Are you not sold on those AI personas? Industry experts share their thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of AI in UX research. Learn what you should expect from it, the use cases that it is suited for, and its potential.
Miro's success could be divided into three major phases: Startup, Hyper-growth, and Growth at scale. However, each had its failures and learnings that became part of the company's culture. Miro's first Product Designer shares his experience helping scale the product.
2023.08.31·openviewpartners.com·10 min read·TLDR Design Scroll and drool through 100 examples of the most elegant typeface pairings. Each day features one example from Google Fonts.
How a business works and makes money will impact how design is conducted and evaluated internally. Designers must be aware of this and work towards the factors that reward the company. If speed is critical, optimize for quick iteration based on solid standards. If innovation is crucial, then structure a team experienced in experimentation.
Learn UI animation rules. Adhere to familiar patterns and avoid overcomplicated animations. Designers can create intuitive interfaces that enhance user experiences while avoiding distraction and frustration by considering timing, utilizing easy techniques, and analyzing the animation's goal.
Easily integrate user-friendly components and widgets offered by ant-design into your Flutter apps. These ant-design components can make the UI of your Flutter app more clean and beautiful.
Deepfakes are a real threat, and the industry still needs an effective detection method. Google wants to change that with SynthID, a technology capable of watermarking AI-generated images in an imperceptible way to the human eye. The watermark is embedded in the pixels of the image, but it doesn’t alter its appearance noticeably.
3 new trends are emerging in web design: monochrome color schemes, magazine-style layouts, and navigation elements in a box. Monochrome color schemes look simple but are very hard to get right, especially when considering the accessibility and usability of a website. Navigation in a box can be sticky which helps improve the interactivity for users.
A designer’s work generally has a positive impact on the world, but sometimes products or services are designed that can have ripple effects of harm. Designers need to let go of theory as their ideas have tangible effects on the world. They need to stop and think about the “why” behind their work to truly understand its repercussions.
An exhaustive 5-step process to running a brand workshop. Starts with ideas for warmup tasks like Ridiculous Objects or Martians Have Landed and moves on to explain the purpose and benefits of exercises like The Golden Circle, Brand Persona, Landscape Positioning, Future Plans, Aspirational Brands, and Audience Personas.
Organizations are urged to break free from user-centric thinking and consider visionary dreams during periods of cost-cutting and short-term focus. This calls for a shift from short-term metrics to exploring future possibilities to drive innovation and build resilient products and services that exceed user needs and expectations.
Amy Edmundson's work emphasizes the importance of psychological safety within teams for effective learning and performance. It encourages candid communication, embracing discomfort, and fostering an environment where conflict and discourse can be handled constructively for improved decision-making and growth.
No matter what you’re doing, Jambot is there to help you spark a first draft and make progress faster. With Jambot, you can create visual mindmaps with AI, take a multi-threaded approach to brainstorming, and generate ideas with teammates and ChatGPT in the same canvas.
Of course, designers should have a more visual way of reporting bugs! Toybox allows you and anyone to leave feedback directly on a website. The platform works on all browsers and can be installed on local, staging, and live websites.
There are many more characters available than what is on your keyboard. This site organizes the most handy characters and symbols into a tidy grid. Choose the character you want and click to copy it.
Do you have some time to spare or need someone for that crazy project of yours? Find partners or offer time to other creatives. Tell the platform about yourself, select the subjects you're interested in, and find the right person for you.
Our brains are wired to engage deeply with nostalgic moments. Could this be used as a feature for better user experiences? This article discusses the potential of nostalgic moments and how dangerous they can be if used in dark patterns.
2023.08.30·uxpsychology.substack.com·5 min read·TLDR Design Looking at an illustration’s SVG code can be quite confusing because it mainly consists of many path elements each with a cryptic “d” attribute. This guide comes with practical examples and exercises to help understand SVG paths.
A collection of beautiful visual identities and rebrandings. Can be browsed by categories like automotive, corporate, entertainment, sports, and tech.
The ultimate empathy level is to experience it. This website will prompt you to think and act to understand how having some kind of impairment feels. Refresh it, and a new scenario is presented.
AI's potential is often exaggerated. It likely won't revolutionize every product. Nevertheless, AI stands to revolutionize analytics and performance measurement products, enhancing user experience by providing precise, contextual insights for better business decisions.
A designer shares the most vital learnings from their 10-year career: designers need to have an iterative mindset, build relationships, think long-term and beyond the MVP, stay curious and ask dumb questions, and continue to learn and embrace new technologies.
This year's edition of the State of CSS is out! Based on a survey with 9,190 developers worldwide, it decodes a hectic year. Understand the most used tools, features, frameworks, and much more.
In the realm of product design, the fusion of storytelling and technology creates captivating user experiences. Narratives emotionally connect users with products, as seen in Spotify's music journey or Airbnb's accommodation narratives. This approach transforms interactions, enhances user experiences, and establishes strong brand identities.
This article discusses the use of variables in Figma for the color system and modes in the design system starter kit. Discover how to use Figma variables to establish a color system and modes and gain insights on how semantic color variables can enhance design clarity, readability, and the creation of balanced color palettes for different modes.
2023.08.29·nucleusui.substack.com·3 min read·TLDR Design Is prompting still far away from mimicking human conversation? Adding tactile controls to the equation might be the missing element. Proposed for the Royal College of Art Graduate Show in London, this new interface one day might allow designers to physically manipulate textures and materials using the power of AI.
An exhaustive resource for insights on how users interact with the web and how to design better web user experiences. It includes guides for viewing behaviors, link usability, navigation, searching, web design trends, and web e-commerce.
Of course, they've also mastered colors! Check out the color palettes used in famous paintings by the best artists of all time.
This open-source flag icon set is all you need to become the ultimate cosmopolitan designer. Download the optimized version for Sketch or Figma. Or install and use with just a few lines of code. Available for React, Vue, and Svelte.
Jorge Mazal, former CPO of Duolingo, tells the story behind a 4.5x growth. For a mature product, that's a lot. Learn about the app's innovative growth model and how small changes led to massive outcomes.
Most onboarding flows are about confirmation windows and blocking messages. That's bad design. Users will learn the best when the context is appropriate. In that sense, onboarding could prevent you from identifying where and when to communicate with users.
The deadline is set for 2025, and the proposed changes will considerably impact websites and applications in Europe. If your company sells to EU customers, it must comply with the new law.
A gallery of websites categorized by the fonts they use. Also comes with common font pairings and alternatives.
A circle overlaid by two diagonals, all inscribed in a square. Nothing else. Period. And still, we bet you'll be able to recognize some redesigned movie posters.
CSS can help adjust images and illustrations on a website when switched to dark mode. Two things are key: inverting the background color but preserving the hues of the other colors. The invert function from CSS filter effects, combined with the hue-rotate function does the trick.
2023.08.29·blog.simonfarshid.com·3 min read·TLDR Design