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From UX design platforms like UX Pilot and FigJam AI to versatile tools like ChatGPT and Notion AI, designers can now explore endless creative possibilities, streamline workflows, and deliver impactful experiences.
Design Sprints, a structured, collaborative process for rapid design testing and iteration, offer benefits, but also have limitations for complex projects, necessitating adaptations like Design Steps, Runs, and Relays.
BBC Studios has launched BBC Playback, a platform showcasing its iconic graphic design archive, including logos from shows like Tomorrow's World and the analogue test card. Officially launching on September 24, the platform celebrates BBC's design heritage and offers apparel, licensing opportunities, and creative content like articles and podcasts.
Adobe's shares dropped after it issued weaker-than-expected guidance due to rising competition and reduced demand for AI tools. While the company reported strong third-quarter earnings of $4.65 per share on $5.41 billion revenue, it struggles against economic pressures and new AI startups. Still, increased AI adoption and solid segment growth suggest future potential.
Offering real-time, GPU-powered volumetric VFX with up to 100x compression and twice the rendering speed of Unreal's SVT, Zibra AI's ZibraVDB plugin enhances visual effects for games and virtual production studios. The tool, compatible with Unreal Engine 5 and Houdini, enables film-quality effects, optimizing memory use and lowering costs.
Data-informed design blends intuition with data, helping designers evaluate decisions without relying solely on AI or metrics. It enhances UX by linking design to measurable outcomes, building business value, and persuading stakeholders. This approach ensures designers remain relevant amid uncertainties and shifts in the industry.
Apple's iPhone 16 series features a new side button called Camera Control for easy camera access and operation. The cameras have been upgraded for enhanced detail and customizability, with new styles controlled by the Camera Control.
Mockups have evolved significantly, with an expanding industry of bespoke producers offering diverse styles to showcase design work and signal insider knowledge. Particularly beneficial for early-career designers, mockups help present polished work, teach concepts like scale, and reflect the growing importance of virtual representations in the digital age.
This plugin for Figma generates unique, organic shapes with customizable points and SVG-based bézier curves, providing endless creative possibilities with a simple click.
Motiff's AI design system streamlines creation and maintenance and checks for consistency, enhancing efficiency by automating inventory, updates, and guideline adherence.
Use industry-leading UI libraries to build interactive, component-based web apps online and without coding.
Many startups fail not due to bad ideas but because of poor execution and lack of a clear product design vision. Common pitfalls include overreaching MVPs, ignoring user feedback, failing to understand market needs, and excluding experts from strategic decisions. Experienced designers help startups avoid these mistakes and guide them toward success.
Daylight Computer's DC-1 aims to revolutionize human computing by integrating technology with natural environments, promoting health and creativity. Founder Anjan Katta envisions devices that respect human physiology, prioritize wellness, and create a more humane computing experience. His plans include reimagining personal devices, enhancing real-world interactions, and fostering a balanced relationship with technology.
Visionary design involves creating innovative product solutions that address users' biggest challenges. It requires designers to embrace uncertainty, leverage user research, and apply systems thinking. Emotional intelligence, including self-awareness and empathy, is essential for fostering positive interactions and enhancing the ability to build visionary products.
The 2024 Paralympic Games showcased over 4,400 athletes, innovative adaptive designs, and inclusive fashion, elevating global visibility for disability sports through widespread broadcasts and creative design elements like unique blindfolds and medals.
This playful exploration imagines how iconic artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí would tackle modern design challenges, blending their unique styles with contemporary branding, UX/UI, and social media campaigns.
Creative expression shouldn't be restricted to specific formats early in the design process - it is important to explore and play.
Verse, an iOS app, enables Gen Z to create hyper-visual content on an interactive canvas with AI. It enables users to design mini websites for mood boards, invitations, storefronts, and fan pages. Founded by Bobby Pinckney and Michelle Yin, the app launched in June and has amassed over 200,000 creations. An Android version and web tools are planned.
Introduced at its "It's Glowtime" event, Apple's new "Visual Intelligence" feature enhances visual search via the iPhone 16's Camera Control button. It enables access to Google's search engine and other third-party tools, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, directly from the camera interface for varied tasks.
Meta is revising how it labels AI-edited content on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. The new "AI Info" tag will now be within a menu in the top-right corner of AI-edited images and videos instead of beneath the user's name, allowing users to check for AI adjustments using industry signals like Adobe's Content Credentials and Google's SynthID digital watermarks. This change aims to reflect the extent of AI usage better while addressing previous criticism for mislabeling genuine photos as AI-generated. The adjustment will start next week.
Anticipatory design, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML), and Big Data (BD), promises to transform user experiences by predicting and fulfilling needs before users even express them. While this proactive approach seems revolutionary, many businesses struggle to meet the high expectations it sets.
Behavioral analytics provide insights into user behavior on websites or apps, helping identify engagement patterns, prioritize content or features, and improve user journeys. Although they don't explain why users behave a certain way, these analytics offer a quick, cost-effective way to understand user actions, enhancing engagement and conversions.
Innovation designers can boost sales and refresh go-to-market strategies by using advanced technologies to create customer-focused solutions, enhancing client relationships and satisfaction. Integrating designers into sales teams improves sales effectiveness by making complex technologies user-friendly. They address real customer needs with empathy, aligning sales with customer priorities and fostering long-term client retention through lean research, collaborative design, and storytelling.
Immersity AI converts 2D images and videos into immersive 3D experiences using advanced AI technology. It offers creators precise depth control, fast previews, and full camera path customization.
Playground is an AI-powered design platform that enables users to create custom graphics, such as posters, T-shirts, and social posts, with ease and creativity.
Draw pixel art with people around the world on an infinite canvas.
The Contented Copywriter has rebranded as Wonderthink. Led by creative director Belinda Hubball and co-creative lead Elizaveta Pogossov and featuring illustrator Elin Matilda Andersson's energetic style and clever logo details, the new visual identity emphasizes wonder and big thinking, with a focus on a growth-oriented image.
GLUCIDES, a bakery brand designed by SOLV., promotes indulgence without guilt with a bold visual identity that celebrates pleasure and rebellion against dietary constraints. The brand's design, which features bold typography, warm Mediterranean-inspired colors, and playful packaging, embodies a lifestyle of unapologetic indulgence, a philosophy that is extended across all brand touchpoints.
Nathan Martell, a skilled designer, founded Part & Whole, a brand that appears highly structured but began as an independent venture. Similar to other designers-turned-entrepreneurs like Chris Martin and Richard Trory, Martell overcame challenges by collaborating with experts. His brand balances design focus with broad appeal, creating impactful furniture collections.
Concept artists share their detailed contributions to the Alien: Romulus sequel, showcasing their dedication to the franchise's classic aesthetic.
LEGO has invited children to Paris' Superpower Studios to transform a traditional gallery, which features interactive activities by artists, into a playful, creative space, promoting the power of play.
Components are reusable tools that make design systems more efficient and consistent: build once, use often, and update as needed.
Figma has introduced a new export quality setting to give users greater control over file size and image quality when exporting frames and images as JPEGs or PDFs. The updated quality menu lets users choose between High, Medium, or Low quality for JPEG or PDF exports. Low-quality compresses images the most, resulting in the smallest file size, while High quality avoids any compression.
In its latest upgrade, Adobe Premiere Pro introduced a new color management system to simplify video editing for non-colorists. The system automatically transforms raw and log footage into HDR and SDR video without LUTs. Additional updates include a context-sensitive Properties panel, faster UI, and more intuitive tools.
The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design, recently launched in China, is making waves online with its dual-folding, triple-screen design. It ships in an unfolded state, boasting a thinness of 3.6mm at its slimmest point and a folded thickness of 12.8mm. Hands-on reviews have highlighted its ability to simultaneously display multiple app windows and its accompanying phone case, which doubles as a stand. Some videos reveal visible creases on the display hinges at certain angles, a common issue with current foldable screens.
Designers are facing an identity crisis as their roles and impact are becoming increasingly ambiguous. With shifting titles and evolving expectations, designers and companies need help to define value and success. The design industry is confronting an uncertain future, with rising confusion, economic shifts, and business acumen demands, showing a need for a reassessment of its purpose and strategy.
Scope creep often burdens design systems, causing them to become overloaded with components and accumulate debt. A less opinionated approach, combined with transparent governance, focused components, and decentralized responsibilities, enables teams to innovate while keeping the system lean and efficient. Comprehensive documentation and education maintain a balance between innovation and sustainable management.
This tale starts in the Button Factory, where Sam, an “OK” button, thrives on clicks and climbs the ranks. However, when a colleague vanishes, Sam embarks on a daring quest to uncover secrets deep within the factory. Confronted by obstacles and unexpected truths, she discovers freedom, purpose, and endless possibilities.
A collection of web design and website sections ready to use in Figma. The featured items can be filtered by website sections, dark or light color scheme, app components, or color palettes.
Figma's guide to colors, their meanings, complementary colors, conflicting colors, and more.
Gerstnerizer is an interactive tool for generating layouts based on Karl Gerstner's modular grid system. It allows designers to experiment with structured, grid-based designs.
FIFA has unveiled a new logo for the revamped FIFA Club World Cup featuring the initials "CWC" abstracted into a football shape, designed to highlight the crests of the 32 qualifying teams. Described as "contemporary" and "minimal," the rebrand aims to elevate the tournament's status. FIFA plans to use the logo and an audio signature featuring Gala's "Freed from Desire" to enhance its connection to football culture.
Responses to AI range widely. Some view AI as a way to produce ideas quickly, likened to fast fashion in web development. The argument centers on whether users value quality well-crafted web development over quickly produced low-quality alternatives, even within a capitalist market.
Minimum Viable Product User Experience focuses on designing core features to solve users' critical problems efficiently. This approach allows for quick idea validation, reduces waste, and speeds up time to market. Prioritizing UX ensures a smooth, intuitive experience that aligns with user needs while conserving resources and minimizing risk.
The original ‘Beetlejuice' used inventive practical effects rather than CGI, creating memorable visuals through in-camera tricks, limited budget creativity, and a unique filming environment.
Experts share 2020's top typography picks.
"To Cut," Tools Magazine's fourth issue, explores craftsmanship through artisans' perspectives on cutting techniques, blending contemporary graphic design with diverse narratives from gardeners to stone quarry workers.
Google has enhanced Chrome with new features to help users organize tabs across desktop and mobile devices. Tab groups, already available for Android and desktop, are now rolling out on iOS, allowing custom-labeled groupings on iPhones and iPads for better organization. Synced tab groups enable users to access their grouped tabs across multiple devices, facilitating smoother transitions between phone and desktop activities. Google is also testing a feature that suggests previously opened websites across devices to reduce the need for bookmarks.
Rising prices for Canva Teams accounts, from $120 to $500 annually, have sparked customer frustration. The company cites new AI features and an expanded product experience as reasons for the price increase and has offered a 40% discount for 12 months. Despite this, Canva still faces backlash, as many question its claims of affordability.
YouTube Shorts creators can now customize thumbnail frames post-upload with text, filters, and emojis. The option to upload custom thumbnails is not available yet. YouTube says that thumbnails are less critical for Shorts as they are primarily seen in the Shorts feed. However, Shorts can still be discovered through search, hashtags, and the creator's channel. YouTube is considering adding more functionality to Shorts thumbnails in the future, including the ability to upload fully custom thumbnails.