Design digest #26: Figma Config, 2023 Logo Trends & Pride Campaigns
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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design
Figma Config: Everything you could miss during the keynote
Figma Config – Figma’s global annual conference. Watch the recordings
What’s new from Config 2023 | Figma
Variables, new Dev Mode, Enhanced Prototyping, New auto layout functionality, Fonts Preview, Effortless file location, New integrations and many more.
AI: The next chapter in design | Figma & Diagram
Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode + Developer mode playground
15 Figma Updates from Config 2023 in A Nutshell | Danny Sapio, UX Design
Figma’s Playground to try out new features:
Articles & Case Studies
AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years | NN Group
What’s The Perfect Design Process? | Smashing Magazine
AI-Powered Tools for UX Research: Issues and Limitations | NN Group
How to Adapt Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning | Christopher Butle
Usability Heuristics for UI Design: 8 Best Practices | by FlowMapp, Medium
Sustainable Design Toolkits And Frameworks | Smashing Magazine
How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation | NN Group
Humans are biased. Generative AI ss even worse | Bloomberg
Behind The Curtains Of Wikipedia Redesign | Smashing Magazine
Artificial Intelligence & Humanity: what I rely on AI for—and what I don’t | Dan Mall
Designing the latest generation of Uber Navigation: maps built for ridesharing | Dylan Babbs
How Duolingo pushes users from freemium to premium | by Rosie Hoggmascall, medium
Projects
👁 Runway: The finance platform | Reform Colelctive
👁 Imagifly – Simplify AI image generation with customizable prompt libraries
👁 Resend – Email for developers
👁 Dstafin – Decentralized platform with a unique token
👁 Quantum Wallet - the first ever hardware wallet powered by quantum computing
👀 Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
2023 Logo Trend Report | Articles | LogoLounge
The Daily Heller: Graphic Design and the Fog of War | PRINT Magazine
How to choose the right clients and projects for your studio, with IYA Studio’s Matt Cottis | The Brand Identity
Pride Campaigns: The Good, the Bad & the Rainbow-Washy | Dieline
The End of Brands As We Know Them | UX Collective
The Designers: How&How’s Joana Fatela on animation, side projects, and the tastiest studio snacks | The Brand Identity
“Creativity thrives when we feel safe”: How is the rental crisis affecting creative practices? It’s Nice That
‘Flagship’ Reimagines Iconic Brands as Flags | PRINT Magazine
Collaborative in name and nature: London-based studio In-Col on the importance of other people | The Brand Identity
Projects
👁 American Weed Co. | Pentagram
👁 Google updates Android logo with 3D robot head, new wordmark [U] | 9to5Google
👁 TheFork | Design Studio
👁 InVision | Ensemble
👁 un.studios. Visualizing sound. | RAWTY
👁 Vineyard Theatre | NB Studio
👁 Pilo | 5.5 design studio
👁 Merkezsiz | Sömestr Studio
👁 The Best in Packaging From 2023: Dieline Awards Winners Revealed
👩🚀 Career Growth, Design Management and Leadership
Storm vs. calm leadership tactics | Design Dept.
An Error Messages Scoring Rubric | NN/group
Creating impact with Research Ops — leveraging the power of communities | Emma Boulton
How to measure UX research impact: A multi-level framework | UXinsight
How to Use ChatGPT to Make Your Work More Efficient (With Prompt Examples) | by Taylor Haynes, indeed
No Handoff offers a practical working pattern that shrinks the distance between product and engineering without a “handoff” stage
🔠 Typography
ReImagineUA Dziga. Freeware revival typeface | Dmytro Rastvortsev
+ ReImagineUA Malevich | Dmytro Rastvortsev
Get ready for a windfall of new axes, starting with Tilt Neon, Tilt Prism, and Tilt Warp | Google design
Murs Gothic Dark freeware by Maksym Kobuzan
Klim Type Foundry released Martina Plantijn.
Commercial Type released Terza Reader‚ Terza Author‚ and Terza Editor.
Lineto released LL Ivory‚ LL Ivory Mono‚ and LL Ivory Display.
10+ Best Articles on Typograph, Updated: June 2023 | Refind
🚀 Products and Tools
Figma
Introducing Shortcut, Figma's new blog | Figma
FigJam updates: Discover new ways to bring your team’s templates, tools, and personalities into FigJam, so you can stay aligned from the first idea to the final delivery.
Adobe
Generative AI has landed in Adobe Illustrator
The future of Illustrator is here: Hue will never be the same | Adobe Blog
Sketch
Sketch v97 – Selection Improvements, Collections, Redesigned Save Dialog, Multi-Layer Renaming and overall improvements.
Also
Spline AI Style Transfer: use 3D to generate images with a variety of styles and explore new ways of presenting your designs with AI | Spline
Runway: Create videos in any style you can imagine with Text to Video generation
Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models | NVIDIA
Photoleap: all-in-one photo editor on your iPhone
Uncrop: Uncrop your photos to any image format
🤪 Memes
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