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In Theodoru's words, his art is "character-based Pop Surrealism," a vibrant and whimsical style that mixes 3D characters, personal experiences, classic cartoons, and Hieronymus Bosch's grotesque elegance.
In her work, Hiroko Takahashi uses only circles and straight lines to create patterns that symbolize the 'infinite possibilities that come from the finite.'
Rumors suggest the new Apple Pencil may integrate with Find My, allowing users to locate it easily. It may feature interchangeable magnetic tips. Additionally, evidence indicates it may support a "Squeeze" gesture, enabling quick actions like adding text or a signature.
Sonos has introduced a revamped mobile app and a new web app, enhancing the ease and speed of control over Sonos speakers from anywhere, not just limited to Wi-Fi networks at home. It is discontinuing its desktop apps for Windows and macOS. The updated app, available from May 7th, features a redesigned home screen with customizable layouts and a persistent search bar to provide a faster and more reliable user experience.
Apple's invite for its May 7th event features an Apple Pencil, making this the first time an actual product has been part of an invite. In addition to the likely Apple Pencil 3, rumors suggest the company will introduce new iPads, including an updated iPad Pro with an OLED display.
Humans are generally better at communicating and perceiving warm colors, as they are more prevalent in essential objects in nature. The color red can have positive and negative associations, depending on the culture. In China, it is often associated with opportunity and good luck. In the West, it can signify negativity or danger.
To learn to think like a designer, one needs to be willing to try things over and over and over again. Sometimes, changing all the variables, sometimes a few variables, and sometimes just changing one variable. The design process is organic and engaging, requiring constant feeding of the mind with diverse content.
Designers transform observations into simulations of possible futures, bringing a fresh perspective to data and business analysis. Despite the prevalence of quantitative data, qualitative insights are still vital, and securing them remains challenging. When integrating data into their workflow, designers usually encounter five dilemmas, including needing more data or having too much of it, converting it into insights, and incorporating outlier data into the big picture.
Subframe is a design-to-code tool that lets you build stunning UI in minutes. It features beautifully crafted components, a drag-and-drop visual editor, and production-ready code.
This collection shows you the system font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS and allows you to see how they look in an article preview.
Communicate more effectively inside Figma with this free component library aimed at design handoff.
Apple is developing CarPlay 2 to have deeper integration with vehicle software, enabling control of most infotainment functions and a consistent user experience. Some carmakers might hesitate to adopt CarPlay 2 because it may limit their ability to differentiate their brand through customized interiors and infotainment systems.
Recipes are a critical — and often misunderstood — layer in the design system ecosystem. They combine ingredients to create complex, delicious, and nutritious UI experiences. The design system's core components are the ingredients stocked in the pantry. Other product designers then use those ingredients to create product-specific compositions that meet their needs.
This article lists the best things that happened during Milan's 2024 Design Week, from Google's immersive exhibition and Making Sense of Color to the launch of design legend Marc Newson's new book.
F-shape scanning is a typical pattern in which users read horizontally, then less and less until they scan vertically.
Unveiled at NAB 2024 this year, the Micro Control Panel is a tiny, keyboard-size portable control panel that revolutionizes iPad color grading.
Adobe has integrated the generative AI model Firefly Image 3 into Photoshop, allowing users to generate images directly in the program. It also added the ability to use a reference image with its Generative Fill feature and a new feature to develop backgrounds for generating seamless backdrops, which is helpful for marketing and advertising physical products.
The EU is investigating TikTok's potential violation of the Digital Services Act. It is focusing on TikTok Lite's "task and reward" feature, which could harm users' mental health, particularly minors, due to the lack of a risk assessment. If found guilty, TikTok could face penalties of up to 6% of its global annual turnover. Interim measures like suspending TikTok Lite's access are being considered.
Adobe researchers have introduced VideoGigaGAN, an AI model that achieves up to 8 times video upsampling with precise details and temporal stability, surpassing traditional video super-resolution methods. The model, built upon GigaGAN, addresses past challenges by improving temporal consistency and detail retention in videos, setting a new standard in the field.
The majority of AI-generated apps allow users to select from multiple outputs. Nevertheless, AI interfaces will increasingly focus on delivering a single, accurate result, especially for straightforward tasks. When more than one option makes sense, designers can limit the scope of choices, offer a regenerate option, and give users customization options.
A design system offers many advantages, like consistency, improved workflows, and cross-team collaboration. Design systems can foster accountability, attention, trust, and attractiveness for future talent while often being open-source to inspire and educate. Top design systems like Shopify's Polaris or IBM's Carbon provide extensive resources, set clear guidelines, and ensure inclusivity, setting the standard for others to learn from and follow.
Stylar is an all-in-one online design platform that allows you to generate and edit in one place with an AI-powered design workflow.
Seamlessly add widgets to your app or website to understand your users better.
Explore millions of color hues/shades/tones and gradients directly in Figma for perfect color palettes for your next design project.
Instagram's effectiveness in reaching potential clients has waned due to algorithm changes and competition. However, there are ways to reverse that trend, including refining your niche, revisiting your portfolio, changing your routine, investing in partnerships, and paying attention to local communities.
Design processes are about solving problems and delivering solutions, which can only be achieved with appropriate constraints informed by research or at least an accurate definition of the problem. Design systems should be built with constraints. It's easier for designers to build solutions that provide real value when constraints exist.
Figma began offering developer-focused features to resolve common problems in design handoff with the introduction of Dev Mode in 2023. Zeplin is a complete platform for design handoff, helping cross-functional teams overcome challenges. This post compares Zeplin with Figma Dev Mode to help you decide on the ideal handoff tool for your team.
Manchester-based creative company Flow has created a striking animation for The Trussell Trust to help students and teachers understand the challenges facing young people in poverty.
Designers must go beyond decoration by mastering language and microcopy, crucial skills in today's design landscape, where cognitive biases influence decision-making. Founders should prioritize understanding design's impact on decision-making to navigate the creative landscape effectively.
Tomasz Opasinski, a Creative Technologist in AI/ML, Machine Intelligence & New Technologies, designed a poster using Adobe Firefly and a generative workflow for the 22nd Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.
In an innovative effort to encourage more recycling, Coca-Cola's latest campaign depicts the Coke logo as crushed and distorted, mimicking how it would appear on a recycled aluminum can. The campaign aims to motivate consumers to recycle their empty Coke cans and bottles by tapping into the incredible brand recognition of the red-and-white logo, which research shows is recognized by 94% of the world's population.
Llama 3 has been praised as the best free large language model. Meta is demonstrating its capabilities with real-time AI image generation in WhatsApp. The company says Llama 3 produces sharper and better images than Llama 2 with improved text rendering. Additionally, the model can animate images and create GIFs. Users with access to the beta version of Meta AI can now try the new features.
Samsung Electronics unveiled its forward-thinking design philosophy, "Newfound Equilibrium," at Milan Design Week 2024. Designed to inspire over 1500 Samsumg designers across seven global studios to keep their design language fresh and relevant for their customers, the framework focuses on drawing inspiration from people and shaping the future. Through interactive installations, the exhibition shows off the company's big ideas about the future of technology and design, living together, and improving people's lives.
Growth design projects require balancing growth and ethics, ensuring ethical solutions benefit the business and users, and prioritizing genuine user value over harmful growth hacks or psychology tricks. Aligning ethical design principles with company goals, prioritizing user needs, and advocating for ethical decisions are crucial in growth design.
Product design has become predictable and is in a general crisis. It needs more creativity. The main problems in the industry are expectations that unicorn designers excel in multiple areas, chaotic design recruitment, the prioritization of “Ops” over creativity in DesignOp, and how companies use Figma. The way to solve them is to go back to the basics.
Craft doesn't happen automatically and often results from slowly honing and refining - the definition of craft. For the Mobbin team, craft means obsessing over the details, knowing which details matter, and finding the right balance between form and function.
FontScanner helps you get all font families, weights, sizes, and quantities in a Figma project. It can also select fonts based on type or size on the current page or get the names of pages that use them.
Go from a product idea to the first wireframes in seconds using AI.
Build full-stack apps that look great on the front end and work seamlessly on the back end, all with drag-and-drop ease.
Recognizing software complexity early aids in setting realistic design constraints and expectations. Using visual metaphors like Layer Cake and Back-End Iceberg, designers can guide teams to tailor their approach for balanced, engineering-centric, or design-centric projects, with discussions that empower informed choices and high-quality outcomes.
Monzo's learnings on how to run good user research: Make sure you're sampling the right users, don't try too much in one question, avoid leading questions, try to replicate a real-life scenario to test assumptions, and work out what you're trying to test ahead of time.
User-focused design has shifted to org-focused design, which has much to do with the current state of the web. There needs to be more tension between honoring the craft and meeting deadlines, which might be causing quality to slip.
In the heart of Hermosillo, Sonora in Mexico, lies the small boutique hotel, Champ. Its latest branding, designed by Jesús López, employs vivid colors, striking typography, and dynamic layouts to capture the hotel's eclectic aesthetic and cultural resonance, resulting in visually engaging designs.
This article highlights 12 of the world's most prominent architects and designers with their most ambitious and intriguing designs for leading brands like Google, Kohler, Amazon, and Porsche.
Frank Lin, Nothing's Senior Industrial Designer, says that the bright yellow Ear A earbuds emphasize the company's brand, enhance the fun factor, and complement the device's futuristic and nostalgic design with bold primary colors.
Among the first measures of Portugal's new prime minister, Luís Montenegro, is a rollback of the government's supposedly "woke" logo redesign. There was nothing particularly 'woke' about it, even though it was intended to be "inclusive, plural, and secular," which led to a highly simplistic logo. Eduardo Aires, the designer behind the redesigned logo, thinks the backlash is more about politics becoming polarized, as the logo was used as a "projectile weapon" before last month's general election.
Webflow has ventured into marketing optimization by acquiring AI-driven personalization startup Intellimize in an eight-figure deal. The union integrates the majority of Intellimize's team into Webflow's expanding platform. The union aims to enhance Webflow's offering by bringing advanced personalization and optimization tools to its customers, with Intellimize continuing to operate standalone while increasingly integrating with Webflow's services.
The Slack design team executed the launch of AI-powered features such as AI search and summaries within just six months, meticulously focusing on user-centric solutions for joint pain points like reducing noise and improving message management. They adopted a collaborative approach with shared ownership, rapid prototyping, and continuous feedback from internal and pilot users to refine these features and enhance productivity in the workplace.
Carvana utilizes a design system for consistency and scalability, with Figma playing a critical role in maintaining design standards and facilitating smooth collaboration between designers and developers. Variables in Figma have significantly enhanced Carvana's design quality and speeding up design updates and product development processes.
Product design has shifted towards rigid processes, sidelining creativity. Design teams often need to work on integrating new technologies and are connected to the products they create, hindering innovation and impact.