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Most UI/UX designers fail before starting because they don't ask the right questions. This post shares a checklist of seven key pre-project questions to help designers avoid failure, save time, and create better designs.
A strong onboarding flow can boost retention by 50%, while poor onboarding causes 80% of users to leave. Success depends on understanding users, defining their goals, and guiding them efficiently. Effective strategies include personalization, progressive disclosure, and emotional engagement.
Build native mobile apps, responsive web apps, and internal tools visually and collaboratively.
Transform Wikipedia articles into beautiful, interactive timelines. Compare historical events, explore connections, and discover history differently.
VIET GD is a casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design.
The UX Capacity Planning Framework helps teams align on UX efforts and priorities by providing a structured approach to planning and estimating work. It addresses common challenges with research and design effort levels, ensuring clearer expectations and more efficient resource allocation.
Mushrooms, like mental models, challenge our perception of reality, revealing hidden networks of connection rather than isolated structures. Exploring natural information architecture, cognition, and AI, the text argues for embracing complexity, divergent thinking, and the limitless ways to organize and understand information.
AI agents are rapidly changing how we interact with technology. These agents can perform tasks on our behalf, making traditional UI design obsolete. Websites may become irrelevant as users interact solely through their agents. This shift also impacts accessibility, as agents can cater to individual needs.
GOCA is a gallery for emerging Asian artists with a brand identity focused on cultural exchange and digital innovation that features a katakana-inspired wordmark and a flexible design system.
Josef and Anni Albers, Bauhaus pioneers, designed minimalist holiday cards for decades that reflected their artistic principles, mutual admiration, and simple Christmas celebrations.
Philip Jodidio's Homes for Our Time features 59 innovative residences worldwide, emphasizing sustainability, cultural influences, and cutting-edge design.
Duolingo's iconic owl mascot, Duo, was dramatically “killed off” in a marketing stunt, only to be resurrected, sparking mixed reactions from fans. The brand leveraged collective mourning to drive engagement, proving its offbeat marketing strategy remains effective. However, with this bold move played, the challenge now is to keep its branding fresh without resorting to gimmicky tactics.
People have noticed a small curlicue detail in Ford's century-old logo that many never realized was there despite its long history. A viral TikTok highlighted the confusion, with some people incorrectly believing the flourish was a fake addition, though it has existed since at least the 1910s. This phenomenon shows how our brains often store only the basics of familiar logos, making small design details easy to overlook.
Alibaba has made its AI model Wan 2.1 for video and image generation publicly available, aiming to boost adoption and competition in AI. The model, released in four variants, is accessible globally on Alibaba Cloud's ModelScope and Hugging Face for research and commercial use. Alibaba plans to invest $52 billion over three years to strengthen its cloud computing and AI infrastructure.
In UX design, prioritization goes beyond usability severity, considering factors like reach, impact, confidence, and effort. Methods like RICE help teams strategically address issues, ensuring the most critical problems—such as account creation difficulties—are tackled first.
Design must fit real-world contexts, especially when people are under stress. Stress disrupts cognition, leading to instinctive decisions. Clear, simple interfaces help users focus. Prioritizing tasks, breaking them into steps, and adding safeguards prevent mistakes. Emergency modes improve response times. Regular stress testing ensures usability, making digital products more reliable in high-pressure situations.
A University of Turin study examined how users react to AI's nonsensical responses. Technical users saw errors, while non-technical users attributed autonomy. Unexpected AI behavior affected trust, prompting calls for clearer, more explicit faces, transparency, and better error handling. The findings highlight the need for AI design that accounts for diverse user interpretations and experiences.
Ikonik is an open-source set of 50k+ high-quality icons categorized into 45 packages. It contains Outline and Filled formats and is editable and easy to insert in Figma.
Turn your Notion workspace into an interactive graph. Visualize connections, structure ideas, and explore effortlessly.
Continuously learning and adapting is key to career growth, and designing yourself out of a job means identifying impactful tasks and delegating or automating them. Both individual contributors and managers can benefit by taking on new challenges, developing skills, and fostering a reciprocal relationship with leadership.
Romeo's, a Berlin sandwich shop, worked with designer Carla Palette to craft a brand identity blending old-school advertising with modern elements. The design, featuring a bold custom wordmark, nostalgic yet refined colors, and artfully styled sandwich photography, elevates fast food with a sophisticated touch.
Clear, user-friendly error alerts improve user experience by informing, guiding, and reassuring users. Effective alerts use concise language, specific explanations, and actionable solutions while avoiding jargon. Design considerations include color coding, icons, and placement for visibility. Regular testing and iteration help refine alerts, enhancing usability and building user trust.
Susan Kare, known for her iconic Macintosh designs, collaborated with Asprey Studio on Esc Keys, a jewelry collection transforming 32 of her signature icons into enameled computer keys and playful accessories.
Crocs has partnered with AI platform ABLO to let users design custom Jibbitz charms.
The Swiza font family by atipo is a modern sans-serif inspired by Swiss design that offers 14 styles and extensive language support.
Adobe has released Photoshop Mobile, a touch screen-optimized version of its photo editing software that features unlimited layers, AI-powered touch accuracy, and seamless syncing with web and desktop versions. With a free tier and premium features at $8/month, Adobe aims to expand its audience and drive Creative Cloud adoption by empowering mobile creators.
Tesla faces a deepening crisis as top designers David Imai and Bernard Lee depart amid financial struggles, recalls, lawsuits, and declining sales. Their exit may further hinder Tesla's innovation and exacerbate its design and quality issues.
Design company Paper has launched a web-based tool that transforms logos into hypnotic chrome effects inspired by Apple's event invitations. This tool allows users to turn iconic logos or original images into sleek, futuristic artworks. Founder Stephen Haney expressed excitement over the tool's creative potential, encouraging users to share their designs.
People value effort in product interactions, as seen with Betty Crocker cake mixes, IKEA furniture, and AI tools. Over-automation can reduce user satisfaction, trust, and engagement. Effective AI design balances automation and user involvement, ensuring meaningful participation while maintaining convenience. The right balance fosters ownership, mastery, and better experiences.
AI can enhance unmoderated usability testing by generating follow-up questions, refining participant insights, and increasing scalability. However, it struggles with contextual awareness, redundancy, and frustration, which can skew results. Researchers must ensure AI-generated questions remain relevant and adaptive to improve the quality of usability testing without hindering participant engagement.
AI-first products, built around AI engines, require new design approaches. Challenges include flexible interfaces, prompt-guided user guidance, and managing AI limitations. Designers must embrace iterative user journeys and rethink interaction models. As AI-first apps evolve, product design will shift to accommodate non-linear workflows and dynamic user experiences.
Simplify the overwhelming process of setting up design tokens with a clear, structured starting point for a scalable design system.
Interact with recognized objects to access information, news, and stories. Connect with experts who know them best and effortlessly explore a world of knowledge.
Marcin Wichary discovered the unique "Gorton" font while researching typing history. Wichary initially found its design messy but grew to appreciate its quirks. Originally a routing font for pantograph engravers, Gorton dates back to 1902 and features distinctive monoline strokes and rounded points.
Creativity works like light through a prism, refracted into new forms. Like a prism, AI amplifies ideas but doesn't generate a spark. It expands creative potential, splitting and refining possibilities while final artistic decisions remain human. AI enhances exploration, but meaning and authenticity still require a human touch.
A brand audit is essential for understanding a brand's current state, perception, and areas for improvement beyond just visual redesigns.
EcoLogicStudio pioneers biodesign by integrating nature, technology, and architecture.
Skylight Collective's key art for Avowed breaks tradition with a surreal watercolor-inspired design.
Three major leakers—Majin Bu, Fixed Focus Digital, and iIce Universe—have backed the same CAD drawing of the iPhone 17 lineup, which reveals three distinct camera layouts for the base, Air, and Pro models. While not an exact visual representation, the drawing highlights external element placements, hinting at a more complex camera design.
Simple yet highly adaptable, the Green Party of Canada's new green dot logo symbolizes the planet and a circular economy. It seamlessly integrates into various brand icons representing key priorities like climate action and affordable housing. This minimalistic approach effectively reinforces the party's identity.
BrightlyLoop, a women-owned AI marketplace, has launched an innovative platform to simplify UX, accessibility, and localization, helping businesses save millions by reducing reliance on costly consultants. Through its flagship tool, Brightly HeuristIQs, developed in partnership with George Mason University, businesses receive instant, culturally-adapted UX recommendations for efficient global expansion.
Designers must embrace difficult conversations to overcome industry challenges like sustainability, technological disruption, and diversity. By fostering curiosity, empathy, and the courage to ask uncomfortable questions, the design community can move beyond complacency. Avoiding these conversations only hinders progress and deepens existing issues.
MFA (multi-factor authentication) enhances security while maintaining usability. This article explores various authentication methods, including passwords, 2FA, OTPs, biometrics, and passkeys. It provides best practices for designing secure, user-friendly authentication experiences, such as enforcing strong passwords, limiting login attempts, and educating users about security measures to improve overall UX.
Unmoderated usability testing allows participants to complete tests independently, offering flexibility and broader reach. However, it lacks real-time moderator interaction. AI-driven follow-up questions aim to bridge this gap, but research shows limitations in generating informative, non-repetitive queries. While AI enhances qualitative insights, it risks frustrating participants with redundant or irrelevant prompts.
A simple Figma plugin that pixelates parts of designs to help designers hide sensitive information, redact text or images, or comply with NDAs.
Storyblocker utilizes a novel 3D-based solution to allow anyone to visualize their story anytime and anywhere. Take your idea from concept to final production utilizing AI and augmented reality technology.
Inspired by Radix UI's custom color palette tool, this color generation tool automates the creation of accessible enterprise UI color palettes.
A well-structured color system ensures consistency, scalability, and accessibility in design by using defined color scales, tokens, and best practices. Designers can create cohesive interfaces that work seamlessly across products and platforms by organizing colors into predictable shades and naming conventions.
Regrets Only designed the MoMA Members identity, "Your MoMA," using a linear path to symbolize personal connections with art. Featuring MoMA Sans typography, dynamic alignments, and a nuanced color palette, the design balances individuality with MoMA's legacy.