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Design Digest #35: AI and Design Systems, Why Bad Design is Good and How to Make a Great Case Study

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

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

A design reset (part Ⅰ) Design debt is real | Linear

The Three Capabilities Designers Need to Build for the AI Era | UX Collective

AI and Design Systems | Brad Frost

Sliders Degrade UX | Adam Silver

AI is Like a Lossy JPEG | Jim Nielsen

Stop Worrying. Love the AI bomb. But Make Sure You Know How it Works. | Dribbble

This Ridiculously Simple Trick Can Transform Your Good Designs Into Great Designs | Yanko Design

Kirby Apps and Regressive Enhancements | Christian Heilmann

POV: Is it the Designer’s Responsibility if an App is Addictive? | It's Nice That

We Need to Talk About Jakob Nielsen | Buttondown

Don’t Use Paracetamol to Fix Bad UX | Adam Silver

The Extremes Inform the Mean | Better by Design

The Essential Guide to Microcopy and Becoming a More Literate Designer | UX Magazine

A Letter to my Younger Self, as an Accessibility Advocate | Heather Buchel

Why “Embodiment” is More Important Than “Immersion” | Road to VR

How to Make a Great Case Study | Jonas Downey

Accessibility Myths | The most popular myths debunked

Projects

Meet Noon, the world's first autonomous sourcer | QCLAY Design

Blue Yonder: Property Group - Austin, TX | The Graphic Standard

Dead Simple Sites | The most minimal sites on the web without overly animated content, scroll jacking, or excessive storytelling

Paper Triangles · AR agency for social platforms

Page Not Found Gallery | 404-page designs, including lost pages, error pages, and pages not found

Bezi | Design and Prototype on a Spatial Canvas Together

Lumni | Free Stock Photos Made and Curated by AI Artists

Mapplic | Create Beautiful Maps from Static Images

Wondermind: The World's First Mental Fitness Ecosystem

Wealthsimple: Your money’s worth more

Google's People + AI Guidebook | Methods, best practices, and examples for designing with AI

People + AI Guidebook

🇺🇦 YULIA | obys agency

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design? | It’s Nice That

Five key projects by graphic designer and Dezeen Awards judge Ian Cartlidge | Dezeen

&Walsh's dynamic identity for Quality Experience allows it to adapt to any client | Creative Boom

Why Bad Design is Good | Print Mag

Creatives reveal when they made a fool of themselves, and the lessons they learned | Creative Boom

VR game Nock comes alive with Y2K-inspired graphics | Creative Review

Create interactive illustrations like a variable font | It’s Nice That

10 pieces of advice from famous authors to make you more creative | Creative Boom

Koto’s Vanessa Hopkins on figuring it out while leaving “a little space for the joy” | The Brand Identity

New IKEA campaign finds an original way to talk about its low prices | Creative Boom

The Best Redesigns of Winter 2024 | Dieline

Paula Scher’s Mind-Bending Maps | PRINT Magazine

Projects

Decathlon rebranding: A fresh chapter with new branding and campaign | by Wolff Olins

Instagram Motion Design System | Studio Dumbar

Official Posters for Paris 2024 Olympics | Ugo Gattoni

LUPALU's Visual Identity | Ceramic Studio Branding

EGDE Studio

Donut Shop | by TwoPoints.Net

Papara Card | by Artı Stüdyo

🇺🇦Sweet Midland | by Andriy Hlavatskiy

New Logo and Identity for Brand New | by Rob Clarke

🔠 Typography

POV: Using the human body to create type taps into our deepest desires | It’s Nice That

OH no Type released Forevs.

Lineto released LL Supremus.

Dalton Maag released Census designed by Ben Jones.

Fontwerk released Push designed by Christine Gertsch. It comes in 7 widths‚ each of which has 8 weights.

March’s font of Font of the Month Club is Indoor Kid.

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

Figma Tips that Can Increase Your Workflow 10 Times | Minimalist UX

Google's People + AI Guidebook | Google

Your User Experience AI Companion | QoQo

How to Free Up Hours of Work with the New Figma Feature | UX Planet

Portfolio Presentations & Design Work | LukeW

Here’s a few things to remember when considering a job change | The Brand Identity

A Letter to my Younger Self, as an Accessibility Advocate | Heather Buchel

How to Make a Great Case Study | Jonas Downey

The Three Capabilities Designers Need to Build for the AI Era | Big Medium

Ten Core Product Design Principles | UX Planet

Interview: Julie Zhuo On Embracing Insecurity, Learning Everything You Can, and Building Employee Culture | Helena Price

Creating a UX Strategy | Anton Sten

Crafting Experiences: Uniting Rikyu’s Wisdom With Brand Experience Principles | Smashing Magazine

Why Boeing Needs Experience Custodians More than Ever | UX Collective

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

How AI Will Influence Creative Tools: A Conversation With Replit’s David Hoang | Figma

Gradient Generator | Learn UI Design

Color Code Spacing Specs | Outline

Generate beautiful color palettes | Spectrum

Connect a JSON data source and quickly populate text and images | Data Populator

Simulate user behavior | Clueify

3D Design Assets | glyf

Improved Usability with AI Assistance | AIdentic

Also

Welcome to Canva, Affinity! | Canva

Introducing Character References | Midjourney

Sora: First Impressions | OpenAI

Elevate Your Photo Editing | Luminar

Real-Time Device Simulator & Tester | Vercel

The Easiest Way to Get Feedback at Scale | Voicepanel

Create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes | Blobmaker

Research into Journeys in Minutes | Theydo

AI Color Combination Generator | Muzli

Real-Time Device Simulator & Tester | by Vercel

🤪 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, Ralph Brinker, Pavlo Sidash, Mirona Zulgarina and Olena Konoval at Awesomic.

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

🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

A design reset (part Ⅰ) Design debt is real | Linear

The Three Capabilities Designers Need to Build for the AI Era | UX Collective

AI and Design Systems | Brad Frost

Sliders Degrade UX | Adam Silver

AI is Like a Lossy JPEG | Jim Nielsen

Stop Worrying. Love the AI bomb. But Make Sure You Know How it Works. | Dribbble

This Ridiculously Simple Trick Can Transform Your Good Designs Into Great Designs | Yanko Design

Kirby Apps and Regressive Enhancements | Christian Heilmann

POV: Is it the Designer’s Responsibility if an App is Addictive? | It's Nice That

We Need to Talk About Jakob Nielsen | Buttondown

Don’t Use Paracetamol to Fix Bad UX | Adam Silver

The Extremes Inform the Mean | Better by Design

The Essential Guide to Microcopy and Becoming a More Literate Designer | UX Magazine

A Letter to my Younger Self, as an Accessibility Advocate | Heather Buchel

Why “Embodiment” is More Important Than “Immersion” | Road to VR

How to Make a Great Case Study | Jonas Downey

Accessibility Myths | The most popular myths debunked

Projects

Meet Noon, the world's first autonomous sourcer | QCLAY Design

Blue Yonder: Property Group - Austin, TX | The Graphic Standard

Dead Simple Sites | The most minimal sites on the web without overly animated content, scroll jacking, or excessive storytelling

Paper Triangles · AR agency for social platforms

Page Not Found Gallery | 404-page designs, including lost pages, error pages, and pages not found

Bezi | Design and Prototype on a Spatial Canvas Together

Lumni | Free Stock Photos Made and Curated by AI Artists

Mapplic | Create Beautiful Maps from Static Images

Wondermind: The World's First Mental Fitness Ecosystem

Wealthsimple: Your money’s worth more

Google's People + AI Guidebook | Methods, best practices, and examples for designing with AI

People + AI Guidebook

🇺🇦 YULIA | obys agency

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design? | It’s Nice That

Five key projects by graphic designer and Dezeen Awards judge Ian Cartlidge | Dezeen

&Walsh's dynamic identity for Quality Experience allows it to adapt to any client | Creative Boom

Why Bad Design is Good | Print Mag

Creatives reveal when they made a fool of themselves, and the lessons they learned | Creative Boom

VR game Nock comes alive with Y2K-inspired graphics | Creative Review

Create interactive illustrations like a variable font | It’s Nice That

10 pieces of advice from famous authors to make you more creative | Creative Boom

Koto’s Vanessa Hopkins on figuring it out while leaving “a little space for the joy” | The Brand Identity

New IKEA campaign finds an original way to talk about its low prices | Creative Boom

The Best Redesigns of Winter 2024 | Dieline

Paula Scher’s Mind-Bending Maps | PRINT Magazine

Projects

Decathlon rebranding: A fresh chapter with new branding and campaign | by Wolff Olins

Instagram Motion Design System | Studio Dumbar

Official Posters for Paris 2024 Olympics | Ugo Gattoni

LUPALU's Visual Identity | Ceramic Studio Branding

EGDE Studio

Donut Shop | by TwoPoints.Net

Papara Card | by Artı Stüdyo

🇺🇦Sweet Midland | by Andriy Hlavatskiy

New Logo and Identity for Brand New | by Rob Clarke

🔠 Typography

POV: Using the human body to create type taps into our deepest desires | It’s Nice That

OH no Type released Forevs.

Lineto released LL Supremus.

Dalton Maag released Census designed by Ben Jones.

Fontwerk released Push designed by Christine Gertsch. It comes in 7 widths‚ each of which has 8 weights.

March’s font of Font of the Month Club is Indoor Kid.

👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

Figma Tips that Can Increase Your Workflow 10 Times | Minimalist UX

Google's People + AI Guidebook | Google

Your User Experience AI Companion | QoQo

How to Free Up Hours of Work with the New Figma Feature | UX Planet

Portfolio Presentations & Design Work | LukeW

Here’s a few things to remember when considering a job change | The Brand Identity

A Letter to my Younger Self, as an Accessibility Advocate | Heather Buchel

How to Make a Great Case Study | Jonas Downey

The Three Capabilities Designers Need to Build for the AI Era | Big Medium

Ten Core Product Design Principles | UX Planet

Interview: Julie Zhuo On Embracing Insecurity, Learning Everything You Can, and Building Employee Culture | Helena Price

Creating a UX Strategy | Anton Sten

Crafting Experiences: Uniting Rikyu’s Wisdom With Brand Experience Principles | Smashing Magazine

Why Boeing Needs Experience Custodians More than Ever | UX Collective

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

How AI Will Influence Creative Tools: A Conversation With Replit’s David Hoang | Figma

Gradient Generator | Learn UI Design

Color Code Spacing Specs | Outline

Generate beautiful color palettes | Spectrum

Connect a JSON data source and quickly populate text and images | Data Populator

Simulate user behavior | Clueify

3D Design Assets | glyf

Improved Usability with AI Assistance | AIdentic

Also

Welcome to Canva, Affinity! | Canva

Introducing Character References | Midjourney

Sora: First Impressions | OpenAI

Elevate Your Photo Editing | Luminar

Real-Time Device Simulator & Tester | Vercel

The Easiest Way to Get Feedback at Scale | Voicepanel

Create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes | Blobmaker

Research into Journeys in Minutes | Theydo

AI Color Combination Generator | Muzli

Real-Time Device Simulator & Tester | by Vercel

🤪 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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