Design Digest #34: Rethinking the MVP, Spacial Design & Importance of Taste
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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design
Articles & Case Studies
Apple Vision Pro: exclusive interview with Apple Design Team | Wallpaper
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product | Linear
Hack Your Interviews: Six Ways Communication Unlocks Success | Sivan Hermon
How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics | Jakob Nielsen
Apple Vision Pro: First Experience | Luke Wroblewski
Usable Internet: the Internet is a powerful tool, but recent trends and standards have made it unpredictable and frustrating for users | Alex Brady
Dark mode UI design. Organizing color variables and naming | Vosidiy for Bootcamp
Disabled Buttons UX — Usability Issues and How to Avoid Them | Saadia Minhas for UX Planet
Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX | Jakob Nielsen on UX
Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users | Smashing Magazine
10 Heuristics to Simplify Design Decision-Making | Patrick Morgan
How Airbnb Became a Leader in UX Design | Punit Chawla
A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People | Smashing Magazine
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features | NN/group
Tesler’s Law | Laws of UX
Designing With Integrity: The Ethical Designer's Handbook On Dark Patterns | Raw.Studio
Webflow’s new look: Designing a product for pros | Webflow
The Psychology Behind Amazon's Purchase Experience | growth.design
When Words Cannot Describe: Designing For AI Beyond Conversational Interfaces | Smashing Magazine
The UX of AI: Lessons from Perplexity | NN/group
How AI will influence creative tools: A conversation with Replit's David Hoang | Shortcut
Design Principles for Generative AI Applications | by Justin Weisz, IBM Design
Projects
👁 Anygood – an elegant, simple and thoughtfully designed list-making app
👁 Apple introduced Sports, a new app for sports fans
- Apple’s all new design language | Ameer, Bootcamp
👁 Algo is a data visualisation studio specializing in video automation.
👁 Relume – Use AI as your design ally, not as a replacement
👁 Assemblio – Assembly planning in minutes, instead of weeks | Bonanza Studios
👁 Aposta10 Sports Media Design | Hexagon Agency
👁 Fast, scalable, and forever fair, Shardeum is EVM-based and truly decentralized L1. | Griflan, Justin Lerner
👁 SHOPIFY EDITIONS | Shopify Creative
👁 SAGE EAST | THE BLACKPEPPER STUDIO
👁 MOUSE PARALLAX WONDERLAND | WOW Team
👁 THE BETTERING COMPANY | Basilico
👁 Active Theory | Aposta
👀 Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it | It’s Nice That
Marcus Lemonis offered $10,000 to design this Beyond logo on spec. Here’s what he got | FastCompany
Former Studio Moniker founders publish zine with Hato on the complexities of digital technology | It’s Nice That
Introducing the Pinterest Palette: A custom colour set to inspire your creative
Blurr Bureau on cultivating transparency and bringing a balance of “head and heart” to every project | The Brand Identity
Just Say No To Free Pitches – Porto Rocha talks about their new initiative, NoFreePitches | Dieline - Design, Branding & Packaging Inspiration
Refik Anadol hopes to demystify AI and look beyond the “shiny pixels” of generative art | It’s Nice That
The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future | FastCompany
The Dieline's Best of February 2024 | Dieline
POV: AI-generated album covers prioritise virality over creativity | It’s Nice That
The Freelancers: Joe Diver on cultivating creative connections and collaborating with passion | The Brand Identity
🇺🇦 Behind Blue Eyes: Ukrainian children photo their lives in joyful charity art project | Creative Boom
Projects
👁 Grammarly Leads the Way in Transforming Workplace Communication, With a Refreshed Brand
👁 New York Botanical Garden | visual Identity by Wolff Olins
👁 Control Freak film production company | Visual Identity by Monga
👁 Gustini | brand identity by Koto Studio
👁 YoungCapital NEXT | brand identity by Verve
👁 Go.Compare | brand identity by Ragged Edge
👁 Featured Projects | brand identity by Sitoh
👁 Burger Service | brand identity by Studio Najbrt
👁 Sweaty Betty | brand identity by fluoro
🔠 Typography
Type Trends 2024 | Monotype.
- How does Monotype’s annual Type Trend report even come together? The team gives us the inside scoop | The Brand Identity
Thomas Steeles Unearths the Origins of the World’s Most Hated Font, Comic Sans | It’s Nice That
The era of spatial typography is here | FastCompany
February’s font of Font of the Month Club is an updated version of Daily Special.
NaN released NaN Serf A and B. Both of them come in four optical sizes.
Poem released Almost Display.
Fab new typefaces to freshen up your design projects this Spring | Creativeboom
🇺🇦New AlfaBravo typeface releases:
👩🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management
Business Design School: The Core Business Loop | PRINT Magazine
Career in UX: 10 things I wish I knew 10 years ago | Matheus Mari, UX Planet
How Controlled Daydreaming Can Be a Powerful Tool for Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Strategic Planning | Aytekin Tank
Leading through the craft | David Hoang for Proof of Concept
The Rebalancing of Design Management | Cap Watkins
Writing’s gift? Better design | Anton Sten
What I learned for two years at Awesomic | Artem Pohrebniak
🚀 Products and Tools
Figma
Multi-edit playground | Figma blog and Video on Youtube
What’s next for Dev Mode: Annotations, Compare Changes, Plugins, and More | Figma Blog
Figma’s CEO on moving on after failed Adobe merger | The Verge
How to plug in and power up your designer-developer handoff with Figma and Jira | Figma
Algo gives design teams video superpowers. We build your Motion System inside Figma
AI tools & News
Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024 | Tom May for Creative Boom
OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model | The Verge
How to keep your art out of AI generators | The Verge
Adobe Patent Tackles Bias in Image AI Tools | The Daily Upside
iOS design startup Play lets devs share app prototypes easily via App Clips | TechCrunch
AI Design Assets with Midjourney Prompts
Also
Tech Icons Pack.
Motion Designers' Headquarters – A free tool that shares resources, tips, expressions and inspirations around motion design
UX Challenges – A set of real-world challenges to practice crucial UX design skills.
Ultimate Memoji Creator | Figma Templates
🔭 Also
Carhartt Jackets Are the New Luxury | Highsnobiety
Rick Rubin wants to build you a better internet | FastCompany
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