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The first step in making an impact is getting people to share and discuss your design. Designers tend to get engrossed in creating but must pay more attention to the next logical step of ensuring their work reaches as many people as possible. Getting attention requires design - creating a Press Kit is an effective and simple way of achieving that goal.
In this post, Caper, who represents some of China and Asia's most talented and innovative illustrators, recommends ten talents you should check out. These artists have many unique styles, from 8-bit video games and Chinese watercolors to architecture and emojis.
Featured in the original 1984 film and instantly becoming iconic, the Ghostbusters logo has been called one of the best logos of the 1980s. The Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire logo preserves the classic format and perfectly illustrates the idea of being frozen still.
Phil Maggs, the man behind Superside's AI-enhanced creative services, is well-positioned to understand how AI changes creative industries. Maggs explains why entry-level creatives have nothing to fear, why structuring information for AI is essential, and why AI should be relied upon with care.
Deezer has redefined its music streaming service with a new visual identity and branding by Koto Studio. The redesign centers around a heart-shaped logo that symbolizes a love for music, fostering a sense of community among its users. The redesign includes a dynamic design system featuring the Deezer SANS typeface and flexible UI elements that create a cohesive and emotionally resonant user experience across all brand touchpoints.
In his posters celebrating Paris 2024, Ugo Gattoni vividly depicts the city with micro-stories centered around the iconic Eiffel Tower and Stade de France, symbolic landmarks in the French capital. The illustrations also represent several sports, including the four new modalities added to this edition of the games: breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing. Using Art Deco influences as inspiration, the Olympic Poster and Paralympic Poster have been designed together for the first time.
Dodge Charger Daytona introduced a brand-new electric muscle car with a fresh redesign. It features two variants that balance high performance with electric efficiency. Its innovative sound design mimics traditional muscle car growls, and strategic design choices prioritize power over extended range. Despite this electric leap, Dodge retains its commitment to petrol enthusiasts by planning a refreshed internal combustion Charger, ensuring a diverse lineup that caters to traditional and futuristic automotive preferences.
The future of UI design will involve more voice-activated devices, like the Humane AI Pin, that allow users to interact with websites, read images, "click" buttons, "fill in" forms, and complete tasks using voice commands. This shift could lead to a focus on creating interfaces that seamlessly integrate with AI technologies, ensuring a user-friendly experience for both humans and machines.
Jakob’s Law counteracts the tendency to think that products are special snowflakes. MAYA argues for designs that push the envelope in product innovation while remaining familiar and acceptable to users. Gaiman’s Law suggests that users are good at identifying problems but bad at proposing effective solutions.
AI won’t take designers’ jobs (yet), but it makes them much more accessible. Designers shouldn’t use generative AI to reinvent the wheel - use generative AI in sparing steps, always add a human touch, and stick with it even if you fail at first.
DetailsPro is a next-gen design app that can design mockups, screens, and more without writing SwiftUI code.
With Bezi, build a prototype on a desktop, review it on mobile, and open the immersive prototype in your VR headset or mobile AR.
Poline is a unique tool that generates color palettes by harnessing the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates.
Drawing on his experiences transitioning from print advertising to digital design, Anton Sten, a product designer, advocates for applying traditional design principles within the digital domain, emphasizing their timeless relevance. He critiques the current trend towards speed over substance in digital design, urging a thoughtful approach that respects the meticulousness and finality inherent in print design to enhance quality and consistency in digital work.
In the digital world, user experience (UX) is governed by "laws" that are cause-and-effect relationships crafted by psychology, programming, and design experts. These help to predict user behavior and create intuitive interfaces. This article introduces seven essential laws for UX designers, focusing on understanding and leveraging user psychology and design principles to improve digital interactions and ensure their designs are familiar, accessible, efficient, and memorable.
Marcus Engman, Ikea's Creative Director, notes the growing necessity for design thinking in solving global challenges, particularly in creating affordable, sustainable living. He also discusses the role of new technologies and production methods and the importance of not always creating new products but rather solving underlying issues such as mobility and sustainability in design.
Visually impaired passengers on the Tokyo metro system use recorded bird sounds to guide them to exits - a superb example of unintrusive design. The system illustrates the importance of contextual innovation, understanding user journeys, and open collaboration.
The stunning spirals and flowing patterns of Florian Görlitz's moving sculptures lead to fantastic optical illusions and capture the viewer's eye. Music festivals often commission Görlitz's work since his bright colors and psychedelic designs fit perfectly with electronic dance music and raves.
A new Fender 70th Anniversary Stratocaster edition celebrates the long-lasting appeal of a musical legend and an icon of industrial design. From the entry-level Player models to the American Professional II series, this special series covers the history of the mythical model.
In 2026, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) will require physical controls in cars for them to earn a five-star rating. The maximum safety rating will only be given to vehicles with physical buttons, dials, or stalks for hazard warning lights, indicators, windscreen wipers, SOS calls, and horns. Despite increasing complaints, manufacturers like Tesla and Volkswagen keep pushing touch-sensitive interfaces for basic vehicle controls, mainly because they're more cost-efficient.
Two DeepMind alumni, Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang, have released a video-generation tool called Haiper. Apart from generating video from text prompts, Haiper lets users animate images and repaint videos. The tool will soon offer video extensions. Haiper has raised $13.8 million in a seed round led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from 5Y Capital.
Deutsche Telekom recently unveiled its Concept T project, which shows consumers what the future of communications may look like using advanced technology. Concept View lets users make video calls and interact with other digital activities using a holographic virtual assistant, Emma. With Concept Level, users can re-configure their routers using a variety of interchangeable modular elements designed in geometric shapes to look more like a sculpture than a router. Concept Buddy is an AI-based digital assistant companion that provides reminders, assists with calls, makes online purchases, and helps with other tasks.
Jakob Nielsen thinks that accessibility is too expensive and claims that the accessibility movement has been a miserable failure. His ideas are causing further harm: he’s telling companies they’re right not to invest in accessibility, failing to mention that a lack of training or understanding of digital accessibility contributes to perceived failure.
Inclusive design makes digital content accessible and usable by as many people as possible, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. Designers should keep layouts simple to help screen readers read in the correct order, use built-in heading styles and plain language, include captions for videos, provide descriptions for images, and support text resizing up to 200%.
Design systems are stable and sufficient core libraries of assets, docs, tools, and practices for designers and developers. A system and its adopters may live with it for years, so everyone must understand what it is, why it was made, and the scale of the effort and reward that went into each generation of the system.
Framer components inspired by Dieter Rams’ design principles.
AI-powered image, icon, and copy generator plugin for Figma.
This Tailwind CSS UI Kit simplifies the building of beautiful responsive web applications.
Dark mode has evolved into an essential aspect of web design. AI empowers designers to focus on more creative and strategic aspects of design. AR has the potential to increase user engagement and conversion rates dramatically. Minimalism and maximalism capture users’ attention in different ways, and both are here to stay.
Design Engineers are naturals at design infrastructure — the underlying tools and systems that scale design. We are navigating what seems to be a tech paradigm shift with LLMs, AI applications, and multi-device experiences. Design Engineers will be this decade’s Data Scientists.
In F.C. Variable, Rob en Robin combined illustration and variable fonts to allow users to tweak the shape and size of a goalpost via sliders. Using a program intended to create fonts, the pair designed illustrations instead, keeping the same amount of control variable fonts offer. You can see the result on the project's page and manipulate it live.
The reason sliders are bad UX isn't just that your finger covers up the values. Controlling them is hard - their values can't be clearly labeled, they're hard to squeeze on small screens, and they have an upper limit.
In his work, Ukrainian artist Denis Gonchar weaves a tapestry of visual storytelling inspired by his homeland's folklore, mythology, and history. A cultural ambassador for Ukraine, Gonchar represents creativity, innovation, and pride in culture.
Relying solely on generative AI for accessible front-end design is impractical and undesirable due to AI's lack of human nuance, potential for incorrect or inaccessible code, false authority, and hindrance to innovation in accessible design.
Pepsi has just revealed its first major global redesign in 14 years with a bang through mesmerizing light shows and giant can displays across 120 markets worldwide. Iconic landmarks became canvases for the refreshed logo. The reimagined logo maintains the brand's iconic circular design while adding a bold modern twist to symbolize Pepsi's unapologetic and innovative spirit.
YouTube Music's web version now features a redesigned Now Playing experience similar to its Android counterpart, with a full-screen layout, minimized app bar, enhanced controls, and a new mini player docked at the bottom. The revamped design has been gradually introduced over recent weeks. YouTube Music has also added support for offline downloads.
Apple has updated a patent involving a Glass iMac design with intriguing features such as a full secondary backside display, suggesting that the company plans to innovate beyond conventional designs. While the utility of this dual-sided feature remains speculative, it signifies Apple's interest in protecting and implementing the concept.
Designing web experiences that are desirable, feasible, and viable helps create deep connections with users that endure through evolving trends and behaviors. The DFV model focuses on understanding user needs and expectations by first assessing desirability, then evaluating feasibility, which focuses on the idea's practicality and reachability within your team's constraints, and then determining viability - whether the project fits your organization's goals.
David Hoang, Replit's VP of Marketing and Design, discusses how AI transforms product design and development and its role in the company's team and products. Hoang equates AI to systems design, which designers are familiar with. The new technological revolution should be embraced instead of feared. Designers should focus on what AI can augment, automate, and replace.
The Bauhaus, Marcel Duchamp, Kool Herc, the Sex Pistols, and the Memphis Group thrived on principles initially seen as flawed or bad. Yet, each profoundly reshaped our cultural and aesthetic landscapes. Bad design is not something to avoid - it’s a critical component not just of the creative process but of living.
A growing gallery of 404-page designs, including lost pages, error pages, and pages not found.
This Figma file includes 36 hand-crafted textures that can be recolored and edited.
With over 100 pre-built layouts, this collection will help you speed up your Framer projects.
Wonda offers a simplified and automated approach to managing marketing tasks, providing a clear overview of campaigns through an AI-driven dashboard. The company wants to bring calmness and simplification to an otherwise hectic marketing world. Hence, the Good Habit team developed the idea of the peace symbol, which stands at the center of Wanda's visual identity.
It's not the technology that makes AI imagery so bad, but the clichés and superficial creative ambitions of those who use it. In other words, they lack taste, and AI can't generate good taste. Taste is crucial for designers to create interesting, unique work, as it allows them to navigate the possibilities made possible by technology and global connectivity.
AI does not have to be anthropomorphized, conversational, or even visible to the user to add value to an experience. Designers should consider more diverse ways to integrate AI into products through personalization, predictive analytics, strategic automation, and automating customer support.
There are no original ideas - but there are original executions.
The design philosophy in China now adheres to the principles of modern design, heavily influenced by the Bauhaus movement and minimalism, focusing on functionality and human-centered design.
Monotype's font quiz lets you discover your soulmate based on your font personality.
Reddit's recent user interface tweaks and removal of certain features on desktop are causing frustration among users. These alterations, which mimic its mobile app and hint at the discontinuation of the old Reddit design, are unnecessary transformations that affect user navigation and experience.