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How I used AI to design brand-aligned illustrations

Refining prompts iteratively enhances illustration consistency and style capture.
Using familiar iconic objects aids in accurate evaluation of AI output.
Specific compositional guidelines lead to cohesive brand illustrations.
#ux-design

Visual Design is important, but it's not the only thing that matters

Organizations prioritize visually appealing designs in hiring, pushing designers to create high-quality portfolios.

Next gen of designers, deceptive AI patterns, becoming a Senior Designer

Designers should focus on shaping their own narratives and thinking critically about their work.

Visual Design is important, but it's not the only thing that matters

Organizations prioritize visually appealing designs in hiring, pushing designers to create high-quality portfolios.

Next gen of designers, deceptive AI patterns, becoming a Senior Designer

Designers should focus on shaping their own narratives and thinking critically about their work.
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from Fast Company
4 weeks ago

Canva CEO Melanie Perkins talks new AI tools, reverting prices, and competing with Adobe

Canva continues to innovate and grow, integrating advanced AI tools like Dream Lab and reaching 200 million users.
#user-experience

Why put dots in a virtual canvas

Dotted canvases effectively reduce disorientation on digital platforms by providing essential visual cues for positioning and scaling of elements.

Think Outside the Box: How to Find Real-World UI Design Inspiration That Will Set You Apart

As a UI designer, it can be challenging to stay inspired and come up with fresh, innovative ideas for your designs.While platforms like Dribbble, Behance, and Pinterest can be great resources, they can also create a "design echo chamber" where everyone is creating similar designs and following the same trends.

Why put dots in a virtual canvas

Dotted canvases effectively reduce disorientation on digital platforms by providing essential visual cues for positioning and scaling of elements.

Think Outside the Box: How to Find Real-World UI Design Inspiration That Will Set You Apart

As a UI designer, it can be challenging to stay inspired and come up with fresh, innovative ideas for your designs.While platforms like Dribbble, Behance, and Pinterest can be great resources, they can also create a "design echo chamber" where everyone is creating similar designs and following the same trends.
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Halls of Torment is Diablo cranked up to 50,000 kills/hour

Halls of Torment features a variety of unlockable classes with distinct weapons and gameplay styles, appealing to diverse player preferences.

What Is GUI? Graphical User Interface Explained (2024) - Shopify

GUIs have transformed digital interaction by providing a visual means of control, making technology more user-friendly and accessible.

Your Professional AI Content Machine Is Just $60 for Life | Entrepreneur

Scribbyo provides an all-in-one AI solution to save business owners time on creative tasks, enhancing productivity and content quality.

Corner Radius of Nested Elements in UI design

Using the same corner radius for nested elements results in inconsistent visual gaps; a smaller radius for the child improves aesthetics.

Design Monthly Vol. 10

Discover the fundamentals of spatial design.
#collaboration

10 Apps Every Remote Worker Needs

Remote work apps optimize teamwork, productivity, and communication for white-collar workers.
Adobe CC, Asana, Canva, and Figma are essential tools for work performance optimization.

Razersuperfuture photochromic sunglasses is for fashion-conscious gamers - Yanko Design

Razer is always open to new collaborations and experimental gear for gamers, marking the American-Singaporean company high up on the radar of tech and gaming community.While their last venture into fashion wearable accessories in the form of Razer Ansu Smart Glasses didn't fair as well as they hoped, they aren't giving up yet.

10 Apps Every Remote Worker Needs

Remote work apps optimize teamwork, productivity, and communication for white-collar workers.
Adobe CC, Asana, Canva, and Figma are essential tools for work performance optimization.

Razersuperfuture photochromic sunglasses is for fashion-conscious gamers - Yanko Design

Razer is always open to new collaborations and experimental gear for gamers, marking the American-Singaporean company high up on the radar of tech and gaming community.While their last venture into fashion wearable accessories in the form of Razer Ansu Smart Glasses didn't fair as well as they hoped, they aren't giving up yet.
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from Creative Bloq
7 months ago

The new Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes posters are surprisingly majestic

The new posters for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes focus on minimalist style and powerful imagery, appealing to both old and new fans.
The posters blend the bold and bizarre, creating a visual that is quintessential Planet of the Apes and showcases expert world-building VFX.
#accessibility

How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design - Smashing Magazine

Data visualizations need to go beyond compliance with accessibility standards to be truly useful and accessible.
Two specific requirements for accessible data visualizations are accessible chart colors and dual encodings or using something other than color to convey meaning.

Top Industrial Machinery Manufacturing Websites-UX Design Best Practices

The hero section is crucial for user-company interaction and should be built with high-quality visuals.
Accessibility is key in the hero section to effectively communicate the company's value proposition and avoid distortion on responsive designs.

How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design - Smashing Magazine

Data visualizations need to go beyond compliance with accessibility standards to be truly useful and accessible.
Two specific requirements for accessible data visualizations are accessible chart colors and dual encodings or using something other than color to convey meaning.

Top Industrial Machinery Manufacturing Websites-UX Design Best Practices

The hero section is crucial for user-company interaction and should be built with high-quality visuals.
Accessibility is key in the hero section to effectively communicate the company's value proposition and avoid distortion on responsive designs.
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Balenciaga's runway show had a digital backdrop bigger than the Sphere. Here's how they made it

Fashion show featured immersive art installation with nature-inspired digital distortions
COUR studio created visuals combining landscapes with digital elements seamlessly

The Hidden Factor, by Steven Skaggs | Logo Design Love

Visual design incorporates marks found in our surroundings.
Perception of visual elements depends on factors like edges and directionality.

New Jaws Game Is-OH GOD THE FACES

A new Roblox-exclusive game, Jaws: Infested Waters, based on the classic movie Jaws is a group survival adventure with one player as the shark and others trying to survive.
The game features realistic flesh, eyes, and skin on Roblox character faces, creating a disturbing visual experience for players.
#branding

How Top HR Agencies Build Trust Through Logo Designs - SitePoint

Trust is commonly earned through consistency and reliability over time, but it can also be effectively constructed through strategic visual design and branding efforts.

Inside the advanced and inviting visual identity DIA created for the launch of Onchain Summer

Use of vibrant palette and chainlinks inspired design for Onchain Summer campaign
Creative freedom and flexibility played a significant role in the visual identity creation

How Top HR Agencies Build Trust Through Logo Designs - SitePoint

Trust is commonly earned through consistency and reliability over time, but it can also be effectively constructed through strategic visual design and branding efforts.

Inside the advanced and inviting visual identity DIA created for the launch of Onchain Summer

Use of vibrant palette and chainlinks inspired design for Onchain Summer campaign
Creative freedom and flexibility played a significant role in the visual identity creation
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The Living Earth Show at Stanford | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

Lyra is a collaboration between the Living Earth Show and Post:ballet that combines dance, visual design, and contemporary classical music.
Lyra is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and explores themes of death, descent into the underworld, and loss.

And the best magazine covers of the year are . . .

Dutch art director Jaap Biemans has a lot on his plate today.

Here's hoping Google Maps' new colors are a sign of more changes to come

Google Maps users are expressing dislike for the app's new color scheme.
Some users and a former Google Maps designer believe the new colors make the app feel less accurate and less human.
On the other hand, some users appreciate the new colors and believe they make the app more visually appealing.

Minimalist stool combines wood and webbing to create a fresh and fun look - Yanko Design

We probably don't always think about how chairs and stools look as long as they're comfortable.After all, you don't exactly see their visual design when you're already sitting on them.You won't always be sitting on a particular chair all of the time, however, and those moments when these pieces of furniture are empty can have an impact on your space's overall ambiance.
#people

One way to cope with loneliness, excessive self-focus, or cynicism? Cultivate awe | Dacher Keltner

Awe is the feeling we experience when we encounter vast mysteries we cannot understand.We find awe, I report in my new book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life, in eight wonders of life: the moral beauty of others, nature, collective movement, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, big ideas, and the cycle of life and death.

Taylor Swift debuts The National collaboration 'coney island' live on 'Eras' tour

Taylor Swift paid tribute to The National by playing 'coney island', on which they guested, for the first time on the latest stop of her 'Eras' tour.The song, taken from her 2020 album 'evermore' was played along with 'The Other Side Of The Door' from 'Fearless' as part of the "surprise song" segment of the show, which made a stop last night (April 28) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Real Future Of A.I. In Design-It's Not What You Think

There are some wonderful companies including my personal favorite Diagram that are actively working to create an A.I. powered "companion" that sits in your existing design tool and assists you with your work.This could be as simple as fixing basic errors and mistakes, or as complex as making your designs for you.

Learn from my mistakes: A rejected UI/UX assignment from a unicorn sales start-up

Although the online shopping experience has changed by leaps and bounds in the last decade, there's a lot of room for improvement regarding shopping in the real world.Finding products, knowing their availability, and the checkout experience - all of these can be rethought.Identify such problems and provide a design solution that talks about how you can make the in-store shopping experience better.

These delicious candy-like chairs are shockingly made from real balloons - Yanko Design

Chairs, stools, and couches come in all shapes and sizes, but they are bound by a single hard requirement.They must be stable enough and sturdy enough so that people can sit on them with confidence that they won't fall on their butts when they least expect it.Some seats put that requirement at the heart of their visual design, exuding that stability and durability simply by the way they look.

One way to cope with loneliness, excessive self-focus, or cynicism? Cultivate awe | Dacher Keltner

Awe is the feeling we experience when we encounter vast mysteries we cannot understand.We find awe, I report in my new book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life, in eight wonders of life: the moral beauty of others, nature, collective movement, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, big ideas, and the cycle of life and death.

Taylor Swift debuts The National collaboration 'coney island' live on 'Eras' tour

Taylor Swift paid tribute to The National by playing 'coney island', on which they guested, for the first time on the latest stop of her 'Eras' tour.The song, taken from her 2020 album 'evermore' was played along with 'The Other Side Of The Door' from 'Fearless' as part of the "surprise song" segment of the show, which made a stop last night (April 28) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Real Future Of A.I. In Design-It's Not What You Think

There are some wonderful companies including my personal favorite Diagram that are actively working to create an A.I. powered "companion" that sits in your existing design tool and assists you with your work.This could be as simple as fixing basic errors and mistakes, or as complex as making your designs for you.

Learn from my mistakes: A rejected UI/UX assignment from a unicorn sales start-up

Although the online shopping experience has changed by leaps and bounds in the last decade, there's a lot of room for improvement regarding shopping in the real world.Finding products, knowing their availability, and the checkout experience - all of these can be rethought.Identify such problems and provide a design solution that talks about how you can make the in-store shopping experience better.

These delicious candy-like chairs are shockingly made from real balloons - Yanko Design

Chairs, stools, and couches come in all shapes and sizes, but they are bound by a single hard requirement.They must be stable enough and sturdy enough so that people can sit on them with confidence that they won't fall on their butts when they least expect it.Some seats put that requirement at the heart of their visual design, exuding that stability and durability simply by the way they look.
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Before Your Eyes review: live a life in the blink of an eye

Before Your Eyes on PSVR 2 is rare in this day and age; this is a game that plays unlike anything else and manages to wrestle eye-opening gameplay from a genuinely new technology.Making use of PSVR 2's eye-tracking technology, Before Your Eyes gives a physical act an emotional response.This is a choice-led narrative game where decisions are made by simply blinking your eyes and there really has been nothing quite like it.

6 early entries we love from the 2023 NPR Student Podcast Challenge

We're two months into this year's Student Podcast Challenge, and we've already received entries from more than 200 students!It's the fifth anniversary of the contest, and like every other year, we've been getting a range of stories, from personal narratives to passion projects to class assignments.But, in listening to them over the last couple of weeks, I've noticed one thing that many of our favorite podcasts have in common: a willingness by students to take on tough conversations that many of us, adults, walk away from.

Creating CSS masonry-style layouts - LogRocket Blog

When designing a page with content overflowing the viewport, an indirect way to instruct users to keep scrolling is to display new content partially.One such approach is the masonry layout, which places elements inline and allows them to move up to fill empty spaces.Within this tutorial, we will explore the experimental masonry layout added to the CSS Grid Level 3 Specification.

How to Keep Your Audience Engaged During a Presentation - eLearning

Transform presentations from forgettable to phenomenal by incorporating storytelling, one topic per slide, contrasting colors, and music for engagement.

Attractive things work better sometimes

Visually appealing designs impact user perception by merging aesthetics with functionality.
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