Digest #29: Apple, AI, Brutal Feedback & Linear's Playbook

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Nika Kosmina, Yulia Kuznetsova & Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic.

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🦄 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: “You Wouldn't Believe the Minutiae” | 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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Microsoft’s Surface and AI event: all the news and announcements | The Verge

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Google Pixel Event 2023: Everything announced, including the Pixel 8 series, Pixel Watch 2, Pixel Buds Pro, Android 14 | TechCrunch

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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 Studies

How Linear builds product | Lenny Rachitsky

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Design for meaningful outcomes – a practical guide | Ian Batterbee, UX Collective

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Waiting 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 Figma’s 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

👁 Opal App – Measure and improve your focus day by day

👁 Gitness – Open-source code hosting & pipeline engine | Pixel Point

👁 Uvodo – eCommerce & payments platform

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👁 Ultrahuman Ring AIR ^®– The world’s most comfortable and compact smart ring that monitors your sleep, movement and recovery.

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👁 Gapsy Studio is a one-stop destination for any design solutions | Gapsy Studio, Advanced Team

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👁 ESPN: inside Carlos Alcaraz game | 28K, Jonas Emmertsen, Steffen Christiansen, ESPN

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👁 2586 Labs, Inc.

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👁 Leapwise – a boutique development agency headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, EU | Bien Studion

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🇺🇦 RideMate – a groundbreaking smart helmet app | Rondesignlab

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

The Designer’s 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 Facebook’s brand identity | Meta

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Are rebrands starting to look the same? The challenges defining commercial design | It’s Nice That

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Cari Sekendur on the perks of unconventional backgrounds, launching Butter Studio, and working globally 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 Boom

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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 | It’s Nice That

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Projects

👁 Field | Studio Oker

👁 Museum of London Docklands | Studio Bergini

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👁 Moss beverage packaging design

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👁 Casa Malka's Visually Compelling And Balanced Identity | The Dieline

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👁 RAINER SCHNEIDER – a contemporary restaurant re-imagining the German kitchen | Hyperfocus

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👁 TeeMaa Packaging | Tino Nyman

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👁 Half Magic beauty line | Mythology

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👁 Bloom – the always-on career coaching & mentoring app for everyone, anytime | Parsons

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👁 Elemy – the pediatric behavioral health company that seeks to transform the lives of children and families | Pentagram

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👁 Shop – all-in-one shopping app | PORTO ROCHA

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👁 Odido | TWBA/Studio Neboko

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👩‍🚀 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 Won’t 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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🔠 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 you’re 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 | It’s Nice That

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Typographic releases

Lardent Font | Colophon Foundry

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Diplomat Collection | Commercial Type

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Münchenstein, the forgotten typefaces by the designer of Helvetica | Typotheque

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Kudriavka custom typeface | Dmytro Rastvortsev

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🚀 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

“The long and short of it,” 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 Photoshop’s 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 – 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

DALL·E 3 – a new version of OpenAI’s 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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🌐 Also

How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business | The Review’s

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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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🌠 Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles

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Oliver Hooson (@olvh) • Instagram

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post objects. (@postobjects) • Instagram

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A Does Art (@a.does.art22) • Instagram

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🤪 Memes

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