Design digest #23: Uber redesign, using AI to Break Down Barriers in UX Design & iOS Navigation Patterns
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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design
Articles and case studies
🔗 Spotify’s new design turns your music and podcasts into a TikTok feed | The Verge
🔗 Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign | Alex Hollender
🔗 The Psychology Behind Loom's Explosive Growth | growth.design
🔗 3 lessons from Bumble’s onboarding | UX Collective
🔗 Designing Zenly: Part I. 2015–2017 | Julien Martin
🔗 The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites | NN/group
🔗 Visual design, vibes and lack of taste | Stan Govorukhin, Djinni
🔗 Sparkles aren’t good UX✨| UX Collective
🔗 Modern iOS Navigation Patterns | Frank Rausch
🔗 Using AI to Break Down Barriers in UX Design | UX Mag
🔗 The state of SaaS marketplace UX | UX Collective
🔗 4 Design Patterns That Violate “Back” Button UX Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It Wrong | Baymard
Institute
🔗 The playful design details of the Playdate console | Clip Content
Projects
👁 The re-designed Uber App | Charlie Waite, Uber
👁 Lacoste Heritage | BONHOMME
United States Space Force | Wildlife, GSD&M, plan8
👁 LVMH Prize | B-Reel
yonder | Significa, Teresa Vilararaujo
Quai Network | Unseen Studio
Our Revolution | Likely Story, JamesPowell.dev, Andrea Jelic
The Singularity | Squarespace
Critical Danger | Somefolk
Mike Matas is an American user interface designer and icon artist. He has previously worked at The Omni Group doing interface and graphic design work. Matas co-founded Delicious Monster. In 2005 he went to work for Apple, where he designed user interfaces and artwork for the iPhone, the iPad and Mac OS X.
👀 Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
🔗 New Yorkers Threw a Tantrum Over the New “We❤️NYC” Logo – Are Their Feelings Valid? | Print Mag
🔗 Pepsi's new logo: what designers like and don't like | Ad Age Creativity
🔗 Pink Floyd and Pentagram celebrate 50 years of Dark Side of The Moon | Creative Boom
🔗 The AI boom is creating a new logo trend: the swirling hexagon | Fast Company
🔗 “The people are more important than the work.” Alright Studio’s recipe for happiness and success | The Brand Identity
🔗 'I wanted to be part of the change': Jessica Walsh on her journey to founding &Walsh | Creative Boom
🔗 Margaret Flatley on creating narrative stories, how to draw dynamic compositions, and why she's lured to the fantastical | Creative Boom
🔗 How the visual identity for Offf Festival came to life | Creative Review
🔗 Ukraine issues postage stamp featuring "prophetic" Banksy artwork | deezen
Projects
OpenAI | AREA 17
👁 New York City unveils controversial revamp of "I ♥ NY" logo | Deezen
👁 Pepsi’s new logo takes influence from its 90s predecessor | Design Week
👁Netflix is a Joke: The Festival is a deliberate laughingstock | PORTO ROCHA
👁 Ceramicah | Present Studio
👁 Stolp | FCKLCK
👁 Nordoff and Robbins | Pentagram
👁 Cohere | Pentagram
👁 apron | Opening Line / Outsiders
👁 Section | Design Studio
👁 Pack of the Month: Unlearn Studio Delivers a Cannabis-Infused Kombucha With High Tide | Dieline
👁 Brite | MultiAdaptor
👁 Збройні Сили України – Armed Forces of Ukraine | Taras Ishchyk, Orest Pidlisetsky, Dmytro Rastvortsev, Marchela Mozhyna
👩🚀 Career Growth, Design Management and Leadership
A Comprehensive Checklist For Running Design Workshops | Slava Shestopalov, Smashing Magazine
How the Figma design team level set on career leveling | Figma
UX Strategy: Study Guide | NN/group
Discomforts of Great Design Management | Alexander Vilinskyy
Yes, you should embed UX researchers into your design teams. Here’s why… | Designing Atlassian
Lean UX & Agile Glossary | NN/group
🔠 Typography
AI generated fonts get roasted on Twitter | Creative Bloq
Sharp Grotesk Goes Global – Pan Euro released Sharp Grotesk Pan Euro‚ Sharp Grotesk Hangul‚ and Sharp Grotesk Thai
LTR NCND | textured typewriter face by LettError
Regrets | art nouveau display typeface by OH no Type Company
Netto | geometric rounded typeface and icon set by TypeMates
🚀 Products and Tools
Figma
Little Big Updates: multi-select search, on-canvas preview, luminance mask support, leading trim, hanging punctuation, sticky scrolling in prototypes, and many more.
Adobe
AI Art Generator – Adobe Firefly
What’s new in Photoshop and Illustrator: More Share for Review capabilities | Adobe
AI tools
Midjourney Version 5 for Web Design - The Results
Midjourney V5 is here ! So, what’s new? | Bootcamp
Spline AI – 3D Design faster with AI
GPT-4 | OpenAI
Noya – Draw wireframes, get designs & code
Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft | The Verge
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work | Microsoft
Genius – AI design companion | Diagram
How to design generative AI experiences to be truly helpful | UX Collective
FigGPT Figma Plugin | Alex Shevenionov
Introducing AI-Generated Product Descriptions Powered by Shopify Magic | Shopify
ChatGPT Lifts Business Professionals’ Productivity and Improves Work Quality | NN/group
🤔 Other
Read
‘Make Something Wonderful’ is the first publication from the Steve Jobs Archive | Wallpaper
Watch
How to Build An MVP | Startup School | Y Combinator Blog
Listen
What Is CX Design? | Debbie Levitt, Smashing Podcast
🤪 Memes
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