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2024.05.01
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11,719 matchesTURN ANY PROCESS INTO A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE, INSTANTLY
Scribe quickly auto-generates step-by-step guides with text and screenshots, saving you hours in training and explaining how to do something.
2024.05.01
5 LEAD DESIGNERS ABOUT AN EXPIRATION DATE OF CREATIVE CAREER PATH
Designers need to continually learn and innovate to stay relevant in the rapidly changing industry. They prioritize mastery of design fundamentals over tool proficiency. Embracing curiosity, adaptability, and a proactive mindset fuels a designer's growth and impact, with career trajectories influenced by various factors rather than a singular path or expiration date.
2024.05.01
HOW TO DESIGN ACCESSIBLE FORMS IN 10 STEPS
Break long forms into shorter, multi-page forms. Use top-aligned labels for input fields. Use hint text, not placeholder text. Use native form controls, highlight elements on focus, style and write errors correctly, label related fields in a group, provide instructions, clearly identify required fields, and avoid time limits for users to complete forms.
2024.05.01
HOW I KNOW WHEN TO QUIT MY DESIGN JOB, EVERY SINGLE TIME
Stagnant growth, toxic environments, and a lack of alignment with personal values are good reasons for designers to quit their jobs. Designers should learn to recognize the red flags before it's too late and leave for opportunities that better align with their career goals and well-being.
2024.05.01
NEJC PRAH AND ANSAMBEL OPT FOR ECLECTICISM OVER CONSISTENCY IN IDENTITY FOR CENTER ROG
The identity of Ljubljana's Center Rog was created by a collective called Ansambel.
2024.05.01
FORMER PIXAR ANIMATOR GIVES ONE BIG REASON AI VIDEO WON'T WORK IN HOLLYWOOD
There's one big problem with AI video software: making minor changes is not possible with AI alone at this point.
2024.05.01
THIS MICHAEL JACKSON LOGO DESIGN DISPUTE IS GETTING BAD
Michael Jackson's Estate is involved in a logo dispute between the tribute concert MJ Live and Broadway's MJ: The Musical.
2024.05.01
THE ‘NEXT-GENERATION' OF CARPLAY IS LAUNCHING THIS YEAR - HERE'S EVERYTHING WE KNOW
Apple is introducing an upgraded CarPlay interface with deeper car integration, offering split-view design, customizable features, and expanded access to car functionalities. Porsche and Aston Martin will lead its implementation in 2024. Users will be able to customize their driving experience by choosing different gauge cluster designs, managing the layout of the instrument cluster, and selecting custom fonts, font sizes, and font colors.
2024.04.30
BRANDME BAKES A SMILE INTO LOTUS BISCOFF BRAND IDENTITY
Lotus Biscoff has revealed a new global brand identity by BrandMe to strengthen recognition during expansion. It features a bespoke typeface and a smile-shaped logo to convey joy. BrandMe's redesign retains iconic elements like the red color and cookie imagery while ensuring consistency and expressing Biscoff's vibrant personality.
2024.04.30
BIZARRE AI CAMERA TURNS IMAGES INTO SONNETS AND HAIKU
Poetry Camera is an open-source passion project that generates poetic descriptions of scenes based on visual input received via its lens. Equipped with a Raspberry Pi device to capture and process images, the device uses the OpenAI GPT-4 AI model to create poetry based on the extracted information about objects, situations, patterns, colors, and other variables.
2024.04.30
VARIABLES IN FIGMA
Figma variables empower designers to store and share design values across documents and libraries, like color and spacing, promoting consistency and efficiency in element styling and layout. This practice aligns with the "design tokens" concept in design systems and fosters reusability, scalability, and simplified maintenance of design decisions.
2024.04.30
MY PRODUCT PRIORITIZATION FRAMEWORK
This product prioritization framework emphasizes four core areas: invest, ignore, de-emphasize, and deprecate. It encourages the scaling of successful products and features while monitoring and maintaining areas that don't require immediate attention. The framework can be applied in various contexts, such as personal audits, cross-functional workshops, or strategic planning, to enhance decision-making efficiency.
2024.04.30
A GOOD IMAGE TELLS A GOOD STORY
Designers should select visuals for their presentations with the same care as they choose their words. If a visual lacks meaning, it becomes a decorative placeholder. It can dilute the message, distract from what they want to say, and even express disrespect to their audience.
2024.04.30
PROJECT NEO
Adobe's Project Neo is a powerful tool that helps users create illustrations faster and supercharges 2D designs with 3D magic. It is now available in beta.
2024.04.30
VFX STUDIO IN YOUR BROWSER
Wonder Dynamics is an AI tool that automatically animates, lights, and composes CG characters into a live-action scene.
2024.04.30
MAKE MEETINGS AND PRESENTATIONS MORE ENGAGING, PRODUCTIVE, AND FUN
Boom is a macOS camera app that works on Zoom, Meet, Teams, and more. It lets you brand your calls, use GIFs, and supercharge your screen shares.
2024.04.30
WHY THE GAME BOY'S DESIGN IS SO ICONIC
The Game Boy's 35th anniversary reminds us of the power of simplicity. Its design features a straightforward aesthetic and an easy-to-understand layout. The device also innovated by allowing players to carry a whole library of games in their pockets for the first time. One hundred eighteen million units later, the Game Boy's innovative design, robust functionality, and cultural resonance have made it an icon in the video game industry.
2024.04.30
THE POLISH PARADOX
The term "polish" encapsulates meticulous design details, like professional electricians' vertical screw alignment and subtle adjustments in traditional go boards and typefaces. In UI design, it's evident in smooth animations and intuitive interactions, exemplified by the iPhone's keyboard adjustments, which are essential for elevating products from good to great.
2024.04.30
A GUIDE TO SELECTING AN ACCESSIBLE TYPEFACE
When selecting a website typeface, prioritize factors like style, device compatibility, language support, weight variations, unique characters, spacing, and adherence to accessibility guidelines. Additionally, use italics, all caps, and underlines judiciously. Consider maintaining the original word shape by combining upper and lowercase characters while avoiding mirrored letter shapes and tight spacing.
2024.04.30
DESIGNERS, CHARGE MORE $$$ TO HELP YOURSELF AND YOUR CLIENTS
If you wish to grow as a designer, you must be comfortable with losing clients who demand cheap and low-quality designs.
2024.04.30
BOLD AND FUTURISTIC: NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE WORK OF CREATIVE POLYMATH MARC NEWSON
84-24 is a new book that explores Marc Newson's love for all things mechanical and futuristic and an appreciation for softer forms and materials, often with bold pops of color.
2024.04.30
APPLE'S GENERATIVE AI MAY BE THE ONLY ONE THAT WAS TRAINED LEGALLY & ETHICALLY
Apple is licensing copyrighted works to train its AI to avoid legal issues faced by competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft due to copyright infringement lawsuits.
2024.04.30
HEADSPACE OVERHAULS VISUAL IDENTITY TO BECOME MENTAL HEALTH ALL-ROUNDER
The expansion of Headspace's mental health services comes with a new brand identity, evolved illustration style, and updated animations that aim to portray a more professional image. The rebrand was developed in-house in collaboration with Italic Studio. Colophon Foundry created a new proprietary typeface and changed the color scheme - orange still leads, but there is now a supporting palette that prioritizes accessibility.
2024.04.29
REDDIT IS UPDATING ITS APP TO FOCUS MORE ON COMMENTS
The Reddit mobile app for iOS and Android has been updated to emphasize comments, remove hurdles, and reduce friction. Clicking on the comment icon on a post now loads comments faster and takes users straight to the top comment. A context bar with the original post and compressed text, image, or video content will appear at the top of the screen. A click on the thumbnail will take the user to the original post.
2024.04.29
JUST ADD WATER: GROW YOUR OWN FURNITURE WITH THESE POP-UP SPONGE DESIGNS
A team of industrial designers has prototyped a furniture collection that dramatically transforms flat sheets into fully functional objects. Recognizing the high demand for online commerce and the inefficiency of shipping large furniture items, the team developed a line of collapsible stools, chairs, wine racks, and other products made from cellulose sponges. These products can be flattened and dried to fit into standard envelopes.
2024.04.29
THE PROJECT THAT SHIFTED MY PERSPECTIVE AS A DESIGNER
Pinterest's Monetization team helps businesses connect with users while connecting them with the right commercial opportunity at the right time to help users realize their dreams. However, Frances Lee, a designer on the team and an end-user advocate, found it challenging to overcome her long-standing bias towards ads. With Quiz Ads, users can interact with advertisements for personalized recommendations or entertainment and discover unfamiliar brands.
2024.04.29
SPEEDING UP C++ BUILD TIMES
Figma addressed C++ build time inefficiencies by removing unnecessary includes, utilizing a new DIWYDU tool, implementing forward declarations via Fwd.h files, and applying caching strategies. This comprehensive approach halved build times and prevents dozens of potential daily slowdowns, significantly boosting developer productivity.
2024.04.29
MEET RITMO, MUSIXMATCH'S CROSS-PLATFORM DESIGN SYSTEM
Musixmatch's Ritmo design system ensures a consistent user experience across Web, iOS, and Android by establishing cross-platform standards and components using React Native for a unified codebase. Its design library in Figma centralizes specifications for consistent implementation across platforms, complemented by component swaps tailored to viewport size for optimal user experience.
2024.04.29
YOUR AI-UX ASSISTANT
Leverage AI's power in your design process, generate wireframes and hi-fi UI designs, turn data into insight, and run design reviews.
2024.04.29
MOOD CAMERA
This point-and-shoot camera app uses a custom ProRAW image processing pipeline to recreate the look and feel of film.
2024.04.29
UNIPASTE (FIGMA PLUGIN)
Work with special characters in Figma and seamlessly insert symbols, characters, and glyphs into your design.
2024.04.29
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IS THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF UX RESEARCH A THREAT OR AN OPPORTUNITY?
The democratization of UX research aims to involve more individuals for quicker results, though concerns arise about maintaining research quality amid varied expertise levels. A mature design and research culture requires governance, quality standards, training, and tools to support collaboration and overcome resistance to change.
2024.04.29
RETAIN DATA IN SENSITIVE CREDIT CARD FIELDS AFTER VALIDATION ERRORS
Even though reentering credit card information frustrates users, 34% of test sites don't keep credit card numbers when errors happen. Persisting card data saves time and allows users to review potentially incorrect input and find the error. Comply with PCI standards and mitigate user frustration by validating input field-by-field, splitting the checkout flow, and validating input in two stages.
2024.04.29
3 WAYS TO REDUCE TIME TO MAGIC MOMENT
Time to the "Magic Moment" or activation moment can be reduced through mini magic moments in the early user experience. Otter.ai leverages social proof for trust on its registration page, while Loom tailors messaging for user needs. Canva and Otter.ai use imagery and social proof to highlight product benefits and use cases.
2024.04.29
STUDIO THONIK'S SLANTED ART MUSEUM IDENTITY MIRRORS THE INSTITUTION'S ARCHITECTURE
The Almaty Museum of Arts in Kazakhstan's distinctive slanted walls, with one facing the city and the other the Alatu mountain range, influenced Studio Thonik's logo design, which features two bouncing capital A's, embodying the duality of the museum's architecture and creating a dynamic yet simple brand identity.
2024.04.29
KEY TRENDS AND FORECASTS INFLUENCING THE GENAI MARKET IN 2024
The future of creativity will continue to be shaped by the intersection of technology, legal frameworks, and ethical considerations.
2024.04.29
THIS ARTIST TRANSFORMS CITYSCAPES INTO FUNNY WHIMSICAL INSTALLATIONS
Street artist Frankey breathes life into everyday objects in Amsterdam, creating thought-provoking artwork that sparks whimsy.
2024.04.29
WACOM SAYS ITS FIRST OLED DRAWING TABLET IS COOL AND SKINNY
Wacom has launched Movink 13, a light and thin OLED pen display tablet aimed at digital creatives. It provides advantages like deeper blacks, a broader color spectrum, and lower pen latency. This is the thinnest and lightest Wacom pen display yet. At $750, it's a portable and more affordable alternative to the expected OLED iPad Pro but requires connection to an external device for operation.
2024.04.26
WITH EASEL, EX-SNAP RESEARCHERS ARE BUILDING THE NEXT-GENERATION BITMOJI THANKS TO AI
Founded by two former Snap employees, Easel lets you create images of yourself and your friends doing extraordinary things. By capturing a few seconds of the user's face, the app creates a corresponding AI model and uses Stable Diffusion's generative AI to make Bitmoji-style stickers. Easel can be integrated into the native iOS Message application, enabling users to send the creations as images.
2024.04.26
THIS GAME BOY-LOOKING PHONE STAND IS WHY MAGSAFE IS GOOD
Although people have mixed feelings about MagSafe's charging efficiency and case compatibility, the Elago MagSafe MS W5 Charging Stand adds a touch of nostalgia by imitating the Game Boy Advance SP design but without functional buttons. Available on Amazon, this charming stand is purely aesthetic and doesn't include a charger, yet it can support both iPhones and new Qi2 Android devices with MagSafe.
2024.04.26
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE: BUILDING STRONG PARTNERSHIPS IN THE MODERN WORKPLACE
Grace Sunnell and Jeff Robke, professionals from Slack's product design and management teams, attribute their successful collaboration in expanding Slack Connect for Enterprise customers to building solid foundational relationships and setting clear expectations. They emphasize the importance of trust, adaptability, and frequent check-ins to align strategies, resulting in significant financial impact and momentum for the company's services.
2024.04.26
HOW TO AVOID DESIGNING FOR CURRENT USERS AT THE EXPENSE OF FUTURE ONES
Businesses often prioritize current customers, potentially neglecting future users. Sales teams may need to pay more attention to deeper user needs than UX teams. To design for present and future users, designers must focus on user-centric requirements, leverage sales demos, and collaborate with the product team to prioritize features effectively.
2024.04.26
CSS-ONLY SHAPES
This collection is made of pure, optimized, modern CSS shapes using a single element.
2024.04.26
MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTERS EFFORTLESSLY
Wizad generates consistent social media posters, keeping your brand's color scheme, tone, and elements.
2024.04.26
AI CONTENT GENERATOR (FIGMA PLUGIN)
Rewrite your texts in Figma in a couple of clicks using OpenAI GPT-4 to generate smart, creative text suggestions.
2024.04.26
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RABBIT R1: I SPENT 17 HOURS WITH IT — AND SOMETHING'S IFFY ABOUT IT
Mashable reviewed the new Rabbit R1 and found that the gestures were addictive. It can't browse the web, doesn't text or make calls, responds faster than expected, gets some answers wrong, can see and describe things, and has a good battery life. With a price tag of $199, it seems too good to be true, and the company will find a way to squeeze more money out of its user base.
2024.04.26
WHY WE MOVED AWAY FROM PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY BUTTONS
The hierarchical button style paradigm classifies buttons into primary, secondary, and tertiary importance in product design. However, there are better approaches for brands that use color playfully. This article shows how switching from hierarchy to emphasis enabled a better color system for brands that explore a broader color spectrum.
2024.04.26
THE LEGOISM OF DESIGN SYSTEMS
Jim Nielsen discusses the limitations of the "LEGO" analogy for design systems, arguing that prefabricated components have less value in the age of generative AI and open-source libraries. Even with prefabricated components, custom "one-off" designs are still necessary for each product, and a successful design system needs more than just prefabrication and composition.
2024.04.26
THE BIG SUR-IFICATION OF MACOS ICONS
macOS Big Sur changed how app icons are designed, standardized to a square with rounded corners.
2024.04.26