Design digest #22: Collaboration Secrets, Powerful Storytelling & ChatGPT for User Research

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles and case studies

🔗 Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help | NN/group

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🔗 Collaboration Secrets: Design X Engineering | spotify.design

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🔗 10 Survey Challenges and How to Avoid Them  | NN/group

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🔗 How Duolingo drives subscription conversion | UX Collective

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🔗 Five Steps To Design Your Product With Powerful Storytelling | Smashing Magazine

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🔗 Advanced techniques for writing good interfaces | UX Collective

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🔗 How we built our multi-platform design system at Booking.com | booking.design

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🔗 Ethical Alternatives to Revenue-Generating Deceptive Patterns | UX Collective

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🔗 Accessible but never boring: Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone (part 1) | Wise Design

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🔗 UX Cheat Sheet: Common login patterns | UX Collective

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🔗 3 High-Level Takeaways from 1,700 Hours Testing Travel Tours and Experience Booking Sites | Baymard Institute

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🔗 Using ChatGPT for User Research | UX Planet

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Projects

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👁 Last Year You Said Next Year | Linear

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👁 Traffic Productions | HOLOGRAPHIK

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👁 Eminente eminente.art | obys

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👁 Maëlan Le Meur | Quentin Hocdé

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👁 Kurdcoin | twid studio

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👁 REJOUICE® 

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👁 Søren Rose Studio | Spring/Summer

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👁 CHRLS.DSGN | Charles

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👁 Castor & Pollux

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👁 Yuga Labs | Antinomy Studio

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👁 Raca Studio

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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🔗 In Turkey, Gürbüz’s Art Responds to the Tragedy | PRINT Magazine

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🔗 What would designers be without tools? Two Times Elliott explore creativity away from the screen | The Brand Identity

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🔗 Why Are People Mad About the New Nokia Logo – and Is It Warranted? | PRINT Magazine

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🔗 Y2K aesthetic for web design projects: Everything you need to know | Webflow

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🔗 7 Designers On 7 Brands That Don't Fem-Wash | Dieline

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🔗 Yan-Co invents impossible foods to brand a cult Bavarian “neo-tavern” | It’s Nice That

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🔗 Janny Ji on working at Media Arts Lab, how Pentagram shaped her creativity, and designing for communities | Creative Boom

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🔗 All you need is creativity: We ask creatives to imagine love letters to their practice | It’s Nice That

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🔗 “It’s all about people!” Jacob Heftmann on XXIX’s democratic and dazzlingly talented studio | The Brand 

Identity

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🔗 Sibling Rivalry lets its diverse personality shine in playful new visual system | Creative Boom

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Projects

👁 Wise | RAGGED EDGE

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👁 Tugg | Kurppa Hosk

👁 Netflix | Koto Studio

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👁 Prime Video | Pentagram

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👁 Mode | Gretel

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👁 New Logo and Identity for Rescue Now | Pentagram

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👁 Freeform | COLLINS

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👁 F-Secure | NOMAD

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👁 Gaia | RAGGED EDGE

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👩‍🚀 Carreer Growth, Management and Leadership

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Lessons of Design by Fabricio Teixeira – a designer based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a design partner at digital product agency Work & Co, and the founder of design publications UX Collective and DOC.

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How Designers Should Ask For (And Receive) High-Quality Feedback | Smashing Magazine

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How to apply for a job at a design studio, with help from Fiasco Design’s Co-founder Ben Steers | The Brand Identity

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My Top Takeaways from Working at Meta (ex-Facebook) | UX Planet

Product Vision is Science Fiction | Jeff Patton & Associates

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The Freelancers: Josh Lassen on learning from mistakes and working alongside the right people — The Brand Identity

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🔠 Typography

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Rakuten Font developed by Rakuten Design Lab with Dalton Maag

• Video series of a conversation between Rakuten and Dalton Maag detailing this effort

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Shantell Sans from Shantell Martin. Marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

• The Story of Shantell Sans | Material.io blog

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ATypI Paris 2023 is an event devoted to everything imaginable related to type design and typography. Conference week: Tuesday–Sunday, May 9–14, 2023

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Lexia and Lexia Mono by Dalton Maag have been refreshed with an upgrade to variable font format and an extended weight range.

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Tomato Grotesk is a modern grotesk family with simple geometric shapes and accentuated contrast | The Brand Identity

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🇺🇦 UAF Sans custom type family by Dmytro Rastvortsev for The Armed Forces of Ukraine identity

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🇺🇦 Robit – a tech brutal typeface with huge ink traps and humanistic shapes by Maksym Kobuzan 

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🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

▶️ Videos in prototypes just got better

📚 Enabling libraries at the workspace level

🧈 Smoother prototyping

🏃‍♀️ Performance improvements for admins

Adobe

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

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Illuminate 3D objects using multiple lights, find overlapping areas of objects to click and intertwine, reveal the structure of 3D objects using wireframes and many more in Illustrator v27.3

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Sketch

‍Welcome to Beyond the Canvas, our new home for all things design | Sketch

AI tools

AI Library | The largest up-to-date catalog of 1000+ neural networks and tools for creators

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Uizard Autodesigner | Text to design, automated by AI

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Stable Attribution | Find the human art behind the A.I. images

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Gen-1 by Runway | Use words and images to generate new videos out of existing ones.

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Scribble Diffusion | Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI

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Notion AI | Access the limitless power of AI, right inside Notion. Work faster. Write better. Think bigger.

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Raycast AI  lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes.

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Also

Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products | Stéphanie Walter

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Campsite Design – The best design teams share lots of work. Campsite makes it easy to keep up.

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🤔 Other

Read

Eight wartime designs by Ukrainian studios | deezen

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Why all of Hollywood UI looks the same | UX Collective

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Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? | MIT Technology Review

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My Favorite Things: Imagine Your World Without Favorites | PRINT Magazine

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Watch

The REAL potential of generative AI | Y Combinator Blog

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Listen

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UX Podcasts For Designers | Smashing Magazine

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Design Matters: Rick Rubin |  PRINT Magazine

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🤪 Memes

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