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Frustrated by the overuse of car touch screens, the author developed a rotary dial with haptic feedback for climate control, allowing intuitive adjustments while minimizing interactions. Through experimentation, they refined design principles for haptic interfaces and concluded that a two-function rotary dial, paired with automation, offered the best balance of usability and control.
AI is reshaping design by shifting focus from creation to curation, enabling designers to prioritize strategy and user experience. Understanding when research is essential, facilitating co-creation sessions, and leveraging AI tools are key to adapting to this evolving landscape.
Pentagram created a new brand identity for The Roald Dahl Story Company, including a custom typeface to unify its publishing, film, and TV projects under Netflix while reflecting the balance of joy and darkness in Dahl's stories.
AI agents like OpenAI's Operator shift software interaction from human-centric to AI-first.
Brady Corbet's The Brutalist follows a fictional Bauhaus-inspired architect, reflecting real émigré architects like Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, who shaped modern architecture after fleeing Nazi Germany.
Kiehl's has launched a bold new campaign featuring a custom typeface, 'Pubic Display Type,' made from pubic hair as a response to censorship of its intimate care ads. After some stores removed their original campaign featuring models with visible pubic hair, the brand replaced the images with text-based ads using unconventional font.
MattoBoard, a web-based design platform, raised $2 million to launch Design Stream, an AI-driven visual search tool. It helps architects and designers streamline material selection, reducing waste and delays. The platform integrates mood boarding, 3D visualization, and AI-driven discovery. Over 200,000 designers use it, including 2,000 Pro subscribers.
Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke, an AI creation platform, secured a copyright for “A Single Piece of American Cheese,” an AI-generated image edited with 35 inpainting modifications. The U.S. Copyright Office ruled that Keirsey's arrangement and coordination of AI-generated elements met the threshold for human authorship, marking a precedent in AI art copyrightability.
Responsive web design (RWD) shaped modern layouts, but intrinsic web design (IWD) introduced CSS Grid and Flexbox for better flexibility. Despite IWD's impact, RWD remains dominant. Developers now shift toward declarative design, letting browsers handle layouts algorithmically. This evolution highlights the importance of trusting browsers to optimize user experiences efficiently.
Crafting a compelling research narrative requires identifying key insights, aligning them to a framework, and tailoring the story to a primary audience. Researchers must distill complex data into actionable insights, structure findings around a core question, and refine presentations for clarity and impact, ensuring stakeholders can make informed decisions efficiently.
To thrive in the evolving design industry, senior creatives and educators emphasize mastering AI, embracing curiosity, honing traditional skills, and diversifying expertise. Designers should also cultivate resilience, collaborate effectively, think critically, and follow their intuition to stay competitive and attract new opportunities.
Free fonts, with highly distinctive letter and number designs, to enhance readability for low-vision individuals.
A simple static website for common phrases you want to say to your colleagues but want to make it sound more professional.
Litur is a color-picker app that allows you to find and collect colors around you.
Academic Work partnered with Stockholm-based agency OKTO to refresh its brand identity, reflecting its European expansion. The design embraces unexpected pairings and features a symbol aligning "A" and "W," guided by three core principles: The Angle, Alignment, and Tempo.
Saaristo, a branding project for the world's largest archipelago in Western Finland, aims to promote sustainable tourism while preserving local culture and nature. Built around the concept "Shaped by Saaristo," the brand reflects the region's unique character and transformative travel experiences.
A strong LinkedIn profile helps UX designers attract recruiters and clients. Key strategies include crafting a compelling headline, optimizing visuals, using relevant keywords, and showcasing projects. Tailoring content to career goals enhances visibility. Engaging with the UX community through networking and thought leadership strengthens credibility, ensuring ongoing career growth and opportunities.
The design job market is oversaturated, with employers overwhelmed by low-quality applications.
Moath al-Alwi, detained at Guantánamo for 23 years, used art to endure imprisonment.
AI greatly impacts illustration, but skilled illustrators can stay ahead by emphasizing originality, human touch, and strategic AI use.
Apple's research explored expressive movements in robotics, inspired by Pixar's Luxo Jr. lamp, to enhance human-robot interaction. It has created lamp-like robots that respond to queries with subtle motions, making interactions feel more natural. This aligns with Apple's rumored smart home robotics efforts, though the project is still in early stages.
Snap has developed an AI model that generates high-resolution images on mobile devices in just 1.4 seconds, with all processing happening on the device itself. Through advanced training techniques, the model optimizes both performance and cost efficiency. The innovation will enhance Snapchat features like AI Snaps and Bitmoji Backgrounds, reinforcing Snap's commitment to mobile-friendly, cutting-edge AI and ML advancements.
Brands like Apple and Airbnb are moving away from flat, minimal icons and embracing more tactile, detailed designs, signaling the return of skeuomorphism. This shift is part of a broader trend rejecting the uniformity of modern digital aesthetics in favor of nostalgic, visually rich elements reminiscent of past designs. As digital environments become increasingly sterile, users are gravitating toward warmer, more textured interfaces that feel more engaging and real.
Charlie Hocking's "skill stacks" concept encourages designers to build complementary skills rather than a broad but disconnected skill set. This layered approach enhances adaptability, fosters better collaboration with specialists, and ensures relevance in a tech-driven industry.
The rise of AI raises concerns about cognitive offloading and declining critical thinking, especially among younger users. To preserve expertise and innovation, we must balance AI efficiency with human ingenuity by designing systems that prevent passive reliance and encourage active problem-solving.
Jan Ahrend's article explores UX's evolving landscape in 2025, emphasizing how generalists thrive. Through interviews - including one with Jen Blatz about her transition from journalism to UX research - and discussions of AI's influence, the piece explores innovative frameworks, strategic budgeting approaches, and job-hunting resources. Together, these elements paint a picture of UX research and design as an increasingly diverse and adaptable practice.
Turn your ideas into full products with just a prompt and minimal coding.
Never explain another bug. Auto-captures all the info engineers need to debug.
Play combines a familiar design canvas with the power of Apple's native iOS elements and a new approach to interaction design that is easy, powerful, and native.
Circlo Pay is a fintech platform with bold branding and intuitive app design that embodies financial freedom and seamless transactions. Its deep red color, geometric shapes, and clean typography convey trust and precision, creating a cohesive and user-friendly experience.
The paradox of UX personalization is a concept where AI-driven curation fosters familiarity but stifles discovery. To balance convenience and growth, designers should integrate features like "Exploration Mode" to encourage new experiences and real-world engagement.
Mascots play a powerful role in user experience by creating emotional connections, building brand identity, and driving engagement. Duolingo's owl mascot, Duo, demonstrates how playful character interactions can boost user retention. While mascots excel at simplifying communication, encouraging loyalty, and potentially going viral, their success depends on maintaining cultural sensitivity, balanced interactions, and consistent character behavior.
Portuguese graffiti artist Vile uses spray paint to create realistic, three-dimensional illusions of his name carved into walls, with expertly rendered backgrounds that enhance the lifelike effect of his work.
Squid Game demonstrates how color, minimalism, geometry, contrast, and ambiguity can enhance storytelling.
Illustrators worry about AI replacing them, but experts suggest that refining a unique style and leveraging AI tools can keep them competitive.
Opera Air is a new web browser that prioritizes user well-being through a minimalist design and integrated mindfulness features like guided breathing, meditation, and binaural beats. It includes tools such as “Take a Break” for relaxation exercises and “Boosts” for enhanced focus or creativity, seamlessly blending these into the browsing experience without disruption.
GitHub has announced new Copilot features, including Vision, which generates code from images, and next edit suggestions for more accurate code predictions. Copilot Edits allows multi-file changes with an “agent mode” for automated file selection. GitHub has also teased Project Padawan, an AI agent that handles complete software tasks under developer guidance.
OmniHuman-1 by Bytedance is an AI model that transforms images and audio into lifelike human videos. It captures natural motion, expressions, and speech synchronization with impressive realism. Trained on 19,000 hours of video, OmniHuman-1 adapts to various formats. While not publicly available, its potential raises ethical and regulatory concerns.
Artiom Dashinsky analyzes the best countries and U.S. cities for product designers to move to, considering salaries, taxes, job availability, cost of living, and quality of life. Using precise HR data from Pave, job listings from TrueUp, and cost-of-living metrics from Numbeo, he highlights how salaries compare after taxes and how job opportunities align with talent density to help designers make informed relocation decisions.
Design is shifting from rigid control to adaptive experiences. Designers' role must evolve as tastemakers, guiding AI-generated content. The focus moves from pixel perfection to dynamic, self-evolving systems. This transformation demands balancing automation with human creativity to create meaningful, personalized digital interactions at scale.
Google improved its ad quality systems to ensure that search ads lead to relevant, easily navigable pages. It introduced a new prediction model that reduced frustrating experiences by identifying ads that misdirect users. This update enhances user satisfaction and encourages advertisers to improve landing page navigation, creating a more effective and user-friendly Search experience.
This lightweight and customizable TypeScript library renders audio waveforms on HTML canvas. Create beautiful, interactive audio visualizations with ease.
Render screenshots in one simple API call instead of managing browser clusters and handling all the corner cases.
Bielke&Yang designed the Matre brand identity to honor Vatne Møbler's legacy by reissuing iconic Norwegian furniture for a modern audience. The visual identity features a bold typographic approach that uses Pressio and FKT Echo to create a confident, standout brand.
GF Smith's 2025 rebrand by TEMPLO moves beyond its monochrome heritage, embracing bold colors, a custom typeface, and a dynamic new identity. The transformation reflects its commitment to creativity and community while positioning the company for the future.
Even when identical to human advice, medical advice generated by AI was rated less reliable and empathetic. However, AI-made ads received higher ratings. Human-AI teams often excel in creative tasks. Trust in AI depends on user experience, domain, and education. There is greater resistance towards AI use in sensitive areas like healthcare and employment.
Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro, known for his ergonomic and postmodern furniture, has passed away at 91.
Fantastic Four: First Steps' posters impressed fans despite AI art controversy.
Digital museum tools improve access but exclude vulnerable groups.
Figma now lets users lock the aspect ratio of frames, shapes, images, videos, vectors, and text for proportional scaling. This replaces Constrain proportions, allowing resizing from the properties panel or canvas. Previously constrained objects require manually applying the new Lock aspect ratio feature.