Design digest #23: Uber redesign, using AI to Break Down Barriers in UX Design & iOS Navigation Patterns


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π¦ Product and UI/UX Design
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π Spotifyβs new design turns your music and podcasts into a TikTok feed | The Verge
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π Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign | Alex Hollender
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π The Psychology Behind Loom's Explosive Growth | growth.design
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π 3 lessons from Bumbleβs onboarding | UX Collective
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π Designing Zenly: Part I. 2015β2017 | Julien Martin
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π The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites | NN/group
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π Visual design, vibes and lack of taste | Stan Govorukhin, Djinni
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π Sparkles arenβt good UXβ¨| UX Collective
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π Modern iOS Navigation Patterns | Frank Rausch
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π Using AI to Break Down Barriers in UX Design | UX Mag
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π The state of SaaS marketplace UX | UX Collective
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π 4 Design Patterns That Violate βBackβ Button UX Expectations β 59% of Sites Get It Wrong | BaymardΒ
Institute
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π The playful design details of the Playdate console | Clip Content
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Projects
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π The re-designed Uber App | Charlie Waite, Uber

π Lacoste Heritage | BONHOMME

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United States Space Force | Wildlife, GSD&M, plan8

π LVMH Prize | B-Reel

π Locomotive

yonder | Significa, Teresa Vilararaujo

Quai Network | Unseen Studio

Our Revolution | Likely Story, JamesPowell.dev, Andrea Jelic

The Singularity | Squarespace

Critical Danger | Somefolk

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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.

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π Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
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π New Yorkers Threw a Tantrum Over the New βWeβ€οΈNYCβ Logo β Are Their Feelings Valid? | Print Mag
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π Pepsi's new logo: what designers like and don't like | Ad Age Creativity
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π Pink Floyd and Pentagram celebrate 50 years of Dark Side of The Moon | Creative Boom
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π The AI boom is creating a new logo trend: the swirling hexagon | Fast Company
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π βThe people are more important than the work.β Alright Studioβs recipe for happiness and success | The Brand Identity
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π 'I wanted to be part of the change': Jessica Walsh on her journey to founding &Walsh | Creative Boom
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π Margaret Flatley on creating narrative stories, how to draw dynamic compositions, and why she's lured to the fantastical | Creative Boom
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π How the visual identity for Offf Festival came to life | Creative Review
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π Ukraine issues postage stamp featuring "prophetic" Banksy artwork | deezen
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OpenAI | AREA 17

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π New York City unveils controversial revamp of "I β₯ NY" logo | Deezen

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π Pepsiβs new logo takes influence from its 90s predecessor | Design Week

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πNetflix is a Joke: The Festival is a deliberate laughingstock | PORTO ROCHA

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π Ceramicah | Present Studio

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π Stolp | FCKLCK

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π Nordoff and Robbins | Pentagram

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π Cohere | Pentagram

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π apron | Opening Line / Outsiders

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π Section | Design Studio

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π Pack of the Month: Unlearn Studio Delivers a Cannabis-Infused Kombucha With High Tide | DielineΒ

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π Brite | MultiAdaptor

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π ΠΠ±ΡΠΎΠΉΠ½Ρ Π‘ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ Π£ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΈ β Armed Forces of Ukraine | Taras Ishchyk, Orest Pidlisetsky, Dmytro Rastvortsev, Marchela Mozhyna

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π©βπ Career Growth, Design Management and Leadership
A Comprehensive Checklist For Running Design Workshops | Slava Shestopalov, Smashing Magazine
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How the Figma design team level set on career leveling | Figma
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UX Strategy: Study Guide | NN/group
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Discomforts of Great Design Management | Alexander Vilinskyy
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Yes, you should embed UX researchers into your design teams. Hereβs whyβ¦ | Designing Atlassian
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Lean UX & Agile Glossary | NN/group
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π Typography
AI generated fonts get roasted on Twitter | Creative Bloq
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Sharp Grotesk Goes Global β Pan Euro released Sharp Grotesk Pan Euroβ Sharp Grotesk Hangulβ and Sharp Grotesk Thai
LTR NCND | textured typewriter face by LettErrorΒ
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Regrets | art nouveau display typeface by OH no Type Company
Netto | geometric rounded typeface and icon set by TypeMates
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π 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.
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Adobe
AI Art Generator β Adobe Firefly
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Whatβs new in Photoshop and Illustrator: More Share for Review capabilities | Adobe
AI tools
Midjourney Version 5 for Web Design - The Results
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Midjourney V5 is here ! So, whatβs new? | Bootcamp
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Spline AI β 3D Design faster with AI
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GPT-4 | OpenAI
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Noya β Draw wireframes, get designs & code
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Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft | The Verge
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Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot β your copilot for work | Microsoft
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Genius β AI design companion |Β Diagram
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How to design generative AI experiences to be truly helpful | UX Collective
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FigGPT Figma Plugin | Alex Shevenionov
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Introducing AI-Generated Product Descriptions Powered by Shopify Magic | Shopify
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ChatGPT Lifts Business Professionalsβ Productivity and Improves Work Quality | NN/group
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Β βMake Something Wonderfulβ is the first publication from the Steve Jobs Archive | Wallpaper
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How to Build An MVP | Startup School | Y Combinator Blog
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What Is CX Design? | Debbie Levitt, Smashing Podcast
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