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