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Like any skill, drawing requires study, practice, and time to master. However, most people ignore that, claiming they don't have the talent. Whether you're new to drawing or have always wanted to do it, this post provides practical advice on how to get started and improve.
This is a beautiful visual story about hundreds of teenagers and how their lives will develop in the next 24 years, based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Nike used generative AI tools and 3D rendering software to create wild concepts for Air models inspired by the tastes of its Olympic athletes.
Italian artist Dolaana Davaá creates Old Master-inspired paintings that appear to be melting, handcrafting the frames with the same impressive melting effect.
McDonald's claims in a mockumentary that the Big Mac inspired the hamburger menu icon in UI, but Oreo challenges this by humorously suggesting the icon is actually two stacked Oreo cookies, even offering a discount on biscuits for adopting this theory.
During Milan Design Week, IKEA introduced the Brännboll gaming furniture collection, offering versatile pieces that cater to casual gamers and blend into everyday home decor while promoting comfortable and immersive gameplay. The collection includes innovative designs like an inflatable chair, a rocking easy chair for dynamic movement, spill-proof accessories, and multi-functional storage solutions that double as furniture.
Codegen automatically generates code based on a defined set of rules or specifications. Although Figma's Developer Mode streamlines a considerable portion of design implementation, an entire plugin ecosystem can further speed up your design-to-development workflow. Figma's team recommendations include Anima, Builder, Figma to Code, Locofy.AI, and Replit.
AI tools won't replace UX designers soon as the currently available LLM-based tools are not shortcutting steps in the design process yet. Designers should avoid using AI to generate user data or research findings due to ethical concerns and shouldn't expect significant value from AI tools.
Accessibility doesn't just happen in an ableist world. The mechanisms and automatisms are not tuned to produce accessible content, code, or designs. As a designer, developer, project manager, or in any role, you must focus on accessibility and do it intentionally. It will not happen automatically every day of the week.
A collection of real and fictional logos for designers to get inspired by.
Enhance user experience and improve consistency by providing robust tools for ensuring compliance with a design system's standards.
Validate the implementation of websites by measuring sizes, distances, margins, and paddings of any element on any web page.
Parenting and managing a design studio demands dedication, creativity, and effective time management. It often requires working unconventional hours, balancing responsibilities, and integrating family life with work routines, but it also provides opportunities for growth and improved empathy.
UX professionals often feel the need to jump on their accessible white horse and yell at the world about their high moral standards for what good UX is supposed to be, how a company should invest its resources, what a product's roadmap should be, and how we should all look at them as the last standing heroes that separate us from a world of unusable products.
Aside from being a fun game, Pokémon GO is also a user-friendly, meticulously designed experience. This post uses Nielsen's ten usability heuristics to analyze how user-friendly the game is. Pokémon GO shows how usability principles can elevate a product and captivate its audience.
The rebrand aims to evoke emotional connection and collaboration, setting the stage for a better fashion future.
Solopress, an online printing company, prepared a quick quiz to test your logo memory or attention to detail.
'Longboarding' is a process that bridges the gap between trying out a new product and becoming a core user.
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Previously seen as “cold and authoritarian,” RSPCA's new look bets big on bright, bold blues and portrayals of happy, healthy animals. Its outdated octagonal logo has been replaced with a more open and inclusive shape, allowing branches to customize the logo with animals.
Grok-1.5V or Grok 1.5 "Vision" is xAI's first-generation multimodal model. The bot will be able to respond to uploaded pictures and screenshots and reason through complex documents, science diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. It will also have real-world spatial understanding to better understand the physical world depicted in the images uploaded by its users.
Based on UserZoom capabilities, UserTesting has created a new Feedback Engine, which combines AI with generative capabilities to help better understand feedback from user surveys. The company is also expanding its AI-powered insights capability to provide a deeper analysis of trends from user testing operations by enabling AI-powered surveys. AI-powered theme generation will allow researchers to understand test results better.
"The User Experience Team of One" and "Communicating the UX Vision" offer solutions for designers, "Articulating Design Decisions" guides in explaining choices, "Orbiting the Giant Hairball" navigates organizational constraints, and "Getting to Yes" emphasizes negotiation. "Extra Bold" promotes inclusivity and anti-racism in graphic design.
This article emphasizes the importance of practical execution in achieving success, regardless of the initial strategy's quality, as seen in Meta's development of an ad network. Prioritizing execution, iterating towards success, establishing clear incentives, and maintaining a solid customer feedback loop are key strategies highlighted to drive effective execution.
Understanding certain features of icons helps UX professionals improve their designs by making them easier to find and perceive. Designers can create more intuitive and efficient interfaces by learning how visual attention and object recognition work. Improving icon usability involves optimizing icon concreteness, balancing visual complexity, enhancing distinctiveness, and adapting them to different contexts and use cases.
Build gamified experiences in minutes, personalize user journeys, and boost adoption.
Quickly create professional App Store screenshots using a dedicated powerful screenshot editor.
Glazed is a visual tracking documentation tool that helps you collect better data, improve collaboration, and streamline event tracking from weeks to days.
Lego intends to facilitate a seamless brand experience across digital and physical products by launching a complete brand identity built in-house. This resulted in 23 guidelines and 110 principles that were boiled down to five fundamental design principles: design for the audience, build from the system-in-play, tell stories, be playful and optimistic, and keep it simple.
Using typographic intelligence technologies optimizes font choices, line spacing, text rearrangement, and more. Its scope can seem overwhelming, but creating a product that considers several different flexible, multiscriptural, accessible points of view simultaneously is an effort that pays off, as designers can tailor compositions to fit the readers' needs. Innovative typography tools can let designers work on more critical tasks by providing sensitive, high-level controls for managing low-level details.
The Humane AI Pin, designed to replace smartphones, operates with an AI assistant and the CosmOS system. However, it lacks basic features and advanced AI. Despite its current limitations, the device shows promise for the future of AI technology. However, its reliability issues and lack of discretion in public settings currently hinder its recommendation for purchase.
Meta's AI image generator and Google's Gemini and DALL-E 3 struggle with interracial pairings, often producing inaccurate results.
Maqroo was developed based on several tests with dyslexic users, which revealed that reinforced irregularities - such as different-sized inner spaces -made glyphs easier to distinguish, making them more readable.
The redesign followed extensive consumer research, including agile prototyping and real-time workshops, allowing immediate consumer feedback into the design process.
The latest UI redesign of YouTube's video player, which shifts video details to a narrow right-aligned column, has been criticized by users who find it congested and detracting from community engagement. Despite YouTube's claim that the change aims to facilitate reading comments while watching, the adverse reaction may prompt a reconsideration of the design.
User insights, derived from data and behavior, provide actionable guidance for teams, prioritized by urgency to tackle critical issues first. Ensure insights meet value, relevance, specificity, and contextuality criteria. Aggregate related issues and map them against project goals to communicate the stakes and drive decision-making.
The notion that "AI" will negate the importance of accessibility is wrong. Instead, addressing accessibility demands human-centric solutions tailored to real-world scenarios. While current technology offers tools to foster accessibility, adhering to established guidelines can effectively address user needs without significant alteration.
Choosing suitable typefaces and icons can improve brand recognition, enhance the overall user experience, and maintain visual consistency in a project. Pair icons with a typeface after considering the project's audience, message, and overall tone, as well as its visual style and context. Typeface and icon are so interdependent that sometimes it's worth creating an icon set from scratch based on the typeface.
Designed to be a reference for anyone building component-based user interfaces, The Component Gallery is an up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from design systems.
Generate a perceptually uniform full-spectrum color palette that ensures that color values correspond to equal changes in perceived luminosity and contrast.
Insert dummy logos of famous companies and country flags into your Figma or Figjam file quickly.
This non-destructive teardown of the Apple Vision Pro exposes its unique design, with canted internal components, dual 3,680 x 3,140-pixel micro-OLED displays, custom M2 and R1 chips, and micro blowers for active cooling.
Vercel's Design Engineers combine aesthetic sensibility with technical skills. They spend time deep-diving into a problem before designing, building, and shipping a solution autonomously. In this article, you'll learn how they integrate into Vercel's product team, explore their toolbox, and see examples of their contributions.
AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot can help UX researchers plan their research by outlining its objectives and how it will be conducted. They can create helpful research questions, tasks, interview questions, and other study collateral quickly and efficiently. This practical guide teaches how to use AI as a copartner in research.
Mymind uses clever AI to automatically name, tag, and categorize images, even creating folders, saving you significant time and effort.
In "Universal Principles of Typography," Elliot Jay Stocks provides a helpful illustration guide for professionals and enthusiasts interested in improving their typographic skills.
Throughout its history, Apple's logo has reflected its commitment to innovation and elegant, iconic design, from its quirky beginnings in 1976 to its clean, iconic design today.
Google is launching Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app, along with meeting, messaging, and security improvements. Workspace Labs will include Google Vids starting in June, enabling users to make storyboards, choose styles, and assemble scenes from stock videos, images, and music.
Messenger users can now create shared albums, send photos in high-definition, and share larger files up to 100MB in chats. With shared albums, you can make albums of pictures and videos in group chats, letting everyone view, add, delete, and download photos and videos. The new HD photo-sharing capability enables users to toggle an "HD" option once they select an image from the chat composer. Messenger lets users directly send Word, PDF, Excel, and zip files instead of emailing them.
Google is expanding access to its AI photo editing tools in Google Photos, including Magic Editor, previously exclusive to Pixel owners and Google One subscribers. Now, any user with a compatible Android or iOS device can use these features, with free users limited to 10 monthly saves, while Pixel owners and paying subscribers enjoy unlimited use.