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Design Digest #28: Slack's redesign, LG rebrand & new Dribbble

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Kristina Gubachek, Polina Ziniukha, Marta Kalynych & Mirona Zulgarina at Awesomic

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

Web UX: Study Guide | NN/group

De-stress your UX: for mental health, accessibility, and mother nature | UX Collective

Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources | Smashing Magazine

Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series | UX Collective

The Ultimate Guide to Web Wizard Design | Creative Navy

Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid | NN/group 

Psych Framework: How to visualize user experiences | growth.design

How Spotify’s Design System Goes Beyond Platforms | Figma Blog

Writing Good Survey Questions: 10 Best Practices  | NN/group 

Projects

👁 A redesigned Slack, built for focus | Slack

👁 Saturn – the calendar built for high school

👁 Opal Camera Inc. | Claudio Guglieri, HugoAhlberg, Aristide Benoist

👁 Electrys – EV charging app | Fireart Studio

👁 How We Feel – A journal to improve your wellbeing & emotional intelligence | Ben Powell

👁 Rose Island – a story of Giorgio Rosa and the tiny nation he founded in 1968 off the Rimini coast, embodying a generation's dreams and aspirations | También, Maël Ruffini

👁 Worldcoin – an iris biometric cryptocurrency project founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman

👁 Synchrodogs is an artist duo from Ukraine, Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova | Jason Bradley, Zhenya Rynzhuk

👁 Homegrown Garden Centre – (home) garden centre & coffee house


👁 MODELEC – High-End electrical equipment | Switches and sockets | Rezo Zero

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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

Dirt Baby: Practice on why it's created a fake brand for people who treat their plants like pets | Creative Boom

What’s in a line: Exploring design's most underestimated element and its role in branding | Webflow Blog

The Pentagram team behind Channel 4’s masterbrand give us an in-depth tour of the extensive project | The Brand Identity

What If Designers Went on Strike? | PRINT Magazine

Billie Turns Womanhood Into an Unwinnable Board Game With 'No Worries If Not | Dieline

Pentagram alumni Aron Fay is empowering designers and non-designers with Grid App Projects | Creative Boom

Verve’s Roman Stikkelorum candidly explores the shortcomings of brand archetypes and golden circles | The Brand Identity

What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it | It’s Nice That

Capri Sun Debuts ‘Kid Noise-Canceling Juice Drink’ To Give Parents A Break | designtaxi

Projects

👁 LG rebrand | Wolff Ollins

👁 Your eyes are right, we have a new logo! | Dribbble

👁 Hiro – a company bringing Web3 to Bitcoin | PORTO ROCHA

👁 BowFlex – fitness training equipment | Collins

👁 Numinus – psychedelics brand | Grand Army

👁 Carbo Culture – climate start-up | Bakken & Bæck

👁 Doconomy – an innovative Swedish impact-tech startup that aims to reduce the climate impact of consumption | ID—C, Letters From Sweden

👁 Underdays – underwear brand | Caramba Agency

👁 Biozeroc –  a carbon-neutral concrete startup | How&How

👁 山海 Mountains & Oceans illustration series | Gao Yang (Particle)

👁 Vyshyvanka Day Festival | perfectly boring studio

👁 6 identities driven by motion, featuring projects by Landor & Fitch, IYA Studio, DIA and more | The Brand Identity

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management 

10 advanced tips for a design portfolio | Slava Shestopalov for Design Bridges

Expert tips to build resilience and help you survive the design industry | Creative Boom

The tyranny of collaborative ideation | UX Collective

Making Indeed’s UX Design Principles | Indeed Design

Letter to a mid level designer. A few lessons to push your performance… | Elliot Dahl

Relationship Mapping: Identify Key Teams, People, and Resources | NN/group

Your career hype doc | David Hoang

How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang

🔠 Typography 

From Aptos to Helvetica—here’s how fonts get their unusual names | FastCompany

Monotype Launches New Foundry Program | Print Mag

UNCUT.wtf – Download somewhat contemporary fonts, free for commercial use

What Font Is This? How to Identify Any Font Like a Pro | webdesignerdepot

🇺🇦Typeface alphabet of the Ukrainian identity | Projector, Obys 

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes | Figma Blog

Jambot brings the power of ChatGPT directly into FigJam | Figma Blog

Adobe

Designing Adobe Illustrator’s rich tooltips | Medium

Unlock new creative workflows with Adobe Express add-ons | Adobe Blog

Sketch

Sketch v98: Smart Layout in groups & other improvements and fixes

AI Tools

Midjourney Launches an Inpainting Tool to Help Create Custom-Styled Images | Metaverse Post

Captions – your AI-powered creative studio

New Generative AI App Creates Poetry from Images

Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you | The Verge

Generative AI for Graphic Designers | Yes I'm a Designer

TextFX – Artificial Intelligence Tool for Rappers | Google

Also

Rebrand – Stellar visual identity inspiration gallery

Framer Remix – A collection of the best templates for Framer

illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations

deck.gallery – curated designed decks, slides, keynotes, guidelines — or whatever you call them.

Iconbuddy – a powerful icon search engine and manager that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 180k+ open source icons

🌠 Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles

Ishaq Fahim | USA

Rafa Orrico Díez | Spain



Greg Ayala | USA

Riccardo Guasco | Italy

Martyna Wędzicka | Poland (website)


🤪 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 Design Success 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, Kristina Gubachek, Polina Ziniukha, Marta Kalynych & Mirona Zulgarina at Awesomic

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

🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

Web UX: Study Guide | NN/group

De-stress your UX: for mental health, accessibility, and mother nature | UX Collective

Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources | Smashing Magazine

Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series | UX Collective

The Ultimate Guide to Web Wizard Design | Creative Navy

Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid | NN/group 

Psych Framework: How to visualize user experiences | growth.design

How Spotify’s Design System Goes Beyond Platforms | Figma Blog

Writing Good Survey Questions: 10 Best Practices  | NN/group 

Projects

👁 A redesigned Slack, built for focus | Slack

👁 Saturn – the calendar built for high school

👁 Opal Camera Inc. | Claudio Guglieri, HugoAhlberg, Aristide Benoist

👁 Electrys – EV charging app | Fireart Studio

👁 How We Feel – A journal to improve your wellbeing & emotional intelligence | Ben Powell

👁 Rose Island – a story of Giorgio Rosa and the tiny nation he founded in 1968 off the Rimini coast, embodying a generation's dreams and aspirations | También, Maël Ruffini

👁 Worldcoin – an iris biometric cryptocurrency project founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman

👁 Synchrodogs is an artist duo from Ukraine, Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova | Jason Bradley, Zhenya Rynzhuk

👁 Homegrown Garden Centre – (home) garden centre & coffee house


👁 MODELEC – High-End electrical equipment | Switches and sockets | Rezo Zero

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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

Dirt Baby: Practice on why it's created a fake brand for people who treat their plants like pets | Creative Boom

What’s in a line: Exploring design's most underestimated element and its role in branding | Webflow Blog

The Pentagram team behind Channel 4’s masterbrand give us an in-depth tour of the extensive project | The Brand Identity

What If Designers Went on Strike? | PRINT Magazine

Billie Turns Womanhood Into an Unwinnable Board Game With 'No Worries If Not | Dieline

Pentagram alumni Aron Fay is empowering designers and non-designers with Grid App Projects | Creative Boom

Verve’s Roman Stikkelorum candidly explores the shortcomings of brand archetypes and golden circles | The Brand Identity

What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it | It’s Nice That

Capri Sun Debuts ‘Kid Noise-Canceling Juice Drink’ To Give Parents A Break | designtaxi

Projects

👁 LG rebrand | Wolff Ollins

👁 Your eyes are right, we have a new logo! | Dribbble

👁 Hiro – a company bringing Web3 to Bitcoin | PORTO ROCHA

👁 BowFlex – fitness training equipment | Collins

👁 Numinus – psychedelics brand | Grand Army

👁 Carbo Culture – climate start-up | Bakken & Bæck

👁 Doconomy – an innovative Swedish impact-tech startup that aims to reduce the climate impact of consumption | ID—C, Letters From Sweden

👁 Underdays – underwear brand | Caramba Agency

👁 Biozeroc –  a carbon-neutral concrete startup | How&How

👁 山海 Mountains & Oceans illustration series | Gao Yang (Particle)

👁 Vyshyvanka Day Festival | perfectly boring studio

👁 6 identities driven by motion, featuring projects by Landor & Fitch, IYA Studio, DIA and more | The Brand Identity

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management 

10 advanced tips for a design portfolio | Slava Shestopalov for Design Bridges

Expert tips to build resilience and help you survive the design industry | Creative Boom

The tyranny of collaborative ideation | UX Collective

Making Indeed’s UX Design Principles | Indeed Design

Letter to a mid level designer. A few lessons to push your performance… | Elliot Dahl

Relationship Mapping: Identify Key Teams, People, and Resources | NN/group

Your career hype doc | David Hoang

How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang

🔠 Typography 

From Aptos to Helvetica—here’s how fonts get their unusual names | FastCompany

Monotype Launches New Foundry Program | Print Mag

UNCUT.wtf – Download somewhat contemporary fonts, free for commercial use

What Font Is This? How to Identify Any Font Like a Pro | webdesignerdepot

🇺🇦Typeface alphabet of the Ukrainian identity | Projector, Obys 

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes | Figma Blog

Jambot brings the power of ChatGPT directly into FigJam | Figma Blog

Adobe

Designing Adobe Illustrator’s rich tooltips | Medium

Unlock new creative workflows with Adobe Express add-ons | Adobe Blog

Sketch

Sketch v98: Smart Layout in groups & other improvements and fixes

AI Tools

Midjourney Launches an Inpainting Tool to Help Create Custom-Styled Images | Metaverse Post

Captions – your AI-powered creative studio

New Generative AI App Creates Poetry from Images

Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you | The Verge

Generative AI for Graphic Designers | Yes I'm a Designer

TextFX – Artificial Intelligence Tool for Rappers | Google

Also

Rebrand – Stellar visual identity inspiration gallery

Framer Remix – A collection of the best templates for Framer

illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations

deck.gallery – curated designed decks, slides, keynotes, guidelines — or whatever you call them.

Iconbuddy – a powerful icon search engine and manager that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 180k+ open source icons

🌠 Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles

Ishaq Fahim | USA

Rafa Orrico Díez | Spain



Greg Ayala | USA

Riccardo Guasco | Italy

Martyna Wędzicka | Poland (website)


🤪 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 Design Success 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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