Mikaeli, a Finnish digital artist, is a master at crafting mesmerizing visuals. As Halloween approaches, Mikaeli's digital masterpiece captures the season's spirit and transports us to a world of the supernatural.
A significant update to Google Maps added features that make the app even more powerful. The new Immersive View for Routes now uses AI to provide detailed previews of planned journeys. You can also get directions to a new destination with Lens in Maps, which uses AI and augmented reality. There are now more detailed navigation maps for a smoother ride and additional charging station info for drivers of electric vehicles.
Designers at Slack initiated a major evolution of its user interface, aiming to make the platform more personal, approachable, and easier to use without sacrificing its iconic look or information density. This included a two-week design sprint where a team proposed updates to the visual language, customization options, and new information preview paradigms.
The Apple Journal app is a simple one-screen journaling tool with basic features. It allows users to create entries with text, photos, videos, voice memos, and location data. The app uses machine learning to recognize and suggest essential moments in a user's life.
When AI is harnessed correctly, it can elevate creativity at a rate unmatched by any other tool. Ten experts discuss how to use AI in the development of creative technologies and to shape more human-centered experiences.
Various genres of movies and TV shows have been featuring imaginary interfaces for fake apps for quite some time now. Five pioneers in the industry reveal how these fictional products operate as part of the plot and what they say about our technological habits.
The Nielsen Norman Group conducted a large-scale survey with more than 800 respondents to understand how UX professionals use generative AI in their day-to-day work. 92% of the respondents claimed they had used at least one generative AI tool. Among those who used these bots for work, 63% used them at least several times per week (if not daily). The most common type of activity is text content generation and editing.
2D animation is made simple with Procreate Dreams, which contains lots of innovative features and tools that simplify the entire process of creating animations.
The majority (50%) of branding projects fall between the $500 and $5,000 range and 80% of branders price their projects based on the time and effort it takes. The primary methods for acquiring clients are referrals and word of mouth (86.1%). 70.4% of branding professionals believe AI will make their work easier and are open to integrating AI tools like ChatGPT, Adobe Software, and Midjourney into their branding processes.
German stock photographer Robert Kneschke wanted to put Midjourney’s new upscaler to the test so he generated an AI picture on Midjourney in the standard 1024x1024 resolution and then ran it through Midjourney’s 4x upscaler. He was impressed with the results. However, the problem with Midjourney’s upscaler is that the user can only run AI images generated on Midjourney through it so users can’t upload their low-resolution photos to the platform. There are other drawbacks too: Namely, the price.
Microsoft is introducing new changes to Windows Ink in Windows 11, allowing users to write anywhere they can type. This includes handwriting-to-text conversion in search boxes and other input fields. The update is currently available as a preview through Windows Update, with improved handwriting recognition and new gestures for editing text.
The select element gets a small upgrade in Chrome 119, with a feature that also landed in Safari 17. Now, you can add horizontal rule elements to the list of select options. They will appear as separators to help visually break up the options for a better user experience.
useAnimations is a responsive and multi-platform library of micro-animations. Based on a 32px grid and editable Lottie .json files, the animated icons follow a consistent style, making it ideal for product design.
The Droplette plugin for Figma allows you to generate color palettes using OpenAI's GPT-3 model. Colors are generated based on your design system or Figma document styles.
With Flux, you can integrate your research and testing activities directly into your UX tasks. Among its features are the ability to streamline the writing of product documents, support for mood boards and team collaboration, and a project management tool.