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Sony is showcasing new sideplates for the PlayStation 5 "slim" at CES 2024, offering blue, silver, and red color options. These sideplates feature a matte finish and can be added to disc and digital console versions. Overall, the design is receiving positive feedback for its nostalgic appeal.
The Responsible AI User Experience team at Google aims to apply responsible AI development practices to its user-centered user experience (UX) design process. The multidisciplinary team includes designers, engineers, researchers, and strategists who oversee the entire user-centered UX design process, prioritizing user problems with significant scale and severity to maximize GenAI's positive impact.
Today's business models aim toward user-centric and business-centric approaches when designing and developing a project, leading to an environmental disaster on our planet. Planet-centric design instructs us to switch focus from humans to the planet, from quantity to quality, short-term to long-term, and from market-fit to planet-fit.
A highly configurable data visualization kit made in Figma. It includes basics like Line, Pie/Donut, Gantt, and Bar/Column charts and advanced charts like Barbell, Lollipop, and Diverging charts.
Paste random or real data into text layers and components easily. Data Lab supports many sources, including Google Sheets, CSV, API, and JSON data.
svghub is an SVG library of over 70 custom-color squiggles, scribbles, shapes, and more.
There are few unified solutions for designing data-heavy interfaces. The Advanced Data Visualization library solves this problem, providing customizable charts to promote better communication between designers, analysts, and engineers.
We are witnessing an increase in rapid trend turnaround led by an increase in our interest in these trends. The looming visual trends ready to take over 2024 are Graphic windows, which uses frames as a graphic device, Kidcore with its doodles, cartoons, and artwork, Eerie softness full of dream-like weirdness, “Internet inspired” based on 90s game aesthetics, and an increased use of serif script fonts.
Design in the AI-powered era will be about communication, vision, and understanding rather than solitary pixel pushing. Our daily tasks will be less about creating individual artifacts and more about selecting, assembling, and styling the elements, curating the entire experience.
How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.
SURREAL's sarcastic billboards embody a "can't be bothered" attitude that embraces imperfection. Featuring typos, Microsoft Word art, and hilariously primitive design, these ads deserve their self-proclaimed title of "laziest adverts of the year."
Research from Pendo suggests that 80% of added features are never or rarely used, even for established products. Often, UX researchers don't ask users to predict their future behavior since that information can be unreliable. Nevertheless, frameworks are available to assist in understanding user behavior and improving adoption rates.
A new company called Clicks Technology has announced an iPhone case with a built-in keyboard on the bottom. Clicks brings the tactility and precision of a physical keyboard to the iPhone so people don’t have to wait until they return to their desks to create or communicate with the satisfying feedback only actual buttons can provide.
Dutch startup Nuwa has developed what they claim to be the "world's most advanced pen". The Nuwa Pen uses an inbuilt camera system, motion sensors, and algorithms to capture handwritten text on any paper, storing the notes in their app and allowing users to organize, share, and integrate them with various apps.
Three lessons from InVision’s rise and fall: marketing hype can only take you so far, teams need to prioritize small wins and improvements before it’s too late, and acquiring great companies instead of catching up with the paradigm shift doesn’t help.
Pagination makes it easier for users to transverse many results by presenting them in defined amounts per page. Designers should use numbered representation, truncate page navigation, consider using “first” and “last” buttons, show the count of items per page on top of long lists, and consider using an infinite scroll.
Feature quality — usability, accessibility, performance, and consistency — starts high and stays high. The quantity of completed features resembles an “S curve” over time, accelerating gradually before flattening as the launch approaches. Feature stability increases throughout implementation, but reversals are common and expected to refactor things already made based on what was learned.
A competitive usability evaluation looks at how competitors do things, what's working, and what's not. With it, you can make objective decisions, reduce risks, improve value-driven design, and understand different approaches to similar design challenges. The two methods of conducting these evaluations are competitive reviews, which involves looking at a series of related products, and competitive testing, which consists of testing your and your competitors' designs.
Turn SVGs into high-quality 3D renders that can be adjusted with parameters such as resolution, lighting, and shadow effects.
With Kartiv, you can use AI to turn product descriptions into compelling and customizable images and videos easily and quickly.
Uniqode allows you to upload your brand’s logo and add it to the center of your QR Code, change code color and background, and download it in many formats, including SVG, EPS, and PNG.
Designers, entrepreneurs, and founders answer, “How has entrepreneurship changed your perception and practice of design?” They share lessons on value creation versus performance theater, how to pick battles, shifting to a revenue-generating mindset, finding a balance between revenue, impact and effort, and seeing the big picture.
Naturally, designers will prefer library components that cover more stuff, including interactions and animations. However, that only sometimes provides the best output. In some cases, Figma needs to be more sophisticated to demonstrate an interactive behavior adequately.
Three new categories are being introduced for the 13th edition of Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards: Interior Design, Advertising, and Type Design. The distinguished panel of judges includes design anthropologist Dori Tunstall, Google's VP of Design Ivy Ross, Pentagram's Giorgi Lupi, and Marcus Engman, IGNKA's creative director. Entries are judged based on innovation, impact, and aesthetics across over 50 categories.
Test your usability knowledge by taking NNG’s latest UX quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that they published last year.
Market research firm Hanover found that 75% of companies revamped their visual identities post-2020, while UpCity’s 2022 survey reported a 51% change in brand strategy due to the pandemic. Two key drivers stand out: necessity and opportunity.
Illustration challenges are a great way to reboot your creative brain because they offer structure, motivation, and a sense of community to help you out when you can't get motivated by yourself. These challenges are designed not just to help you create consistently, but also to explore new ideas, refine your skills, and even step out of your comfort zone.
The rebrand introduces a new wordmark inspired by Herman Miller's late 1960s use of Helvetica, with the typeface Söhne from Klim Type Foundry. While the Herman Miller logo remains mostly unchanged, the rebrand emphasizes a complete design system that can adapt across various touchpoints, paying homage to the brand's rich history and iconic modernist design.
Google Maps is testing a new feature that displays 3D buildings during navigation on the mobile app and Android Auto. Users can enable the 3D view from the layers menu on the Maps home screen. When a 3D building obstructs a route, it becomes semi-transparent to allow for better navigation.
In this blog post, Miro's Chief Product and Technology Officer Jeff Chow discusses the future after Freehand's acquisition. Miro users will be able to enjoy features like workspaces, intelligent canvases, and smart objects that are popular with Freehand users. Freehand's current version will be discontinued on December 31, 2024.
Patagonia's digital design team relies on the Figma platform for collaborative creation, incorporating customer feedback, streamlining handoffs to developers, and fostering a more inclusive approach to product development, aligning with the company's mission-driven ethos of innovation and environmental responsibility.
Microsoft's Surface design team embraces holistic, iterative, and free-range thinking, emphasizing user needs and creative thinking over set design languages. The team focuses on color and material choices, aiming to create devices that reflect global movements and connect with users' identities.
A recent study published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science explains why streaks effectively retain users and influence their behavior. As a result of their unique design, streaks help users connect higher-level goals to lower-level goals, enable them to act within structures that simplify thinking and decision-making, and speak directly into their self-image.
BlendingMe is a Figma plugin that offers an optimal method for blending two lines, ellipses, or rectangles. It also allows you to adjust the blending path, color, stroke weight, and opacity.
Dazzle-UI icon is a free collection of over 6,800+ professional UI icons.
This illustration set features customizable colors and objects that can be combined and modified to create new exciting images.
The technological ecosystem is a feedback loop, or Ouroboros - a snake that eats its tail. Content is delivered via well-designed devices that act as a lure. The platform ecosystem of devices additionally encourages the design, development, and pricing of the supporting technology infrastructure of apps to keep it growing.
A competitive usability evaluation involves comparing a product against several competing designs. The comparison can be holistic, ranking the designs by some overall site-usability metrics, or more focused, comparing features, content, or design elements across sites. There are two methods of competitive usability evaluations: competitive reviews and competitive testing.
Cities like New York, London, Paris, and Amsterdam should be on everyone's bucket list if they're aspiring artists or appreciate the power of creativity. With streets, galleries, and studios that will enrich your creative expression, these ten urban havens provide a fertile ground for artistic expression.
Some branding and identity stories in 2023 inspired reactions from obsession to anger and everything in between. These include the new Pepsi logo, HBO Max's rebrand as “Max,” the We ❤️ NYC logo, Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX logo, Liquid Death, Glassdoor, and a cannabis company righting the wrongs of the War on Drugs.
Building on the curved edges and titanium frame that Apple introduced with the iPhone 15 Pro, the next-generation iPhones are set to feature increased display sizes and a new capacitive Capture button.
Midjourney released two major alphas before the holidays: an updated model called V6 in Discord and a new website that supports prompting from a browser. While the latest releases are imperfect, there is a shift towards better user experiences instead of a frantic pursuit of bigger and better models.
After 12 years, InVision will cease offering design collaboration services, including prototypes and DSM. The company will redirect enterprise customers to alternative solutions within the next few months. Customers using the self-serve platform (non-Enterprise) can continue to use it until the end of 2024.
America is getting a new logo for its 250th birthday that features a red, white, and blue ribbon that curls into the shape of the number '250'. This logo is a redesign of an earlier version that didn't display well on smartphones. The new identity was designed by the New York City design firm behind the Bicentennial logo, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv.
Names include Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Banksy, HR Giger, and countless others. The list stems from a complaint originally filed a year ago against Midjourney, Stability AI, and DeviantArt that includes 16,000 artists whom the AI platforms have allegedly copied from.
Simplicity strips the world of creativity, hides complex systems below the surface, and reduces human experiences to stereotypical representations. What if Instead of practicing reduction, we practiced expansion by adding boldness to our work through colors and cultural references?