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Researchers can automate, streamline, and enhance their workflow with AI-powered tools. There are many platforms available. This handy guide features five options you should consider. It describes them in detail, how to use them, and how much they cost.
In 1999, the Pantone Color Institute began selecting the Color of the Year to illustrate the relationship between culture and color. Its reception may be warmer than it once was.
UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold — backed by research findings and articles by designers and researchers.
Herman Miller’s latest version of its identity guidelines is an excellent example of a well-done style guide. It goes from abstract descriptions of the company's mission to details using color, typography, photography, illustrations, graphic elements, composition, motion, and more.
Alexandria Vernon's studio logo is arguably a character in Wonka as it weaves into the narrative of the protagonist's mother's handwriting. In this post, the artist discusses the wordmark's creation, the letter W's disproportional importance, and how it takes inspiration from Victorian typography.
Design studio Play collaborated with OpenAI to create an identity for OpenAI's DevDay conference. It centered its design around the concept of a "bit," the smallest unit of computer data, and used the concept creatively across various touchpoints, including the stage design and event swag. Play balanced modern design with familiar typography and warm colors to capture the essence of the conference and its focus on technology's role in our future.
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu's unique approach to building the Rabbit R1 included buying Tamagotchis for each team member, drawing inspiration from walkie-talkies, and considering phones in the user experience. The risk associated with integrating AI into the experience could be mitigated if the device looked and felt familiar. Lyu believes pursuing the hardware path will result in a more defensible business, especially if it is coupled with an attractive price point.
The MyArcade Atari Gamestation Portable, unveiled at CES 2024, features a 7-inch high-resolution display and over 200 preloaded Atari games. Several classic Atari 2600 features, including Trak-ball, paddle, and keypad, were incorporated into the portable format, along with a d-pad and ABXY buttons. The Atari Gamestation Portable is expected to launch in September or October 2024 with a price tag of $149.
Five potential roles for designers in an AI-driven world are Meta-Designer, Chief Ontology Officer, Coherence Generator, Drifting Clarifier, and Pattern Wrangler. These roles emphasize the importance of designers' ability to think creatively, solve complex problems, and work collaboratively.
There are three tree-testing metrics that designers should focus on: success rate, or how many users found the right category; directness, or the percentage of users who went to the right category immediately; and time spent, or the average amount of time elapsed from the beginning to the end of the task.
The opportunity gap survey measures how satisfied people are with current solutions compared to how important each insight is. It's the difference between the perceived importance and the perceived level of satisfaction. The more significant the gap between someone's essential beliefs and their current level of satisfaction, the bigger the opportunity.
A CSS-only loader configuration tool allows designers to customize and generate stunning website loaders. The generated loader code can be copied and pasted without installation or dependencies.
This website showcases the power of UI/UX animation in conveying the mood and character of a brand.
Elevate your Figma productivity by checking this fantastic list of shortcuts.
Kant believed that beauty is connected to our perception and a failure of rational understanding. At the same time, the sublime is a feeling of overwhelming power that awakens our moral sense of good and bad. Beauty and the sublime can be found in nature and art, but we must cultivate our taste and character to experience them fully.
The deep-rooted relationship we’re designing and have with our smart devices is creating significant issues that everyone avoids discussing — digital eye strain, dementia, and “Teck neck.” As designers, we are responsible for considering the long-term consequences of our creations and striving to create solutions that benefit everyone rather than just prioritizing profit or attention.
Lanny Smoot, the mind behind Disney's retractable lightsaber, has come up with another brilliant invention. With HoloTile, you can walk continuously without leaving the tile mat. The innovation has no immediate use case, but VR experiences are a strong candidate.
Sharefile's logo changed from dry and bureaucratic into something fun and engaging by making each check come to life in various ways, like animating into a vibrant star or a flywheel. Accompanied by a primary color palette of neutral colors and more vibrant, supportive hues, photography, 3D assets, illustrations, and animations, ShareFile's new look places people at its heart.
There are a lot of common and well-understood accessibility issues, but once you start designing more complex and diverse user experiences, there will be more edge cases. Less frequent but still essential examples include using color to communicate interactivity, traps in focus, inconsistent date fields, and unexpected navigation.
A negative space consists of the space around and between the main elements of an image. While often overlooked in design, they can create a significant impact when done correctly. This post explores the importance of negative space and how to adopt it with some excellent examples.
Brazil's banking giant, Banco Itaú, has unveiled a branding and visual identity redesign, marking a significant milestone as the bank approaches its 100th anniversary in 2024. Pentagram helped the in-house design team redesign the logo, the color palette, and the typography.
Google’s refinement of Material You components continues with an updated design for progress bars. Material 2's UI element was very straightforward with a boxier, neutral style. They now feature rounded corners, with the most significant difference being a gap between the active indicator (what has already been played, downloaded, etc.) and the “track” (remainder).
The Rabbit Handheld R1 AI device departs from conventional smartphone design and aims to revolutionize natural language input through AI. Unlike traditional virtual assistants, it responds to natural speech, understands context, and adapts to user behavior, making it a potentially significant advancement in user experience.
The costs of Poor UX are eating away at organizations' bottom lines, often in ways that executives don’t see. Designers need to focus on reducing costs and increasing revenue to get the attention of executives and senior stakeholders and prove the value of improving the user experience.
Product development involves considering both the needs and desires of users (from the Design perspective) and the financial and business goals of the organization (from the Business perspective). The Product perspective grinds these perspectives together to make specific choices and maintain a coherent effort to bring ideas to life.
If an artificially intelligent assistant could discern our problem's context and goal, it could point us towards features and workflows we are unaware of. The memory limitations of personal devices could eventually be resolved, allowing larger and more precise models to run locally. Artificial intelligence-powered tools could help us create connections and recommend new applications for the information we curate.
This collection features 48 vector Apple device icons that are fully scalable and customizable.
Be notified about the upcoming release of this package of valuable resources and tools that will help you master color as a product designer.
Fugoya allows you to spend more time on what you love to do by optimizing your freelance business operation.
In this interview, Adobe's VP of Generative AI talks about how the company is transforming into an AI powerhouse. Adobe mainly provides AI-powered tools and models for enhancing existing assets while protecting creators. Its generative AI imagery creates outputs that could be used anywhere, including in commercial content. This meant setting a high bar for training material: no copyrighted, trademarked, or branded sources.
Apple’s Macintosh computer turns 40 on January 24. Although Macintosh sales dropped by 25 percent from the previous year, Apple intends to keep making Macs slimmer, faster, and last much longer before recharging.
Data collected by UX researchers sometimes contradicts assumptions or opinions held by stakeholders. Advocating for our users has become particularly challenging as AI increases the tension between responsibility and speed. These four outspoken human-centered ethical design advocates share how they defend users, even when it's uncomfortable.
The visual identity for Ett Hem ('At Home' in Swedish) is unconventional, warm, and beautiful — especially in the luxury hotel market. It evokes an equal sense of the traditional and ultra-modern with a new typeface, surreal photography, short films, and playful illustrations.
High contrast mode can improve the legibility of text and readability of a UI. Common reasons for choosing this mode include low vision, photosensitivity, and eye injuries. This article helps you understand and configure this critical but often overlooked feature.
Samsung introduced new AI features to its Galaxy S24 series to improve the user experience. The Circle to Search feature lets users circle anything on the screen to trigger a search. Instant translation is now available in messaging, as are more contextual response suggestions. Smarter segmentation and grouping options will make it easier for users to organize their notes. Audio recordings can be seamlessly converted into structured text with the option of creating summaries.
Recraft, an AI graphic design generator, has secured a $12 million Series A funding round. Recraft focuses on providing professionals with foundational design elements, including vector images, style control, and brand consistency, unlike other AI design tools. It aims to empower professionals to create high-quality, consistent visuals for branding, marketing, and advertising.
Remedy and Rockstar Games are locked in a trademark dispute over the similarity of the 'R' in their logos. Rockstar claims they are too alike, while many believe the logos are distinct, leading to online speculation. Interestingly, despite the legal dispute, the two companies are collaborating on remastered Max Payne games.
In this article, the VP of Product Design at Slack discusses the importance of critique in the design process and offers advice for receiving and giving design feedback. People receiving critiques need to separate themselves from their work when seeking feedback, take control of the critique session, provide context for the design work, and actively listen to feedback. On the giving side, critiquers should be courteous, ask questions for clarity, be direct in their feedback, focus on the project's goals, and promote group dialogue for more robust discussions.
Validation messages are error messages related to users’ inputs: they communicate whether the data just entered was incomplete or incorrect. At the same time, notifications are informational messages that alert the user of general occurrences within a system and may not be directly tied to user input.
Designers presenting their research findings should identify their “five-second moment,” the core, brief experience that transforms the overall user experience. Additionally, they can use the “company launch test” to determine the best way to start their story, focusing on significant research points and tying them to metrics that matter to the audience.
CHUNK is a set of 600 consistent & commonly needed glyphs, all tailored to look nice and sharp at 16px. Icons come in three styles: filled, hollow, and duo (using two color shades).
A blueprint for service design, templates for design specifications, prototyping questions, impact/effort matrix, templates for usability testing reports, and scripts.
A showcase of beautiful icon designs from the iOS App Store.
There is much variation in how different screen readers announce currency formats. Even though there is no single standard to follow, some formatting techniques make financial data accessible to a broader audience.
UX designers are generalists who view the user experience holistically, treating branding and SEO equally as accessibility and performance. They are responsible for balancing the views of all the different specialists on the website so it provides the best user experience possible. As opposed to being another musician in an orchestra, UX designers ought to be the conductor who ensures a harmonious performance from all the specialists.
While AI images can be impressive and quick to create, they need more emotional depth and originality, which human creativity can provide. AI or not, images should be given the same attention as text, so designers should choose each visual carefully and place it in the right context. They should not let AI do their job, but use it as a tool.