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Design Digest #34: Rethinking the MVP, Spacial Design & Importance of Taste

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Oleksii Altunin, Ralph Brinker and Pavlo Sidash at Awesomic.

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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

👁 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.

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:

Bravestone

Marevo

Zlam

👩‍🚀 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

A Guide to Styling Tables

Tech Icons Pack.

SwiftUI Field Guide

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. 

Color Blindness Simulator

Ultimate Memoji Creator | Figma Templates

🔭 Also

Carhartt Jackets Are the New Luxury | Highsnobiety

Rick Rubin wants to build you a better internet | FastCompany

🤪 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 various open positions.

Want to stay updated on what’s going on in the design community? Sign up for our email subscription 😉

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Oleksii Altunin, Ralph Brinker and Pavlo Sidash at Awesomic.

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

🦄 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

👁 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.

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:

Bravestone

Marevo

Zlam

👩‍🚀 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

A Guide to Styling Tables

Tech Icons Pack.

SwiftUI Field Guide

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. 

Color Blindness Simulator

Ultimate Memoji Creator | Figma Templates

🔭 Also

Carhartt Jackets Are the New Luxury | Highsnobiety

Rick Rubin wants to build you a better internet | FastCompany

🤪 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 various open positions.

Want to stay updated on what’s going on in the design community? Sign up for our email subscription 😉

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