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Unsplash+ celebrated its first birthday with a dynamic rebranding initiative with award-winning brand agency Collins. In addition to its revamped identity, the company added new collections and brought more curators to improve its premium content. The new visuals follow the most searched themes.
Microsoft has added AI selection photo erasers to its Photos app with Generative erase. It will backport all of the AI editing capabilities in Photos to Windows 10.
Windows new emojis are the next iteration of the flat emoji introduced in 2021. Adding shadows, light, and more color to make them look 3D and implementing them as a hybrid color font meant that the team behind this emoji update had to alter their approach to designing color fonts.
It can be frustrating and stressful to miss a connecting flight. Reconceiving the same situation through a design lens could result in a much better user experience and potentially better business for airlines.
Legendary Japanese animation film director Hayao Miyazaki's work was recently reinterpreted by AI, leading to an exciting discussion of the blurring lines between creators and artists. The threshold for calling oneself a creator is shallow today. The real artists are the ones who come up with original ideas and do something unique, whether they're using AI or not.
Designers can build new ways of working by turning user-centered design methods inwards — if we can give up our Superman myth. Designers aren’t the only ones who think they are being misunderstood; they’re not the only ones being empathetic towards users.
Modify allows designers to generate, animate, and more without switching between apps.
Artboard Studio is a graphic and motion design tool with automation features and an extensive content library.
Fontonic enables designers to change a website's fonts with the ones installed locally on their devices. Changes are reflected on every website page and saved even after the browser tab is closed.
Even though prototypes are essential in design work, they should never be treated as permanent. In the elevator test, prototypes are smashed using elevator doors. The lesson is that prototypes are tools to improve your final product. Stay attached to them and focus on the learning process they enable.
Pursuing innovation and engagement at all costs can easily lead to dark patterns - deceptive design tactics that manipulate users into doing stuff they don't want to do. This kind of manipulation leaves a trail of frustration, distrust, and negativity. This post explores the prevalence of dark patterns and how to avoid them using ethical design principles as a guide.
A planning master doc can be an effective hub for anyone. Designers can take the lead in preparing the UX roadmap. They should keep their roadmap accessible and up-to-date, review and revise it as needed, coordinate with the team when planning, and use it to anticipate resourcing spikes.
During the 1960s, Henry Ford II enlisted Paul Rand, the famed graphic designer who had created logos for IBM, ABC, and UPS, to modernize the logo and its script. Users on Reddit and X are now praising the sleek and fantastic design, which retained the original's essential features but used a more modern, even-stroked lettering.
For over 140 years, Lyle’s Golden Syrup has featured an interesting logo on its tin: a lion’s carcass surrounded by bees. The product was recognized by Guinness World Records for having the world’s oldest branding and packaging. For the first time since the 1880s, Lyle's Golden Syrup is undergoing a major redesign to appeal to a 21st-century audience.
It's not easy to scoop noodles with the standard fork that comes with cup noodles. The fork's angle does not sit right, making it un-ergonomic and difficult to scoop. Nissin and Nendo created a piece of cutlery that is obsessively ergonomic, designed after hours of user observation to ensure a seamless noodle-eating experience.