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'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
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
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