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Good design managers should encourage learning from failure by de-stigmatizing mistakes, practicing postmortems, and creating safe spaces for designers. They should set clear expectations, create opportunities for challenges, support their team by praising in public and critiquing in private, develop and motivate their designers, practice open hours, and be approachable.
Apple's Vision Pro? $3,499. Meta's Quest Pro? $1,499. Price is a barrier that can't be ignored. This modular attachment that clips onto the nose bridge of specialized eyewear could make spatial computing more affordable.
Japanese websites have design characteristics not commonly seen in English-based websites. These include large imagery with beautiful typography, vertical typography which follows the tradition of how Japanese words were written, and more daring approaches in using irregular shapes to contain images or illustrations.
Many cool little tools for no cost. The tools can convert JPG to PDF or Word to PDF, compress PDF, upscale images, split PDFs, change photo backgrounds, and much more.
The US federal government now has its own design system crafted to make government online services accessible, legible, and consistent. USWDS is also an active open-source community of government engineers, content specialists, and designers.
Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 9. The watch features the new S9 chip, which enhances performance and introduces a gesture called Double Tap, allowing users to interact with the watch without touching the screen.
Einstein Copilot, a new generative AI conversational assistant, is being integrated into Salesforce's CRM and all supported apps. It will automate account updates, help prepare meetings, generate customized content, and more. The feature will reach other consumer-facing channels, like websites, to power real-time chat, Slack, WhatsApp, and SMS.
People experience charts and graphs in different ways and even with other senses. Alternative text should be used to describe the visualization's purpose. Pairing graphs with a table element enables users to navigate data better. Color and contrast are also vital aspects, but they shouldn't be relied upon as the only way to communicate meaning. It's essential to consider HTML structure, keyboard navigation, and how screen readers will display information to users.
Product designers in SaaS companies and startups face a challenging but rewarding journey in the fast-paced tech industry. They must balance agility with quality, cater to diverse user needs, collaborate closely with development teams, embrace iterative design, and maintain a balance between aesthetics and functionality to shape the future of the tech world.
A practical guide for redesigning design systems with four key steps — develop a stronger understanding of the existing component, explore multiple different applications of the component in the product, rebuild the component with the developers and redesign it in Figma, and put together documentation for the component update as it gets released.
Doodle Ipsum lets you customize doodles, grab the code, and use them on your web prototypes, landing pages, or no-code tools. The tool also brings advanced features, allowing you to add special query parameters.
Hundreds of design resources organized over the years in categories like accessibility, design systems, tools, and content.
There are many different types of illustration and it's challenging to master them all. This list is a good starting point. These ten illustration books cover a range of topics, from the basics of art theory to the secrets of an Oscar-nominated legend.
Adam Glynn-Finnegan, Staff Product Designer at Netflix Studio, shares the most valuable learnings from his career and what separates great designers from good ones. Key lessons: deeply understand the content, describe it in a way that resonates with the individual user, and present it in a highly personalized way. As career advice, Glynn-Finnegan believes in being pragmatic and flexible.
Zara is a global brand that is based in Spain with a broad audience. The company offers its customers an unparalleled shopping experience. This in-depth examination of Zara’s website surfaces problems like overemphasizing the mobile experience, insufficient filtering options, a lack of sorting options, and a lack of consistency with buttons.
CSS gradients can be used on other elements around the hovered element. While hovering over one item, this effect triggers visual changes to other items.
Recreating drop caps in web design hasn’t always been simple, Early implementations were often clunky and required various hacks. Modern CSS makes this easier. Here are eight unique implementations that show what’s possible.
Drawn from a poster seen at the 1989 protest, Vocal Type is a typeface designed to honor those who perished in the Tiananmen Square protests. Created by Tré Seals, the initiative was the result of asking his Instagram followers what movement, person, or event they’d like to see a new typeface pay homage to.
Polypane is a web browser for designers and web developers who need to create websites that work well across different devices and screen sizes. The latest release brings a rebuilt browser panel with its own tabs, search, and autocomplete. It also introduces an online search through the address bar in the redesigned browse panel.
Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman, the co-founders and owners of the Nielsen Norman Group, chose Kara Pernice as the person to lead NN/g into the future after 25 years of running it themselves.
Charlie Wen is Epic's new Chief Creative Officer. He'll be responsible for driving the creative direction of Fortnite. Wen was the visual development supervisor for Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers.
Glassmorphism is a design style known for its glass-like effects, featuring translucent/transparent elements on colorful backgrounds. It adds a touch of minimalism and modernity, popularized by tech giants like Microsoft and Apple, to web and app interfaces.
Fontjoy, an AI-powered tool for pairing fonts comes up with compatible font pairs based on their visual parameters. ChatGPT can make more meaningful font pairing recommendations. The AI’s capabilities for pairing fonts are at the level of a junior designer. To improve, it would need to be trained on knowledge and experience of senior designers, instead of all related content on the internet.
Research shows that, on average, users read about 20% of the words on a web page. Long text can intimidate users, making them likely to click away or skip the content entirely. Some useful advice for shortening content: distance yourself from your work, remove unnecessary words, remove unnecessary determiners and modifiers, use adjectives instead of nouns, and avoid passive verbs.
Basics of color theory, concepts like the color wheel, harmony, properties, and its role in design systems. Steps for creating a comprehensive color palette for design systems and Figma plugin for creating color variations.
Putting together products that feel real is a considerable advantage for product designers. This website lists more than 350 no-code tools organized into 23 categories.
Underneath the deceptively simple chatbot interfaces we’ve all been talking to is a huge mathematical model of human language. These language models can be deceptive or plain wrong, yet still treated like geniuses by most people. Transparency on how these models work and increasing the predictability of their results are key to improving the interactions with these models.
It's unlikely that a company will build a user-centric product if its roadmap isn't built with that in mind. Ongoing user research, feedback, and design iteration must be implemented as processes that feed your product roadmap.
Although design tools have been getting closer to how developers implement user interfaces, there's still a gap between what's designed and what's implemented. Surprisingly, it might be that developers should be the ones working more on closing the gap.
Proportio is a tool for creating proportional scales for typography, iconography, spacing, and components in design systems.
A beautiful effect of a glowing blurred background can be easily made with CSS’ clip-path: polygon() and filter: blur() functions. The animation is highly performant because it’s done with pure CSS.
A collection of effective email designs organized into many categories and use cases.
Hexee presents itself with the ambitious goal of replacing all the other color tools. Its features include contrast checking, color blindness verification, palette management, and gradient creation.
UX research requires knowledge and understanding of many jargon terms. Use this glossary as a reference as you delve into research.
Disc Conf 2023 is now open for registration. Product experts from Google, Notion, Figma, Microsoft, and Shopify will share their thoughts on discovery, design, and research on September 19th. The event is free and includes recordings.
The revamped version of Google Chrome should be more closely aligned with the design paradigm of Material You, adopting pastel colors, more rounded shapes, and a cleaner look. Google is expecting 25% improved protection from malware and phishing threats with its updated Safe Browsing.
2023's most creative and technically impressive Webflow projects have been announced. This site organizes awards into categories and features customers, partners, and the community.
Despite Apple's apparent lack of attention to game developers, Resolution Games is actively producing a version of Demeo for the company's headset. The upcoming title should be one of the first to offer players an entirely virtual version of the game that doesn't integrate passthrough images.