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Design Digest #27: Twitter rebrand as โ€œXโ€, Threads launch & Barbie campaign

Oleh, Mirona
Aug 10, 2023

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

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๐Ÿฆ„ Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studiesย 

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

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

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

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

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Loading & progress indicators โ€“ UI Components series | UX Collective

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

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Nerdy Details from the Redesign of Appleโ€™s watchOS | COOL HUNTINGยฎ

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Rethinking Window Management โ€“ Space and Meaning | Tobias Bernard

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The UX Cookbook โ€“ Handcrafted recipes to get you started with everything UX โ€” user research, design, usability testing, and more.

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Creating magic with logical thinking | UX Collective

Invisible Details of Interaction Design | Rauno Freiberg

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Projects

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๐Ÿ‘ Cosmos | Unseen Studio

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๐Ÿ‘ MAKHNO | obys

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๐Ÿ‘ If An A-Bomb Falls | The First The Last

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๐Ÿ‘ Metamask Portfolio

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๐Ÿ‘ SATOSHILABS โ€“ bitcoin-first tech holding | Josef Slavicek

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๐Ÿ‘ Flowd | Intex

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๐Ÿ‘ OEBB HISTORY | WILD

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๐Ÿ‘ Balรกลพ Winemakers | adjusthink.studio

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๐Ÿ‘ ATEN7 | Immersive Garden

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๐Ÿ‘ TIGERMILK | index

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๐Ÿ‘€ Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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Twitter rapidly rebrands as X with user-submitted logo | Itโ€™s Nice That

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

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How the Threads design team branded the app | Itโ€™s Nice That

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

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

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

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5 wild moments from the Barbie marketing campaign | Creative Bloq

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Itโ€™s Time to Rethink โ€˜Good Vibes Onlyโ€˜ | PRINT Magazine

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

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

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

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The Most Popular Color Families of the Next Decade | Pantone

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The Daily Heller: Type With Kyiv Influences | PRINT Magazine

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Projects

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๐Ÿ‘ Koto rebrand of Glassdoor helps boost the platform 'where work talk gets real' | Koto

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๐Ÿ‘ Kili | RAGGED EDGE

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๐Ÿ‘ Amp | Koto

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๐Ÿ‘ Redsofa | Gruhl Studio

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๐Ÿ‘ Future Observatory | SPIN Studio

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๐Ÿ‘ Mistermv โ€“ Streampack | HEROINK, Mathieu Bourneuf, Thomas Brunet, Eric Pochez, Bohauss โœพ

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๐Ÿ‘ Spatial Line Up Video | BOL, Device Studio

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๐Ÿ‘ Amby | Bielke&Yang

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๐Ÿ‘ Koto's adventurous identity for Kikin takes inspiration from the Great Outdoors | Koto

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The Dieline's Best of July 2023 | Dieline

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๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€ Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Managementย 

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The doโ€™s and donโ€™ts of good design strategy | Design Dept.

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


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

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If a hammer was like AIโ€ฆ | Per Axbom

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AI and the automation of work | Benedict Evans

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

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AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66% | NN/group

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

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๐Ÿ”  Typographyย 

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Meet Microsoft Officeโ€™s new default font: Aptos | The Verge

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FH Goal X Nike | Fatih Hardal


IAAB STโ„ข Progressive Font | h3l AG

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

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Lena Weberโ€™s animated typeface is a celebration of digital gradients | Itโ€™s Nice That / Lena Weber

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Clement Casesโ€™ new typeface is both eccentric and legible as he creates with designers in mind | Itโ€™s Nice That / Clement Cases

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โ€œStart in motion and work back to static.โ€ DIA create a generative system for tech start-up smlXL | The Brand Identity

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Magic Ruby Font | Kevinq Fperez

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Altoma Typeface | Hvnter

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Type Scraps | Mat Voyce

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๐Ÿš€ Products and Tools

Adobe

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

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Also

Magic Design: Free Online AI Design Tool | Canva

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GUS โ€“ The AI Website Designer in Your Pocket | univer.se

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Stable Diffusion XL โ€“ย  Leap Forward in AI Image Generation

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

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illustrations universe โ€“ Get inspiration from world's best illustrations.

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SearchSystemโ„ข is an ever-growing collection of references and tools for designers

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

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๐Ÿคช Memes

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