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 

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Web UX: Study Guide | NN/group

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

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

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Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series | UX Collective

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The Ultimate Guide to Web Wizard Design | Creative Navy

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

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

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

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

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Projects

👁 A redesigned Slack, built for focus | Slack

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👁 Saturn – the calendar built for high school

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

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👁 Electrys – EV charging app | Fireart Studio

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

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👁 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

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

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

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

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

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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

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

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

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What If Designers Went on Strike? | PRINT Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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Projects

👁 LG rebrand | Wolff Ollins

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

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

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👁 BowFlex – fitness training equipment | Collins

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👁 Numinus – psychedelics brand | Grand Army

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

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

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👁 Underdays – underwear brand | Caramba Agency

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

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

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👁 Vyshyvanka Day Festival | perfectly boring studio

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

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👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management 

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

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

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The tyranny of collaborative ideation | UX Collective

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Making Indeed’s UX Design Principles | Indeed Design

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

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

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Your career hype doc | David Hoang

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

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🔠 Typography 

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

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Monotype Launches New Foundry Program | Print Mag

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

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

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

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🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

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

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

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Adobe

Designing Adobe Illustrator’s rich tooltips | Medium

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

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Sketch

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

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AI Tools

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

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Captions – your AI-powered creative studio

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New Generative AI App Creates Poetry from Images

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

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

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TextFX – Artificial Intelligence Tool for Rappers | Google

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Also

Rebrand – Stellar visual identity inspiration gallery

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Framer Remix – A collection of the best templates for Framer

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illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations

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

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

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🌠 Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles

Ishaq Fahim | USA

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Rafa Orrico Díez | Spain

Greg Ayala | USA

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Riccardo Guasco | Italy

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Martyna Wędzicka | Poland (website)

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🤪 Memes

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