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In the fallout of a deal that saw the company placed under the microscope of competition authorities in Europe and the US, Adobe has confirmed it has “no plans to further invest” in its UI/UX web design software. Support will continue for existing users. Adobe remains open to new product design partners.
Microsoft is introducing a new design for its OneDrive cloud storage aimed at consumers. This upgrade offers visual and functional enhancements to simplify file access and content organization. The revamped interface introduces a people view for finding files through familiar faces, improved filters, and simplified options for file uploads and document creation.
Figma is officially launching its Dev Mode out of beta to enhance product development efficiency. Dev Mode is designed to create a workspace that facilitates collaboration between designers and developers. It offers features like annotations, diff comparisons, plugins, and integrations with tools like VS Code. The launch aims to bridge the gap between design and development, fostering a more seamless and collaborative process.
Good “product sense” needs to be cultivated, use empathy to diagnose problems, plan before you get lost in the day-to-day, know when to take a break or change direction, use AI to automate work that gets in the way of work, learn to wear multiple hats, address the weaknesses that your superpowers shadow, make customers part of your team, make decisions async, and remember why you got into this work in the first place.
Disney's HoloTile is a mechanical surface that moves in response to the motion of a person. In this article, Disney Imagineer Lanny Smoot explains the technology behind it and how he sees it as a fundamental part of VR. With over 100 patents, Smoot was inspired by the Holodeck, a virtual reality room in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Shakker is an image-to-image AI generation tool that can remix the original prompt and generate derivative images, change the style of an image, modify specific parts of an image with inpaint, and combine multiple images to form a composite.
Create intuitive motion graphics, streamline your workflow, and bring your static assets to life in seconds.
For Switchboard’s upcoming 50th anniversary, Nice and Serious developed a tone of voice and three core principles to allow its voice to adapt while remaining consistent. The first is 'sensitivity,' being warm, open-ended, and creating space for others to talk; the second is 'dependable,' bringing a sense of calm and reassurance; and the third is to be 'illuminating, ' putting a spotlight on hope and stepping up with clarity and conviction when needed.
Apple's Macintosh embraced human-centered design long before it became a popular term. Its groundbreaking GUI and simple yet highly powerful mouse revolutionized how people viewed technology, making it accessible and approachable for everyone.
The digital canvas, introduced with the release of Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, provides visual artists with a new medium to create but lacks interaction between objects. In the coming years, we’ll witness the emergence of tools that will move beyond the canvas and become true hybrids of a canvas and code.
Freepik's take on 2024's trends includes liquid and iridescent 3D, grainy gradients, old engravings, neobrutalism, and more.
field-sizing is a new CSS property that makes input and textarea automatically scale to the size of their content, which means you'll avoid many different techniques that all require JavaScript to some degree.
Environmental campaigners targeting famous artworks as protest, like soup-throwing at the Mona Lisa, ignite debates on vandalism versus art and protest.