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Edwin Huang's studio is a hub of creativity - the Street Fighter concept artist balances client work, personal projects, and comic conventions from his toy-filled California home.
This showcase of visual storytelling in web and mobile design highlights the power of digital illustration to increase user engagement and interaction.
Design agencies create visually appealing and strategically effective logos by combining creativity, strategy, and market analysis.
At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced “Apple Intelligence,” integrating AI across devices with on-device processing for privacy. iOS 18 brings new customization and Photos app updates, macOS Sequoia offers iPhone control from a Mac, and iPadOS 18 adds a calculator and handwriting tools. Siri now supports ChatGPT for voice and text interactions.
Telegram has launched new features that improve messaging experience and allow users to express themselves more freely. With the update, you can add animated effects to messages, place captions above media, discover public posts with global hashtags, and hide text snippets using collapsible quote blocks.
Apple has announced the winners of its Apple Design Awards, with Procreate Dreams winning the 'Innovation' category, marking the third award for the Procreate team. Procreate Dreams, a new 2D animation tool for iPad, has revolutionized animation with innovative touch-first features, garnering praise for its creativity and usability.
Apple is expected to debut "Apple Intelligence" at its Worldwide Developers Conference, focusing on valuable and reliable AI features, with potential improvements to Siri and on-device functionalities like offline transcriptions. The company is aiming for smooth, seamless AI implementations, possibly avoiding reliance on LLMs due to hallucination issues and potential backlash.
Adobe has faced a series of public relations issues, resulting in a loss of trust among creative professionals due to perceived indifference and lack of transparency. Actions like allowing AI-generated images "in the style of Ansel Adams" on Adobe Stock have further upset the photography community, potentially impacting the company's long-term success.
User interfaces have become nearly identical, shaped by Jakob's Law and their widespread use. Monoculture UI has made it easy for users to navigate new apps and websites without manuals. The future of user interfaces has innovative ideas that transcend mobile screens, envisioning multi-screen setups, shared experiences on huge displays, and display-augmented intelligent cities.
Prototyper uses AI to generate UI with React from text prompts and images, allowing developers and designers to prototype ideas in minutes.
FlowMapp combines a visual sitemap planning tool, user flow tool, wireframing tool, and content gathering system in one solution to build complex information architectures for websites, mobile apps, and products.
Packshot is a tool for product visualization and 3D mockup creation in your browser.
Motion guidelines in digital products enhance user experience by providing consistency, clarity, and engaging interactions. By thoughtfully applying motion, designers can guide users through tasks, highlight important elements, and create a more intuitive and enjoyable interface.
Making a strong case for accessibility means visualizing how it applies to your products and engaging stakeholders through real-life usability sessions. Emphasizing the practical benefits of accessibility, such as reducing costs and increasing user base, can overcome objections and help build a more inclusive design practice.
Sleep significantly enhances your creativity. Using the power of REM sleep and hypnagogia, you can boost your problem-solving skills and harness dream creativity for your projects.
Beauty in data visualization, often overlooked, can effectively communicate complex ideas by drawing in the audience and creating emotional connections.
Art galleries are breaking traditional boundaries with self-curated digital experiences, empowering audiences to engage with art on their terms and blending physical and digital realms for a richer, more personalized experience.
Meta's use of public Instagram images to train its AI image generator has sparked controversy, leading frustrated artists to consider switching to the Cara app, an Instagram alternative, as they explore ways to protect their work from unauthorized AI training.
Netflix's first major redesign in a decade replaces the left-hand menu with a horizontal menu bar. Users can now hover over individual tiles for a beat to trigger a clip from a show or movie along with a text description and more information about it. The "New and Popular" and "My List" tabs are gone, the "Discover" feature has been made more prominent, and navigation has been simplified to adapt to a new streaming landscape that includes live sports and games. Netflix is testing the latest app version with a few subscribers before making it available.
Adobe has launched its AI-Powered Experience Platform (AEP) AI Assistant to automate tasks, simulate outcomes, and help create new audiences. The assistant provides insights into datasets, audiences, and journeys without running SQL queries, making it accessible to non-technical users. As part of Adobe Experience Cloud apps, the assistant adheres to brand data security standards, ensuring customer data won't be shared outside the company without the company's consent.
Wix is launching a new generative AI feature integrated into its app builder tool that enables users to create iOS and Android apps by simply describing their ideas in plain English. It promises to simplify app creation. Concerns over AI-generated code quality and security challenges linger, though Wix remains committed to constant product improvement.
Jakob Nielsen, co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group, recently suggested AI could solve accessibility, sparking controversy and tech optimism reminiscent of Silicon Valley's dream of personalized user interfaces. Nielsen's view might suit high-maturity companies but ignores progress made in accessibility. Despite AI's potential, relying too much on it without addressing fundamental issues undermines ongoing efforts and the needs of vulnerable users.
Canva's new features are revolutionizing the design world, making professional-quality tools accessible to everyone. Creators from all walks of life celebrated the power of easy-to-use design tools at the recent Canva conference. Canva empowers users to create stunning visuals quickly and efficiently with AI-powered features and updates like Magic Media and Bulk Create. This shift challenges traditional design norms, opening the field to a broader audience.
Buglab automates the detection of UI/UX issues in websites, platforms, and web apps, helping to accelerate development and ensure software quality.
Generate color palettes with adjustable lightness, chroma, and hue for interface design based on a color space that better aligns with human color perception.
SVG Gobbler is a browser extension for finding, optimizing, organizing, editing, and exporting SVGs effortlessly.
American Girl, a beloved cultural icon, underwent a brand refresh led by Pentagram to better connect with millennial moms and modern children while retaining its essence. The rebrand introduced new typography and a brighter color palette, emphasizing storytelling, uniqueness, and a premium customer experience.
The Apple Pencil Pro takes user experience to new heights with subtle but impactful features. It includes pressure sensitivity, hover, double-tap, and magnetic attachment and introduces barrel roll, squeeze, and haptic feedback. The seamless integration between hardware and software enhances creativity by reducing friction.
Criticism in design and commercial art often swings between virality-seeking negativity and toxic positivity, with genuine critique frequently mistaken for harshness. This dynamic, worsened by the creative media's reliance on reader subscriptions and sponsored content, discourages critics from providing negative feedback for fear of being vilified or caught in 'cancel culture.'
Created to ensure consistency in licensed products from the early '80s, the DC Comics Style Guide showcases the legendary artwork of José García-López.
Devoney Scarfe, a food artist from Auckland, creates stunning pie artworks featuring famous people, animals, and whimsical scenes.
Canva recently attempted to stand out with a bold move at an event, but the attempt was akin to the infamous cringe-worthy moments from tech history.
Monotype has joined the Readability Consortium alongside Google and Adobe to enhance research on font readability and improve digital reading comprehension. Based at the University of Central Florida, the Consortium comprises over 200 scientists and academics focused on developing better fonts for diverse populations and contexts. Monotype will contribute its extensive font catalog and expertise to help expand this research to non-Latin scripts and operational settings like medical records and transportation.
A recent change to Adobe's terms and conditions has caused outrage among professional users who are concerned that the company now claims to access, use, and sublicense its content. Adobe requires users to agree to these new terms to continue using their apps, preventing access until they do so. Professionals, including designers and directors, have expressed strong objections, citing potential breaches of confidentiality and intellectual property rights, and some are considering switching to alternative software.
Shutterstock earned $104 million last year from licensing assets to AI developers. It has formed a new multi-year partnership with AI company Reka similar to its existing partnerships with tech giants like Meta and Alphabet. Shutterstock's extensive library of photos, videos, and audio assets makes it a valuable source of legally licensable content for AI training, positioning the company as a critical player in the generative AI industry. The company projects significant growth in this area, anticipating $138 million in revenue from AI licensing deals in 2024 and $250 million annually by 2027.
Cara offers a familiar user interface that combines elements of Instagram, ArtStation, and LinkedIn. It also offers control over a chronological feed and separation of text-based and image-based posts. Its strict anti-AI policy, dedicated creative community, job board, and ad-free environment make it a haven for artists. Cara's drawbacks include limited reach, sustainability concerns, unfamiliarity, added workload, and potential exploitation.
The Design System Attributes Framework is a handy tool for classifying design systems by flexibility, consistency, composability, and completeness. It uses a simple graph to help you see where your design system stands and how to improve it. The framework can help you refine your work and navigate the intricacies of design system strategy.
Metrics alignment is not only a best practice but a necessity for creating products that engage users and achieve business goals. Teams can create exceptional user experiences by leveraging data-driven insights guided by a well-defined North Star and using them to inform product decisions. Using a fictional company as an example, this post shows how key metrics can guide user research, design validation, usability testing, and post-launch performance.
An ever-growing collection of carefully curated works from around the world.
HeroKit provides a variety of customizable, visually striking website heroes that can be easily integrated with popular site builders like Squarespace, Webflow, and Wix.
This free icon set features 11,100 hand-drawn vector icons in a doodle style based on a 24px grid.
Thump Studio, a brand and design studio from the Isle of Wight, designed an identity and visual language for Connected Wight, a web portal that connects various island sectors. Featuring a diamond-shaped logo, vibrant pink hero color, and typefaces Manuka and Family, the design promotes interaction among residents, visitors, and enterprises, balancing energy with tranquility.
The Froschauerbrunnen fountain in Zürich exemplifies how design can evoke history and meaning in functional objects. In digital production, designers must balance aesthetics, function, and meaning, often using skeuomorphism to incorporate real-world textures and create a familiar, comprehensive visual language despite early interface limitations.
Top designers discussed integrating AI into their work at NYCxDesign, an event organized by Adobe. Among them were Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada, Siying Qu of Private Policy, and Nishat Akhtar, who crafts brand strategies for giants like Nike. They each shared their initial hesitations and eventual discoveries about AI. The discussion focused on ethics and preserving a creative perspective, describing AI as a tool rather than a threat while offering an optimistic future for design.
Using em units for the text-decoration-offset property in CSS ensures underline offsets scale proportionally with font size.
Apple has launched adorable animated stickers celebrating its past and present ahead of WWDC 2024 featuring icons like the Dogcow, a rainbow serif wordmark, Susan Kare's legendary Macintosh icon, and Vision Pro.
A tweet about a slow-loading HEY Calendar popover sparked a social media debate on SPA vs. HTML-Over-the-Wire.
Google Photos is set to receive a significant update that will enhance its sharing and notification features. The overhaul will include a new social-focused “Sharing Activity” page, similar to Instagram and Facebook, for more accessible interactions with likes and comments on photos. A revamped storage meter will visually display how much storage can be reclaimed, streamlining the deletion process. These updates indicate Google's intention to integrate more social elements into Google Photos, transforming it from a simple photo backup app to a more interactive platform.
ElevenLabs has introduced "Text to Sound," an AI Audio model that generates sound effects, instrumental tracks, soundscapes, and character voices from text prompts. This new tool aims to assist creators, including those in film, television, video games, and social media, by providing high-quality audio content quickly and affordably. Partnering with Shutterstock, ElevenLabs fine-tuned the model using Shutterstock's extensive audio library, enhancing the tool's versatility.