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