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This UX product design activity planning kit includes 50 pre-designed activities to jumpstart a project. Designers have total control over the presentation of these activities, allowing them to tailor each one to fit their specific needs.
Fontsource is a collection of open-source fonts packaged into individual NPM packages for self-hosting in web applications. Self-hosting fonts can significantly improve website performance, remain version-locked, work offline, and offer more privacy.
Squoosh reduces image file sizes while maintaining high quality. It processes images locally on your device for privacy and offers customizable settings.
Slack's onboarding hides complexities to create an effortless process, which can lead to a "noisy" experience later. Regaining user attention through customization, implementing custom rules and dynamic cues, and involving decision-making can improve organization and user comfort.
Content-last design can cause issues, so it's crucial to consider extreme cases through limit testing. This approach helps ensure the design handles long names, descriptions, or unusual characters, identifies potential issues, and provides insights into how the design behaves across different resolutions.
Recent AI advances make conversational interfaces more natural and impactful, transforming our interactions with technology. These interfaces offer increased accessibility and personalization, and it would be a plus if we could look less at our screens. However, they come with challenges like task efficiency and AI reliability, which must be carefully considered.
Amsterdam Art Week transformed the city into a vibrant hub featuring works from over 300 artists across 70 galleries, museums, and project spaces.
A recent report underscored the significant underrepresentation of working-class individuals in the UK's creative sector.
Nikolas Bentel's thought-provoking design approach has given birth to a new chrome handbag that blends digital and physical realities.
Carrot Weather's major update to version 6.0 introduces a new design and features, including a garden that grows over time and an improved user interface. Premium members can access new layout options like line charts for forecasts. The app now integrates AccuWeather articles for global weather insights.
Apple has launched a new "Worlds Made on iPad" ad featuring Sofia Wylie following backlash over its previous "Crush!" ad. The new ad, which showcases human-centric animation created by different artists using the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro, serves to make amends with its more positive and creative approach.
The Euro 2024 logo is a vibrant design packed with clever Easter eggs, from the 24 colors representing participating teams to the shape mirroring Berlin's Olympiastadion roof. Each host city has its unique emblem showcasing famous landmarks. Developed by VMLY&R, the branding celebrates diversity and aims to make everyone feel welcome throughout the tournament.
Growth requires taking the initiative and shifting from merely executing tasks to proactively identifying opportunities and voicing opinions despite fear and doubt. Junior designers can transform into senior designers by adopting an owner's mindset and striving for understanding rather than proving oneself, which leads to more impactful work and personal growth.
AI is transforming customer experience design, but product designers must consider human realities, emotions, and edge cases, as AI lacks emotional intelligence. Designers are crucial in balancing business impact and customer well-being, ensuring inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility.
Oak Theory, a women-owned UI/UX design firm founded by Hannah Ryu and Veronica Shelton, smashed the $1 million revenue milestone through strategic partnerships, effective SEO, and a supportive global network. Launching just before COVID-19, they navigated remote work and personal challenges to grow their team and client base. Their diverse perspectives and empathetic design approach bring innovation and inclusivity to the UI/UX industry.
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Figma design tips to help make designers' Figma design workflows smart, fast, and super productive.
With Rombo, you can select an animation from a curated library to customize any element of your website in seconds.
Decision trees help design teams make systematic choices about UI components guided by context-related questions and real-life examples. They also serve as documentation, establish shared standards, and resolve ongoing discussions, with form components chosen based on selection options and onboarding components based on the desired level of interruption and discovery.
Get to know the best icon designers in the field, from legends like Susan Kare, who designed many Macintosh icons, to modern masters like Stefan Dziallas (iconwerk) and Evgeniy Artsebasov. This selection showcases work for top clients like Google, Microsoft, and Ikea.
Apple's latest iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro, which feature a digital shadow miming a fountain pen or paintbrush, showcase the company's obsessive attention to detail. Designers Steve Lemay and Molly Anderson reveal how this feature enhances user experience by making the digital interaction feel more natural. Achieving the iPad Pro's thinness and integrating haptic feedback in the Pencil were significant challenges, but they were crucial to maintaining the product vision.
Doly, a new app by AniML, lets you create 3D product videos with your iPhone, simplifying professional video creation for e-commerce.
BMW's Designworks studio uses AI tools like MidJourney and Runway to revolutionize the design process, pushing the boundaries of conventional design and maintaining the car legend's competitive edge.
Rachel Sender's "Lumps and Bumps" humorously illustrates the realities of aging with wobbly, melting characters in the format of a series of spiral-bound Risograph posters.
WhatsApp is developing an AI feature that lets users create profile photos by providing text prompts to personalize and protect user identities. This joins other AI-powered features in the app, alongside a slew of upcoming updates like a revamped Status UI and offline file transfer.
Google is introducing "Minimized Custom Tabs" to its Chrome browser, enabling users to seamlessly switch between web content and native apps via a picture-in-picture window, which enhances app engagement and user retention. This feature is part of Chrome's latest update and aims to improve the web experience on Android.
Discord is refocusing on gaming by redesigning its app to enhance group messages, voice chats, and video calls, aiming to facilitate connections around games. The company is shifting from a broad community chat app to a gaming-centric platform amid changes like staff layoffs and increased regulatory scrutiny.
Design system experts from Bumble, GitHub, and HP discuss leveraging the new Code Connect feature to integrate design and code, highlighting the importance of a shared language and seamless workflow. They emphasize the need for continuous collaboration and the adoption of best practices to maximize the utility of design systems, ensuring consistency and reducing friction between designers and developers.
Unsung design heroes like Larry Tesler, Susan Kare, and Douglas Engelbart created fundamental UI elements. Corporations often prefer to keep their employees anonymous, leaving great product work largely unrecognized. While the best designs usually go unnoticed, the design narrative tends to spotlight individuals over teams. Still, it's important to seek inspiration from those who have tackled similar challenges and examine their strategies.
Use near-black and near-white for comfortable contrast, and saturate neutrals with subtle colors to unify your palette. Prioritize high contrast for essential elements, align optically for a natural look, and adjust letter spacing and line height for readability.
Gradientor is a minimalist tool for generating CSS radial background gradients. It allows the quick creation of vibrant, pastel, or monochromatic gradient backgrounds.
This gallery features various art styles, details, suggested AI prompting keywords, and examples organized by category.
Explore a vast collection of CSS patterns that can be easily copied and customized for various design projects.
UI animations enhance user experience and usability. Thoughtful animations, like mobile menu micro animations and gamified elements, create positive user associations. Tools like Flowmapp assist in planning user flows and designing interfaces.
The ISO's new brand system by Motherbird introduces a scalable grid called "Micro Meso Macro" for flexible communication and uses the inclusive, open-source typeface Inter. Customizable illustrations and clear color guidelines enhance diversity and consistency, maintaining the brand's equity while adding a more approachable feel.
When designing mobile interfaces, designers often overlook the crucial role of keyboards. This article dives into the factors affecting keyboard appearance and behavior on iOS and Android, including input field types, phone models, screen settings, and action buttons. Understanding these elements ensures a great user experience and consistent design across platforms.
A Lego fan designed a detailed Lego Apple Store featuring a glass front, tables with Macs and iPhones, and neatly arranged shelves.
Poly Mono, created by Andrew Bellamy and Otherwhere Collective, is an innovative "game font" made of shapes rather than letters, inspired by 8-bit games and Karel Martens, a Dutch graphic designer.
Companies like Airbnb rely on AI and social media influencers to create unique immersive experiences.
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Apple's new patent for a device called "Digital Stone" suggests it could be a versatile remote control compatible with the Vision Pro headset. The small handheld device may feature a touch-sensitive display, built-in microphones, speakers, and location-tracking capabilities. It could be used to control smart home devices, anchor AR/VR experiences, and interact with electronics like headphones and smartphones.
TikTok Studio is a new comprehensive platform that provides creators with tools to create, edit, upload, manage, and analyze their TikTok content. It offers features like auto caption, photo editor, autocut, advanced analytics, and monetization opportunities. A beta version is available for download on the Google Play Store and should be available on the Apple App Store over the coming weeks.
Apple's Design Awards finalists emphasize indie apps and startups, mostly ignoring AI except for the app Arc. The focus is on smaller developers with innovative apps like Copilot Money and Procreate Dreams, while more prominent developers are recognized for using Apple technologies. An “Inclusivity” section highlights global diversity with apps like Oko for low-vision users and Tiimo for neurodivergent individuals.
Common mistakes designers should avoid making in their UX portfolios include using low-resolution images, making spelling mistakes, writing generic titles, failing to capture readers' attention, failing to establish context, presenting case studies that are too long, using “we” instead of “I,” and using a checklist template instead of telling a story.
A team might not listen to a designer's or researcher's ideas due to perceived managerial incompetence, communication issues, misaligned incentives, and prioritization of other factors over research. New ideas or people can be seen as disruptive and their benefits may not be immediately clear to the team.
Adobe Design's MINT team explores new tech platforms, like Apple's Vision Pro, to innovate and disrupt new industries by leveraging Adobe's products when possible. The process involves understanding the technology's possibilities, brainstorming bold ideas, refining them within practical constraints, pitching to leadership, and building prototypes.
Ballpark enables rapid, high-quality feedback on product questions, marketing copy, designs, and Figma prototypes.
UI Playbook is a collection of UI components along with a description of their functionality, best practices, insights on implementation, and examples.
This Figma plugin can create perspective grids in seconds, allowing you to customize horizontal and vertical lines and adjust grid angles.
OpenAI has announced GPT-4o, a new multimodal AI model that accepts and generates text, audio, and image inputs through a single neural network, enhancing efficiency and reducing information loss. GPT-4o offers faster feedback, detects and processes visual cues, and can be used in various design processes, potentially revolutionizing AI's role in design.