’s latest UX quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that they published last year.
Market research firm Hanover found that 75% of companies revamped their visual identities post-2020, while UpCity’s 2022 survey reported a 51% change in brand strategy due to the pandemic. Two key drivers stand out: necessity and opportunity.
Illustration challenges are a great way to reboot your creative brain because they offer structure, motivation, and a sense of community to help you out when you can't get motivated by yourself. These challenges are designed not just to help you create consistently, but also to explore new ideas, refine your skills, and even step out of your comfort zone.