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2025.06.18
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11,691 matchesESH'S ENIGMATIC REBRAND FOR AN ORCHESTRA INVITES YOU TO A SECRET SOCIETY OF MUSIC
Design agency ESH has rebranded the international orchestra Utopia with a mysterious, immersive website and a custom "alchemic" typeface that reflects the group's complex, emotional, and enigmatic musical identity. Combining strict modernist grids with expressive, esoteric typography, the project evokes a sense of timelessness and exclusivity, encouraging users to slow down and engage deeply with the rhythm and spirit of the orchestra.
2025.06.18
MEET NAN SUPERX: A SERIF AND SANS TYPEFACE PAIR DESIGNED FOR IMPACTFUL HEADLINES AND TIGHT SPACING
The SuperX type system, designed for practical impact in tight spaces, combines large x-heights with short ascenders and descenders to maximize vertical efficiency while maintaining visual boldness, which is especially useful for headlines and mobile interfaces. Blending traditional and modern elements across its Serif, Italic, and Sans variants, SuperX offers a versatile, expressive family with shared proportions that ensure seamless alignment and consistent spacing when mixed.
2025.06.18
20(SOMETHING) REBRANDS EBAY FOUNDER'S PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATION
20(SOMETHING) rebranded the Omidyar Network to shift its identity from a tech-centric, Silicon Valley image to a broader, human-focused visual system that speaks to policymakers, funders, and change-makers in digital equity and tech governance. The new identity, which features a generative ON logo, expressive typefaces, and a diverse color palette, reflects the organization's mission to humanize technology and unify its efforts under one powerful, inclusive voice.
2025.06.18
WHY AI HAS A BIG BRANDING PROBLEM
The AI acronym suffers from pronunciation and visual confusion issues.
2025.06.18
THE HANDMAID'S TALE'S SECRET WEAPON IS COLOUR
The Handmaid's Tale uses color theory as a powerful storytelling tool.
2025.06.18
MARIAH CAREY HAS A FAVORITE FONT
MrBeast makes a brief appearance in Mariah Carey's new music video “Type Dangerous”, but it's the custom-stretched Aviano Serif Black typeface—reminiscent of her longtime signature font Friz Quadrata—that subtly steals the show, offering a fresh yet familiar visual branding update.
2025.06.18
INTRODUCING DESIGN MODE ON V0
V0, a generative AI tool by Vercel that turns natural language prompts into user interface (UI) components or even entire web pages, now has a “Design Mode” that lets designers instantly adjust copy, typography, layout, colors, and styling without using credits or waiting for an LLM. It supports live previews, easy saving, and is fully native to Tailwind and shadcn.
2025.06.17
GOOGLE JUST RELEASED THE FIRST MAJOR SNAPSEED UPDATE IN YEARS
Google released Snapseed 3.0 for iPhone and iPad, marking the photo editing app's first major iOS update since 2021. The revamped interface features a new "Faves" option in the center toolbar for saving specific tools, plus relocated export and tools buttons. Android users must wait as Google hasn't announced when the update will arrive on that platform.
2025.06.17
SNAPCHAT ADDS NEW FEATURES FOR CREATORS, INCLUDING AN EASIER WAY TO EDIT VIDEOS
Snapchat has launched new creator tools, including a Timeline Editor for intuitive video editing and a "Create a Video" template that generates compilations from saved Memories. The platform now allows creators to auto-save public Stories to profiles and provides enhanced analytics showing viewer retention, traffic sources, and engagement metrics. These features aim to help Snapchat compete with Instagram and TikTok by reducing creators' reliance on third-party editing apps.
2025.06.17
YOU CAN HATE IOS 26 AND LIQUID GLASS BUT THE STEVE JOBS NOSTALGIA NEEDS TO STOP
While iOS 26's new Liquid Glass UI has divided opinion and sparked nostalgia-fueled claims that Steve Jobs would have hated it, the truth is likely the opposite—Jobs, a fan of skeuomorphism, unification, and control, would probably have embraced its tactile realism and cohesive integration of AI. Rather than resisting Apple's current direction, Jobs would have doubled down on simplifying the ecosystem and leveraging design to shape user experience, just as Liquid Glass aims to do.
2025.06.17
AGENT MANAGEMENT INTERFACE PATTERNS
There's an emergence of interface design patterns for managing AI agents that can enhance familiar UI elements like Kanban boards, dashboards, inboxes, task lists, and calendars, which could help users start, monitor, and control multiple agents. Each pattern offers different advantages and limitations for agent management, from Kanban's workflow visualization to the calendar's temporal organization capabilities. These patterns will evolve significantly as agent management interfaces mature, potentially drawing inspiration from real-time strategy game interfaces rather than traditional productivity tools.
2025.06.17
REIMAGINING DESIGN SYSTEMS AS EVOLVING PRODUCTS
Design systems should be treated as evolving products rather than static libraries, requiring continuous research, design, testing, and refinement cycles. All team members, not just dedicated design system teams, must share responsibility for the system's evolution and must balance business needs with customer requirements. Sandbox testing is key, as it validates new components through controlled experimentation before full implementation.
2025.06.17
SF SYMBOLS 7
SF Symbols 7 is a library of over 6,900 symbols designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco. It comes in nine weights and three scales, automatically aligns with text, and can be exported and edited using vector graphics tools to create custom symbols with shared design characteristics and accessibility features.
2025.06.17
OBRA ICONS
This icon set features over 1,000 icons, was drawn at a 2px stroke weight and in a 24x24 frame, and has been designed to work at three different stroke weights (1, 1.5, and 2px).
2025.06.17
YOUR SECOND BRAIN
Organize your thoughts and empower your mind with Mindly, a privacy-first second brain that uses AI to help you connect and organize your ideas.
2025.06.17
HOW CREATIVES ARE SURVIVING THE 2025 SLOWDOWN
The creative industry is facing a crisis driven by economic uncertainty, rising AI adoption, and declining demand, hitting freelancers and small studios the hardest and prompting widespread job insecurity and emotional strain. In response, many creatives are adapting through diversification, community support, authenticity in their work, and strategic use of AI, demonstrating resilience and a redefinition of success in an evolving landscape.
2025.06.17
CHLOE GAILLARD IMBUES TYPOGRAPHY WITH HISTORICAL EASTER EGGS
Graphic designer Chloe Gaillard creates immersive, concept-driven visual worlds, such as “Kaolyn”, a warm, ceramics-inspired typeface with hidden vase motifs, and “Odette”, a nostalgic project rooted in her great-great-grandmother's handwriting. With a focus on emotional storytelling through typography's subtle details, Gaillard blends modernity and memory to craft unique, silent graphic languages that define each project's identity.
2025.06.17
BRANDING AND VISUAL IDENTITY: MP2E SOLUTIONS' MODERN LOOK
Palantis crafted a sleek and adaptable visual identity for MP2E Solutions, using a symbolic hyphen and industry-specific color palette to reflect the company's technical expertise and versatility in sectors like pharmaceuticals and electronics. Through thoughtful branding, including a dedicated iconographic system and cohesive design elements, Palantis positioned MP2E as a forward-thinking industrial leader ready for its next chapter.
2025.06.17
APPLE WILL LET THIRD PARTY MUSIC APPS SHOW ANIMATED ARTWORK ON THE IPHONE LOCK SCREEN, NOT JUST APPLE MUSIC
iOS 26 introduces a redesigned lock screen with full-screen animated album art and playback controls on a liquid glass platter - Apple is opening this feature to third-party apps via a new API, allowing broader use beyond just Apple Music.
2025.06.17
FROM DECAY TO DESIGN: HOW URBAN RENEWAL PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN SHAPING OUR FUTURE
Examples like Melbourne's Acute House and Naples' Porta Est Masterplan demonstrate how thoughtful design can turn challenging sites into sustainable, economically productive environments that blend heritage preservation with modern functionality.
2025.06.17
"IT'S A DISTINCTLY HUMAN CRAVING”: WHAT IS EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN, THE NEED-TO-KNOW TREND OF THE MOMENT?
Experiential design is a human-centered approach that creates multisensory experiences with emotional resonance, focusing on serving the audience rather than just the brief.
2025.06.17
DISNEY SUES AI IMAGE GENERATOR MIDJOURNEY
Disney, Universal, and other major studios filed the first Hollywood lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney for repeatedly producing their copyrighted characters without permission. The suit focuses on character copyright violations, with evidence showing Midjourney generating recognizable characters like Spider-Man even from generic prompts like "superhero fight scene." Disney is likely aiming to secure a licensing deal rather than shut down the profitable AI company, which operates uniquely without venture capital funding.
2025.06.16
ADOBE POSTS SOLID EARNINGS BEAT AND RAISES ITS FULL-YEAR GUIDANCE, BUT INVESTORS YAWN
Adobe beat Q2 earnings expectations with $5.06 per share on $5.87 billion revenue and raised full-year guidance, but investors remained unimpressed as the stock declined. The company faces mounting pressure from AI competition despite launching its own generative AI tools like Firefly, with analysts concerned that traditional creative software could become less relevant. Adobe's stock has fallen 7% year-to-date as investors question whether the company can successfully monetize AI tools amid increasing competition from rivals like Canva and OpenAI.
2025.06.16
EVEN MICROSOFT IS MOCKING APPLE'S LIQUID GLASS UI DESIGN
Apple's new Liquid Glass UI drew praise for being “delightful,” “elegant,” and “modern,” but also sparked debate over its similarity to older designs like Windows Vista's Aero Glass. Microsoft playfully accused Apple of copying Vista in a viral TikTok video, though many argue Apple's implementation is more advanced, reigniting the age-old debate over who did translucent UI best—and who did it first.
2025.06.16
THE ART SECRET BEHIND ALL GREAT DESIGN
Visual composition serves as a basic language that communicates meaning even before we get to the actual content. We tend to "read" a composition intuitively, much like we process grammar in writing, which is why a well-designed layout feels satisfying even before we engage with the text. That's why it's a good idea to spend extra time on wireframing during the design process. If a layout works well with placeholder elements, it will end up supporting whatever final content you add later.
2025.06.16
HOW TO NAME THINGS
Naming in design and development significantly impacts team communication and thinking. Poor choices create confusion between designers, developers, and product managers using different "dialects." Effective naming requires balancing specificity with flexibility. Teams should actively address naming inconsistencies to reduce frustration and improve collaboration.
2025.06.16
HOW JAM JARS EXPLAIN APPLE'S SUCCESS
The Paradox of Choice suggests that offering too many options can overwhelm consumers, reducing both satisfaction and the likelihood of a purchase. While the theory has been debated, its core insight holds: people prefer fewer, well-curated, clearly framed choices that simplify decision-making and reduce regret.
2025.06.16
COMPONENTS WITH SMOOTH ANIMATIONS
SmoothUI is a collection of beautifully designed components with smooth animations built with React, Tailwind CSS, and Motion.
2025.06.16
GLASSMORPHISM CSS GENERATOR
This free CSS generator, based on the glassmorphism design specifications, can quickly design and customize style properties.
2025.06.16
THINGS
A collection of more than 2,800 free AI-generated 3D icons.
2025.06.16
HOW AI CONVERTS PROTOTYPES TO CODE
AI tools are revolutionizing prototype-to-code conversion by analyzing design files and generating clean, maintainable code that maintains consistency between design and development. These tools enable developers to work 55% faster while reducing development costs by 20-30%. They also enable designers to gain creative freedom and businesses to achieve faster time-to-market.
2025.06.16
THE POWER OF DESIGNING FOR PUSHBACK
AI systems like ChatGPT are designed to be overly accommodating, which may diminish users' critical thinking abilities, prompting the need for "productive resistance" that challenges rather than validates user input. Well-designed AI pushback can stimulate deeper learning and better decision-making, particularly in educational contexts and misinformation correction, where challenging misconceptions prove more effective than passive compliance. Designers face the crucial task of balancing trust-building with critical engagement, creating AI interfaces that encourage intentional thinking rather than addictive validation-seeking behaviors.
2025.06.16
ON HOW LONG IT TAKES TO KNOW IF A JOB IS RIGHT FOR YOU OR NOT
First impressions of a job are often accurate, and when something feels off early on, it usually doesn't improve with time. This is especially true for managers, whose roles demand deep alignment with company values, making it crucial to recognize misalignment early and learn from the experience to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.
2025.06.16
APPLE'S “LIQUID GLASS” ISN'T JUST AN ACCESSIBILITY BLUNDER — IT'S AN ENVIRONMENTAL ONE TOO
Apple's "liquid glass" design language creates significant environmental concerns by requiring GPU-intensive blur effects and animations that increase energy consumption across millions of devices with no functional benefit.
2025.06.16
WHAT IS BIOPHILIC DESIGN, AND WHY IS IT TAKING OVER THE WORKPLACE?
Biophilic design integrates natural elements like plants, daylight, and organic forms into workplaces, creating measurable improvements in well-being, productivity, creativity, and staff retention while supporting neurodiversity through softer, more inclusive environments.
2025.06.16
APPLE IS REPORTEDLY REDESIGNING THE MACBOOK PRO NEXT YEAR, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING
Apple is expected to redesign the MacBook Pro in 2026 with a thinner chassis, cutting-edge M6 chips using 2nm tech, and a major display upgrade to Tandem OLED, offering better brightness, contrast, and possibly a notch-free screen.
2025.06.16
APPLE IS SALVAGING IMAGE PLAYGROUND WITH A BOOST FROM CHATGPT
Apple is addressing Image Playground's poor reception by integrating ChatGPT to improve its AI image generation capabilities. The original app faced criticism for low-quality results and limitations, with users reporting issues like six-fingered hands and failed simple prompts. The ChatGPT integration will add new artistic styles, including Oil Painting, Watercolor, Vector, Anime, and Print, moving beyond the current emoji-like creations.
2025.06.13
PINTEREST TESTS AN AI FEATURE THAT LETS ADVERTISERS TURN THEIR CATALOGS INTO SHOPPABLE COLLAGES
Pinterest is testing an AI "auto-collages" feature that automatically transforms advertiser product catalogs into shoppable visual content. The feature groups products based on outfit ideas, user engagement patterns, and similar items. Early tests showed users saved these AI-generated collages at twice the rate of standard product pins. Pinterest also announced updates to its Trends tool to help advertisers predict future user purchasing behavior through insights on saving and shopping patterns.
2025.06.13
IN IOS 26, THE SAFARI BROWSER ON IPHONE HAS THREE DIFFERENT TOOLBAR LAYOUTS TO CHOOSE FROM
Safari in iOS 26 introduces a new Liquid Glass design with floating, translucent toolbars and a revamped layout system featuring three modes - Compact (the new default), Bottom, and Top - each adjusted to match the updated aesthetic. While Compact closely resembles the once-controversial iOS 15 design with a floating URL bar at the bottom, all layouts now feature minimized, receding elements during scroll, and Apple has notably removed the Compact mode from Safari on macOS and iPadOS 26 for now.
2025.06.13
ESCAPE FROM THE FIGMA TITANIC: PART 1 — DEEP DIVE INTO AI-DRIVEN USE CASES
AI product design should prioritize use case storyboarding over creating pixel-perfect Figma screens to align AI systems with human needs. There are five DOs, including starting with user intent, testing storyboards with users before UI design, and using subject-to-AI transitions to clarify when AI activates. It's essential to avoid system feature focus over human outcomes, not skip AI handoff moments, and reject static wireframes for dynamic AI intelligence.
2025.06.13
EIGHT ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR USING FIGMA MAKE
Figma introduced Make, a prompt-to-code feature that transforms concepts into functional prototypes through detailed prompts, at Config 2025. The tool works best with comprehensive initial prompts, clean design files with proper Auto Layout, and incremental improvements rather than complex changes simultaneously. Teams can leverage existing components for consistency, use point-and-edit for quick visual tweaks, integrate realistic data for dynamic prototypes, and even create handoff tools that generate production-ready code snippets.
2025.06.13
THE DESIGNER'S HIERARCHY OF CAREER NEEDS
Compensation, edification, and recognition are not equally important in building a sustainable design career—they form a hierarchy where financial stability must come first, followed by skill-building, and lastly, recognition as a potential byproduct of doing meaningful work. Prioritizing recognition too early often leads to undervalued labor and burnout, while focusing first on getting paid and then growing expertise lays the foundation for long-term success.
2025.06.13
MAKE STUNNING PRESENTATIONS
Chronicle combines AI with taste to help you go from raw thoughts to polished presentations. It is designed for serious work. Start with templates, create with AI workflows, and collaborate with your team to shape your ideas into impactful narratives.
2025.06.13
CREATE VIRAL VIDEOS ADS
Create high-ROI video ads in seconds with VidAU. VidAU's AI-powered toolkit of proven ad templates, avatars, and data-backed formats can be used to launch scroll-stopping creatives—fast. No editing needed.
2025.06.13
DESIGN TOKENS STARTER CANVAS
A structured FigJam canvas with pre-formulated questions that guide you through five pillars of planning so you can make smarter decisions faster.
2025.06.13
UX CHALLENGES WITH MCPS
MCPs (Model Context Protocols) excel at orchestration workflows like information synthesis and task automation but struggle with iteration workflows requiring real-time feedback and continuous refinement. Working with MCPs involves two key UX challenges: unintuitive configuration similar to IFTTT and interaction patterns that feel like bridge solutions rather than natural app evolution. Most workflows are hybrid, requiring different AI interaction approaches depending on whether users need discrete task delegation or continuous creative assistance with immediate visual feedback.
2025.06.13
SIX WAYS TO USE DOCUMENTATION ANALYTICS IN YOUR NEXT DESIGN SYSTEM LAUNCH
Documentation analytics help design system teams measure launch success by moving beyond "we shipped it" to understanding actual impact and user engagement. The six key strategies include revisiting original goals to assess whether updates solved intended problems, using time filters to analyze post-launch behavior patterns, and tracking page views versus sessions to distinguish visibility from meaningful engagement. Teams should examine top-performing content to identify successful patterns, address underperforming pages through improved messaging or targeted outreach, and use insights to optimize future launches with data-driven strategies.
2025.06.13
SARAH O'CONNELL ON PROVING PEOPLE WRONG AND WHY THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY NEEDS MORE WORKING-CLASS VOICES
Sarah O'Connell forged a successful copywriting career without traditional industry credentials, relying instead on craft, confidence, and community to overcome bias and underestimation. Now a leader and advocate for working-class representation in the creative industry, she emphasizes the power of self-belief, mentorship, and diverse voices in driving truly original and meaningful work.
2025.06.13
TADAO ANDO BRINGS A FRUITY MINIMALISM TO HIS FIRST WATCH
Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando collaborated with Swiss brand Cauny on his first complete watch design, creating a minimalist timepiece inspired by a green apple.
2025.06.13