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Enough about me though, let’s dive into the mystery that’s been looming in the design sphere like Batman over Gotham: the phenomenon of dark mode UI.
In this article, I’m going to share five tricks of using Figma, which are very useful in design process. They are so underrated that not everyone is talking about them. Make sure to bookmark this page and for future reference, lets dive into it.
Design color themes based on color theory with our color palette generator. AI uses color harmonies on the color wheel to generate beautiful color palettes.
The massive shift from developer-extended to developer-led platforms
Designers value script and states are reinstating cursive’s education, yet Gen-Z can’t read it and brands are straying from it. We explore.
The Fruit of the Loom logo has never had a cornucopia in it. It’s just your brain tricking you.
Sitting down with Koto’s Creative Director, Arthur Foliard.
Powered by ever-evolving algorithms, AI image generators harness the vast potential of machine learning to generate high-quality images from basic sketches.
The tools you choose for your stack is key for any project. One-size-fits-all solutions may appeal, but they are usually more trouble than they are worth.
Boost landing page conversions with the inverted pyramid model
AI will not replace programming. Instead AI, combined with the power of visual programming platforms, will help more people than ever become programmers
You’ve seen Dawn Baillie’s posters for thrillers, comedies and dramas outside cineplexes. Now her work is being exhibited at Poster House in Manhattan.
A minimalist, beautiful Radial Background Generator
It was reported that 67% of all internet traffic is bots – and that was back in 2021. Thanks to AI, that figure could apparently hit 90% by the end of the decade. GenAI expert, Nina Schick, goes as far as estimating that the 90% of web content itself will be generated by AI by 2025 – that’s just next year!
A developer spotted code for a new “TikTok Photos” app when looking through the app’s code.
Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 6484 personal websites.
Last week’s post looked at websites that dared to use huge type and did it well. With this week’s post I’ll explore what it is that works well about the huge type on these websites and establish guidelines and recommendations for using huge type on the web.
A Comprehensive Guide to Designing for Vision OS
Global sports brand’s new identity fits like a glove.
Iconbuddy is a search engine that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 200,000 open source svg icons for free.
The process includes defining goals, research, planning, design, development, testing, and launch, each stage requiring time and attention to detail
A new home on the internet for micro-interactions, easter eggs, and other seemingly extra design details that infuse life, personality, and fun back into the web.
UX practitioners are being gaslit by people inside and outside of UX. It’s time to recognize it, stop believing and internalizing it, stand up to it, and say something. Stop pressing like on it and sharing it to others.
How to define a compelling Design Operations roadmap and build the trust you’ll need to execute on it.
The balance is off. And the problem is that if managers aren’t actively driving business outcomes using all their knowledge and expertise, and if designers aren’t creating work that not only solves user problems, but meaningfully differentiates your product from a competitor’s,
Graphic designers actually have a big impact on how people perceive a film. We have this responsibility to best communicate what people are meant to experience.
ThisInternational Women’s DayDoodle highlights a group of women sharing wisdom across generations within a quiltembroidered with symbols ofprogressmade over the years.
Apple doesn’t have a ChatGPT rival of its own. But AI tools have played a behind-the-scenes role in iPhones for years.
OpenAlternative is a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications. Our goal is to be your first stop when researching for a new open source service to help you grow your business.
Let me set the scene — you’re a UX designer and you’re at a meeting discussing a new onboarding flow for users to create their profile. Someone asks “Wait, we should include a pronoun selector here, right?”
A prime example of how “ugly” turns into good design is the niche of niches of so-called “the ugliest websites of the web”—those lightweight, text-heavy, old-fashioned, basic HTML-styled web pages.
Find the best navigation designs from leading websites to fuel your inspiration.
As cited by AI enthusiast Nick St Pierre, Stability AI employees supposedly infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole pairings of image and text prompts—crucial training data for AI image generators—last Saturday. Stability AI has been blamed for causing a 24-hour outage for Midjourney as a result of this action.
IBM Chief Design Officer Billy Seabrook talked about the company’s use of Adobe’s generative AI tool Firefly and how it boosted productivity for design staffers.
AVIF doesn’t just shrink file sizes — it enhances the visual experience. With support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG), images are no longer just pictures — they are vivid, deep, and dynamically rich scenes.
Google Maps’ Street View feature does raise some privacy concerns.
Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?
Vice President of Product Sho Kuwamoto and Product Designer Nikolas Klein walk us through the journey of multi-edit, a new feature that simplifies editing across multiple designs in just a few clicks.
Color wheels are tools for artists, designers, and anyone working with color. However, many people think there’s just one color wheel. Yet others don’t realize the rules of color harmony rarely translate from one wheel to another.
The app is available in beta for free on iOS and Android devices, enabling mobile users to collaborate with desktop-based designers on the same projects again.
Fable Prism represents a landmark milestone for generative AI. It’s the first time creators get to directly control what gets generated – on a visual canvas, using design and animation tools – all under one roof.
In recent years, we have been talking more and more about emotional design in our interface design. It has a lot of advantages but can also be double-edged if misapplied. We will analyze Mario Maker 2 to explain this notion and how to use it.
Here are several good email marketing ideas to play along with the overall atmosphere, intensify your marketing efforts, and drive business growth. We have also compiled a list of April email newsletter examples to show how brands in different niches implement their marketing plans.
The company announced changes to its algorithm to deamplify websites that “feel like they were created for search engines instead of people.”
Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it
Our Rams’ inspired assets are designed to sprinkle a dash of delight into your life.
“Gatsby headaches” are over. Juan Diego Rodríguez reflects on his decision to stop using Gatsby as his go-to framework. Through a detailed examination of its strengths and weaknesses, he provides valuable insights and alternative options for developers navigating their tooling choices.
An experimental 3D card stack animation on scroll.
CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.
“This is the most cursed phone mock-up I have ever seen.”
DevBuddies is a place focussed on developers looking for other developers or people in the fields of design, marketing, entrepreneurship and coaching/mentoring.
Whether you’re a designer, or developer, the right tools can significantly enhance your workflow, creativity, and project outcomes. So every month we put together this roundup of the latest tools for designers.
As designers, we should challenge fragmentation rather than foster it.
Dive into how product design has shifted towards a UI focus and how the AI “revolution” is gradually phasing out the “traditional user interfaces.”
AI won’t take your job (*yet), but it sure makes your job a whole lot easier.
The report claims that 60% of hacked WordPress sites stem from stolen session cookies. I sure didn’t see that one coming.
UX designers refer to these predictable cause-and-effect relationships as the “laws” of UX design. These “laws of UX” are not rigid rules set in stone; they represent tried-and-true cause-and-effect relationships that, over the years, have proven invaluable in aiding UX designers to craft outstanding user experiences.
My name is Gonçalo, and this article will take you through a day in the life of a UX Designer at Pixelmatters.
To get in on the Oscars fun, we’ve created a thorough round-up of each of the 10 Best Picture nominees as typefaces. We lay out our analysis below!
Okay, we might have gone a bit overboard with the ‘every designer should follow,’ but seriously, these accounts are worth checking out. Prepare to be inspired…
In a thought-provoking departure from conventional wisdom, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang recently sparked a debate at the World Government Summit in Dubai, challenging the entrenched belief in the necessity of coding skills for the younger generation.
A surprising discovery reveals Windows 11’s boot screen animation is actually font-based, showcasing Microsoft’s innovative design approach.
Convert your designs into human-readable PRO-code in seconds. Whether you design in PixelFree Studio or Figma, you’re just one click away from auto-generating your front-end! No frameworks, no libraries, host anywhere you want.
Unleash your creativity with our Color Palette Generator. Easily pick colors from images or use the intuitive color picker. Craft stunning palettes, edit them with precision, and visualize them on UI, branding, and more.
AI and designers: the ethical and legal implications.
No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini’s programming abilities
And why the no-ghost icon led to legal action.
There’s no escaping it: if you want to be successful, you need to be productive. The more you work, the more you progress, which for many people means long days, working evenings, and weekends. But it doesn’t have to be like that.
The campaign pays homage to a decades-long tradition of including a restaurant called “WcDonald’s” in manga and anime.
To put my UX design skills to test, I wanted to find a product with room for improvement in its usability. Conducting a Heuristic Evaluation on the “Fly Delta” app can help in assessing its user interface and overall user experience.
In a world where we laud good design for its invisibility, perhaps it’s time to celebrate the unignorable—the bad chairs, the frustrating UIs, the push handles on pull doors—designs that fail beautifully, teaching us more about our world and ourselves than perfection ever could.
Investigate a collection of atmospheric and contemporary UI/UX designs that merge mood with modernity. These designs are the signature of high-profile UI design agencies, known for their trendsetting approaches.
Adobe on Thursday unveiled a suite of new features for Illustrator, including the Dimension Tool aimed at designers working in product packaging, interior design and fashion — where precise measurement is critical.
Tooltips are a very common pattern used in CSS for years. There are a lot of ways to approach tooltips in CSS, though some evoke headaches with all the magic numbers they require. In this article, Temani Afif presents modern techniques to create tooltips with the smallest amount of markup and the greatest amount of flexibility.
Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of the use of a much larger set of usability principles to explain a database of usability problems in development projects. The 10 heuristics in the final list from 1994 had the greatest explanatory power in this analysis, which is why they are still useful today.
Pepsi has just popped open its first major global redesign in 14 years, and it’s doing it with a bang through mesmerizing light shows and giant can displays.