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Design Digest #30: Webflow upgrade, fresh Patreon & AI as a UX Assistant

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Angelica Yefanova, Ulya Myronova, Natalie Tereschenko, Artem Pohrebniak, & Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic.

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

How our biggest redesign yet came to be | Slack Design


AI as a UX Assistant | NN/group

Why it's time for research to move beyond UX | Great Question

Framing Effeсt | Growth Design

Table of Contents: The Ultimate Design Guide | NN/group

An Actionable And Reliable Usability Questionnaire With Only 7 Items: Inuit | Smashing Magazine

How Duolingo designs product (and why) | ADPList

Voice User Interfaces: Seamless Interactions | UXmatters

Transition animations: a practical guide | by Dongkyu Lee, UX Collective

Advanced component properties and variables in Figma for faster product design | Regiosaur, Bootcamp

Projects

👁 Vercel – build and deploy the best web experiences

👁 Webflow – new branding, landing page & product updates

👁 Engaged is a leading omnichannel activation agency | Altform PRO, Engaged, Rogier de Boevé, Glenn Catteeuw

👁 Lusion – a creative production studio 

👁 Polaroid i2 Camera | Build in Amsterdam

👁 Captions – your AI-powered creative studio | zypsy

👁 ZocDoc – reshaping healthcare access | Rondesignlab

👁 GSAP – animate anything JS can touch | TOYFIGHT 

👁 AUXILITY – development agency | Auxility

👁 Search Through Time | Google, Buttermax

🇺🇦 USPS (Ukrainian School of Political Studies) | Hexagon Agency

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

AI tools paint a blurry picture of our current reality – so what do these biases mean for our future? | It’s Nice That

The biggest trends in graphic design for 2024, as predicted by the creative industry | Creative Boom

“We’ve chosen a different path.” Orchidea Agency on their dedication to making a positive impact | The Brand Identity

Welcome To the Great Un-Cursiving of Logos | Dieline

Five essential tips for settling in and excelling at a design studio | The Brand Identity

Is Meme-Ification of the News a Good or Bad Thing? | PRINT Magazine

'A Good Way to Bank': Nationwide reveals its biggest rebrand in 30 years | Creative Boom 

How to handle the sting of creative rejection – and maybe grow from it too | It’s Nice That

Designer Ferran Feixas on why social media has been a force for good in branding | Creative Boom

Who Gets to be Called an Artist? | PRINT Magazine

Branding for Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity | Manual Creative


After Two Decades Of Plastic Bag Bans, Where Are We? | Dieline

Shaping the future of graphic design, with Paula Scher | The Creative Boom Podcast

Projects

👁 Patreon, redesigned – a new brand identity built for, and with, creators | in-house team & Wolff Olins

👁 MadeForMed – Brand design a medical communications interface | Grapheine

👁 Meet the new Webflow – a brand refresh

👁 Little Fox's Packaging Expresses A Sense Of Curiosity | Dieline 

👁 Deezer: Where music comes alive | Creative Boom 

👁 Near – A limitless identity for the world's pioneering Blockchain Operating System | fold7design

👁 Karavie – a CBD and wellness brand | Studio Sly 

👁 LIFI23 – Leeds International Festival of Ideas | Rabbithole

👁 Satisfy – brand identity for a sport brand | ACTUAL SOURCE

👁 Howden – brand identity for insurance group | North

👁 Branding for a mysterious tech start-up smlXL | DIA

👁 MF Doom-themed cookbook | Ben Gore

💫 Motion Design

👁 Two motion graphics trends combined: hyper-realistic 3D motion graphics + anti-gravity and floating in the Nike Terrascape 90 advertisement | Shapes & Forms, Fabian Garzon

👁 Nike Terrascape 90 advertisement | Shapes & Forms, Fabian Garzon

👁 Unusual Kinetic typography | Mat Voyce

👁 Vintage style Kinetic typography | Solo Zone

👁 AI-motion with the help of Stable Diffusion | Seo Hyojung

👁 SSOT Osu! Tournament | Yat Fung Leung

👁 Film Fest Gent's animated rebranding | Creative Boom

🔠 Typography

Geist Font | Vercel

Canva, Custom Font | Colophon Foundry

 

Lang Gothic | ArrowType

Chroma | SourceType

OH no Type has just started the Drawer‚ where they sell unfinished typefaces.

The first one is Done.

Otoiwo Grotesk Superfamily | Oleh Lishchuk, MintType

Lineto released LL Geigy and LL Geigy Mono designed by Robert Huber.

Type foundry Dinamo creates riveting new dot font based on furniture screws | Creative Boom 

New identity based on variable fonts for Tokyo Dome City | Creative Boom

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

Clients from hell: How to navigate nightmarish scenarios as a freelancer | Creative Boom

Designer Gatherings | NN/group

Design Salary Guide and Survey | Coroflot

The importance of forging a strong creative community | Verònica Fuerte from Hey Studio

Getting over rejection: Creatives, and a therapist, share their stories and methods | Conversation with four creatives and a therapist

Dear Future Design Leads: How to transition into a creative leadership role | Jeeyoung Yang for IBM design

For people going places: how we founded the Design Interns programme at Wise | Nikki Godley

Common-Knowledge Effect: A Harmful Bias in Team Decision Making | NN/group

Curiosity at the core. Unlocking high-performance in diverse teams | William Joseph 

We’re turning designers into factory workers | Matic Pelcl, UX Collective

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Redesign the way you jam with FigJam AI

Figma for Zoom

Figma's future is about far more than design—or getting acquired | Fast Company

Adobe

Adobe MAX 2023: Introducing the next generation of creativity, powered by AI

Adobe Max 2023: Everything Announced in 20 Minutes

Google

Material Design 3 – Web Components

AI tools

Midjourney New “Style Tuner”- Advanced Tips and Usage | Bootcamp

Pika Labs – A brand new video making experience with AI, now with 3D animation

KREA – real-time image generation update

Runway ML – text to video and image to video generation updates

Luma AI – text to 3D update

Vizcom – product visualizations in seconds

Also

The Top 10 Talks on the Future of AI and Design | Designer Fund

Free AI images for creatives & professionals | Neurascapes

Procreate Dreams: A First Look at the All-New Animation App 

🤪 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 Community Success Manager, Senior Full-Stack Developer and many others.

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This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Angelica Yefanova, Ulya Myronova, Natalie Tereschenko, Artem Pohrebniak, & Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic.

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

🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

How our biggest redesign yet came to be | Slack Design


AI as a UX Assistant | NN/group

Why it's time for research to move beyond UX | Great Question

Framing Effeсt | Growth Design

Table of Contents: The Ultimate Design Guide | NN/group

An Actionable And Reliable Usability Questionnaire With Only 7 Items: Inuit | Smashing Magazine

How Duolingo designs product (and why) | ADPList

Voice User Interfaces: Seamless Interactions | UXmatters

Transition animations: a practical guide | by Dongkyu Lee, UX Collective

Advanced component properties and variables in Figma for faster product design | Regiosaur, Bootcamp

Projects

👁 Vercel – build and deploy the best web experiences

👁 Webflow – new branding, landing page & product updates

👁 Engaged is a leading omnichannel activation agency | Altform PRO, Engaged, Rogier de Boevé, Glenn Catteeuw

👁 Lusion – a creative production studio 

👁 Polaroid i2 Camera | Build in Amsterdam

👁 Captions – your AI-powered creative studio | zypsy

👁 ZocDoc – reshaping healthcare access | Rondesignlab

👁 GSAP – animate anything JS can touch | TOYFIGHT 

👁 AUXILITY – development agency | Auxility

👁 Search Through Time | Google, Buttermax

🇺🇦 USPS (Ukrainian School of Political Studies) | Hexagon Agency

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

AI tools paint a blurry picture of our current reality – so what do these biases mean for our future? | It’s Nice That

The biggest trends in graphic design for 2024, as predicted by the creative industry | Creative Boom

“We’ve chosen a different path.” Orchidea Agency on their dedication to making a positive impact | The Brand Identity

Welcome To the Great Un-Cursiving of Logos | Dieline

Five essential tips for settling in and excelling at a design studio | The Brand Identity

Is Meme-Ification of the News a Good or Bad Thing? | PRINT Magazine

'A Good Way to Bank': Nationwide reveals its biggest rebrand in 30 years | Creative Boom 

How to handle the sting of creative rejection – and maybe grow from it too | It’s Nice That

Designer Ferran Feixas on why social media has been a force for good in branding | Creative Boom

Who Gets to be Called an Artist? | PRINT Magazine

Branding for Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity | Manual Creative


After Two Decades Of Plastic Bag Bans, Where Are We? | Dieline

Shaping the future of graphic design, with Paula Scher | The Creative Boom Podcast

Projects

👁 Patreon, redesigned – a new brand identity built for, and with, creators | in-house team & Wolff Olins

👁 MadeForMed – Brand design a medical communications interface | Grapheine

👁 Meet the new Webflow – a brand refresh

👁 Little Fox's Packaging Expresses A Sense Of Curiosity | Dieline 

👁 Deezer: Where music comes alive | Creative Boom 

👁 Near – A limitless identity for the world's pioneering Blockchain Operating System | fold7design

👁 Karavie – a CBD and wellness brand | Studio Sly 

👁 LIFI23 – Leeds International Festival of Ideas | Rabbithole

👁 Satisfy – brand identity for a sport brand | ACTUAL SOURCE

👁 Howden – brand identity for insurance group | North

👁 Branding for a mysterious tech start-up smlXL | DIA

👁 MF Doom-themed cookbook | Ben Gore

💫 Motion Design

👁 Two motion graphics trends combined: hyper-realistic 3D motion graphics + anti-gravity and floating in the Nike Terrascape 90 advertisement | Shapes & Forms, Fabian Garzon

👁 Nike Terrascape 90 advertisement | Shapes & Forms, Fabian Garzon

👁 Unusual Kinetic typography | Mat Voyce

👁 Vintage style Kinetic typography | Solo Zone

👁 AI-motion with the help of Stable Diffusion | Seo Hyojung

👁 SSOT Osu! Tournament | Yat Fung Leung

👁 Film Fest Gent's animated rebranding | Creative Boom

🔠 Typography

Geist Font | Vercel

Canva, Custom Font | Colophon Foundry

 

Lang Gothic | ArrowType

Chroma | SourceType

OH no Type has just started the Drawer‚ where they sell unfinished typefaces.

The first one is Done.

Otoiwo Grotesk Superfamily | Oleh Lishchuk, MintType

Lineto released LL Geigy and LL Geigy Mono designed by Robert Huber.

Type foundry Dinamo creates riveting new dot font based on furniture screws | Creative Boom 

New identity based on variable fonts for Tokyo Dome City | Creative Boom

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

Clients from hell: How to navigate nightmarish scenarios as a freelancer | Creative Boom

Designer Gatherings | NN/group

Design Salary Guide and Survey | Coroflot

The importance of forging a strong creative community | Verònica Fuerte from Hey Studio

Getting over rejection: Creatives, and a therapist, share their stories and methods | Conversation with four creatives and a therapist

Dear Future Design Leads: How to transition into a creative leadership role | Jeeyoung Yang for IBM design

For people going places: how we founded the Design Interns programme at Wise | Nikki Godley

Common-Knowledge Effect: A Harmful Bias in Team Decision Making | NN/group

Curiosity at the core. Unlocking high-performance in diverse teams | William Joseph 

We’re turning designers into factory workers | Matic Pelcl, UX Collective

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Redesign the way you jam with FigJam AI

Figma for Zoom

Figma's future is about far more than design—or getting acquired | Fast Company

Adobe

Adobe MAX 2023: Introducing the next generation of creativity, powered by AI

Adobe Max 2023: Everything Announced in 20 Minutes

Google

Material Design 3 – Web Components

AI tools

Midjourney New “Style Tuner”- Advanced Tips and Usage | Bootcamp

Pika Labs – A brand new video making experience with AI, now with 3D animation

KREA – real-time image generation update

Runway ML – text to video and image to video generation updates

Luma AI – text to 3D update

Vizcom – product visualizations in seconds

Also

The Top 10 Talks on the Future of AI and Design | Designer Fund

Free AI images for creatives & professionals | Neurascapes

Procreate Dreams: A First Look at the All-New Animation App 

🤪 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 Community 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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