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Design Digest #27: Twitter rebrand as “X”, Threads launch & Barbie campaign

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Anzhelika Bilous and Server Terlekchi at Awesomic

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

Think inside the box: How accessibility shapes digital product design | UX Collective

The UX Of Flight Searches: How We Challenged Industry Standards | Smashing Magazine

Beehiiv subscription: 5 small UX mistakes that make a BIG difference | growth.design

Virtual Queues: 13 Best Practices for Managing the Wait | NN/group

Loading & progress indicators – UI Components series | UX Collective

Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices | Smashing Magazine

Nerdy Details from the Redesign of Apple’s watchOS | COOL HUNTING®

Rethinking Window Management – Space and Meaning | Tobias Bernard

The UX Cookbook – Handcrafted recipes to get you started with everything UX — user research, design, usability testing, and more.

Creating magic with logical thinking | UX Collective

Invisible Details of Interaction Design | Rauno Freiberg

Projects

👁 Cosmos | Unseen Studio

👁 MAKHNO | obys

👁 If An A-Bomb Falls | The First The Last


👁 Metamask Portfolio

👁 SATOSHILABS – bitcoin-first tech holding | Josef Slavicek

👁 Flowd | Intex

👁 OEBB HISTORY | WILD

👁 Baláž Winemakers | adjusthink.studio

👁 ATEN7 | Immersive Garden

👁 TIGERMILK | index

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

Twitter rapidly rebrands as X with user-submitted logo | It’s Nice That

+ Does X mark the spot? Following Elon Musk’s rapid rebrand of Twitter as X, we ask designers for their thoughts on the new logo and what it might mean for the brand’s future | Creative Review

How the Threads design team branded the app | It’s Nice That

Barbie Marketing Campaign Explained: How Warner Bros Promoted the Film | Variety

Into the mind of designer & co-founder Brian Collins | mymind

AI in design: what does the future hold? Featuring thoughts from Seky Kwon, Grafik and Vernacular | The Brand Identity

5 wild moments from the Barbie marketing campaign | Creative Bloq

It’s Time to Rethink ‘Good Vibes Only‘ | PRINT Magazine

How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity | UX Collective

How one design studio crafted a brand campaign entirely from AI | FastCompany

The price is right: we chat client budgets and project rates, with Mother Design and Date of Birth | The Brand Identity

The Most Popular Color Families of the Next Decade | Pantone

The Daily Heller: Type With Kyiv Influences | PRINT Magazine

Projects

👁 Koto rebrand of Glassdoor helps boost the platform 'where work talk gets real' | Koto

👁 Kili | RAGGED EDGE

👁 Amp | Koto

👁 Redsofa | Gruhl Studio

👁 Future Observatory | SPIN Studio

👁 Mistermv – Streampack | HEROINK, Mathieu Bourneuf, Thomas Brunet, Eric Pochez, Bohauss ✾

👁 Spatial Line Up Video | BOL, Device Studio

👁 Amby | Bielke&Yang

👁 Koto's adventurous identity for Kikin takes inspiration from the Great Outdoors | Koto

The Dieline's Best of July 2023 | Dieline

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management 

The do’s and don’ts of good design strategy | Design Dept.

AI-Powered Tools for UX Research: Issues and Limitations | NN/group


Overlooked for Job Opportunities as a UX Designer? | Career Foundry

If a hammer was like AI… | Per Axbom

AI and the automation of work | Benedict Evans

The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution | Rest of World

AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66% | NN/group

ChatGPT for UX design: The Top 15 Prompts | Career Foundry

🔠 Typography 

Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos | The Verge

FH Goal X Nike | Fatih Hardal


IAAB ST™ Progressive Font | h3l AG

Liberty Letters: Pentagram-inspired capsule collection turns fonts into fashion | Creative Boom

Lena Weber’s animated typeface is a celebration of digital gradients | It’s Nice That / Lena Weber

Clement Cases’ new typeface is both eccentric and legible as he creates with designers in mind | It’s Nice That / Clement Cases

“Start in motion and work back to static.” DIA create a generative system for tech start-up smlXL | The Brand Identity

Magic Ruby Font | Kevinq Fperez

Altoma Typeface | Hvnter

Type Scraps | Mat Voyce

🚀 Products and Tools

Adobe

Photoshop releases new Generative Expand workflow and global language support for Firefly-powered features | Adobe Blog

Also

Magic Design: Free Online AI Design Tool | Canva

GUS – The AI Website Designer in Your Pocket | univer.se

Stable Diffusion XL –  Leap Forward in AI Image Generation

HiFA: High-fidelity Text-to-3D with Advanced Diffusion Guidance

illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations.

SearchSystem™ is an ever-growing collection of references and tools for designers

Chromatic Toolkit – With a chromatic inclusion, you can turn a poster that might need a little more artistic direction into something truly impressive

🤪 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 Marketing Manager, 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 😉

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Anzhelika Bilous and Server Terlekchi at Awesomic

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

🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

Think inside the box: How accessibility shapes digital product design | UX Collective

The UX Of Flight Searches: How We Challenged Industry Standards | Smashing Magazine

Beehiiv subscription: 5 small UX mistakes that make a BIG difference | growth.design

Virtual Queues: 13 Best Practices for Managing the Wait | NN/group

Loading & progress indicators – UI Components series | UX Collective

Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices | Smashing Magazine

Nerdy Details from the Redesign of Apple’s watchOS | COOL HUNTING®

Rethinking Window Management – Space and Meaning | Tobias Bernard

The UX Cookbook – Handcrafted recipes to get you started with everything UX — user research, design, usability testing, and more.

Creating magic with logical thinking | UX Collective

Invisible Details of Interaction Design | Rauno Freiberg

Projects

👁 Cosmos | Unseen Studio

👁 MAKHNO | obys

👁 If An A-Bomb Falls | The First The Last


👁 Metamask Portfolio

👁 SATOSHILABS – bitcoin-first tech holding | Josef Slavicek

👁 Flowd | Intex

👁 OEBB HISTORY | WILD

👁 Baláž Winemakers | adjusthink.studio

👁 ATEN7 | Immersive Garden

👁 TIGERMILK | index

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

Twitter rapidly rebrands as X with user-submitted logo | It’s Nice That

+ Does X mark the spot? Following Elon Musk’s rapid rebrand of Twitter as X, we ask designers for their thoughts on the new logo and what it might mean for the brand’s future | Creative Review

How the Threads design team branded the app | It’s Nice That

Barbie Marketing Campaign Explained: How Warner Bros Promoted the Film | Variety

Into the mind of designer & co-founder Brian Collins | mymind

AI in design: what does the future hold? Featuring thoughts from Seky Kwon, Grafik and Vernacular | The Brand Identity

5 wild moments from the Barbie marketing campaign | Creative Bloq

It’s Time to Rethink ‘Good Vibes Only‘ | PRINT Magazine

How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity | UX Collective

How one design studio crafted a brand campaign entirely from AI | FastCompany

The price is right: we chat client budgets and project rates, with Mother Design and Date of Birth | The Brand Identity

The Most Popular Color Families of the Next Decade | Pantone

The Daily Heller: Type With Kyiv Influences | PRINT Magazine

Projects

👁 Koto rebrand of Glassdoor helps boost the platform 'where work talk gets real' | Koto

👁 Kili | RAGGED EDGE

👁 Amp | Koto

👁 Redsofa | Gruhl Studio

👁 Future Observatory | SPIN Studio

👁 Mistermv – Streampack | HEROINK, Mathieu Bourneuf, Thomas Brunet, Eric Pochez, Bohauss ✾

👁 Spatial Line Up Video | BOL, Device Studio

👁 Amby | Bielke&Yang

👁 Koto's adventurous identity for Kikin takes inspiration from the Great Outdoors | Koto

The Dieline's Best of July 2023 | Dieline

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management 

The do’s and don’ts of good design strategy | Design Dept.

AI-Powered Tools for UX Research: Issues and Limitations | NN/group


Overlooked for Job Opportunities as a UX Designer? | Career Foundry

If a hammer was like AI… | Per Axbom

AI and the automation of work | Benedict Evans

The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution | Rest of World

AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66% | NN/group

ChatGPT for UX design: The Top 15 Prompts | Career Foundry

🔠 Typography 

Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos | The Verge

FH Goal X Nike | Fatih Hardal


IAAB ST™ Progressive Font | h3l AG

Liberty Letters: Pentagram-inspired capsule collection turns fonts into fashion | Creative Boom

Lena Weber’s animated typeface is a celebration of digital gradients | It’s Nice That / Lena Weber

Clement Cases’ new typeface is both eccentric and legible as he creates with designers in mind | It’s Nice That / Clement Cases

“Start in motion and work back to static.” DIA create a generative system for tech start-up smlXL | The Brand Identity

Magic Ruby Font | Kevinq Fperez

Altoma Typeface | Hvnter

Type Scraps | Mat Voyce

🚀 Products and Tools

Adobe

Photoshop releases new Generative Expand workflow and global language support for Firefly-powered features | Adobe Blog

Also

Magic Design: Free Online AI Design Tool | Canva

GUS – The AI Website Designer in Your Pocket | univer.se

Stable Diffusion XL –  Leap Forward in AI Image Generation

HiFA: High-fidelity Text-to-3D with Advanced Diffusion Guidance

illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations.

SearchSystem™ is an ever-growing collection of references and tools for designers

Chromatic Toolkit – With a chromatic inclusion, you can turn a poster that might need a little more artistic direction into something truly impressive

🤪 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 Marketing Manager, 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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