Design digest #26: Figma Config, 2023 Logo Trends & Pride Campaigns

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This digest was collected by Mirona Zulgarina, Oleh Idolov, Kateryna Siiakovska, Olesia Karavan, Roman Lisnychyi and Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic. 

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Figma Config: Everything you could miss during the keynote

Figma Config – Figma’s global annual conference. Watch the recordings

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What’s new from Config 2023 | Figma

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Figma Product Launch Keynote

Variables, new Dev Mode, Enhanced Prototyping, New auto layout functionality, Fonts Preview, Effortless file location, New integrations and many more.

AI: The next chapter in design | Figma & Diagram

Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode + Developer mode playground

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15 Figma Updates from Config 2023 in A Nutshell | Danny Sapio, UX Design

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Figma’s Playground to try out new features:

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Variables, now in Figma

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More advanced prototyping 

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New ways to use auto layout

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Articles & Case Studies 

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AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years | NN Group

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What’s The Perfect Design Process? | Smashing Magazine

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AI-Powered Tools for UX Research: Issues and Limitations | NN Group

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How to Adapt Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning | Christopher Butle

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Usability Heuristics for UI Design: 8 Best Practices | by FlowMapp, Medium

Sustainable Design Toolkits And Frameworks | Smashing Magazine

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How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation | NN Group

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Humans are biased. Generative AI ss even worse | Bloomberg

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Behind The Curtains Of Wikipedia Redesign | Smashing Magazine 

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Artificial Intelligence & Humanity: what I rely on AI for—and what I don’t | Dan Mall

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Designing the latest generation of Uber Navigation: maps built for ridesharing | Dylan Babbs

How Duolingo pushes users from freemium to premium | by Rosie Hoggmascall, medium

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Projects

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👁 Runway: The finance platform | Reform Colelctive

👁 Imagifly – Simplify AI image generation with customizable prompt libraries

👁 Resend – Email for developers

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👁 Dstafin – Decentralized platform with a unique token

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👁 Quantum Wallet - the first ever hardware wallet powered by quantum computing

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👁 The Drop Store

👁 Outreach Space

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👁 Patta x Tommy

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👁 Decriminalize Poverty 

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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2023 Logo Trend Report | Articles | LogoLounge

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The Daily Heller: Graphic Design and the Fog of War | PRINT Magazine

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How to choose the right clients and projects for your studio, with IYA Studio’s Matt Cottis | The Brand Identity

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Pride Campaigns: The Good, the Bad & the Rainbow-Washy | Dieline

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The End of Brands As We Know Them | UX Collective

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The Designers: How&How’s Joana Fatela on animation, side projects, and the tastiest studio snacks | The Brand Identity

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“Creativity thrives when we feel safe”: How is the rental crisis affecting creative practices? It’s Nice That

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‘Flagship’ Reimagines Iconic Brands as Flags | PRINT Magazine

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Collaborative in name and nature: London-based studio In-Col on the importance of other people | The Brand Identity

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Projects

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👁 American Weed Co. | Pentagram

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👁 Google updates Android logo with 3D robot head, new wordmark [U] | 9to5Google

👁 TheFork | Design Studio

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👁 InVision | Ensemble

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👁 WeWork’s Brand Evolution

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👁 un.studios. Visualizing sound. | RAWTY

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👁 Vineyard Theatre | NB Studio

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👁 Pilo | 5.5 design studio

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👁 Merkezsiz | Sömestr Studio

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👁 The Best in Packaging From 2023: Dieline Awards Winners Revealed

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👩‍🚀 Career Growth, Design Management and Leadership 

Storm vs. calm leadership tactics | Design Dept. 

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An Error Messages Scoring Rubric | NN/group

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Creating impact with Research Ops — leveraging the power of communities | Emma Boulton

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How to measure UX research impact: A multi-level framework | UXinsight

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How to Use ChatGPT to Make Your Work More Efficient (With Prompt Examples)  | by Taylor Haynes, indeed

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No Handoff offers a practical working pattern that shrinks the distance between product and engineering without a “handoff” stage

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🔠 Typography 

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ReImagineUA Dziga. Freeware revival typeface | Dmytro Rastvortsev
+ ReImagineUA Malevich | Dmytro Rastvortsev

Get ready for a windfall of new axes, starting with Tilt Neon, Tilt Prism, and Tilt Warp | Google design

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Murs Gothic Dark freeware by Maksym Kobuzan

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Klim Type Foundry released Martina Plantijn.

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Commercial Type released Terza Reader‚ Terza Author‚ and Terza Editor.

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Lineto released LL Ivory‚ LL Ivory Mono‚ and LL Ivory Display.

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10+ Best Articles on Typograph, Updated: June 2023 | Refind

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🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Introducing Shortcut, Figma's new blog | Figma

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FigJam updates: Discover new ways to bring your team’s templates, tools, and personalities into FigJam, so you can stay aligned from the first idea to the final delivery.

Adobe

Generative AI has landed in Adobe Illustrator

The future of Illustrator is here: Hue will never be the same | Adobe Blog 

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Sketch

Sketch v97 – Selection Improvements, Collections, Redesigned Save Dialog, Multi-Layer Renaming and overall improvements.

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Also

Spline AI Style Transfer: use 3D to generate images with a variety of styles and explore new ways of presenting your designs with AI | Spline

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Runway: Create videos in any style you can imagine with Text to Video generation 

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Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models | NVIDIA 

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Photoleap: all-in-one photo editor on your iPhone

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Uncrop: Uncrop your photos to any image format 

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🤪 Memes

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