Full-text search across article titles and summaries. Refine with sector, year, content type, and reading-time filters.
The headline treatments of 'oh shit' banners are an example of intentionally breaking the rules a designed system establishes for itself, as it deliberately forces the attention of the reader. They’re not banner ad takeovers, cookie consent forms, or notification permission requests. Rather, they’re for government emergencies and crises.
Eye conditions such as color blindness can affect the way people perceive colors. Therefore, color combinations must be carefully chosen to ensure that UI elements are distinct and do not blend. This article explains key terms, principles, and tools for designing color palettes that are effective and accessible.
Midlibrary is a carefully curated collection of hand-picked Midjourney Styles and a Midjourney Guide.
Real-time image generation, editing, and composing powered by AI.
This Figma plugin allows you to generate stunning holograph-like gradients in seconds.
A well-considered user experience begins with well-considered HTML, which has much to do with proper semantics. However, merely mentioning the word semantic gives design students chills. The UX of HTML changes everything.
Humans will need to pivot from quantity to quality in 2024. Taking things a step further, by 2025, AI will generate 75% or more of performance advertising units. The AI Pin will fail and the Vision Pro will succeed. The new year will also bring exciting interface shifts.
You can leave a lasting impression on your customers and maintain their loyalty even after they leave by providing an excellent offboarding experience. It is crucial to make unsubscribing easy for users and avoid deceptive design techniques to discourage them.
A designer’s experience of improving their skills by learning about accessibility and obtaining the CPACC certificate.
Internal teams often need help dealing with today's vast array of design needs cost-effectively or practically. You might also lose out on new ideas and approaches if you handle everything yourself. Consider external help when you see these five signs.
Mercedes-Benz and Binghatti have revealed plans for a residential skyscraper that will be 341 meters high. The first branded renders show a sinuous tower with a curved pinnacle and facades imprinted with the brand's three-pointed star. The German carmaker is one of many in the industry developing residential properties. Bentley, Aston Martin, and Porsche are also doing it.
Apple's upcoming Vision Pro headset is set to launch soon. A newly discovered patent suggests that Apple may release a fabric cover for the front of the headset as a protective accessory. This cover is reminiscent of the charging cover for Apple's AirPods Max and has sparked humorous comparisons to certain types of underwear due to the headset's design.
UX professionals who are good at all UX lifecycle steps, including research and design, are called “UX unicorns” because they are rare. However, AI narrows skill gaps and may create many more UX unicorns.
The M2 iPad Pro is proving to be a powerful and versatile tool for creative users. Despite initial disappointment during unboxing due to its physical resemblance to the previous model, the M2 iPad Pro has impressed users with its seamless multitasking capabilities and its ability to handle various creative tasks effortlessly.
A lot can happen between perfect user testing sessions and the live experience. When you think about product experiences instead of user experiences, you get better results, since you consider all the technical factors influencing user engagement. Embracing the full scope of product design mitigates a crucial weakness for many designers: collaborating with business and engineering.
Turn iPad sketches into vector illustrations in real time.
Quickly and easily generate easing curves for ease, spring, and bounce animations.
This collection features over 1,000 Framer templates with easily customized images, content, and style.
The internet gave digital designers and programmers incredible leverage to create and distribute their ideas far and wide for little cost. Now, with AI, a single savvy designer or programmer can create what used to take a team of highly skilled experts.
Disabled people should be able to highlight their particular needs without fearing exclusion from working life. A designer with disabilities openly shares how their disabilities, and consequently inclusive design, shaped them.
Six creatives share how relocating helped them refine skills, explore deeper interests, and better match passions with careers in product development. Each interviewee used a different pivot technique, ranging from the let’s-blow-this-thing-up-hard-left to a simple reframe. This post covers each in detail so you can plan your next big move.
9 principles that designers can use to tell better stories. The principles were inspired by Dieter Rams' 10 Principles of Good Design and Ted Sorensen's approach to writing speeches for President John F. Kennedy.
Using the golden ratio, you can create perfectly balanced layouts and compositions based on natural patterns. This post features various layouts created using it, such as logos, typography, packaging, and more.
There's a lot to look forward to in 2024. Explore the cutting-edge technologies, styles, and tools that will redefine the digital experience in the new year and related critical growth opportunities.
The Porsche Design System provides fundamentals and elements for efficiently creating aesthetic and high-quality web applications, including easy-to-use Figma and UX Pin libraries, coded Web Components, and comprehensive usage guidelines.
Telegram is releasing a new update that brings redesigned voice and video calls with animated backgrounds that change dynamically depending on the call status: ringing, active, or ended, and a revamped delete animation. The new UI looks better and has increased performance since it is less resource-intensive.
Design Week will cease publication in January and take its website offline. Published in 1986, it's the UK's first weekly magazine aimed at designers and their clients. It became a digital-only publication in 2011.
Senior designers should improve their work with developers by not leaving anything to assumptions and using auto-layout to design like a developer. They need to learn to wear multiple hats, put more effort into detailed UI, explore using different fonts, and reduce things as much as possible.
Design plays a vital role in Airbnb, promoting community and connection instead of isolation and separation. Charlie Aufmann shares his insights from his time at Airbnb, including the need to design for first impressions, the importance of reputation, and how to employ disclosure effectively.
Andrea Pacheco joined Apple in 2021. She summarizes her life-changing experience with the company in this article. Through her work as a product designer, she learned to put passion into every collaborative effort, tell stories as part of any shared work, focus on big wins, and devote adequate time and attention to mastering her craft.
UX Dictionary is a community-built dictionary that helps you understand UX.
Ensure your Figma designs are polished and stakeholder-ready every time, saving you from potential revisions and boosting your design confidence.
React Aria is a collection of over 40 components with built-in behavior, adaptive interactions, top-tier accessibility, and internationalization out of the box, ready for your styles.
One of the most significant differences between Western and Eastern societies is how people view things — Western nations focus more on individual objects, while Eastern ones look more holistically. The latter are faster in dealing with high amounts of information on information-rich pages.
The synchronous, multiplayer web is brand new, and the design space around it still needs to be explored. Current solutions feel obtrusive. Ambient co-presence is sharing a space or context with others without directly interacting or continuously communicating with them.
Although many new technologies are coming out, UX won't change as much as you might think since most changes are surface-level. Keeping your skills up-to-date requires hands-on testing using new technologies so you can always stay current.
Jambot is a virtual assistant based on the ChatGPT API directly integrated into FigJam. It's beneficial for generating ideas, doing cursory research, and learning about areas outside your expertise. Additionally, this post covers the tool's limitations so you can get the most out of it.
This page collects all the familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps, including structural, overlay, and embedded navigation. Combined with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, it's an excellent resource to enhance your iOS user interfaces.
Participating in UX design conferences is a great way to learn and network. The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) has compiled a global list of UX design conferences to help you take your UX design career to the next level in 2024.
Jony Ive is collaborating with Sam Altman on an AI-enabled piece of hardware, and he's assembling Apple's best and brightest to work on it. Tang Tan will lead the project's hardware engineering at Ive's hardware company, LoveFrom. He was previously the lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch. More than twenty former Apple employees have joined Ive's company.
Minnesota now has a redesigned flag by the state artist Andrew Prekker following a competition that received over 2,500 submissions. In addition to its simple design and easy recognition, the new logo incorporates local symbolism, such as the North Star on the state's shape and the sky blue background representing its "10,000 Lakes".
After nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent version of Plane Crazy, entered the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024.
Choosing the proper names for design tokens is critical for design systems' maintainability, clarity, and efficiency, just like naming variables in programming. Designers should use naming patterns and follow the agreed-on naming principles to use the design tokens consistently.
Figma's constant evolution may require design system teams to refactor their libraries occasionally. In refactoring its design system, Productboard learned some lessons about how this process can be smoother, especially by being transparent about what's required and how long it will take.
Companies can’t just have logos that are readable on desktop screens and large-scale prints. They also need symbols that are recognizable on smartphones and as favicons. Designers designing responsive logos should keep it simple, put scalability at the forefront, and be consistent between the sizes.
Effortlessly convert your text prompts into stunning SVG images using AI.
Wedges is a free design system and UI kit that allows you to customize its visual foundation by adjusting its typography, colors, effects, and variables.