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London-based agency MATTA designed six team identities for the US Women's Elite Rugby League, the country's first professional women's rugby league. The crests and names, including Bay Breakers and Boston Banshees, aim to create bold, empowering brands for fearless female athletes.
Software design is shifting towards richer, more expressive aesthetics. Designers are embracing 3D textures, retro elements, and skeuomorphic details and moving beyond minimalism. Nostalgia is fueling software bezels and textured interfaces, reflecting a longing for deeper engagement. This shift highlights screens' paradox - balancing flux and familiarity to create more meaningful digital experiences.
Clear communication is essential in design as it prevents misunderstandings and ensures projects stay on track.
Tips for optimizing your design workflow include using a portable power station, decluttering digital spaces, mastering shortcuts, creating templates, collaborating effectively, and taking breaks to stay productive.
African American graphic designers like Charles Dawson, Aaron Douglas, LeRoy Winbush, and Eugene Winslow made significant contributions to the field despite racial adversity.
Google is updating Gmail for iPhone with a Material You redesign, introducing a refreshed bottom navigation bar for improved usability. The new design, which features a modern, rounded aesthetic and enhanced visual hierarchy, aligns with Google's latest UI principles. This update aims to create a more cohesive experience across Google's ecosystem while making navigation intuitive for users.
The National Design Awards celebrate innovation and the impact of design. The 2025 winners include Kim Hastreiter as a Design Visionary, with ilumiNACIÓN recognized for Climate Action. Other categories include architecture, communication, digital, fashion, interior, landscape, and product design.
Apple's latest billboard ads have sparked criticism for their uninspired design and lack of the brand's usual creative polish. The campaign features simple text-based messages on a white background. It has been called dull and unmemorable compared to Apple's typically sleek and visually striking marketing. Designers argue that while minimalism can be effective, these ads feel more like placeholders than intentional, compelling brand statements.
Intercom restructured its Information Architecture to enhance clarity and the user experience by grouping similar features, refining AI integration, reducing noise, and streamlining settings. It simplified navigation, improved organization, and introduced visual consistency through research and iterative design.
Jakob Nielsen's ninth usability heuristic emphasizes clear, actionable error messages that help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from issues. Effective design reduces frustration, saves time, and builds trust. Good error messages use plain language, specify problems, and offer solutions, ensuring users stay informed and engaged rather than confused or frustrated.
Kellogg's new ad campaign boldly highlights its logo to emphasize its status as the original breakfast choice. While some praise it as a top-tier print ad, others argue it's more for ad professionals than everyday consumers.
This collection of animations was curated from various sources. All have an MIT License, so they can be used commercially without restrictions and require no attribution.
Jsvectormap is a lightweight JavaScript library for creating interactive maps and pretty data visualization. It supports all modern browsers, including IE9+.
This minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams lets you manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work all in one place.
Studio STOKI designed BIFF's branding with a bold, modern look that blends Eastern Bloc aesthetics with contemporary design. Using blue as the hero color, the identity focuses on typography and film stills, with playful illustrations on merchandise to keep it fresh and distinctive.
A replica of Anne Frank's secret annex has opened in New York, offering a detailed, lived-in recreation unlike Amsterdam's empty original. Designed with historical accuracy, the exhibit highlights Anne's life and the Holocaust's impact.
Designers often struggle with feedback, strategy, and career growth. Shifting to an active role in feedback, understanding organizational strategy, and broadening responsibilities can improve satisfaction. Fulfillment, not happiness, should be the goal. Adapting expectations and exploring leadership roles can lead to meaningful impact and career advancement in design or beyond.
Tom Bingham loves creating whimsical characters inspired by nature, old RPGs, and his childhood love for comics.
Felipe de Castro transforms everyday objects into architectural designs, reimagining earrings, potato chips, and napkins as creative structures showcased in his artistic drawings.
Integrating nature into indoor spaces, Biophilic Design enhances well-being through environmental features, natural patterns, light, and local materials.
Figma has introduced several new features in its limited beta version of Figma AI, enhancing asset searches and image editing capabilities. The new "Boost resolution" and "Remove background" features allow users to improve image clarity and effortlessly remove backgrounds within the Figma editor. The Asset panel also received an upgrade that allows users to find design assets quickly by searching through top community files or uploading images to locate similar elements.
Motif, a startup founded by former Autodesk executives Amar Hanspal and Brian Mathews, aims to modernize AEC software with a cloud-native 3D design platform using AI. Frustrated by outdated tools, it has raised $46 million to develop its first product. Backed by CapitalG and Redpoint Ventures, Motif targets industry disruption.
Rumors suggest that the iPhone 17 series could bring significant changes, including improved thermals, a thinner design, and a lower price. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo contradicts earlier reports, stating that Dynamic Island will remain unchanged. While a smaller cutout was anticipated, its absence may not impact usability, as Apple's software integrates it effectively.
AI is reshaping design engineering by enabling designers to generate code and engineers to create UI, reducing the need for generalists. Specialization will become crucial as AI bridges skill gaps and raises competency levels. Experts will focus on mastery while AI enhances efficiency, rather than create hybrid roles.
Inspired by Japanese bento boxes, Bento grids offer dynamic, flexible layouts in UX design. Unlike rigid grids, they balance creativity and structure, visually engaging interfaces. Designers use them in portfolios, dashboards, and beyond. This guide details how to create bento grids in Figma and ensure responsiveness, blend grid types, and enhance aesthetics with micro-interactions.
Andrew Burton of Shoreditch Design predicts that 2025 UX/UI trends will include brutalist aesthetics, AI-driven adaptability, and designs for foldable screens. Other shifts include increased 3D integration and a return to tab-based navigation for simplicity.
This collection of data visualizations will help you get inspired and find the perfect format for your project.
ARTLAS is an all-in-one guide for planning, saving, and scheduling art visits.
NNG's UX team charter template helps create a team's purpose, roles, and goals to improve efficiency and collaboration.
Productivity works like a glass jar - first, fill it with strategic “rocks,” then pebbles, which represent incremental improvements, and sand, equivalent to routine tasks. Many organizations prioritize small tasks, leaving no room for impactful initiatives. Leaders must define key priorities, communicate them clearly, and trust their teams to handle minor tasks.
AI's future depends on ethical design that prioritizes human flourishing, transparency, and inclusivity. Practitioners must ensure AI enhances creativity, respects diversity, and safeguards privacy. AI can uplift humanity, bridge divides, and create equitable opportunities by fostering collaboration, accountability, and adaptability.
Dallas and clothing brand Triple D Gear are in a logo dispute over alleged similarities between their trademarks. The city claims the brand's 2014 logo resembles its own, in use since 1972, raising questions of trademark infringement and originality.
MoMA's Pirouette exhibition explores design's impact through over 100 objects, including Milton Glaser's I ♥ NY sketch, the Rainbow Flag, Apple's Macintosh 128K, and experimental works shaping human behavior.
Generation Beta will be highly tech-savvy, environmentally conscious, and socially engaged.
UX designers face strained relationships with companies due to issues like analysis paralysis, over-research, and excessive complexity.
Mazda has unveiled a sleek and contemporary logo that marks a significant departure from its previous 3D design. The redesign is seen as a welcome evolution, and its simplicity has been well-received by many. The new logo is a notable example of the decline of skeuomorphic design in modern car logos.
Scott Belsky, Adobe's Chief Strategy Officer, has joined A24's board of directors. Bringing his expertise in design, technology, and creative tools to the independent film studio, his appointment signals A24's continued focus on innovation and digital expansion. Leveraging Belsky's experience in innovative software and entrepreneurship, this move aligns with A24's broader strategy to enhance its brand and distribution capabilities in an increasingly digital entertainment landscape.
Spell, Spline's AI model, generates 3D worlds from images with multi-view consistency. It simulates physical properties, renders accurate perspectives, and supports Gaussian Splatting. Trained on real and synthetic data, Spell ensures realism while enabling interactive, AI-driven graphics. Future updates will refine quality and consistency, marking a new phase in 3D rendering.
The Paris Catacombs, a vast underground ossuary that holds the remains of six million people, has an unexpectedly playful logo that cleverly uses negative space to form a skull within the letter "C." Designed by studio Mo-To in 2019, the logo's typography blends macabre history with the site's modern identity as a quirky tourist attraction to symbolize the transition from life to death.
Generative AI has evolved, transforming user expectations and creating opportunities for UX designers to craft intuitive, human-centered experiences. Designers must balance AI's strengths and limitations to ensure clarity, personalization, and trust. Essential skills include adaptability, curiosity, and systems thinking. Expanding data literacy and collaboration will be key as AI matures.
Adjustable interfaces give users control, while probabilistic ones predict needs. AI-driven systems risk excluding disabled users due to insufficient data. Ensuring accessibility requires a sequence: first, accessibility by default; then, user customization; finally, AI-enhanced predictions. Prioritizing adjustable interfaces today builds data for future adaptive technology, making digital spaces genuinely inclusive.
Unpic offers components for 10 different frontend frameworks and 26 image hosts, enabling sites to have fast, responsive images with minimal effort.
Access best-in-class image generation models through a single platform that scales with your needs.
BG's AI can instantly remove the background from uploaded images.
Order Type Foundry's Haltung, a neo-grotesque typeface by Joe Moore, draws inspiration from Walter Käch, Adrian Frutiger, and Emil Ruder, blending high contrast with open apertures for a lighter feel. With seven weights and italics, it offers versatility and invites expressive interpretation.
Graphic design in 2025 embraces color trends that reflect cultural and technological shifts. Key shades include Neo-Mint for freshness, Saturated Blues for confidence, Earthy Terracotta for warmth, and Electric Purple for creativity. Muted Yellow, Deep Teal, Metallic Accents, Gradients, and Monochromatic Schemes enhance versatility and impact across design projects.
Even though Sonic's design has evolved through various artists, from Yuji Uekawa's modern look in Sonic Adventure to interpretations by Aaron Hammerstrom and Tyson Hesse, it has maintained continuity. Each artist has added their own unique touch. There are still debates among fans about how much Sonic's design should diverge from Uekawa's original standard.
Nata Metlukh has shifted from digital to physical mediums to explore pencils, markers, watercolors, wood carving, and Riso printing.
The Louvre is expanding to host 12 million visitors yearly by adding a Seine-side entrance, a Mona Lisa room, and upgraded facilities.
Qi Yang's character art for Black Myth: Wukong highlights intricate details and a painterly style.