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This year's Adobe Creative Trends Report highlights the visual styles and themes expected to become increasingly popular. As users reimagine how creativity is made, this edition reflects their desire to experiment, play, and create. 2D and 3D worlds increasingly merge into fantastical AI-generated visuals and simple, beautiful images.
Components accelerate design-to-engineering timeframes and increase return on investment (ROI) for design teams. However, the first step is adoption. This two-part series discusses best naming conventions, indexing/search, auto-layout best practices, and how to motivate your designers to use your complex, well-built system.
Many design systems start when a designer and engineer makes a handful of components they don’t want to keep making from scratch repeatedly — that’s one side of the spectrum. On the other side of the spectrum are teams who see the value of working directly with the people who use their components but take it too far and turn it into a design system as a service.
There are eight guidelines that designers within the car industry should follow (and those from other industries can learn from): Safety first, simplify then add lightness, optimize for learnability, be aware of the context, use multiple modalities, communicate the system status, proactive error prevention and graceful recovery, and bridge disciplines.
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dYdX's design system is now open source, enabling designers and developers to build their products utilizing dYdX's assets, logos, patterns, components, graphics, and more.
The Not-Checklist won’t teach you WCAG from front to back, but it covers the essentials in accessibility practically and effectively.
Design, like any other business, is a form of servitude. We exist for others (for a fee). To ignore the other side and pick numbers out of thin air is an easy way to serve no one. Our “worth” is what someone else is willing to pay us for the work we provide, so charging more or less doesn’t make us more or less worthy as professionals than other designers.
AI uses context to understand complex relationships, but it relies on data gathered or previous interactions. Information architecture (IA) is the missing link that provides an effective framework for analyzing big data when dealing with unstructured or partially structured data.
A designer's role requires you to shift your perspective from personal preferences to customer-centricity. The only way to design solutions that resonate and elevate the user experience is to remove personal preferences, understand users, and iterate constantly, with user-centered victories becoming the gold standard for evaluating design efforts.
CosMcs, a McDonald's spinoff, recently opened its doors in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Modern and contemporary, its branding and menu still represent McDonald's familiarity, including the Golden Arches and signature yellow, paired with dark blue.
Apple has unveiled a redesigned Apple TV app that simplifies the user interface, making Apple's original content, live sports, and movies across various devices more accessible. The update introduces a sidebar for easy navigation, a unified Home guide, and profiles for personalization.
Figma has collaborated with Work Louder to create a customized version of Work Louder's Creator Micro keyboard designed to enhance Figma workflows. This keyboard combines tactile feedback and customized shortcuts to bring personality and quality back to the keyboard experience, catering to passionate Figma users and celebrating the versatility of mechanical keyboards in the digital age.
Apple has launched a new iPhone app called Journal, encouraging users to reflect on their daily experiences and special moments. The app uses on-device machine learning to provide personalized suggestions for journal entries using photos, videos, audio recordings, and more. It also offers an API for third-party apps to integrate similar features, all while prioritizing user privacy.
User experience research requires stakeholder collaboration, reflection on past learnings, and feedback collection. However, research skills can also improve our day-to-day experiences by helping us find better ways of working and communicating, building moments for reflection, and fostering open dialog.
Fun and creativity go hand in hand, and play is one of the best ways to harness them. Good games are structured dances where players try to score while following well-defined rules. It's this freedom within a structure that makes it fun. And guess what? The same principles can be applied to creative endeavors.
Identifying and understanding anti-personas helps design teams ensure that features, functionalities, and user interfaces align more closely with the user's needs. By knowing who the product is not for, designers can focus on creating a user experience that resonates with the actual audience's reality.
An AI drawing tool that turns sketches into beautiful images in real time.
Enter a website URL, and Fonty.io will analyze the fonts used and display them for you to view.
Quality is one of those words always mentioned as good design. It’s the degree to which an object or entity satisfies specific attributes or requirements. The quality of something can be determined by comparing a set of inherent characteristics with a set of requirements.
This article outlines key design principles for ChatOps, emphasizing the importance of effective communication in DevOps. It guides on choosing interaction methods, defining user tasks, optimizing information display, and addressing design constraints on chat platforms. Developers can create more intelligent and user-friendly ChatOps experiences by anticipating user needs and adapting to the unique characteristics of chat platforms.
There’s contradictory advice on what designers should do: build software earlier and get feedback as soon as possible versus build software later, prototype, and test your assumptions. A better way of looking at it is to get real feedback from real potential customers as soon as possible.
Learn to code SVG images step by step in HTML.
The typical airport will be disrupted by artificial intelligence, first by allowing people to interact with existing infrastructure, then by challenging the traditional landside-airside barrier, and lastly, by enabling new approaches to airport design. This provocative post reimagines what an airport might look like in five, ten, and twenty years.
With a stylish combination of nostalgia and modern design, Coca-Cola released its holiday campaign identity for 2023. In this article, Coca-Cola’s design VP Rapha Abreu and creative director Kristie Malivindi share their thoughts behind the new designs.
Apple's VP of product design Tang Tan is set to leave the company in February, leading to a reorganization in the hardware engineering team. Tan's departure is seen as a significant loss to Apple's design team, as he played a crucial role in shaping products like AirPods and the Apple Watch into successful offerings.
Redfin Redesign, now available on Redfin and Bright MLS listings, enables users to customize walls, floors, and countertops. Powered by Roomvo, a home visualization platform, the new feature allows buyers to compare before and after images of listing photos by selecting flooring types, paint colors, and countertop finishes.
Based on an analysis of popular search terms on its platform, Pinterest has released its predictions for 2024 trends across various categories, including fashion, beauty, wellness, and design. Some notable trends include the "jellyfish haircut," blue eyeshadow and nail polish, the resurgence of bows and ribbons, the rise of the "Western Gothic" style, the popularity of "cafecore," and an increased focus on body skincare.
Early prototyping integration into the product development process streamlines workflows and saves engineering time. Embracing an experimentation culture leads to innovation, which impacts the entire product development process.
The success of an application may depend on how intuitive, efficient, and user-friendly its navigation is, so a designer must understand how it can function in every application to make the most suitable decisions for their specific situation. They can choose between tab bar, sidebars, search-based navigation, and top bar — each with their own advantages and disadvantages.
Good presentations need two things: a clear story and eye-catching visuals. When using Figma for presentations, designers should use one file for each presentation, structure pages within each file, use design slide variants for clarity, leverage the Figma presentation order, automate frame naming, use shared styles, and add a splash of interactivity.
Drag and drop a screenshot, edit with a few clicks, and download a beautiful mockup.
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The secret to giving good criticism is not taking the design at face value but asking questions to discover the problem the design is trying to solve. It’s also about being kind — criticism is a tool for building up, not tearing down, so respecting the people behind the scenes is non-negotiable.
How can it be that all products are designed, and designers want to create something good for the world, but so many products are total garbage? Most designers are just workers, not unlike the office assistants, support agents, and store clerks involved in getting products to people. They can’t be blamed as a group but only as individuals.
Emblem logos and badges evoke a sense of tradition, honor, and identity. In this gallery, you will discover the inspiration, creativity, and symbolism that make badges and emblem-like logos so profound and effective.
Infinite canvases marry the digital world's easy manipulation with the physical world's spatial strengths. Given these strengths, it’s no surprise that we often use infinite canvases for complex, unsorted, or exploratory tasks. How can we further push a concept that has been fairly static for a while?
A detailed case study of designing an icon/logo from sketches and concepts to a polished finished product for Mammoth.
A group of designers and creatives have come together to redesign the UN’s logo according to the organization’s projections for the rise of the sea level. The coastlines of continents have been retracted or reshaped, while some countries, like the Maldives, have been entirely deleted from the illustrated map of the world that the UN has used as its logo since 1946.
Figma is bidding farewell to 2023 by reflecting on its most significant moments, ideas, launches, and lessons learned. From the top things it shipped this year to the joy of mechanical keyboards, the Figma 2023 Handoff presents a year-end celebration of the big plays and deep learnings to carry into the next season.
Peach Fuzz, the color of the year according to Pantone, is velvety, gentle, and embodies togetherness, community, and collaboration. Motorola’s Razr+ phone is coming in Peach Fuzz in an exclusive partnership.
To improve an organization’s UX maturity, designers should establish foundational alignment with UX goals and communication channels, essential UX understanding of UX processes and vocabulary, and become “collaboration ready” with UX toolkits and research results.
Figma’s biggest new feature from 2023 — local variables — can be used for creating interactive prototypes and automatic switching between dark and light modes. However, designers can go beyond that — they can use the local variables to set up breakpoints and make their designs responsive, for example.
Carousels need to engage users effectively, overwhelm them, and be inaccessible. Once you determine what's essential and establish the proper hierarchy, better alternatives will become evident.
Start with a prompt for the AI generator and combine it with a template from a range of more than 1,000 prebuilt prompts to quickly create animated videos.
SVG spinners are a great visual cue when elements are loading or data is being fetched. They are practical, scalable, and can enhance user experience. This guide walks through how they can be implemented using only simple SVG attributes like stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset.