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Designing for children is difficult as they tend to lose focus and motivation. Children quit when they get bored and move on if they can’t get anywhere quickly enough. They need steady achievements, so as designers, we need to appreciate, reward, and encourage small wins to develop habits and support learning with progress tracking and gamification.
Karin Meenen, a brand designer, is passionate about interior design, especially chairs. She draws lightheartedly, avoids too much overthinking, and focuses more on the process than the result before finishing things off with watercolor.
Creating interfaces in dark mode has become an essential feature for designers in recent years. These Figma plugins let you quickly preview your designs in dark mode, adjust colors and contrast easily, and streamline workflows to create consistent dark-themed interfaces.
In throwaway prototyping, a prototype is designed quickly with the expectation that it will be discarded after use. This methodology allows stakeholders to visualize and interact with a tangible representation of app functionality early in development.
Worldwide price increases are incoming for a wide range of Adobe CC and CC All Apps plans. All subscriptions now come bundled with AI art generator Firefly and light online design app Adobe Express. Annual billed monthly plans are up $2 to $22.99 for standalone app subscriptions. Monthly plans are going up by $3 and annual plans are increasing by $24.
The Da Vinci Eye Vision Pro lets users draw from a reference image by superimposing a transparent overlay on any surface via Apple's headset. Besides drawing, the app can also be used for sculpting, cutting, stenciling, and even cake decorating. Users can adjust transparency and move the overlay location using gesture controls.
Adobe's interactive dress contains 1,264 laser-cut and handworked polymers dispersed in liquid crystal petals that change shape as the model moves. Under each column of petals, a flexible printed circuit board facilitates the dress's ability to alternate shades of gray and ivory. The wearable garment made its runway debut on February 11th as part of Christian Cowan's FW24 show.
Webflow Designer needed a simple design with clear guidelines to assist users in navigating intuitively and efficiently. Its product team acted quickly by testing early concepts and making significant user experience changes with new and experienced Webflow community members. During the process, the company learned to value bold moves, integrate team members and decision-makers more effectively, and maintain high excitement and energy levels.
Design systems are the backbone of product design, ensuring consistency and efficiency across digital experiences by providing a unified language and structured framework. They encompass components, patterns, and foundational elements and are crucial for maintaining brand identity and coherence of user experience.
Product principles are invaluable because they provide a consistent guiding framework that transcends specific features or metrics. They help align teams, inspire creativity, and ensure the user experience remains coherent and user-centric throughout a product's development journey.
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Mastering the conversion from line icons to solid icons contributes significantly to the versatility of a system. When converting line icons to solid icons, designers should increase the thickness of lines inwards to maintain the size of the icon, turn inner lines into gaps, reduce the visual weight, distribute spaces evenly, and keep some shapes outlined.
Pixels are static representations of a dynamic form. Therefore, we are not delivering the actual product. Code-based design is superior in that sense. It doesn't result in one artifact that approximates the final deliverable that then requires translation into the deliverable itself. Instead, the artifact is the deliverable.
Technology changes too fast for designers to ground their work on current interaction paradigms. Human nature remains remarkably stable, regardless of how we interact with each other and the world. When considered together, it’s possible to develop timeless design skills by focusing on something other than UI.
When evaluating existing icons, designers should consider whether they’re recognizable, consistent with style, and legible at all sizes. In this article, the design team behind Streamline shares its meticulous design process for icons with us.
Meaningful design starts with content, considers structure or how the content will be organized and grouped, defines the layout, and adds style — colors, typography, and images.
Avatar components are not designed with people with two names or non-Latin characters in mind. Potential solutions for these edge cases and others include allowing a maximum of three initials, taking the last word for the last name, and disregarding numbers, non-Latin characters, and emojis.
Google is planning to revamp the login page for its products and services, aiming for a more modern look. The redesign will incorporate Google's Material Design 3 concepts, prioritizing a minimalist aesthetic.
According to a new patent filing, Apple is considering the intriguing possibility of a touchscreen MacBook that supports the Apple Pencil. The company is creating a MacBook with a built-in holder for the Apple Pencil above the keyboard. The stylus would handle a few different types of input. While removed from the chassis, it can be used as a pencil or simulated keyboard key, a touchpad, or a mechanical input interface.
A significant change will occur across Google Maps' mobile experience. When tapping a place, a new sheet design appears with close and share buttons in the top-right corner. Locations are no longer full-screen - a sliver of the map background can be seen at the top instead. The directions search experience has changed for entering addresses and transportation methods have been moved to the bottom.
Figma is where designers meet, but Jira is where product teams discuss features and workflows at a higher level. Integrating and syncing these two sources of truth is the best approach to improving cross-functional collaboration, optimizing context sharing, and enhancing consistency. In this post, the product development teams at Ingka Group, One.com, and Condé Nast share their tips and tools for achieving that elusive flow state between designers and developers.
Use this versatile GUI tool to support users when they need to make a decision considering multiple attributes of a small number of offerings. Consistency in content, scannability, and a simple layout are some of the most important qualities of successful comparison tables.
Threads' active users stalled around 10 million despite the 100 million accounts created in the first two days after it launched. Fast onboarding got in the way of long-term retention, lots of users found the content salesy and boring, and Threads' network effects were nowhere near those of X.
An online pixel art generator that includes a built-in pixel art studio. Designers can copy/paste, use layers, brush, blend AI with their personal touch, and use AI inpainting to adapt generated art.
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Keep design statuses visible without cluttering your canvases with unnecessary components and stickers.
Building your designs is a continuation and expansion of making them tangible. Designers shouldn't just code - they should understand that they are builders. This has nothing to do with being able to ship production code - its about experiencing the build materials, their constraints, how they fit together, and the production workflow.
Despite the convenience, simply showing a QR code doesn't guarantee that users will take action. From clearly stating its purpose to users to making sure codes are big enough, these 13 guidelines will help you design QR codes that are noticed and acted upon.
Data storytelling is building a compelling narrative based on complex data and analytics that help tell your story and influence and inform a particular audience. It helps designers make data-driven decisions, build bridges between teams, tell the story of a design, and create more efficient designs.
Designers studying graphic design learn from famous designers like Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, and Paul Rand. This article introduces graphic designers from the African diaspora who also changed how graphic design is seen.
The design of disabled styles for UI controls often leaves users unable to distinguish fields from each other or even see a field. Even if they clog the user interface, fields should not be turned off in place of instructions and error messages.
Saint Laurent Babylone has opened in Paris. Featuring rare books, out-of-print publications, and records carefully curated by its creative director, Anthony Vaccarello, this space reflects the iconic Saint Laurent Rive Gauche boutique and Paris' history in literature and the arts.
Pentagram redesigned Scientific American's masthead - it retained the basic construction of the former logo but is now more space-efficient. Lower contrast between thick and thin strokes provided a bolder mark. Pentagram also updated Scientific American's print edition to improve its readability.
Google's Waze app significantly changed its reporting feature, enhancing the user experience. Users can now easily report road conditions such as traffic, crashes, police activity, and bad weather with streamlined menus and faster submission. However, some options, like roadkill, have been removed.
Swatchbook, a materials marketplace platform, is releasing Remix for Apple Vision Pro to reduce the time-consuming process involved in fashion design drastically. Fashion designers can see their designs in life-size and even walk around them as if they were floating in space. Designers can then select any element of their garment to replace with another material or color to see how it looks without waiting weeks or months for a physical sample.
Ideally, aesthetics and functionality merge seamlessly in digital design, but that isn’t always the case. Whether a project focuses on aesthetics or functionality, the designer’s ultimate goal should always be to create a positive and meaningful experience for the user.
Designers shouldn’t treat their portfolios as an archive of their work, but as a pitch or a proposal. They should avoid deciding which work to showcase in their portfolio when they’re desperately looking for a job because these decisions are made under duress. Instead, they should focus on the pieces of work that will make them stand out.
Metacognition is the process of thinking about one's thought processes. This is a crucial skill for designers as it enables them to evaluate their designs critically, identify knowledge gaps, and adapt their creative approaches. Cornell University's "Multi-Self" tool provides real-time biofeedback on designers' emotional states based on their neural data. Externalizing this typically internal information should lead to valuable self-reflection and expanded creative exploration.
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Under the leadership of ex-Apple executive and Brilliant Labs CEO Bobak Tavangar, Frame has introduced what it calls a paradigm shift in daily living. Weighing only 39 grams, Frame is manufactured using engineering-grade nylon plastic for comfort and durability. It features a high-resolution vivid display with 3,000 nits of brightness, a front-facing spatial camera, and an integrated microphone.
A design system stabilizer is a measure of trust and respect earned through collaboration with your team. Over time, a successful system can only be maintained and evolved based on authority, value, and tradition.
Air India opted to sideline historical nuances in its rebranding to position the airline within the global market. The airline sought to modernize its image while appealing to a broader, global audience, potentially at the cost of some cultural distinctions.
The 10 best logo redesigns for 2023 came from Bolt, Nickelodeon, Sundance, Mozilla Thunderbird, Hodder and Stoughton, Jell-O, Nokia, 7Up, Burberry, and Pepsi.