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The history of computing has seen an increase in the number of decisions users must make when designing their computing experience, leading to a more significant burden on the user. Users now question modern computer benefits due to distractions, addiction, and lack of constraints, seeking technology that limits and guides behavior. Remarkable and the Daylight tablet balances a perfect combination of versatility and constraint.
Laura Dillema's project, Thrive Amidst Chaos, is a prime example of how designers can communicate complex themes through the meticulous craft of typography. Handcrafted with acrylic paint and precise lighting, the black acrylic paint flows, drips, and splashes across the canvas, forming the words "Thrive Amidst Chaos" in a chaotic and controlled manner. The design process shows the artists' impressive understanding of how materials interact, how light plays with texture, and how audiences will emotionally connect with the result.
With real-time drawing, this project is about drawing the most extended collaborative flipbook animation ever created. It's like the telephone game but with visuals.
Dune Part 2's distinctive and impressive look is thanks to Arrakis' architecture and design, its character costumes, and some quirky shooting decisions.
Human-centered designers will drive the future of products and experiences in 2024.
Good typography can make your documents more influential and accessible to consume.
A survey by Figma involving over 1,800 designers, developers, and executives revealed a disparity between the high expectations for generative AI's impact on products and services and the current experimental stage of AI integration, with less than a third of builders proud of their AI features. Companies recognize the need for well-designed user experiences to unlock AI's potential amid concerns about feature fatigue and challenges in enhancing actual product usefulness with AI.
Microsoft will create a consumer AI division to consolidate its artificial intelligence efforts and enhance user experiences across its products, including its Copilot chatbot, Bing search, and Edge browser. Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI and DeepMind AI, will be the CEO of the new unit.
Three former Wieden+Kennedy executives, known for creating iconic Nike ads, have launched Someplace, a new ad agency in Los Angeles. The agency offers a hands-on approach to creative and media strategy for major brands and startups. The executives express a desire to stay close to the creative work and plan to differentiate with their combined expertise, seizing the opportunities presented by media fragmentation.
Digital artists and others who frequently use screens can maintain eye health by incorporating regular breaks, eye exercises, and proper screen and room lighting settings into their routines. Symptoms of digital eye strain include headaches, blurred vision, and eye discomfort. Although there's no evidence that it causes permanent damage, it is recommended to seek professional advice if symptoms are persistent.
Designers can test in-car interfaces quickly and cheaply with affordable mixed-reality headsets, like Meta's Quest 3, paired with gaming wheels. This post outlines the setup and process involved and the system's pros and cons. While the interaction feels real, calibration is time-consuming and passthrough objects could be better.
There are five classifications of free fonts: Open-source fonts, open-source fonts with commercial use limitations, system fonts, fonts from subscription-based services, and fonts from free trials. Designers may offer their typefaces for free to showcase their work, ensure wide recognition, or aid fellow designers with budget constraints. However, balancing financial gain with a larger sense of responsibility to the design community is essential.
23 Figma prototyping resources to improve prototyping skills for beginners or those looking to delve into more complex features like variables and conditional logic.
Find the perfect gradient or a seamless transition between two colors, with intermediate colors that blend well together.
Instantly transform your Figma vector designs into stunning 3D renders.
Held in San Francisco, OpenAI's DevDay was a one-day conference hosted for hundreds of developers. The OpenAI team worked closely with Play Studio to develop branding for the event, which included a logo, a visual identity system, art direction, signage, environmental design, motion design, advertising, photography, and UX/UI design.
The Acolyte, the newest Star Wars franchise show, is being teased with a new poster that features a lightsaber hilt with a bloody streak instead of a blade. This radical visual departure hints at a potentially more mature series.
AVIF promises to redefine the online visual experience with superior compression without sacrificing quality.
Controls in HTML that can operate other controls in bulk are not new.
Webpage layouts used to be done with tables and rounded corners were achieved via images - many things that used to be true sound absurd now.
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The iPhone 15 lineup brought significant upgrades, with the Pro model featuring a titanium body and a customizable Action Button, while the standard version included features like Dynamic Island. Expectations are high for the iPhone 16, rumored to have larger screen sizes and potential AI enhancements. The release is anticipated for September, with prices likely to remain similar to the iPhone 15's.
Adobe has introduced two new integrations for its Substance 3D design software suite that allow 3D artists to create assets quickly for their projects using text descriptions. Using the Text to Texture feature in Substance 3D Sampler, designers can create photorealistic or stylized textures for 3D models. Another feature is Generative Backgrounds for Substance 3D Stager, which lets designers use text prompts to create background images for objects they compose into 3D scenes. Text to Texture and Generative Background are free during beta and available in Substance 3D Sampler 4.4 and Stager 3.0 beta versions.
The U.S. Space Force logo has been criticized for its obvious Trekkie influence. If you've wondered what other logo designs were considered, you will see them sometime soon. As a tardy response to Reason's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the Air Force redacted all images of alternate logo designs that didn't make the cut.
AI will require UI/UX to be simple enough to support the navigational UI of devices like the AI pin and Rabbit R1. The coming years will probably be about very focused, value-oriented apps that can be integrated into broader ecosystems. In the future, marketplaces will be driven by autonomous agents that find the best solution for unique use cases. Focus and simplicity will be essential.
Approximately 50% of engineering time is devoted to reworking. Building a solid UX strategy as soon as possible will save you a lot of trouble and time. Having a baseline set of goals and guidelines will keep you and your team from getting confused while doing the best work possible.
Data Storytelling (combining data, storytelling, and visuals) helps designers effectively communicate insights, create empathy, and drive change. By asking the right questions, designers can inform, cater to their audience, visualize data effectively, and avoid the backfire effect.
Journey AI instantly converts customer research into journey maps packed with actionable insights.
AIdentic analyzes mockups, suggests improvements, and automatically applies them to text, images, fonts, color palettes, and more.
Generate color combinations for any project by simply describing the context or goal of your project.
Disney + Pixar's Lightyear movie showcases fantastic user interfaces that are both toy-like and realistic. Featuring retrofuturistic wearables, holograms, and cockpits, the interfaces in the film use simple one-color palettes, chunky icons, dials, and diagrams to convey a unique 90s vibe.
Rather than relying on prototypes, legendary game designer John Romero believes in shipping and polishing as you go. According to Romero's biography, id Software's success was primarily built upon emphasizing speed above all other design principles. However, its massive success might have less to do with avoiding prototypes and more with the sheer volume of ideas it shipped, smart division of labor, insane work ethic, and its novel distribution model coinciding with the rise of the internet and the PC.
The importance of beauty lies in communicating complex ideas, particularly in data visualization and infographics. Beauty can draw in an audience, make learning pleasant, trigger emotions, and create cultural significance. The Earthrise photo is a perfect example of Accurat's visualizations, which have made a significant impact by provoking emotions and creating a sense of understanding and connection.
Designers should enhance their understanding of technology to stay relevant and contribute to a fairer, more ethical AI landscape.
This guide by comic book artist Peter Chiykowski on spotting AI images to address the threat of disinformation presented by AI-generated images highlights minor details that might not be visible at first glance but are strong indicators of AI-generated images.
The human alphabet trend in design, which forms letters using the human body, has been rising, reflecting a deeper societal obsession with the human form.
Pentagram rebranded Monterey Bay Aquarium for its 40th anniversary. The rebranding effort created a cohesive new identity that honors the institution's past and looks to the future with an updated kelp symbol, typographic harmony, and a broader ocean-inspired color palette. It streamlined the iconic kelp symbol for scalability, incorporated typography that echoes the kelp's dynamics, and expanded beyond traditional blue to include a range of oceanic colors.
Apple has unveiled the newest Apple Store in Shanghai's Jing'an District, featuring a unique circular design and a curved glass facade. The Jing'an store offers an outdoor plaza for community events, an innovative interior architecture, and Apple's latest products.
Banksy has revealed a new piece of street art in Islington North, London, featuring a stencil of a person spray-painting green foliage onto a wall behind a pruned, leafless tree. The artwork, which plays on the interplay between the tree and the mural, remains in a vacant building, with the owner intending to preserve it.
A UX case study of how Gett, a taxi booking platform, leveraged insights from Netflix to implement a profile selection feature, significantly improving user experience and doubling business conversions. The critical takeaway is not solely to seek inspiration from obvious sources but instead to think outside the box, even within everyday products that may not be directly related to your product’s natural field of activity.
The backbone of design systems consists of coded components, design libraries, design tokens, and guidance documents, which ensure visual, behavioral, and semantic consistency. However, consistency outside the product regarding the user's ecosystem is also possible. Problems can result when the user's ecosystem is unbalanced against internal consistency, especially for systems still at an early stage of maturity.
Like its more popular counterpart, brainstorming, question storming revolves around group collaboration to explore a topic from various angles with one goal — generating as many questions as possible. This technique harnesses the power of curiosity to promote critical thinking, gain deeper insights, and uncover hidden dimensions of a problem or topic.
Generate linear, radial, and conic gradients interpolated in various color spaces, yielding richer, more brilliant gradients.
Create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes. Customize the complexity and contrast of the blobs and download or copy the code.
Generate a high-quality random human face with one click.
Notes from the Arts & Technology conference talks on AI and design: Design Against AI by John Maeda, AI + UX: Product Design for Intelligent Experiences by Ioana Teleanu, Designing Successful AI Products, Services by John Zimmerman and Nur Yildirim, Creativity in Flux: Art & Artificial Intelligence by Brooke Hopper and Debbie Millman, Designing for AI by Marco Barbosa and Hjörtur Hilmarsson, and The Great Interface Shift: Five Trends to Know in 2024 by Jake Brody.
Creative people just want to create and don't want to deal with business, contracts, or lawyers, which makes them especially vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation. It is precisely because of this that they get into trouble.
Getting design done requires cross-team coordination, resource management, and buy-in. However, these aren't things you should focus on when building a portfolio. Show off the concrete things you've done and how you did them in your portfolio. Provide insight into how you make design decisions with a couple of examples. Go through the why at a high level and then the how at a low level.
A well-crafted strategy should change behavior as a team and provide clear direction, goals, and priorities to create better customer outcomes and help every team member make better decisions and feel ownership and accountability for their work.