Design digest #21: The Linear effect, using Chat GPT in the UX design and new Sketch landing

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina and Artem Pohrebniak at Awesomic.

🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles and case studies

🔗 The Linear effect | by Daryl Ginn, Rectangle

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🔗 Design-Pattern Guidelines: Study Guide | NN/group

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🔗 Design Feedback 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting It Right | Dhananjay Garg for UX Planet

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🔗 How to use ChatGPT for UI/UX design: 25 examples | Thalion for Prototypr
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     + Using Chat GPT in the UX design process | Dawid Jankowski for Bootcamp

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🔗 A Guide To Getting Data Visualization Right | Smashing Magazine

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🔗 Unlimited Guide to Dynamic Island | Vikalp Kaushik for UX Planet

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🔗 The future of design systems is complicated | Figma

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🔗 Designing the future: How we prototype in AR and VR | Meta

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🔗 Design is about experience: 7 UX trends to be aware of | Maria Reznichenko, CXDojo for Muzli

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🔗 The UX design story behind Shopify’s Flex Comp tool | Shopify UX

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🔗 Navigating the Discovery Phase | Spotify Design

Projects

👁 Site of the year | Awwwards

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👁 CMCC Global is one of Asia’s first venture capital investors focused solely on blockchain technology | by off brand

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👁 BLNK Digital – Shaping WEB3 through AR.

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👁 Web design // ACME* | by Bettr Studio

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👁 Twitter Visual Language | by Meghan Rose

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👁 Real Noni | by Nice People

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👁 New Sketch main page | Sketch

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👁 Waybill interface processing concept Delivery Docs | by Right Studio

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👁 POLIMEC – WEB3 FUNDING | by Little Studio

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👁 SANA ALIMENT | by Of Nuances®

👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

🔗 “No creative person I know has ever asked for a brainstorming session” | Brian Collins, D&AD Talks

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🔗 'It's a queer playground': Jessica Walsh on the new brand for LQBTQ+ app, Lex | Creative Boom

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🔗 “The first few years are beautiful chaos” View Source on the realities of building a design agency | The Brand Identity

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🔗 Communication is a Basic Human Skill; Why Are We So Bad at It? | PRINT Magazine

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🔗 How Singapore paid millions to make its logo bigger | UX Planet

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🔗 How do you actually brand your own design studio? We asked Koto, Studio Kiln, and Vanderbrand | The Brand Identity

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🔗 Title Designer Dan Perri is the Biggest Movie Star You’ve Never Heard of | PRINT Magazine

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🔗 From Pentagram to political slogans: Designer Harriet Richardson on her witty and disruptive practice | It’s Nice That

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🔗 Why Nonprofit Branding is Different from Other Companies – and Why It Matters | PRINT Magazine

Projects

👁 Inside Koto’s snappy rebrand for Bolt, using negative space and illustrations full of energy | It’s Nice That

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👁 DesignStudio completely reimagines Scott's Cheap Flights as Going | Creative Boom

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👁 Depict | brand identity by OKTO

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👁 Homa | rebranding by RAGGED EDGE

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👁 Welcome to Daniel Lee's Very British Burberry | Highsnobiety

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👁 Eurostar | rebranding by Design Studio

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👁 BrewBird | brand identity by Mucho

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👁 Enko Beauty | brand identity and packaging by HUGMUN

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👁 Penny | brand identity by Good Habit

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👁 Mindbloom | brand identity Landscape

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👁 Infer | brand identity by Mast

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👁 The Coronation Emblem | visual design by LoveFrom

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👁 Playboy | brand identity and campaigns by Decade

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👁 The Dieline's Best Of January 2023 | Dieline

👩‍🚀 Carreer Growth, Management and Leadership

‍Design leadership is change management | Peter Merholz

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‍Measuring DesignOps with the REACH Metrics Framework | NN/group

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‍Boosting Productivity For Designers With Efficient Tools | Smashing Magazine

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‍Groupthink in UX Work | NN/group

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‍No, you should not be your team’s “shit umbrella” | Design Dept

🔠 Typography

Type Trends 2023 | Monotype

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TypeTrials | Pangram Pangram

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Catching up with Erik Spiekermann | Google Design

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First Batch of Color Fonts Arrives on Google Fonts | Material Design

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Tsankotype typeface library | Ivan Tsanko

🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

How Linear made the most of a DDoS | Figma

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7 AI-based Figma plugins that I use as a Product designer | Ulvin Omarov for Bootcamp

Adobe

What’s new in Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects | Adobe

Also

🔗 Design in Figma, launch in Webflow | Webflow

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🔗 Hall of Fame – Golden Kitty Awards Winners | Product Hunt 

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🔗 Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design

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🔗 Runway – Discover advanced video editing capabilities to take your creations to the next level.

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🔗 Gen-1 by Runwa – The Next Step Forward for Generative AII

🤔 Other

Read

What It Takes to Build a Game in a War Zone | Wired

Watch

Rick Rubin: How to Access Your Creativity | Huberman Lab Podcast

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman |  AI for the Next Era

Listen

Design Matters: Guy Kawasaki | PRINT Magazine

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The Green Edit on creative lives, AI and interesting projects | On Design

🤪 Memes

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