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Design digest #26: Figma Config, 2023 Logo Trends & Pride Campaigns

This digest was collected by Mirona Zulgarina, Oleh Idolov, Kateryna Siiakovska, Olesia Karavan, Roman Lisnychyi and Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic

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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

Figma Product Launch Keynote

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:

Variables, now in Figma

More advanced prototyping 

New ways to use auto layout

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

👁 The Drop Store

👁 Outreach Space

👁 Patta x Tommy

👁 Decriminalize Poverty 

👀 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

👁 WeWork’s Brand Evolution

👁 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


Awesomic is an open-minded team of people who are changing the way of getting design done. It’s the right place for professional design growth and a great spot for motivated individuals. And for humor, of course!

Join if you feel the same. We have open positions for Senior Full-Stack Developer and many others.

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This digest was collected by Mirona Zulgarina, Oleh Idolov, Kateryna Siiakovska, Olesia Karavan, Roman Lisnychyi and Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic

Discuss the digest in the comments, and sign up for the updates!

🦄 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

Figma Product Launch Keynote

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:

Variables, now in Figma

More advanced prototyping 

New ways to use auto layout

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

👁 The Drop Store

👁 Outreach Space

👁 Patta x Tommy

👁 Decriminalize Poverty 

👀 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

👁 WeWork’s Brand Evolution

👁 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


Awesomic is an open-minded team of people who are changing the way of getting design done. It’s the right place for professional design growth and a great spot for motivated individuals. And for humor, of course!

Join if you feel the same. We have open positions for Senior Full-Stack Developer and many others.

Want to stay updated on what’s going on in the design community? Sign up for our email subscription 😉

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