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Google Docs is adding tabs and subtabs to help organize longer documents. The feature is available to all Google Workspace and personal account users. These tabs can be created via the bullet-point symbol, labeled individually, and easily navigated or shared. Editing is limited to those with editor access.
Squarespace's Design Intelligence integrates generative AI tools to streamline website creation while maintaining customization. It is aimed at helping users create unique, design-driven sites. Instead of replacing designers, AI enhances the design process, offering faster, curated results that reflect individual brand identities and tastes.
Criticisms about Instagram's new sonic logo for Reels highlight the growing importance of sonic branding for consumer recognition. Successful examples like MGM's Roaring Lion and McDonald's jingle show how sound can evoke emotional and physiological responses, influencing brand perception.
Set up Typography Primitives and Typography collections to manage typography variables structure. The Primitives collection should hold font families, scales, and weights. The main Typography collection groups should contain text styles. Aliasing primitives ensures that updates to fonts or sizes reflect across the system, reducing manual changes and increasing efficiency.
Match Agency has launched a new visual identity to celebrate its second anniversary that emphasizes simplicity and functionality with a modern yet timeless black-and-white color palette that enhances clarity and focus. The redesign incorporates clean typography, a grid system for structure, and a striking "brutalist symbol," creating a cohesive brand experience that balances aesthetic appeal with user-friendly design across both digital and physical materials.
Superflex helps you write front-end code from Figma, images, and prompts while matching your coding style and utilizing your UI components.
This comprehensive UX checklist for complex data tables includes common issues, successful traits, filtering behavior, prioritizing and evaluating for next steps, and data presentation best practices.
Inspect styles in a simple, well-organized, and beautiful way with this Chrome extension.
Synthetic media artist, Jason Allen, is appealing the US Copyright Office's denial to register his Midjourney-generated work, "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial." The Office rejected it due to the extensive use of AI, claiming insufficient human authorship. Allen argues that his iterative prompt process qualifies as creative input deserving copyright protection.
Standing out in today's creative industry requires embracing your personal story, style, and values while tapping into what excites you most about your craft. Using short-form video, storytelling, and diversifying your skills can help you connect with audiences and differentiate yourself.
Pop bands like the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys dominated the '90s, but today's music scene is dominated by solo artists, reflecting a shift toward individualism.
Michael Crichton's estate is suing Warner Bros. over "The Pitt," claiming it is an unauthorized reboot of ER and that Crichton's contractual rights require approval for sequels and spin-offs.
Effective icon usability depends on recognizability, correct interpretation, and factors like relevance, findability, and visual appeal.
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Google frequently updates its app logos, creating a cohesive identity using primary logo colors. However, this uniformity has sometimes made it difficult for users to distinguish between apps. Recently, some Google products have undergone another round of logo redesigns. There is skepticism about whether the changes, like the possible new logo for Google Shopping, are beneficial.
Samsung is actively deploying the One UI 7 update, introducing numerous new features and interface enhancements. The One UI 7 interface, expected to launch alongside the Galaxy S25, will showcase a visual transformation with an iPhone-like control center with split notifications and rounded design elements. This shift hints at a visual and functional redesign that might require adjustment for Samsung devotees.
Google Wallet has introduced a new wallet icon for purchase notifications that replaces the previous Google 'G' logo. This icon aligns with the design used in the app's Quick Settings Tile, lock screen shortcut, and Themed icon, though it appears smaller in the status bar. The update transitions notification handling from Google Play services, facilitating alerts on Wear OS devices.
Figma announced several updates in its October 1 Release Notes Livestream, including the removal of floating panels in UI3 and the return of visible auto-layout pixel values. The updates, which will roll out by October 10, also include enhanced Dev mode measurements and new auto-layout features. UI2 is still available for users who prefer it.
Consistency is crucial for creative growth, with daily writing and utilizing peak creative hours enhancing fluency and productivity. Designing a conducive environment, setting limitations, externalizing ideas for feedback, and intentionally curating content can further boost creativity.
A recent addition of physical buttons to Apple's devices, like the iPhone 16's Camera Control button, reflects a growing desire for tactile interaction in a digital world. Jony Ive's LoveFrom has designed a magnetic button for Moncler jackets that offers an effortless connection between layers with a satisfying click.
Create and export interactive Lottie animations easily, all from your Lottielab editor.
This tool lets you test common easing curves on various interfaces or generate custom bezier curves.
Bold strokes teach valuable lessons in creativity and work: set clear intentions, follow through without hesitation, focus on the big picture, and build on each step. Embracing iteration and learning from each action leads to continuous improvement and mastery.
Web designers often deal with non-design issues like SEO, DNS, and security. Clients see them as tech support for website-related problems. Mastering basic knowledge of adjacent technologies, such as command line tools, email delivery, and website security, enhances service quality and offers a more comprehensive and well-rounded approach to web development.
The Sustainable Engagement Loop is a behavioral model that promotes long-term user engagement through six stages, with triggers transitioning from external to internal over time. Key strategies include providing timely rewards, encouraging small commitments, and designing for single-task focus, repetition, and user investment to increase commitment.
Lotus has revealed the Theory 1, a three-seater electric concept car with advanced features like “soft robotic” seats and interactive lighting.
AI's impact on creativity echoes past technological shifts in art, like photography and the Renaissance.
John Park is an accomplished film, game, and theme park artist.
LoveFrom, the creative collective led by Jony Ive, has introduced a new mascot, Montgomery the bear. A charming animation of Monty interacting with the LoveFrom wordmark was shared on social media. Monty had previously appeared on Moncler jackets, but his presence now cements him as LoveFrom's official mascot.
Meta has redesigned Facebook to appeal to younger users amidst competition from platforms like TikTok and Instagram. The redesign emphasizes local community engagement by introducing a "Local" tab, personalized "Explore" content, and enhanced video features to capture the interests of young adults. Updates also target popular tools like Facebook Groups, Events, and Marketplace and include AI integrations for more personalized experiences.
MKBHD's Panels app underwent a transformative redesign by Juxtopposed that enhanced its UI, addressed bugs, and proposed a less intrusive monetization approach. The initial app launch faced heavy criticism due to functionality issues, excessive wallpaper pricing, and privacy concerns. Juxtopposed's redesign not only improved navigation and visual consistency but also turned the app into a social platform for community engagement and exclusive content sharing.
Adobe Express has now integrated with Webflow, allowing teams to create and edit high-quality images and visual assets for the website that adhere to brand guidelines. Powered by Adobe Firefly AI, the tool simplifies image generation and editing. This integration helps businesses meet the growing demand for visually engaging websites while maintaining brand consistency and accelerating content production.
The team at Sketch prioritizes designers' needs and workflows when considering AI integration. They reject generative AI for design creation and vow to protect user privacy, ensuring no exploitation of personal work. The company will maintain transparency and only adopt ethical AI models.
Versioning components and files in Figma can be challenging, especially as designs grow. To manage this, consider creating more components, separate design files, or introducing staging libraries. Each method offers pros and cons, but maintaining multiple component versions and avoiding disruptions is critical to ensuring smooth collaboration between designers and developers.
This Figma plugin allows users to effortlessly select one or multiple shapes, texts, or objects and apply the solid shadow effect commonly seen in Neubrutalist designs.
Whimsical's free mind map maker helps you visualize, clarify, and organize ideas and information faster.
Open Props is a low-level framework built entirely on CSS variables. It is highly customizable and can be adapted to fit any design system.
Mogo's branding, designed by Soofi Art Studio, features unique typography with a custom "g" and a bold white and dark red color palette to evoke hunger and excitement. The nostalgic 1950s-inspired mascot, combined with the typography and colors, creates a distinctive, memorable visual identity that appeals to all ages while maintaining professionalism.
A bottom-up design approach is essential for accessible web design. It focuses on specific user needs, especially for neurodivergent audiences, addressing small details first. This method helps catch usability issues early, making websites more functional and inclusive. While top-down methods ensure consistency, bottom-up improve accessibility and user experience.
X removed posts featuring Mario images after AI company Tracer filed DMCA notices targeting AI-generated and fan art images, possibly on Nintendo's behalf.
Common UI color mistakes, like using too many colors or poor contrast, can harm design effectiveness, causing confusion and reducing user accessibility.
UK-based illustrator and animator Con McHugh is known for his textured, hand-drawn, looping animations that embrace creative imperfections.
OpenAI has introduced "canvas," a new interface for ChatGPT that provides a separate workspace for writing and coding projects. This editable workspace allows users to generate content directly, modify specific sections, and improve AI-generated outputs without redoing entire prompts. Rolling out first to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, canvas is part of OpenAI's efforts to enhance competitive offerings against similar features from Anthropic's Artifacts and Cursor.
Apple is developing an all-glass MacBook with a virtual keyboard and trackpad that will use haptic feedback and electrostatic charges to simulate physical keys. A continuation patent published in 2024 confirms the project is still active, though it's uncertain if the virtual keyboard will fully replicate the feel of real typing.
The redesigned TechCrunch site features improved navigation, a modern aesthetic, and real-time updates on breaking stories. The new interface enhances user experience while retaining top-tier reporting and analysis. A dedicated team led the effort, with support from Yahoo, TechCrunch's parent company.
Microsoft Paint's latest update includes AI tools like Generative Fill and Erase, allowing free, easy image modifications on Windows 11. With features such as an 8x resolution upscaler, Paint could challenge Adobe Photoshop. Other tech companies like Meta and Google are also expanding their AI-powered image editing options.
Oklab is a perceptual color space designed to better align with human color perception. This interview with Björn Ottosson, the Swedish engineer who created Oklab, explores how it addresses limitations in traditional color spaces like sRGB and Lab and how it gained widespread adoption in browsers and tools such as Photoshop and CSS.
New technology companies often aim to be platforms for broad areas like AI or the Internet of Things. However, a broad vision without a clear strategy can hinder decision-making. Success comes from addressing specific use cases first, for example, Yelp focused on restaurant reviews before scaling to other services.