Design Digest #28: Slack's redesign, LG rebrand & new Dribbble
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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design
Articles & Case Studies
Web UX: Study Guide | NN/group
De-stress your UX: for mental health, accessibility, and mother nature | UX Collective
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources | Smashing Magazine
Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series | UX Collective
The Ultimate Guide to Web Wizard Design | Creative Navy
Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid | NN/group
Psych Framework: How to visualize user experiences | growth.design
How Spotify’s Design System Goes Beyond Platforms | Figma Blog
Writing Good Survey Questions: 10 Best Practices | NN/group
Projects
👁 A redesigned Slack, built for focus | Slack

👁 Saturn – the calendar built for high school

👁 Opal Camera Inc. | Claudio Guglieri, HugoAhlberg, Aristide Benoist

👁 Electrys – EV charging app | Fireart Studio

👁 How We Feel – A journal to improve your wellbeing & emotional intelligence | Ben Powell

👁 Rose Island – a story of Giorgio Rosa and the tiny nation he founded in 1968 off the Rimini coast, embodying a generation's dreams and aspirations | También, Maël Ruffini

👁 Worldcoin – an iris biometric cryptocurrency project founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman

👁 Synchrodogs is an artist duo from Ukraine, Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova | Jason Bradley, Zhenya Rynzhuk

👁 Homegrown Garden Centre – (home) garden centre & coffee house

👁 MODELEC – High-End electrical equipment | Switches and sockets | Rezo Zero

👀 Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
AI in design: what does the future hold? Featuring thoughts from Seky Kwon, Grafik and Vernacular | The Brand Identity
Dirt Baby: Practice on why it's created a fake brand for people who treat their plants like pets | Creative Boom
What’s in a line: Exploring design's most underestimated element and its role in branding | Webflow Blog
The Pentagram team behind Channel 4’s masterbrand give us an in-depth tour of the extensive project | The Brand Identity
What If Designers Went on Strike? | PRINT Magazine
Billie Turns Womanhood Into an Unwinnable Board Game With 'No Worries If Not | Dieline
Pentagram alumni Aron Fay is empowering designers and non-designers with Grid App Projects | Creative Boom
Verve’s Roman Stikkelorum candidly explores the shortcomings of brand archetypes and golden circles | The Brand Identity
What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it | It’s Nice That
Capri Sun Debuts ‘Kid Noise-Canceling Juice Drink’ To Give Parents A Break | designtaxi
Projects
👁 LG rebrand | Wolff Ollins

👁 Your eyes are right, we have a new logo! | Dribbble

👁 Hiro – a company bringing Web3 to Bitcoin | PORTO ROCHA

👁 BowFlex – fitness training equipment | Collins

👁 Numinus – psychedelics brand | Grand Army

👁 Carbo Culture – climate start-up | Bakken & Bæck

👁 Doconomy – an innovative Swedish impact-tech startup that aims to reduce the climate impact of consumption | ID—C, Letters From Sweden

👁 Underdays – underwear brand | Caramba Agency

👁 Biozeroc – a carbon-neutral concrete startup | How&How

👁 山海 Mountains & Oceans illustration series | Gao Yang (Particle)

👁 Vyshyvanka Day Festival | perfectly boring studio

👁 6 identities driven by motion, featuring projects by Landor & Fitch, IYA Studio, DIA and more | The Brand Identity
👩🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management
10 advanced tips for a design portfolio | Slava Shestopalov for Design Bridges
Expert tips to build resilience and help you survive the design industry | Creative Boom
The tyranny of collaborative ideation | UX Collective
Making Indeed’s UX Design Principles | Indeed Design
Letter to a mid level designer. A few lessons to push your performance… | Elliot Dahl
Relationship Mapping: Identify Key Teams, People, and Resources | NN/group
Your career hype doc | David Hoang
How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang
🔠 Typography
From Aptos to Helvetica—here’s how fonts get their unusual names | FastCompany
Monotype Launches New Foundry Program | Print Mag
UNCUT.wtf – Download somewhat contemporary fonts, free for commercial use
What Font Is This? How to Identify Any Font Like a Pro | webdesignerdepot
🇺🇦Typeface alphabet of the Ukrainian identity | Projector, Obys
🚀 Products and Tools
Figma
Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes | Figma Blog
Jambot brings the power of ChatGPT directly into FigJam | Figma Blog
Adobe
Designing Adobe Illustrator’s rich tooltips | Medium
Unlock new creative workflows with Adobe Express add-ons | Adobe Blog
Sketch
Sketch v98: Smart Layout in groups & other improvements and fixes
AI Tools
Midjourney Launches an Inpainting Tool to Help Create Custom-Styled Images | Metaverse Post
Captions – your AI-powered creative studio
New Generative AI App Creates Poetry from Images
Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you | The Verge
Generative AI for Graphic Designers | Yes I'm a Designer
TextFX – Artificial Intelligence Tool for Rappers | Google
Also
Rebrand – Stellar visual identity inspiration gallery
Framer Remix – A collection of the best templates for Framer
illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations
deck.gallery – curated designed decks, slides, keynotes, guidelines — or whatever you call them.
Iconbuddy – a powerful icon search engine and manager that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 180k+ open source icons
🌠 Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles
Ishaq Fahim | USA

Rafa Orrico Díez | Spain

Greg Ayala | USA

Riccardo Guasco | Italy

Martyna Wędzicka | Poland (website)

🤪 Memes







Awesomic is an open-minded team of people who are changing the way of getting design done. It’s the right place for professional design growth and a great spot for motivated individuals. And for humor, of course!
Join if you feel the same. We have open positions for Design Success Manager, Senior Full-Stack Developer and many others.
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This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Kristina Gubachek, Polina Ziniukha, Marta Kalynych & Mirona Zulgarina at Awesomic.
Discuss the digest in the comments, and sign up for the updates!
🦄 Product and UI/UX Design
Articles & Case Studies
Web UX: Study Guide | NN/group
De-stress your UX: for mental health, accessibility, and mother nature | UX Collective
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources | Smashing Magazine
Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series | UX Collective
The Ultimate Guide to Web Wizard Design | Creative Navy
Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid | NN/group
Psych Framework: How to visualize user experiences | growth.design
How Spotify’s Design System Goes Beyond Platforms | Figma Blog
Writing Good Survey Questions: 10 Best Practices | NN/group
Projects
👁 A redesigned Slack, built for focus | Slack

👁 Saturn – the calendar built for high school

👁 Opal Camera Inc. | Claudio Guglieri, HugoAhlberg, Aristide Benoist

👁 Electrys – EV charging app | Fireart Studio

👁 How We Feel – A journal to improve your wellbeing & emotional intelligence | Ben Powell

👁 Rose Island – a story of Giorgio Rosa and the tiny nation he founded in 1968 off the Rimini coast, embodying a generation's dreams and aspirations | También, Maël Ruffini

👁 Worldcoin – an iris biometric cryptocurrency project founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman

👁 Synchrodogs is an artist duo from Ukraine, Roman Noven and Tania Shcheglova | Jason Bradley, Zhenya Rynzhuk

👁 Homegrown Garden Centre – (home) garden centre & coffee house

👁 MODELEC – High-End electrical equipment | Switches and sockets | Rezo Zero

👀 Visual Communication
Articles and case studies
AI in design: what does the future hold? Featuring thoughts from Seky Kwon, Grafik and Vernacular | The Brand Identity
Dirt Baby: Practice on why it's created a fake brand for people who treat their plants like pets | Creative Boom
What’s in a line: Exploring design's most underestimated element and its role in branding | Webflow Blog
The Pentagram team behind Channel 4’s masterbrand give us an in-depth tour of the extensive project | The Brand Identity
What If Designers Went on Strike? | PRINT Magazine
Billie Turns Womanhood Into an Unwinnable Board Game With 'No Worries If Not | Dieline
Pentagram alumni Aron Fay is empowering designers and non-designers with Grid App Projects | Creative Boom
Verve’s Roman Stikkelorum candidly explores the shortcomings of brand archetypes and golden circles | The Brand Identity
What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it | It’s Nice That
Capri Sun Debuts ‘Kid Noise-Canceling Juice Drink’ To Give Parents A Break | designtaxi
Projects
👁 LG rebrand | Wolff Ollins

👁 Your eyes are right, we have a new logo! | Dribbble

👁 Hiro – a company bringing Web3 to Bitcoin | PORTO ROCHA

👁 BowFlex – fitness training equipment | Collins

👁 Numinus – psychedelics brand | Grand Army

👁 Carbo Culture – climate start-up | Bakken & Bæck

👁 Doconomy – an innovative Swedish impact-tech startup that aims to reduce the climate impact of consumption | ID—C, Letters From Sweden

👁 Underdays – underwear brand | Caramba Agency

👁 Biozeroc – a carbon-neutral concrete startup | How&How

👁 山海 Mountains & Oceans illustration series | Gao Yang (Particle)

👁 Vyshyvanka Day Festival | perfectly boring studio

👁 6 identities driven by motion, featuring projects by Landor & Fitch, IYA Studio, DIA and more | The Brand Identity
👩🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management
10 advanced tips for a design portfolio | Slava Shestopalov for Design Bridges
Expert tips to build resilience and help you survive the design industry | Creative Boom
The tyranny of collaborative ideation | UX Collective
Making Indeed’s UX Design Principles | Indeed Design
Letter to a mid level designer. A few lessons to push your performance… | Elliot Dahl
Relationship Mapping: Identify Key Teams, People, and Resources | NN/group
Your career hype doc | David Hoang
How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang
🔠 Typography
From Aptos to Helvetica—here’s how fonts get their unusual names | FastCompany
Monotype Launches New Foundry Program | Print Mag
UNCUT.wtf – Download somewhat contemporary fonts, free for commercial use
What Font Is This? How to Identify Any Font Like a Pro | webdesignerdepot
🇺🇦Typeface alphabet of the Ukrainian identity | Projector, Obys
🚀 Products and Tools
Figma
Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes | Figma Blog
Jambot brings the power of ChatGPT directly into FigJam | Figma Blog
Adobe
Designing Adobe Illustrator’s rich tooltips | Medium
Unlock new creative workflows with Adobe Express add-ons | Adobe Blog
Sketch
Sketch v98: Smart Layout in groups & other improvements and fixes
AI Tools
Midjourney Launches an Inpainting Tool to Help Create Custom-Styled Images | Metaverse Post
Captions – your AI-powered creative studio
New Generative AI App Creates Poetry from Images
Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you | The Verge
Generative AI for Graphic Designers | Yes I'm a Designer
TextFX – Artificial Intelligence Tool for Rappers | Google
Also
Rebrand – Stellar visual identity inspiration gallery
Framer Remix – A collection of the best templates for Framer
illustrations universe – Get inspiration from world's best illustrations
deck.gallery – curated designed decks, slides, keynotes, guidelines — or whatever you call them.
Iconbuddy – a powerful icon search engine and manager that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 180k+ open source icons
🌠 Bonus: A few amazing insta profiles
Ishaq Fahim | USA

Rafa Orrico Díez | Spain

Greg Ayala | USA

Riccardo Guasco | Italy

Martyna Wędzicka | Poland (website)

🤪 Memes







Awesomic is an open-minded team of people who are changing the way of getting design done. It’s the right place for professional design growth and a great spot for motivated individuals. And for humor, of course!
Join if you feel the same. We have open positions for Design Success Manager, Senior Full-Stack Developer and many others.
Want to stay updated on what’s going on in the design community? Sign up for our email subscription 😉