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

Oleh, Mirona
Apr 17, 2023

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Alisa Hrynkevich, Anastasiia Demchenko, and Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic. Discuss the digest in the comments, and sign up for the updates!

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πŸ¦„ Product and UI/UX Design

Articles and case studies

πŸ”— Spotify’s new design turns your music and podcasts into a TikTok feed | The Verge

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πŸ”— Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign | Alex Hollender

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πŸ”— The Psychology Behind Loom's Explosive Growth | growth.design

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πŸ”— 3 lessons from Bumble’s onboarding | UX Collective

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πŸ”— Designing Zenly: Part I. 2015–2017 | Julien Martin

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πŸ”— The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites | NN/group

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πŸ”— Visual design, vibes and lack of taste | Stan Govorukhin, Djinni

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πŸ”— Sparkles aren’t good UX✨| UX Collective

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πŸ”— Modern iOS Navigation Patterns | Frank Rausch

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πŸ”— Using AI to Break Down Barriers in UX Design | UX Mag

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πŸ”— The state of SaaS marketplace UX | UX Collective

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πŸ”— 4 Design Patterns That Violate β€œBack” Button UX Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It Wrong | BaymardΒ 

Institute

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πŸ”— The playful design details of the Playdate console | Clip Content

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Projects

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πŸ‘ The re-designed Uber App | Charlie Waite, Uber


πŸ‘ Lacoste Heritage | BONHOMME

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


πŸ‘ LVMH Prize | B-Reel


πŸ‘ 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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πŸ‘€ Visual Communication


Articles and case studies

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πŸ”— New Yorkers Threw a Tantrum Over the New β€œWe❀️NYC” Logo – Are Their Feelings Valid? | Print Mag

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πŸ”— Pepsi's new logo: what designers like and don't like | Ad Age Creativity

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πŸ”— Pink Floyd and Pentagram celebrate 50 years of Dark Side of The Moon | Creative Boom

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πŸ”— The AI boom is creating a new logo trend: the swirling hexagon | Fast Company

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πŸ”— β€œThe people are more important than the work.” Alright Studio’s recipe for happiness and success | The Brand Identity

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πŸ”— 'I wanted to be part of the change': Jessica Walsh on her journey to founding &Walsh | Creative Boom

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πŸ”— 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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πŸ”— How the visual identity for Offf Festival came to life | Creative Review

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πŸ”— Ukraine issues postage stamp featuring "prophetic" Banksy artwork | deezen

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Projects

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OpenAI | AREA 17

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πŸ‘ New York City unveils controversial revamp of "I β™₯ NY" logo | Deezen

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πŸ‘ Pepsi’s new logo takes influence from its 90s predecessor | Design Week

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πŸ‘Netflix is a Joke: The Festival is a deliberate laughingstock | PORTO ROCHA

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πŸ‘ Ceramicah | Present Studio

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πŸ‘ Stolp | FCKLCK

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πŸ‘ Nordoff and Robbins | Pentagram

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πŸ‘ Cohere | Pentagram

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πŸ‘ apron | Opening Line / Outsiders

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πŸ‘ Section | Design Studio

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

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πŸ‘ Brite | MultiAdaptor

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πŸ‘ Π—Π±Ρ€ΠΎΠΉΠ½Ρ– Π‘ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ Π£ΠΊΡ€Π°Ρ—Π½ΠΈ – Armed Forces of Ukraine | Taras Ishchyk, Orest Pidlisetsky, Dmytro Rastvortsev, Marchela Mozhyna

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πŸ‘©β€πŸš€ 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. Here’s why… | Designing Atlassian

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Lean UX & Agile Glossary | NN/group

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πŸ”  Typography

AI generated fonts get roasted on Twitter | Creative Bloq

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Sharp Grotesk Goes Global – Pan Euro released Sharp Grotesk Pan Euroβ€š Sharp Grotesk Hangulβ€š 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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πŸš€ 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 – Adobe Firefly

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What’s 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, what’s new? | Bootcamp

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Spline AI – 3D Design faster with AI

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GPT-4 | OpenAI

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Noya – 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 – your copilot for work | Microsoft

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Genius – 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 Professionals’ Productivity and Improves Work Quality | NN/group

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πŸ€” Other

Read

Β β€˜Make Something Wonderful’ is the first publication from the Steve Jobs Archive | Wallpaper

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Watch

How to Build An MVP | Startup School | Y Combinator Blog

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Listen

What Is CX Design? | Debbie Levitt, Smashing Podcast

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πŸ€ͺ Memes

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via Slava Shestopalov

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