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Wireframe-Examples offers an extensive collection of perfectly structured, high-level wireframes to inspire and expedite your next project, ensuring you never waste time coming up with component arrangements again.
After 50 years in operation, Switchboard introduces a warmer logo which better speaks to its openness as a listening service.After 50 years in operation, Switchboard introduces a warmer logo which better speaks to its openness as a listening service.
Discover success strategies and insight of 250+ email experts. Learn what worked best for conversion in 2023 and predictions for 2024. Get industry benchmarks to measure performance…
Most product teams commonly adopt a feature-centric mindset, finding them convenient for brainstorming, drafting requirement documents, and integrating into backlogs and ticketing systems. In this article, Andy Budd shows how fixation with features might be holding you back and how making a few small tweaks to your process could make an entire world of difference.
An extract from the designer’s recent publication Comic Sans, Is it Really That Bad? delves into the history of the contentious font, uncovering the story of its creation and early uses.
Powered by a community of creative people, dozens of new gradients are created everyday.
Product lead Peter Yang taps into his decade-plus career to explain why staying focused on the craft is a product manager’s superpower.
It’s not a temper tantrum, it’s a business strategy…
Macworld has changed a lot through the decades, but the thing that David Bunnell started more than 40 years ago is still making an impact.
Always enabled buttons have long been among the “best practices” of UX design, but there are still disabled buttons in interfaces here and there. In 2021, my colleagues at «Open Investments» asked me to make a presentation with a theoretical proof of the “buttons should always be enabled” concept.
AI image generation doesn’t have to be clunky when you use Shakker. Whether you want to create images, change styles, combine components, or inpaint any parts, Shakker makes it smoother than ever for you with prompt suggestion and precise designs.
In any design discipline there are always certain trends. One of these trends seems to be that buttons are now considered uncool. It doesn’t matter if they are buttons on physical objects or in graphical user interfaces.
I love the canvas.It embraces everything. You can write, draw, paint, color, shade, trace and manifest your ideas freely, wherever feels suitable. It’s almost endless freedom. It’s addictive, and I believe it hinders product designers from being as powerful as they should be. Lets go for a ride…
Using randomness and confusion to reframe problems and their possible solutions
A single, elegantly designed icon can communicate complex actions and ideas in a universal language understood at a glance, proving how crucial icons are in elevating the overall user experience. But where can you procure such icons as a React developer?
Visuals are a core part of the design process, but they can also conceal incomplete thinking. Without establishing conceptual fidelity through tools like the primary user benefit, designers risk creating negative value for their teams.
For the web industry, the moment could be approaching now, marked by the introduction of the Web Sustainability Guidelines. Developed by the W3C, these guidelines represent a significant leap toward integrating sustainability into digital products and services. Let’s see what is important to know about this game-changing document.
These color formats are fundamental for digital design, but they were never intended for color matching.
Check out our first batch of exceptionally good website designs in 2024.
How designers should embrace shaping AI models.
Many people are willing to pay for design templates to save them time. Canva templates are easy to design and sell, making them a highly profitable way to make money online without much effort on your part.
The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) to kick in March 7, include some big developments around browsers that look set to shake up a pretty stale market.
Dive deep into the visual direction for State of the Word 2023, hosted for the first time in Madrid, Spain.
Master the Art of Responsive Layouts with Step-by-Step Code Examples for Seamless Web Development
We make upward of 35,000 decisions each day, requiring mental energy that often leaves us feeling drained.1 AI-powered personalization promises a solution to decision fatigue that’s custom tailored to our preferences.
David tracks the performance of his Core Web Vitals and overall performance with Request Metrics. Recently, we noticed that his CLS performance score was trending pretty slow for both desktop and mobile users.
All around me in the world of developer-facing tools, I’ve noticed folks struggling with the name issue: pricing. In this post, I’ll look at different pricing models and explain how value pricing can offer a win-win path forward for everyone.
Sure, it looks charmingly retro today. But the little Macintosh computer introduced in 1984 was a daring machine in its time—and its influence on everything Apple does has been profound.
Consider this: What’s your unique UX superpower? What’s the one trait that makes you irresistible to potential interviewers? For those fortunate to have a track record of successful products at renowned companies, a portfolio website might seem like a “just for fun” move.
There is an ongoing debate about whether design is more art or more science. SEO is 100% alchemy; if you know where to look and how to interpret what you find, anyone can turn underperforming websites into gold.
AI promises a major upheaval in typography, with designers finding themselves navigating both opportunities and challenges. How will it impact quality, design roles, and our use of type in the future? As we explore this new frontier, we realise that we are at a juncture as significant as Gutenberg’s press, set to redefine how we interact with text and visual communication.
Hatch’s new tool wants to make creative web design even easier
Turn on these experimental AI features to organize your tabs, create custom themes and get help with writing on the web.
While other existing tools allow artists to “poison” a dataset once their image is scraped, Kin.art lets artists completely fly under the radar of AI models.
Whenever a service takes a payment card before a trial, I immediately have a dread of “oh, I bet I forget to cancel this in time”.
These three design trends are sure to help you generate some hot ideas in one of the coldest months of the year.
These seemingly small details can significantly impact the readability and aesthetic quality of a text. Understanding what they are and how to manage them is crucial in producing polished and professional-looking documents.
These small graphical elements are often used to compliment the website’s hero message, and when done right, it can help setting the tone, and further amplify the look and feel of the website. Here I collected 10 excellent examples of how it’s being applied.
Tech’s not-so-perfect outcomes: Let’s design a brighter tomorrow.
Shutterstock is inciting creatives to paint the future, one prompt at a time, in a collaboration with the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s AI for Good initiative involving an intriguing challenge: the Canvas of the Future.
I know I sound like an old man when I go on and on about RSS, but really, it’s sitting right there and is apparently what a lot of people miss.
The identity guidelines serve as the definitive source of truth—a rubric by which we gauge the success of everything we make (from furniture to campaign ads to retail catalogs), everywhere we show up (from brick-and-mortar showrooms to digital experiences to exhibition wall copy).
A history of Adobe’s complicated relationship with the web.
Last Tuesday was the first class of my systems course. As I did last year, I asked students to envision their jobs twenty-five years from now. What will their work look like in 2049? What will they be doing? Not in vague platitudes: I wanted to know specifics.
When OpenAI decided to host its very first DevDay – a one-day conference for hundreds of developers from around the globe – it began looking for an identity that would capture not just the forward-looking spirit of the company, but also this new venture that creates a space for a diverse pool of ta…
We caught up with Vernon to discuss the creation of the wordmark, and how it was inspired by Victorian style typography and involved frequent collabration with the studio.
These are the most hearted Pens of 2023. Remember that you can heart a Pen up to three times. The number itself is how many people hearted the Pen, but the ranking takes into account heart-levels as well.
LoaderShip is the ultimate CSS-only loader configuration tool that allows you to effortlessly customize and generate stunning loaders for your website. Simply Copy & Paste without any installation or dependency hassle.
The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.
Meet Notion Calendar — integrated and synced with all your Google Calendar events.
Besides Dynamic Color support and the “new motion behavior,” there’s also now “higher contrast between track and active indicator to enhance the perception of progress.” These Material You progress bars also add an “end stop indicator to improve accessibility”:
One of the questions I get an awful lot these days is, “How do we show that a great experience produces immense value for the organization?”
This is a curated roundup of the best websites where you can download HTML templates for free. More specifically vanilla CSS templates that don’t rely on any frameworks.
Designer News is transforming and joining the We Work Remotely family. Soon Designer News will no longer be available but we have great news, with the power of We Work Remotely, we’ll still help you find and list the best remote jobs.
In this post, we highlight the most inspiring and useful web design blogs you should follow this year.
Our new case study unveils the project made at the crossroads of art and science: welcome to take a look at the creative process and solutions for Physica Magazine, the scientific blog wrapped in artistic, eye-catching, and functional web design by the tubik agency team.
Learn how to effortlessly implement smooth CSS view-transitions with Velvette, a useful library designed to tackle common challenges and enhance user experiences in web applications.
Using your own Stock
AI images are quick and easy to make. They look great at first sight, and they quickly replaced the use of stock images. But, like everything cheap and easy, they come with trade-offs. A short critique of the pure AI image.
To create a new proprietary shape, Pentagram and Itaú’s in-house design team pushed beyond the square, increasing the radius of the corner curves and rounding out the sides to make the form more organic and dynamic.
Over the years, I’ve taken note of some of the ways I’ve observed teams use crit to great effect and I’m sharing what I’ve learned in the form of some high-level thoughts for your consideration. All teams are unique, as are their needs, so pick and choose from these as you see fit.
We’re introducing two major updates to help you search any way, anywhere: Circle to Search and an AI-powered multisearch experience.
A unification of the Dock with Mission Control’s window-management.
One of the best things about being a part of the design community is that most designers love to exchange ideas, spread knowledge, and share their experiences regardless of their seniority level. You can be a starting designer or an established thought leader, and it’s almost a given that you find a design conference that may teach you something new.
A new study by German researchers found that Google Search is plagued with SEO spam.
Monotype has released the first results of their ongoing study, revealing the emotional impact and cultural nuances of fonts across eight different countries: Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the US (with plans for more).
Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in the spirit of things, I’ve tasked ChatGPT to write this article for me.
Embracing ambiguity as a superpower.
“The one piece of tech Apple never has been able to make correctly.”
A framework for pairing typefaces that will make designs look good and feel right
In search of answers, we create divides.
It’s no secret that authenticating into services is an unresolved topic. With time, we have managed to make them more secure, but that was at the expense of user experience.
‘Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google.’
Recalling items from scratch is harder than recognizing the correct option in a list of choices because the extra context helps users retrieve information from memory.
In 2022, Google updated desktop Chrome with a side panel UI that has since grown beyond providing access to your Bookmarks. Chrome is now looking to redesign the side panel, including how you launch it by getting rid of the icon.
This tool transforms Figma designs into web code, aiming to ease global software developer shortage.
In the bustling digital marketplace, where attention spans are fleeting and competition fierce, a tiny square can hold immense power: the app icon. These miniature billboards on our home screens play a crucial role in shaping our perceptions and influencing our choices. They embody a brand’s essence, spark recognition, and ultimately, drive user engagement.
Revealed at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the Rabbit R1is a palm-sized, bright orange AI assistant that is designed to take actions on behalf of its user, even where those actions involve multiple or complex steps.
The CSS border-image property is one of those properties you undoubtedly know exists but may not have ever reached for. Or maybe you have reached for it but found all of its slicing logic difficult and cumbersome.
In this blog post, we’ll explore the top 10 AI platforms that are leading the way in generating realistic images, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the realm of computer-generated graphics.
While the change has already been implemented on the network’s social channels, the new CW logo will make its official debut this weekend
Apple Vision Pro could start the next digital revolution. Wizards from Cupertino offer a mind-blowing spatial experience on the visionOS platform. But how could spatial banking look and feel?
Are we truly building products that consumers will actually use and love?
The limited-time rebranding is really just a marketing stunt timed to coincide with CES 2024, one of the biggest tech showcases of the year. Tropicana said it aims to highlight the “fact that there is nothing artificial, and never has been anything artificial” in its orange juice.
We speak to New York design agency Order about the challenges and opportunities that came with overhauling the identity for the modern furniture trailblazer
Complete daily UI prompts to level up your portfolio and land better jobs.
Who doesn’t love a good front-end tool? In this roundup, you’ll find useful front-end tools that were popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow. Let’s dive in!
Put your skills to the test, while learning something new about the brands identity.
OpenAI recently released a long-awaited store for GPTs. Now, ChatGPT Plus subscribers can access a collection of GPTs created by different users. In this article, I want to review the downsides of the current version of the store.
Using modifiers to create color ramps can significantly reduce the tedious work that comes with creating color ramps.
The Book of Kells is one of Ireland’s biggest tourist attractions. In branding its new visitor experience, Pentagram has masterfully avoided tired Celtic tropes to create a fresh and vibrant visual identity.