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There are four options for consolidating design systems: 1. Keep them separate, which may lead to redundancy in research and development, 2. Systems start sharing subsystems, which leads to efficiency gains but challenges in alignment, 3. Systems retire, and a new one emerges, and 4. One system stays and others retire, streamlining operations but may only meet some unique market segment needs.
Adobe has shown that socially responsible tech doesn't have to come at the expense of profits. The bulk of Firefly's training data comes from Adobe's library of stock photos, which has an explicit license for AI training. Adobe has partnered with IBM, Mattel, NVIDIA, and NASCAR to explore how its intellectual property can be used to generate copyrighted content.
Design in Figma using accurate, meaningful data faster and easier than ever. The Data Populator plugin connects a JSON data source and quickly populates text and images.
Generate linear, radial, and conic gradients interpolated in various color spaces, yielding richer, more brilliant gradients. Live updating so you can easily view and tweak the results.
Apple will finally let iOS users place app icons wherever they like instead of forcing them into a strict grid. Users will now be able to create groups of icons, which will vastly improve accessibility through spatial memory. This will also be a large boon for anyone with low vision — it's easier to spot the right icon to tap if it is surrounded by empty space and contrasts strongly with the background.
There's a strong argument that chatbots are a mostly one-sided revolution, increasing business efficiency while generally irritating consumers. There are exceptions, but broadly, virtual agents, decision trees, and ChatGPT-powered conversations are different from the future of customer service that we were promised.
Google is rolling out updates to alleviate trip planning stress, including AI-generated itineraries in Search and personalized place recommendations in Maps for over 40 cities in the US and Canada. A new translation feature in the Circle to Search tool will be available soon on more Android devices to translate content directly on the screen.
AI platforms will aid in quickly identifying winning ideas, while humans remain essential for creativity, monitoring, and decision-making, allowing for more hands-off management and increased freedom to envision the future.
With the latest CSS techniques, vertical rhythm can be adapted for right-to-left reading texts and even vertical texts.
Designers can learn much from Pixar's commitment to storytelling excellence to create experiences that connect with users' emotions, ambitions, and values.
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Disney Plus has updated its logo and splash screen with a new teal/seafoam color to signify its upcoming merger with Hulu and enhance its distinctiveness among competitors. The redesign has stirred nostalgia among fans who cherished the old logo, which was a homage to Disney's Cinderella castle and embodied elements of Disney magic.
Canva, an Australian design company, has acquired U.K.-based creative tools company Affinity for an estimated $380 million. Canva aims to expand its user base to include professional designers. The acquisition aligns Canva with Affinity's culture and offers advanced capabilities to compete with Adobe, adding 3 million users and 90 employees to Canva's portfolio.
GenStudio serves as a centralized hub for promotional campaigns, providing brand kits, copy guidance, and preapproved assets alongside other generative AI-powered tools that can generate backgrounds and ensure the overall tone remains on-brand. It also shows users which attributes, generated assets, and campaigns are performing best, which can be used to direct AI prompts for other campaigns.
Designers who want to grow must be comfortable with losing the wrong type of clients who demand cheap and low-quality designs and start charging more. This way, they’ll attract clients who value design value quality, are easier to work with, and pay premium fees.
UX Design is not devoid of creativity, it’s merely constrained to time, space, and place. Designers must carefully select moments to deviate and experiment or take advantage of nexus points like technological change and novel interfaces.
In product design principles, you describe the most important goals a product or service should achieve for users and use them to frame decisions. This article describes ten principles when designing your next product, from simplicity and consistency to sustainability and ethical considerations.
A curated collection of over 140 design systems that includes corresponding Figma libraries GitHub code implementations.
Organize a story using draggable index cards.
Create a full-fledged multipage website from a single prompt.
In just 30 minutes, learn the skills to create advanced prototypes efficiently with live demonstrations and gain insights from design leaders like Ridd from Figma Academy. This webinar, which focuses on practical prototyping techniques and essential product thinking, is part of Maven Learning's short lessons scheduled between March 28 and April 19.
'UX Unicorns' refers to unique and emerging design elements that enhance user experience. Black-and-white imagery is making a comeback, creating a classic and purposeful feel when used in conjunction with brand and design storytelling, and bright color palettes, including pink and purple, are returning to various design projects, adding freshness and happiness.
According to recent rumors, a Vision Pro-compatible Apple Pencil could launch alongside new iPads soon. Reports say that users wearing the headset will be able to use apps such as Freeform and Pixelmator to draw using the Pencil on a flat surface.
Cliik's branding, developed by Little Troop, blends decades of references – predominantly 1970s retrofuturism, but with a touch of 60s modernism and even 80s Lego advertising sprinkled in.
Taking you behind the scenes of the perfume-making process, Louis Vuitton: A Perfume Atlas offers a rare glimpse into the art and science of scent.
Three layers of forces create user experience: action — the visible surface or the “what”, intent — the “why” behind every action, and dispositions - the long-term effects of user experience, including trust, loyalty, and reputation.
A new beta update for WhatsApp for Android features Meta AI integrated directly into the app's search bar. The new feature lets users ask questions through prompts within the search interface, making it easier to interact with Meta AI. WhatsApp is building an AI-powered tool for users to edit their photos, including adjusting the background, restyling, and expansion.
While app icons will likely remain locked to an invisible grid system on the Home Screen to ensure uniformity, users may be able to arrange icons more freely on iOS 18. The update will reportedly introduce the ability to create blank spaces, rows, and columns between app icons.
RealityMAX is a cloud-based 3D collaboration tool that lets users create, compose, and present work in 3D. It allows users to add multiple 3D models to their workspace, arrange them, adjust their properties, and transform them to create 3D scenes. RealityMAX immerses users into an environment that changes how 3D is perceived, improves collaboration, and speeds up review and approval.
Not every tool in a designer’s toolbox is suited for every challenge — a part of being a good designer is knowing which tool is the most appropriate for the specific problem. Instead of focusing on tools alone, designers should visualize and validate visions, continuously cultivate consistency, demonstrate value, and rationalize design decisions.
Rikyu is an ancient Japanese tea ceremony that goes beyond preparing tea - it is about creating a harmonious, meaningful experience. A compelling brand experience follows similar principles, balancing intention and harmony and attracting valuable attention from those invited into our brand spaces. Using Rikyu's wisdom as an inspiration, this article outlines the principles of building long-lasting customer relationships.
Brad Frost, author of Atomic Design, shares his thoughts on why we should build a universal design system, how he uses AI to elevate design systems, how design systems designers can succeed in an AI world, the highest leverage activities for DS designers to do, and how designers can communicate better with engineers.
This growing library will help you understand the emerging patterns of interaction, affordances, and heuristics in AI.
Unsection streamlines inspiration processes with an extensive focused collection of website section designs.
Simulate user behavior and pinpoint potential usability problems more efficiently.
The taste gap is the difference between what you think is good and what you create. If you realize your work could be better, it means you have the potential to do better. You must live with the gap until your true potential is realized. Fortunately, there are a few ways to make this process less frustrating: keep a positive mindset, surround yourself with creatives, eliminate everything inhibiting your progress, and always be shipping work.
Users with visual impairments rely on screen readers to tell them what is on the screen. Generally, this works well for regular text, but other types of content can be harder to predict — until now. This deep dive explains how screen readers output special characters and offers best practices for using them more effectively.
This September, Hungaria's capital will become home to the country’s first design conference — POV Budapest. Among the studios and designers set to give attendees a peek into their practices are Pentagram, Porto Rocha, Kurppa Hosk, Snøhetta, Koto, Bleed, and Anna Kulachek.
Direct interaction between humans and machines creates experiences outside the constrained pathways we have become accustomed to providing - to navigate that new landscape, designers must master AI strategy, AI interaction design, and AI model design.
Find inspiration for naming your design tokens with this comprehensive exploration of widespread and well-known naming conventions and their pros and cons.
Inspired by things “made for or by children,” Klara Graah, a Copenhagen-based illustrator, boils scenes down to their essential parts.
An antitrust lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against Apple may result in significant changes to the iOS experience. There might be some similarities with what happened after the company had to conform to the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) in promoting its services, running its App Store, and handling contactless payments. The main changes in the EU include adding options for downloading apps from other app stores inside iOS and more web browsing options besides Safari.
Tennessee is the first state to enact legislation to protect songwriters, performers, and others in the music industry against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. AI tools won't be allowed to replicate artists' voices without their consent beginning July 1. People can potentially face civil action if they use AI techniques to reproduce an artist's name, likeness, or voice without permission.
Figma has announced its Config 2024 lineup held in San Francisco on June 26-27. Over 75 speakers from Google, Disney, PayPal, Slack, Uber, Epic Games, and more will discuss their thoughts, work, and what's next. Early bird tickets are currently available at a discounted rate for a chance to connect with a community of builders and the future of product development.
Generative User Interfaces (genUI) will create customized user interfaces in real time, shifting the design approach towards outcome-oriented design where user goals are prioritized. This future technology will provide highly personalized tailor-made interfaces. While current AI-assisted design tools speed up the design process, they have limitations compared to genUI's potential impact.
An assumption is a guess or thing you work on with the belief that it’s true. A (good) hypothesis doesn’t come with any belief. It’s an idea or statement you use as a starting point to prove or disprove a position. Translating assumptions into hypotheses reduces risk and builds a learning pattern.
By nature, word-of-mouth contains a high degree of authenticity and credibility. Consumers are 77% more likely to buy a product if their friends recommend it. This case study looks into how designers can use social proof to increase product usage.
Ando AI can generate endless design ideas from prompts, shapes, and images.
Create and customize illustrations and storyboards effortlessly in minutes.
Giscarta is a no-code map builder that allows you to add colors and brands to maps powered by over 20 interactive widgets.