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The NYT Games app has launched a new design that features streamlined navigation and game card designs that facilitate game discovery and track players' progress. This update reflects the app's evolution from exclusively offering crosswords to providing a broad array of games. It aims to be both inviting for new users and functional for experienced players.
Apple is anticipated to revolutionize the MacBook lineup with a 20.3-inch foldable design expected for mass production in 2027. The potential of a foldable MacBook diverges from Apple's historical disregard for touchscreen laptops, creating intrigue for future hybrid device designs.
Adobe has launched the Adobe Express app for iOS and Android. It offers similar creative, editing, and AI capabilities, with additional features for Creative Cloud subscribers. The free beta includes access to premium tools like background removal during testing. AI features will require credits, with beta users receiving 25 monthly credits.
Nielsen's recent argument that accessibility is a hopeless industry and AI is the only viable solution for disabled people lacks data ignores the work of well-known and respected experts. The claim that accessibility is too expensive and inefficient provides more reasons for business leaders to ignore the issue. It fails to acknowledge that accessibility is not just about blindness and low vision but also about a wide range of user experiences.
To nail the tone in AI-generated text, designers should use prompts to rewrite existing content rather than generate new content, use multiple-tone words rather than one, and ask for alternative outputs. Sometimes, it takes ChatGPT multiple tries to write exactly what we want.
Logo Packer can generate multiple logo versions. Designers can upload their logos and export to PNG, JPG, PDF, and EPS.
Autoflow enables designers to create flow arrows in Figma to illustrate user flows, diagrams, or graphics in a hand-drawn or minimalist style. It automatically detects obstacles and auto-updates arrows when connected objects are moved.
Mapplic lets you create interactive maps from static images.
In a roundup of 10 innovative wearable technologies, Samsung debuts a smart ring with health tracking and AI, while products like a smart menstrual cup and an air-purifying collar expand the boundaries of health and digital integration. Among these wearables are devices for virtual reality, mobility assistance, worship, sexual health, voice synthesis, and spatial computing, all designed to enhance user well-being and experiences.
QX is an independent full-service advertising agency on a mission to foster purposeful interactions between brands and their audiences. It needed a new branding that would make all clients and projects feel welcome, so &Walsh developed a dynamic range of logomarks that purposefully adapted to each client's unique personality.
The Kirby effect is about sucking in features already available and delivering a worse experience. Keeping people in your app by controlling the whole experience is a dominant practice driven by business KPIs rather than the desire to improve the user experience. The path to valuable experiences is more about integrating mature solutions rather than creating your own (and worse) version of that feature.
Swiss furniture brand Vitra will reduce the impact of its existing lines on the environment by using recycled plastic, which produces a noticeably more speckled finish than virgin plastic, but the company says the change is necessary, even if it creates a different aesthetic from what customers are accustomed to.
This post explains why arranging form elements to reinforce a particular narrative in sentence-style forms isn't a good idea - it requires a bigger time investment, makes button labels confusing, eliminates inline errors, and introduces numerous other problems.