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It's rare to hear about successful product teams that don't have a product manager, ditch metrics, are fully remote, and don't run A/B tests. Linear's unique story helps shine some light on alternative formats and workflows for creating a superb product without following the usual script.
Halfsies, a new game from Brilliant, will test your cutting skills. Let's see if that designer's eye of yours is as powerful as you claim!
Small user interface adjustments can significantly improve user experiences. This simple but effective list teaches or reminds you about these low-hanging fruits.
Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics for user interface design are well-known in the design community. However, there's no equivalent in content design. Jas Deogan wants to change that by proposing 10 heuristics to guide how designers deal with content.
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Flex Layout is Penpot’s ground-breaking responsive layout feature that makes it easier and faster to produce dev-ready design assets. Here’s how it works: ⚡ Designers create the layout and it automatically shows as it is on the web page thanks to CSS flexbox
The new iOS version doesn't introduce any major features but offers numerous smaller improvements. One notable change is the cleaner redesign of the Messages app, which simplifies sharing photos and other media with a new gesture.
Spotify has launched a new feature called Spotify Jam that allows up to 32 Spotify users to DJ together for group playlists in real time. Both free and Premium users can join, but only Premium subscribers can initiate and invite others to Jam sessions. Premium hosts can control the session and participants can add songs, choose playback devices, and manage tracks collaboratively.
Microsoft is releasing a significant update to Windows 11 featuring the introduction of Windows Copilot, AI enhancements to Paint, Snipping Tool, and Photos, RGB lighting support, a revamped File Explorer, and more.
AI was traditionally a subtle, unobtrusive component in software applications. Now it is being put in users’ hands to turn into anything they want. AI is the raw material for creativity and productivity and people can take it and use it in creative and interesting ways. GenAI is actually a UX revolution, not an AI revolution.
A recent study published in the Wall Street Journal by Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich tested whether MBA students or ChatGPT was better at generating ideas. They tested both the quantity of ideas and the quality of ideas. In both cases, ChatGPT greatly outperformed the Wharton MBA students.
A high-quality web UI is, among other things, extremely robust. It manages to convey information with consistency regardless of the viewport size (down to a reasonable limit) or font size preferences. Many factors influence this, including zoom, window size, font size, and arbitrary user-inflicted stylesheets. In CSS, text-relative units should be used everywhere, including the media queries.
Every shortcut for designers, centralized and searchable. Tools covered include Figma, FigJam, Framer, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XD, and After Effects.
Component design has become an essential aspect of product design. Getting them right not only benefits you but also your team. This 4-part guide helps designers create, document, and evolve design system components.
Every great product team needs to cross the gap between ideas and implementation. The path is made of collaboration, communication, and documentation. Luke Finch, design systems consultant, shares his thoughts on how to turn documentation into a dynamic and evolving conversation.
There are three approaches to handling micromanaging clients: involving them early in the design process and telling them that the decision was already made, having an iterative design process based on data that allows for new additions to be added later, and being upfront when something similar has already been tried and didn’t work.
Microsoft, Intel, and others hire anthropologists along with engineers, financial analysts, and strategists. An anthropologist in a business setting isn't there to analyze office slang or determine who is at the water cooler. Their role is to understand human behavior in depth, which is a key factor for creating user experiences that genuinely work.
AI actively creates new user behaviors, requiring new designs to support users. Accordion editing and apple picking are new behaviors directly caused by existing generative AI tools and their limitations.
The Gmail Basic HTML view for desktop and mobile web will be disabled starting in early January 2024. The HTML version lacks several features, but it is helpful for users in low-connectivity areas and older browsers.
Directional images are silent guides that effortlessly direct the audience's gaze to specific areas of a page. An online fashion retailer strategically placed a directional image of a model gazing at their "Shop Now" button. This resulted in a 30% increase in click-through rates and a 20% increase in sales. A travel agency used an arrow pointing towards their "Book Your Adventure" CTA. This simple addition led to a whopping 50% increase in bookings within a month.
Mastodon 4.2 introduces a more robust search experience, adds several user experience enhancements, and provides performance improvements. Other updates include redesigned link cards, restructured reply chains, and a new hashtag format.
The latest Windows 11 update will allow users to create, manage, and store passkeys and use them to access supported websites and services using their device’s authentication systems. Passkeys are expected to eventually replace passwords entirely as a new standard for login technology, but it’s going to take a while for them to be widely supported. Microsoft is one of the earliest supporters of the technology, which will vastly improve the user experience of unlocking devices.
The most significant upgrade in the iPhone 15 Pro is the Action Button, which replaces the mute switch. This button, programmable through Apple's Shortcuts app, offers versatile functionality beyond just changing ringer settings. Users can create custom shortcuts, enabling a wide range of actions, making the iPhone feel more like a powerful computer.
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT by adding voice and image-based capabilities to its text-based AI assistant. Users can now have voice conversations with ChatGPT, ask it to generate stories verbally, and search for answers using images. The voice feature includes human-like voices generated from text and speech samples.
8 more micro tips for better typography in less than 8 minutes: Adjust the size of different fonts, increase line height when using inline code snippets, condense huge type, check the legibility and the kerning of fonts, use proportional figures in tables, use larger margins above headings than below, and adjust the line height to the language used.
Achieving excellence doesn’t revolve around being the best or knowing all trends and tools: it’s primarily about learning by doing. Tutorials are great for replicating someone else’s work, but they don’t spark the originality in designers. Reading about design principles is all well and good, but nothing beats the real-world experience of just getting your hands dirty and creating something.
A study published in Nature Computational Science shows that machine learning can generate more efficient spatial layouts than humans can and in a fraction of the time. Scientists developed an AI system to tackle urban planning and found it produces urban plans that outperform human designs by about 50 percent on access to services, green spaces, and traffic levels.
Figma is increasingly becoming a shared workplace for designers and developers, so why not adopt some solid standards? This handy guide covers file organization, documentation, collaboration, and more.
Creative burnout might manifest as a lack of motivation or inspiration, feelings of emptiness after completing a project, avoidance of projects or tasks, or pure physical and mental exhaustion. Burnout is a natural part of the creative process, but it doesn't have to be a roadblock. Activities like meditation, journaling, and regular breaks can do wonders for your creative juices.
Napkin is a unique service for jotting down quick ideas or notes and connecting them. It is ideal for gathering project ideas, collecting quotes, drafting Twitter threads, and keeping track of idea seeds.
What if the Ampersand were not just a character but a character with character? Amid the bustling streets of New York City in 2020, renowned designer and illustrator Diego Pinilla Amaya embarked on a playful typographic escapade. This delightful daydream birthed ‘The Ampersand Crowd’ — a brigade of ten unique ampersands, each imbued with its persona.
Only 1 out of 5 UX research job posts require a portfolio. Yet when the state of UXR hiring was recently surveyed, most participants (69%) indicated that they have presented or expected to present past case studies in later rounds as a work sample test. So, although these materials often aren’t required up front, they will likely come into play later on.
Facebook is designed to build communities around the things people care about. It can be a problem when the audience cares about the wrong things. A study led by researchers at George Washington University found that the core design features of the platform itself undermined Facebook's efforts to fight COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Getty Images has partnered with Nvidia to launch "Generative AI by Getty Images," a tool that allows users to create images using Getty's extensive library of licensed photos. This AI tool, trained exclusively on Getty Images content, provides users full copyright protection for images created and published commercially.
Chrome now directly tracks users as it generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers. Despite massive opposition from almost every non-advertiser, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world's biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds. This new invasive ad platform is being camouflaged under the name “Privacy Sandbox.”
It's getting harder to find those hidden gems on Instagram. The tendency toward homogeneity is exemplified by the platform's decision to remove the ability to see recent posts under hashtags. The consequence? Content producers are hacking their way to fit the formula for being more relevant to their audience, usually by copying the latest new technique for bubbling up in people's feeds.
Meta is planning to launch a generative AI chatbot named "Gen AI Personas" aimed at younger users. These chatbots will come in various personas designed to engage young users with colorful behavior.
macOS Sonoma is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, September 25 with new features and improvements. These include desktop widgets, game mode, web apps in the dock, new screen savers and wallpapers, Safari profiles, and many more.
Framer is rolling out a new channel with lessons and courses to help its users master the platform. The content is organized into design, navigation, effects, CMS, and more.
Chat-based interfaces dominate the AI landscape, but text prompts don't cover the richness of human expression and communication. Tone of voice, posture, and gestures should be considered as inputs, improving the collaboration between algorithms and humans.
Establishing a good relationship with developers boils down to three essential things — collaboration, communication, and respect. Developers should be involved early in the design process and way before the handover. They should be involved in the design feedback sessions. Designers should be willing to compromise on their designs and ideas.
Over the years, the digital product landscape has become vastly more complex, the responsibilities of design systems have grown substantially, tooling has evolved and matured, and processes & organizational structures for managing digital products have grown up. The design system ecosystem of a complex organization takes the form of a delicious yet dense layer cake.
Six free books that reveal the best methods and techniques from the front lines of SaaS UI/UX design. Although not only written for designers, they include lessons on how to align design with business goals, UX research guidelines, remote work, and design processes.
Clone UI uses Tailwind CSS to generate components with simple prompts.
In the era of generative AI, UX designers must navigate complexity while ensuring user-friendliness. This article explores their role as guides through the chaos of generative responses, drawing inspiration from the enigmatic three-body problem analogy, where interactions can be as complex and unpredictable as celestial bodies.
Luzinterruptus is an anonymous art collective that uses light to bring attention to environmental and social issues. Its most impactful projects include a representation of the plastic surplus infesting cities around the globe, a dystopian future of the moon, and an installation that invites visitors to visualize the pattern of a cracked and dried Earth.
Designers can only design what users need through user testing. However, tight budgets and a lack of product culture present obstacles for many companies. There are usually five reasons why stakeholders and product leaders refuse to run user testing. This article outlines them and shows how to overcome each.
Chris Coyier explores a slightly unusual way to rearrange the layout of a website. It’s not supported yet by the major browsers, but that will change soon with the release of Safari 17.
Twice a year, Detroit hosts Middlecott Sketchbattle, a party with pumping music in a cavernous space where designers crank out automotive renderings. Known as the "The Fight Club of design," the event invites twenty designers to compete against the clock and each other. The sketching and rendering are old-school only, with no technological assistance.
After the State of JavaScript and the State of CSS, it's time for the State of HTML. Registration is open for the survey to measure awareness of new HTML features and browser APIs and help developers track how their usage is evolving. The final report will help browser vendors prioritize their roadmaps and work towards better compatibility.