Design Digest #29: Apple Event, UX design of AI, Brutal Feedback & How Linear Builds Product
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๐ฆ Product and UI/UX Design
Major Product Updates
Apple iPhone 15 event recap: the seven biggest announcements | The Verge
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iPhone 15 Camera: Apple Explains UI Design Decisions, Limitations, and Hidden Features | MacRumors
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How Apple Made the Ultimate Snoopy Watch: โYou Wouldn't Believe the Minutiaeโ | GQ
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Meta Connect 2023: Everything you need to know about Quest 3 VR, Ray-Ban smart glasses and Meta AI | TechCrunch
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Microsoftโs Surface and AI event: all the news and announcements | The Verge
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Jony Ive is reportedly developing an AI gadget with OpenAI's Sam Altman | The Verge
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Articles & Case Studiesย
How Linear builds product | Lenny Rachitsky
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Design for meaningful outcomes โ a practical guide | Ian Batterbee, UX Collective
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โโWaiting for AI's pull-to-refresh moment | David Hoang, Proof of Concept
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Accessibility and Inclusivity: Study Guide | NN/group
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How I Structured My Design System Using Figmaโs New Variables | Melissa McArthur, Bootcamp
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The 5 most common arguments against user testing | Christopher K Wong, Data & Design
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Big Tech is driving the new UX design of AI | The AI Beat / VentureBeat
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Framing Effect: Why context affects decisions | growth.design
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User Interviews 101 | NN/group
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Projects
๐ Opal App โ Measure and improve your focus day by day
๐ Gitness โ Open-source code hosting & pipeline engine | Pixel Point
๐ Uvodo โ eCommerce & payments platformย
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ย ๐ Ultrahuman Ring AIR ยฎโ The worldโs most comfortable and compact smart ring that monitors your sleep, movement and recovery.
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ย ๐ Gapsy Studio is a one-stop destination for any design solutions | Gapsy Studio, Advanced Team
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ย ๐ ESPN: inside Carlos Alcaraz game | 28K, Jonas Emmertsen, Steffen Christiansen, ESPN
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ย ๐ 2586 Labs, Inc.ย
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๐ Leapwise โ a boutique development agency headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, EU | Bien Studion
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๐บ๐ฆ RideMate โ a groundbreaking smart helmet app | Rondesignlab
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๐ Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
The Designerโs Guide to Building a Winning VC Pitch Deck | Designer Fund
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Color for brand designers working with product teams | Katie Cooper, UX Collective
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Redefining Facebookโs brand identity | Meta
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Are rebrands starting to look the same? The challenges defining commercial design | Itโs Nice That
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Cari Sekendur on the perks of unconventional backgrounds, launching Butter Studio, and working globally ย The Brand Identity
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Why a hidden message in Ozempic's logo represents a big shift in drug branding | Fast Company
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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration | Tom May, Creative Boomย
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Creative expression and breaking convention: we dive into the exploratory work of Appear Offline | The Brand Identity
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Min Heo draws cute characters and sweet depictions of daily life | Creative Boom
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Keith Haring illustrated these images on an 80s Amiga computer | Itโs Nice That
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Projects
๐ Field | Studio Oker
๐ Museum of London Docklands | Studio Bergini
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๐ Moss beverage packaging designย
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๐ Casa Malka's Visually Compelling And Balanced Identity | The Dieline
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๐ RAINER SCHNEIDER โ a contemporary restaurant re-imagining the German kitchen | Hyperfocus
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๐ TeeMaa Packaging | Tino Nyman
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๐ Half Magic beauty line | Mythology
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๐ Bloom โ the always-on career coaching & mentoring app for everyone, anytime | Parsons
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๐ Elemy โ the pediatric behavioral health company that seeks to transform the lives of children and families | Pentagram
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๐ Shop โ all-in-one shopping app | PORTO ROCHA
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๐ Odido | TWBA/Studio Neboko
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๐ฉโ๐ Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management
How to promote and build your creative business without using social media | Katy Cowan, Creative Boom
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Brutal Feedback | Hardik Pandya
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Meet the nonprofit training formerly incarcerated people for careers in UX design | Figma Blog
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5 Surprising Jobs That Wonโt Get Eliminated By AI | UX Magazine
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How do you lead as a principal designer? | Adobe Design
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Practical exercises and inspirations to help when creative burnout hits | Tom May, Creative Boom
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Designer Gatherings | NN/group
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๐ Typography
Articles and case studies
8 micro tips for remarkably better typography | Matej Latin, UX Collective
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Custom Type and Non-Linguistic Visuals Anchor a Community Brand in Heritage and Accessibility | PRINT Magazine
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The new Google Fonts: find what youโre looking for | Material Design
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Is AI better at picking and pairing fonts than you? | Better Web Type
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Typeface inspired by the Mediterranean interior design, Olivia Hingley | Itโs Nice That
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Typographic releases
Lardent Font | Colophon Foundry
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Diplomat Collection | Commercial Type
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Mรผnchenstein, the forgotten typefaces by the designer of Helvetica | Typotheque
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Kudriavka custom typeface | Dmytro Rastvortsev
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๐ Products and Tools
Figma
Little Big Updates Weekly H2 2023 | Figma Community
Outline glyphs separately, Auto layout: Min/max indicator improvements, Improved link paste treatment, Video in FigJam, Emoji picker upgrade and many more
โThe long and short of it,โ a new newsletter from Figma on how products take shape | Figma Shortcut
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Adobe
All new, AI-powered Creative Cloud release and Pricing update | Adobe Blog
Firefly-powered features like Photoshopโs Generative Fill tool are now out of beta. Adobe is also introducing a new bonus scheme to pay its stock contributors for helping to train its AI model โ The Verge
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Sketch
Sketch v98.3: This update fixes a few bugs + performance issues you might have experienced while running Sketch on macOS Sonoma.
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AI Tools
DALLยทE 3 โ a new version of OpenAIโs image generating model understands significantly more nuance and detail than our previous systems, allowing you to easily translate your ideas into exceptionally accurate images.
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Being Authentic in the Time of AI | Webflow Blog
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How Are Consumers Using Generative AI? | Andreessen Horowitz
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10 Most Useful AI Tools for Designers in 2023 | Design Shack
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AI Has Already Created As Many Images As Photographers Have Taken in 150 Years. Statistics for 2023 | Everypixel Journal
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๐ Also
How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business | The Reviewโs
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Shrek Crocs Classic Clog 209373-300 Release Info | Hypebeast
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Ksenia Schnaider presented a new collection with Adidas Originals | DTF Magazine
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5 essential design books to read this fall | Fast Company
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Critiquing Startup Mobile Apps with Glide CEO | Y Combinator
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๐ Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles
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Oliver Hooson (@olvh) โข Instagram
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post objects. (@postobjects) โข Instagram
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A Does Art (@a.does.art22) โข Instagram
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๐คช Memes
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