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Adobe Illustrator's new Dimension tool simplifies the labeling of product dimensions. A handy tool for packaging, interior design, and fashion, Dimension allows you to plot distances, angles, and radii within your artwork, scaling dimensions as your artwork is resized.
Google is testing a new interface design for its core search app that targets increased visibility featuring a revamped search bar and colorful quick-action buttons. Detached from Google's standard monochrome design format and principles of Material You, this development offers insights into a future post-Material You design strategy.
Figma employs engineering critiques to encourage divergent perspectives and unlock team progress on new concepts. These sessions, inspired by the company's design team methods, offer a space for employees to brainstorm approaches to technical problems and provide feedback on ongoing work through a collaborative process that involves the entire organization.
When you have a large language model, everything looks like an opportunity for a chat-based assistant. Only some problems need to be solved with AI. Focusing on the problem first allows for the exploration of alternative solutions, benchmarking, and evaluation, leading to the most suitable solution.
The accessibility movement hasn't accomplished much despite three decades of effort. Users with disabilities still face many challenges due to user experiences that do not take their characteristics into account. Handcrafting optimized user experiences for each category of disabled users has failed as it is too costly and fragmented. However, a generative user interface could adapt to any user, regardless of context.
Using Kosmik's infinite canvas interface, you can insert text, images, videos, PDFs, and links that can be viewed and worked upon in a side panel.
Trace lets you quickly prototype SwiftUI from your Figma designs. Preview, view code, edit, and export as you go.
Turn your Figma or Adobe XD designs into production-ready frontend code for mobile apps and the web in seconds.
Companies with innovation-focused cultures are three times more profitable. Despite its benefits, creativity is difficult to achieve and maintain. People matter, but it's also about creating an environment that encourages breakthrough thinking and spreading divergent ideas.
Hans Zimmer, the genius behind The Dark Knight and Gladiator soundtracks, played a crucial role in setting the epic scenes in Dune: Part Two. The movie's score evokes an industrial, mechanical, and brutal audio landscape, a departure from the German composer's usual orchestral music. Zimmer's sonic world was designed through a collaboration across departments before the cameras started rolling involving conversations about the book that inspired the movie.
Despite its ability and usefulness as a tool, recent trends and standards have rendered the Internet into an unpredictable and frustrating user experience. The petition for a usable internet calls for the end of pop-ups, a reduction in notifications, a stop to the signaling of untrue importance, a reduction in UI complexity, and a reduction of visual stimulation.
French designer Clémence Valade incorporates anthropology and sociology into her designs and is firmly committed to sustainability. She aims to create functional and sustainable products and embody a frugal aesthetic through user-centric design, research, and collaboration with craftsmen.
This year's Canva Create offers a unique opportunity to connect with the Canva community, industry experts, and the Canva team through sessions that will empower you to elevate your visual communication skills. The event will be held in person on March 23, with over 50 speakers, 15 sessions, and workshops for the first time.
Safari 17.4 introduces a new HTML form control for Switches. Switches are a popular control on mobile platforms and in a large variety of UI frameworks, but until now, they haven't been built into the web platform.
Tubi's new logo keeps its purple aesthetic but swaps out the orange and red hues for neon yellow. The new color palette aims to give viewers a "bold and mischievous" experience. Gone is the black background on the app's home screen display, replaced by the bright signature purple that's part of the original design accented with white and yellow.
Google introduced a new hybrid OS interface for Wear OS at MWC that enhances battery life. Notably, the OnePlus Watch 2 now boasts up to 100 hours of use. Compatibility with other smartwatches depends on each OEM’s architecture and power strategy. However, there's anticipation that other smartwatches will adopt at least some aspects of this battery-optimizing feature.
YouTube's recent desktop UI update has received significant backlash from users. The new layout features a grid of thumbnails underneath videos, leading to complaints about sensory overload. It is hard to find positive feedback about the change, and it's unclear if the design will revert.
Like its default font predecessors, Aptos is optimized for the technology of its time. The font helps people comfortably read text on screens for extended periods and it also looks immaculate in print. Microsoft commissioned five leading typeface designers to develop five candidate font families and chose the winning one with the help of customer feedback.
Good design begins in your mind. To arrive at the best solution, start by collecting and analyzing all the available info on the brand, product, competitors, and target audience. Similar companies often copy one another’s designs, so studying the logos from related business sectors makes sense.
The power of combining proactive and reactive AI lies in their complementary abilities to anticipate and respond to needs. This framing shifts away from AI technology mechanisms, instead emphasizing user experience. Intelligence is valuable when it offers better or different ways to do things within established and new categories.
Create professional animated content with Jitter. Use it to design on-brand animated UIs, videos, social media posts, websites, apps, logos, and more.
This free and simple set of illustrations will help you design better empty-state use cases.
Colormind is a color scheme generator that uses deep learning. It can learn color styles from photographs, movies, and popular art.
Metalab, founded by Andrew Wilkinson, has evolved from a local venture to a globally dispersed team of over 160 people, collaborating with iconic brands and expanding its services. The brand has recently undergone a refresh to reflect its growth and values involving a new logo, an adaptable star icon, a timeless typographic pairing, and a nuanced color palette that retains its signature purple. The refresh is aimed at invoking a sense of wonder both internally and in the client experience.
The concept of the Minimum Viable Product has evolved. Today, it's about refining and differentiating a product within a saturated market by iterating based on user feedback rather than simply validating new ideas quickly. Linear's journey in establishing its MVP illuminates the importance of focusing on a specific user base, leveraging waitlists to engage early adopters, and using customer feedback to know when a product is ready for a public launch.
Most working relationships involve NDAs. Remote jobs cut off access to all documents as soon as you're laid off. You don't want to have to beg your former colleagues for screenshots of your work. Ensure you constantly grab copies of ongoing projects, anonymize them if necessary, and even consider transforming them. Practicing in Public also offers an exciting alternative where you write articles or create YouTube videos showcasing your knowledge and experience.
Communicating ideas has always been and continues to be a primary goal of design. Designers spend considerable effort to convey complex emotions, processes, and concepts through visual abstractions. However, a simple well-written sentence is often more effective.
HMD Global, who made a Barbie phone with Mattel, wants to do more than just manufacture phones with the Nokia name on them. The company is about to release its first original smartphone, which will feature extreme repair capabilities and HMD Fusion, a development toolkit for producing smart outfits with physical design details, hardware interfaces, and APIs.
Justice Tech Solutions has designed a new laptop specifically for inmates. Securebook's transparent design allows security staff to easily inspect the device. It lacks USB ports, cameras, ethernet, and WiFi, blocking communication with the outside world.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company will make significant strides in General AI technology in the coming year. The company is refocusing its resources as it closes out its electric vehicle project. It plans to enhance products like Siri and iOS features with GenAI models, aiming for more sophisticated capabilities. Apple has been cautious in its GenAI developments, but it is starting to increase its presence in GenAI research and open-source contributions.
Figma has introduced over 15 new improvements to enhance prototyping, including resizable device frames for mobile prototypes and various editing speed optimizations like simpler interaction copying and advanced overlay modes. The update enhances performance, leading to 22% fewer loading spinners in common scenarios.
Shader is disrupting the augmented reality scene with its user-friendly no-code AR creation tool. The platform, led by former Snap design lead Darya Sesitskaya, enables the quick creation of custom effects, leveraging AI to generate AR filters from text prompts. It currently offers a beta iOS app for real-time AR camera effects. Shader has raised $580,000 for further development. It is planning to implement premium features and expand into social media integration and voice-to-AR capabilities.
Designers shouldn’t persist in dead-end jobs just because it’s easier to stay. They should see this time as a transitional career period, build up their portfolio, and leave for greener pastures.
This article looks at how AI can be applied to design systems. Use cases include writing component code, translating components across frameworks, writing unit tests, reviewing accessibility, writing documentation, and making documentation more accessible/inclusive.
UX Language is a comprehensive set of UX copywriting and style guidelines, with examples to reference, for creating products.
Turn yourself or your loved ones into characters in a whimsical cartoon world.
LinkedIn reported 1,490,000 design jobs in tech in October 2023. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects a 16% increase in digital designer jobs by 2032. NNG predicts that industry growth between now and 2050 will exceed previous records.
Between the current job market and the things AI can automate, being a designer can feel scary. However, designers will always have a purpose and a role because there are always things that must be designed.
A rare behind-the-scenes look at Apple's design process and what we may have gotten instead of the Dynamic Island. Various concepts for the Dynamic Island were considered, from the acceptable to the absurd. Some designs even proposed two notches. See how the notch evolved into the now ubiquitous Dynamic Island after six years of brainstorming.
ZDC is an IBM program that empowers designers, engineers, architects, and product managers to build user relationships.
Vintage furniture company Vinterior created the billboard ad mocking Ikea that has appeared alongside Ikea's posters at London Underground stations.
Samsung revealed a new wearable called the Galaxy Ring during the 2024 Mobile World Conference. The device gathers data on the wearer with advanced sensor technology to provide comprehensive health insights. It uses AI to make personal wellness recommendations and tailor health experiences.
In its latest funding round, Photoroom, an AI-based photo-editing startup from Paris, has secured $43 million at a $500 million valuation. Unlike most startups, Photoroom is training its models from the ground up. This requires a lot of computing power and constant negotiation for image rights with agencies and creators. The company plans to use the funding to double its staff and continue investing in R&D and infrastructure.
The LA Clippers have introduced a new logo and wordmark that pays homage to the team's legacy while infusing a modern and timeless aesthetic. It features a clipper ship and a circular badge emblem to symbolize forward momentum and a refreshed focus. This redesign, shaped by fan input, represents a significant glow-up from the previous version. Its navy blue motif and refined wordmark maintains the team's traditional colors but presents a classier, less cartoony appearance.
Years of layoffs have resulted in leaner teams, allowing experienced designers to focus on their craft instead of management. Design's return to craft is essential and unavoidable. Craft is about knowing how to use tools to go deep and specific. It helps you make good decisions and sweat the small details.
The authors of this report spoke to 25 leading creative agencies of all sizes to find out how they use AI in their day-to-day work. The answers were unanimous: so far, the agencies have used AI for art direction, storyboarding, humor, research, summarizing, consistency, coding, and to explain ideas.
A premise is a foundational belief that shapes a user’s behavior. Premises can normalize actions that people otherwise might not take due to being held back by existing norms. For example, Airbnb’s original premise was 'it’s ok to stay in strangers’ homes'.