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Video generation models could provide a promising way to build general-purpose simulators of the physical world. OpenAI combined text-conditional diffusion models with videos and images of varying lengths, resolutions, and aspect ratios to generate its outputs to create Sora. Based on a transformer architecture, Sora can create a minute of high-fidelity video using spacetime patches of video and image latent codes.
The IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker browser extension helps you quickly scan web pages for accessibility issues and create a report of your accessibility audit. Combining its analysis with more complex automated tools and manual testing provides a solid foundation for tackling accessibility issues effectively.
Most front-end developers are not concerned about translating every single detail of your design into code. Becoming a design engineer is a valid option for those looking to transform their vision into the reality users experience.
Ideas on how sticky sections can be animated while exiting the viewport.
James Cook's art has gained international acclaim for its pure use of letters and symbols from vintage typewriters. Over the past ten years, Cook has drawn over 300 portraits of celebrities and pop culture icons and recreated famous paintings from artists ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Banksy.
The NFL collaborated with local artists after receiving numerous complaints about boring logo designs. Super Bowl's 2025 logo, designed by Tahj Williams, queen of the Black Masking Indian tribe, is bright, bold, and vibrant, like New Orleans.
The interface for TikTok's native app in the Vision Pro will look familiar to anyone who has used TikTok’s apps, with a vertically oriented player for videos and buttons to like, comment, favorite, and share. TikTok has taken advantage of the increased screen real estate offered by the Vision Pro to spread out other interface elements. Comments and creator profiles are displayed on a pane to the right so they don’t obscure the primary video player.
An Adobe patent application seeks to balance output from generative image models for "image-to-image translation tasks" to create images with "minority attributes" properly. The design titan wants to correct the bias in generated images by oversampling images with specific minority characteristics in image datasets. These attributes can include many physical characteristics, including hair types, colors, baldness, and accessories.
The new Google Calendar has been extensively redesigned to take advantage of Material Design standards, resulting in a modern and user-friendly interface with updated icons, a vibrant color scheme, and a layout that helps you quickly find what you are looking for. Various new features simplify event planning and scheduling, including smart suggestions and enhanced integration. A simple click on the 'Use new Calendar' button initiates the transformation.
Major tech companies that were once considered leaders in design are downsizing design executives' positions due to a correction in the expectations of seasoned design leaders and a pause in hiring. Salaries for these design leaders have dropped 15% to 20% from their height two years ago when salaries were notoriously high, as companies now want more from workers while paying less for it.
There are some excellent outcomes from AI for the disability community, but the future looks bleak overall. In the health care system, algorithmic tools and AI have been working against disabled people due to the nature of their treatment. The technology community must embrace disabled people from the start, including them as designers and in other product roles, so they can contribute to shaping the technologies that mediate the world around them.
A growing number of UX tasks are being replaced by AI tools, putting the role of human UX professionals at risk. While it might make economic sense to have lean teams equipped with AI, doing so raises questions about the creativity, empathy, and nuanced understanding that humans bring. On the other hand, there's compelling evidence that UX writing and content design is still a promising field.
A set of checklists that allow designers to assess their Figma components. The content is divided into two sections: 'Design' features items that can aid in crafting a component and 'Testing' contains considerations for testing a component before final publication.
This thoughtful and helpful guide visually explains how the SwiftUI layout system works.
Imagifly enables you to instantly access your keyword library while creating a new prompt, saving it, and making an organized library with your frequently used keywords.
The Playground, a sister brand to Pangram Pangram, introduced a new experimental digital experience with physical and phenomenal products. In this post, its founder Mat Desjardins discusses the foundry's origins and its move into physical realms, a shift rooted in the desire to nurture and cross-pollinate different fields. He also talks about his future collaborations, hopes for the future, and the importance of creating what you want to see in the world.
Designers should pause and recognize their work's value to a client’s business when calculating rates. When talking with potential clients, they need to ask the right questions: How long will this work be used for? What will be the potential viewership? Will this be attracting extra business for the client?
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the ten usability heuristics, which redefined the UX design industry and remain helpful today. Jakob Nielsen, the legend who created it, provides a fascinating first-person insight into the process. Additionally, Nielsen debunks some myths about heuristics and explains why they can and should still be applied to UX today.
Ragged Edge rebranded Go.Compare as the "Champions of Choice," focusing on its unique selling proposition and integrity while retaining the iconic mascot Gio Compario in an evolved, animated form and introducing a fresh, illustrative style to distinguish it in the competitive market.
Jannis Maroscheck's "Latent Figures" explores the evolution of design shapes through history, contrasting the structured approach of his previous work with a new focus on the more elusive, machine-learning-generated forms within design.
The Audi TT, a design icon epitomizing Bauhaus ambitions with its distinctive style that has evolved significantly over its 25-year history, concludes its journey with final editions that showcase a shift from its original aesthetic to more powerful and aggressive variants.
Bart Andre, Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer, is leaving the tech giant, marking the end of a team once led by the legendary designer. Andre joined the company in 1992 with Jony Ive. In addition to helping create Apple's aesthetic over the past three decades, Andre is one of the biggest Apple patent holders.
OpenAI's new video generator, Sora, marks a significant advancement in AI video generation. Sora produces highly detailed and dynamic 60-second videos. Its release is on hold until safety and misinformation tests are complete due to OpenAI's cautious approach to preventing misuse and ensuring responsible technology deployment. Sora has impressive capabilities, but it finds physics simulation and cause-and-effect scenarios challenging.
Mark Zuckerberg compared Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 headset in a video, favoring the Quest 3. Zuckerberg noted the Quest 3's lighter weight, greater motion capability, physical hand controllers, and hand tracking as advantages over the Vision Pro. He acknowledges Apple's hardware and entertainment capabilities but emphasizes the Quest 3's affordability and Meta's head start in the market. Zuckerberg hints at Apple's potential in the long run due to its hardware and developer ecosystem advantages.
Five lessons from AirBnb turning into a design leader: company leaders with design background make a difference, clear direction for projects will turn millions in expenditure into billions in revenue, allowing designers to experiment rewards the company, building in public helps with learning while growing, and innovation comes in different forms — design can be one such form.
Privacy isn’t an issue of secrecy - it means allowing people to consent and control their personal information. Designers have a particular responsibility to design for privacy. They should avoid deceptive patterns, maintain transparency on who can access personal data, use language with care, provide tools for data protection, make sure privacy features are discoverable, remind users of privacy features, and never change privacy settings without letting users know.
Tesler’s law, also known as the law of conservation of complexity, states that for any system, a certain amount of complexity cannot be reduced. Designers should ensure that the burden is lifted from users as much as possible by dealing with inherent complexity during design and development.
Generate UI wireframes in seconds based on a provided topic or description.
This handy Figma plugin scans through your design system library, enabling you to automate color token matching, eliminating guesswork and manual comparisons.
Find safe color combinations with predefined colors. The site provides pass/fail scores for each combination according to WCAG accessibility guidelines.
Accessibility for data visualization extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create a useful experience. There are two key topics when designing accessible charts: accessible chart colors and using something other than color to convey meaning.
Searching for the perfect type pair can be fun but quickly becomes time-consuming. Despite the availability of many AI-based font pairing solutions on the market, the process still requires inspiration, intuition, and a deep understanding of typography. These five experts share their favorite typeface pairs, all created without artificial intelligence.
'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind' at Tate Modern in London showcases the artist and activist's work, tracing it from the 1950s to the present in an immersive experience that embodies the instructive spirit at the heart of Ono's work.
UX consultants and designers in UXDA have challenged themselves to design the next generation of spatial banking experiences.
Tiger Woods is teeing off a new venture with the launch of Sun Day Red, a lifestyle brand that marks a significant shift in his illustrious career. Sun Day Red’s distinctive branding, a tiger adorned with 15 stripes, weaves Woods' legacy into the brand’s fabric, nodding to his 15 major championship wins.
Marvel released an exclusive look at the new logo for Fantastic 4 along with the cast reveal. Retro-futurism is apparent with the movie poster's pale yellow and bright blue color combination, evoking the original comic's signature color scheme and typography straight from a '60s TV show.
Airbnb's CFO David Stephenson says that the company should harness the power of generative AI to create cutting-edge interfaces that provide users with highly personalized and adaptive experiences. Implementing AI will require many years of effort. Airbnb recently bought GamePlanner.AI, a stealth AI startup led by Adam Cheyer, one of the developers behind Apple's Siri, as part of its AI expansion.
Keyframer is powered by a large language model that can generate CSS animation code from static SVG images and prompts. This represents a giant leap in integrating artificial intelligence into the creative process and may also hint at what’s to come in newer generations of Apple products such as the iPad Pro and Vision Pro.
iOS 18, the next major iPhone and iPad operating systems update, may feature visionOS visual elements. Despite many similarities in Apple's OSes, the company has maintained distinct design languages. visionOS has already influenced Apple's newest Apple TV update, tvOS 17.2.
This article provides insights on streamlining the handoff process between designers and developers. It emphasizes clear communication through annotations, organization of files with labels, archiving old designs, and utilizing components effectively to ensure a successful and efficient handoff.
For design to be understood in a business context, its purpose needs to be defined in a way that is distinct from and compatible with the purpose of other professions. It also needs quality criteria and accountability for design solutions.
These arrows are great for wireframes, storyboards, mockups, websites, and any asset you want to add a hand-drawn feel to.
Take your pick from more than 2,000 different Memoji images.
App Fuel gives you the playbooks to build successful mobile apps. The site contains user flows and a library of app screens.
Style Tuner is a Midjourney feature that enables prompting to be used on a larger scale for projects and artistic direction across various concepts. Although it has limitations, it can convert several attributes of an image to be applied to other prompts. This article shows you how to use it and what you can expect.
Most art is a response to something, so it does not have to be original. An artist might paint a canvas or take a photo of a beautiful landscape to express it. This creates a copy that has been transformed by the artist's mind, heart, and hands.