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Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, highlighting advanced videography features, larger displays, and improved battery life. The iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max also include the new A18 Pro chip, a 48-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and 4K Dolby Vision video recording, with new features like Apple Intelligence coming soon.
Design system micro-adoption allows teams to adopt smaller parts of a design system rather than fully developed components. This article includes polls and discussions highlighting the pros, cons, and varied perspectives on this nuanced approach.
Lines shape how we see the world, creating divisions and categories that feel real but aren't fixed. Challenging these boundaries opens up possibilities for new perspectives and ways of being. The search for a “minimum viable softness” calls for loosening rigid structures and embracing more fluid, interconnected approaches.
The Illustration Generator by Icons8 creates consistent illustrations in unique styles. It's trained on proprietary data by professional artists and is suitable for commercial use.
This Figma plugin helps designers annotate accessibility features, like focus order, enhancing the usability of assistive technologies across platforms.
Webstudio is an open-source visual website builder that supports all CSS properties, connects to any headless CMS, and enables fast, scalable, and customizable web experiences.
True Colours redefined the Forbes Business Summit by creating a visual identity that reflected Forbes' authority and prestige, positioning the summit as the ultimate destination for success-driven individuals. Through a timeless design using Forbes' signature palette and bold messaging, it crafted a brand experience that resonated with both emerging entrepreneurs and established business leaders.
The Brooklyn Museum's new logo, designed for its 200th anniversary, draws inspiration from its neoclassical architecture. It uses a limestone color palette and a modernist sans-serif typeface for approachability. Created in collaboration with Other Means, the design features ligatures, aiming to balance the museum's highbrow exhibitions with its community-focused programming.
User research should be about understanding the product and audience, creating a conducive environment, actively listening, managing body language, and embracing silence. Regular self-evaluation, seeking feedback, and incorporating mindfulness, improv techniques, and networking can help refine skills and foster growth in user research proficiency.
The Manchester-based creative studio Flow has created an exciting set of animated GIFs and stickers for the Met Office, and they're proving to be a huge hit on GIPHY.
The latest Apple event highlighted minimal hardware updates, with slight design tweaks to the iPhone 16, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
UX Research Bingo gamifies sharing findings, replacing traditional methods with an interactive approach.
Apple has announced its latest iPhone 16 series, which features key design updates and technological improvements. The new Camera Control button offers instant camera access and advanced functionality. The Action button has replaced the older Mute/Ring switch. The devices have improved battery life and the Pro and Pro Max versions get larger screens with thinner borders and a significant camera upgrade. Apple Intelligence and the A18 chip are central improvements, enhancing user experiences.
Dana Rao, Adobe's chief trust officer and top lawyer, who shaped its AI strategy and led a failed bid to acquire Figma, is stepping down. Chief People Officer Gloria Chen will oversee legal operations while the company searches for a successor. Rao cited family time and personal pursuits as reasons for his departure.
Roblox is introducing a generative AI tool allowing creators to generate 3D scenes using language prompts. It will enable users to quickly create and modify environments, significantly speeding up the design process and enabling those with limited 3D art skills to produce more detailed worlds. The system uses a combination of 3D and 2D AI models to ensure logical consistency and reduce errors.
Hyundai Card's bespoke font, Youandi, marked a turning point in South Korean corporate branding. Our Typeface, a recent publication by Hyundai Card, explores the bespoke font's two-decade journey. It chronicles the font's evolution and explores Hyundai Card's design philosophy and commitment to brand identity. It also showcases the company's broader design innovations, which solidified its status as a design leader.
AI is expected to bring major changes to design roles, automating tasks like UI design and increasing the value of versatile product designers. Designers are encouraged to adapt by focusing on research, analytics, and creativity while embracing new technology to continue producing original work.
Figma has become the leading tool for digital designers by solving critical problems and introducing features like real-time collaboration. Recent concerns have emerged over its pricing, AI announcements, and UI redesigns. As Figma prepares for a potential IPO, it faces the challenge of balancing user-centricity with business growth to maintain its success and avoid alienating its core users.
A collection of inspiring, beautifully animated, and crafted interactions made by Nitish Khagwal.
Deck of Brilliance offers 52 creative prompts for professionals to spark fresh ideas, including storytelling, analogies, satire, audience engagement, and innovative solutions.
A curated marketplace that offers high-quality design assets sourced from professional creators worldwide, including mockups, fonts, and templates.
Creative projects often face undue scrutiny for lacking novelty. Creativity is personal and playful and only sometimes about innovation. Formal settings demand contextualizing and differentiating work, but individual exploration prioritizes joy and growth. Understanding the creator's intent and providing aligned feedback fosters more constructive and supportive interactions.
For effective bar chart design, use a single color for one data series to avoid confusion, place text labels outside bars for readability, set the baseline to zero, ensure the maximum value is visible, and use proportional spacing. Incorporate mouse hover interactions for additional data context and clarity.
The "Hydra Project Effect" describes how new challenges in a project arise as quickly as old ones are resolved, contributing to a cycle of unfinished work. This can drain mental energy, hinder creativity, and prevent valuable skill development. The ability to finish projects essential for growth and success.
Julie Beeler's Mushroom Color Atlas showcases the vibrant hues fungi can produce.
Slack's research identified five AI personas in the workplace, each representing different employee attitudes toward AI adoption and collaboration.
Nikolai Yaroshenko, a prominent 19th-century Eastern European realist painter, captured the struggles of Russian life in his poignant portraits and genre scenes.
LoveFrom, founded by Jony Ive, partnered with Moncler on a modular shell jacket collection featuring a down-filled vest with interchangeable outer layers. The key to this design is the innovative "duo button," which uses magnets to seamlessly swap jacket layers, eliminating the fuss of traditional fasteners. The partnership is also symbolized in the duo button's design, which features logos of both brands and fun, cartoon-inspired details inside the jacket.
Duolingo's owl mascot, Duo, has undergone a controversial redesign. The owl appears sick with a runny nose, drooping eyes, and sweaty face. This change is a marketing strategy intended to boost user engagement by grabbing attention. Despite the alarming new look, the app and Duo's in-app appearance remain unaffected. Users have had mixed reactions - some find the latest look creative, while others are disturbed or confused by the sickly appearance.
The rebranding of Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport needs to be clarified, as some passengers are mistakenly heading to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) instead. Since the name change, SFO has recorded several incidents of confusion between the two airports, leading to a legal dispute over trademarks between the two rival hubs. The Port of Oakland has countersued, arguing that SFO itself isn't technically in San Francisco, further complicating the situation.
Figma has rebranded to reflect its expanding community of product builders, with a complete overhaul of its visual identity. The rebrand includes a new custom typeface, Figma Sans. The new typeface, developed with Grilli Type, embodies flexibility, legibility, and a modern grotesque style that aligns with Figma's bold, evolving design language.
Since 2018, Duolingo has seen a 4.5X increase in daily active users and a 40% reduction in churn, driven by personalization and improved onboarding. Onboarding in 2024 is quicker, more personalized, and enhances user engagement with features like interactive goals and an enhanced role for Duo the owl.
A false rumor about Capri Sun changing its iconic pouch design sparked a nostalgia-driven backlash, mainly from adults who hadn't used the product in years. Capri Sun has clarified that the original design will stay, turning the incident into a promotional opportunity and highlighting the power of nostalgia in driving consumer buzz.
Redline is a minimalist Mac to-do app that focuses on completing tasks one at a time without distractions or unnecessary features. It is always visible in the menu bar.
This plugin offers over 50 AAA-accessible color palettes inspired by London and Manchester to help designers create more inclusive web projects while meeting W3C accessibility guidelines.
This plugin provides a simple, scalable animated loader/spinner with a fade-out effect, designed for use in mockups and prototypes using interactive components.
FlySociety's rebranding uses minimalist design to capture the essence of luxury and efficiency in private jet travel. The new logo, color palette, and design system emphasize streamlined service, sophisticated aesthetics, and direct travel experiences.
"Minimum Viable Softness" examines how boundaries in life, while appearing solid, are flexible narratives that shape our reality. It critiques rigid, linear approaches to problem-solving and management, advocating for more adaptable, non-linear thinking.
Effective icons help our designs achieve many benefits that optimize usability, such as enhanced clarity, increased findability, and greater visual appeal.
A user feedback severity scale helps prioritize issues by considering frequency and severity, ensuring critical problems are addressed first.
User research presentations should prioritize key insights and recommendations to guide decision-making rather than just presenting objective data.
Dribbble's latest release introduces features that enable designers to transact directly with clients through the platform, including project requests, proposals, and payments. The initiative aligns with Dribbble's mission to help designers earn a living and has increased lead flow by 242% year-over-year. Designers benefit from peace of mind, more leads, and low transaction fees, while clients enjoy secure payments and project conversion support.
Apple implemented a deceptive dark pattern in iOS to make it harder for users to change their default browser from Safari. This issue was initially reported by Ars Technica and later fixed by Apple, though the specific iOS version containing the fix was not disclosed. Despite solid evidence from multiple sources, Apple recently denied the existence of the issue in a formal response to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), leading to accusations that the company was potentially misleading regulators.
Google has expanded its generative AI-powered virtual try-on tool to include dresses, allowing users to try on thousands of dresses from brands like Boden and Staud virtually. Dresses, a highly searched category, pose a challenge for traditional diffusion techniques due to their intricate details and varied lengths. To overcome this, Google developed a new training strategy and built the VTO-UNet Diffusion Transformer (VTO-UDiT), which maintains body details while accurately displaying dresses. This advanced tool aims to improve the virtual shopping experience.
Figma's new UI3 introduces tools like select matching layers, bulk-edit text, suggested auto-layout for beginners, and follow prototype for tracking bugs. Additional updates include the "hide hints on click" feature for usability tests and the Annotate tool in Dev-mode, which allows users to add notes and pin properties.
Accessible accordion components enhance web usability by reducing clutter and improving navigation. Key practices include implementing effective keyboard navigation, semantic HTML, and ARIA roles. Proper implementation supports screen readers, minimizes cognitive load, and ensures all users can access and interact with content efficiently.
Much like Healthcare UX, complex web design offers career stability by requiring specialized knowledge that is in demand. Designers should prioritize understanding content and outcomes over visual elements. Tools like ChatGPT can assist with terminology and data. Clear communication and outcome-focused thinking are essential for success in complex fields.
A collection and explanation of animation guidelines used on the web and apps today. Many of these have roots in the golden age of hand-drawn cartoons – but have been adapted for the digital era.
Scrnshts.club is a curated selection of the best app store designs, showcasing the most visually appealing and effective listings.