Design Digest #30: Webflow upgrade, fresh Patreon & AI as a UX Assistant

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Angelica Yefanova, Ulya Myronova, Natalie Tereschenko, Artem Pohrebniak, & Zakhar Kryvoshyya at Awesomic.

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

How our biggest redesign yet came to be | Slack Design

AI as a UX Assistant | NN/group

Why it's time for research to move beyond UX | Great Question

Framing Effeсt | Growth Design

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Table of Contents: The Ultimate Design Guide | NN/group

An Actionable And Reliable Usability Questionnaire With Only 7 Items: Inuit | Smashing Magazine

How Duolingo designs product (and why) | ADPList

Voice User Interfaces: Seamless Interactions | UXmatters

Transition animations: a practical guide | by Dongkyu Lee, UX Collective

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Advanced component properties and variables in Figma for faster product design | Regiosaur, Bootcamp

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Projects

👁 Vercel – build and deploy the best web experiences

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👁 Webflow – new branding, landing page & product updates

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👁 Engaged is a leading omnichannel activation agency | Altform PRO, Engaged, Rogier de Boevé, Glenn Catteeuw

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👁 Lusion – a creative production studio 

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👁 Polaroid i2 Camera | Build in Amsterdam

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👁 Captions – your AI-powered creative studio | zypsy

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👁 ZocDoc – reshaping healthcare access | Rondesignlab

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👁 GSAP – animate anything JS can touch | TOYFIGHT 

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👁 AUXILITY – development agency | Auxility

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👁 Search Through Time | Google, Buttermax

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🇺🇦 USPS (Ukrainian School of Political Studies) | Hexagon Agency

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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AI tools paint a blurry picture of our current reality – so what do these biases mean for our future? | It’s Nice That

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The biggest trends in graphic design for 2024, as predicted by the creative industry | Creative Boom

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“We’ve chosen a different path.” Orchidea Agency on their dedication to making a positive impact | The Brand Identity

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Welcome To the Great Un-Cursiving of Logos | Dieline

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Five essential tips for settling in and excelling at a design studio | The Brand Identity

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Is Meme-Ification of the News a Good or Bad Thing? | PRINT Magazine

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'A Good Way to Bank': Nationwide reveals its biggest rebrand in 30 years | Creative Boom 

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How to handle the sting of creative rejection – and maybe grow from it too | It’s Nice That

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Designer Ferran Feixas on why social media has been a force for good in branding | Creative Boom

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Who Gets to be Called an Artist? | PRINT Magazine

Branding for Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity | Manual Creative

After Two Decades Of Plastic Bag Bans, Where Are We? | Dieline

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Shaping the future of graphic design, with Paula Scher | The Creative Boom Podcast

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Projects

👁 Patreon, redesigned – a new brand identity built for, and with, creators | in-house team & Wolff Olins

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👁 MadeForMed – Brand design a medical communications interface | Grapheine

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👁 Meet the new Webflow – a brand refresh

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👁 Little Fox's Packaging Expresses A Sense Of Curiosity | Dieline 

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👁 Deezer: Where music comes alive | Creative Boom 

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👁 Near – A limitless identity for the world's pioneering Blockchain Operating System | fold7design

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👁 Karavie – a CBD and wellness brand | Studio Sly 

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👁 LIFI23 – Leeds International Festival of Ideas | Rabbithole

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👁 Satisfy – brand identity for a sport brand | ACTUAL SOURCE

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👁 Howden – brand identity for insurance group | North

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👁 Branding for a mysterious tech start-up smlXL | DIA

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👁 MF Doom-themed cookbook | Ben Gore

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💫 Motion Design

👁 Two motion graphics trends combined: hyper-realistic 3D motion graphics + anti-gravity and floating in the Nike Terrascape 90 advertisement | Shapes & Forms, Fabian Garzon

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👁 Nike Terrascape 90 advertisement | Shapes & Forms, Fabian Garzon

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👁 Unusual Kinetic typography | Mat Voyce

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👁 Vintage style Kinetic typography | Solo Zone

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👁 AI-motion with the help of Stable Diffusion | Seo Hyojung

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👁 SSOT Osu! Tournament | Yat Fung Leung

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👁 Film Fest Gent's animated rebranding | Creative Boom

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🔠 Typography

Geist Font | Vercel

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Canva, Custom Font | Colophon Foundry

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Lang Gothic | ArrowType

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Chroma | SourceType

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OH no Type has just started the Drawer‚ where they sell unfinished typefaces.

The first one is Done.

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Otoiwo Grotesk Superfamily | Oleh Lishchuk, MintType

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Lineto released LL Geigy and LL Geigy Mono designed by Robert Huber.

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Type foundry Dinamo creates riveting new dot font based on furniture screws | Creative Boom 

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New identity based on variable fonts for Tokyo Dome City | Creative Boom

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👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

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Clients from hell: How to navigate nightmarish scenarios as a freelancer | Creative Boom

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Designer Gatherings | NN/group

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Design Salary Guide and Survey | Coroflot

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The importance of forging a strong creative community | Verònica Fuerte from Hey Studio

Getting over rejection: Creatives, and a therapist, share their stories and methods | Conversation with four creatives and a therapist

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Dear Future Design Leads: How to transition into a creative leadership role | Jeeyoung Yang for IBM design

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For people going places: how we founded the Design Interns programme at Wise | Nikki Godley

Common-Knowledge Effect: A Harmful Bias in Team Decision Making | NN/group

Curiosity at the core. Unlocking high-performance in diverse teams | William Joseph 

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We’re turning designers into factory workers | Matic Pelcl, UX Collective

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🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Redesign the way you jam with FigJam AI

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Figma for Zoom

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Figma's future is about far more than design—or getting acquired | Fast Company

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Adobe

Adobe MAX 2023: Introducing the next generation of creativity, powered by AI

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Adobe Max 2023: Everything Announced in 20 Minutes

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Google

Material Design 3 – Web Components

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AI tools

Midjourney New “Style Tuner”- Advanced Tips and Usage | Bootcamp

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Pika Labs – A brand new video making experience with AI, now with 3D animation

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KREA – real-time image generation update

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Runway ML – text to video and image to video generation updates

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Luma AI – text to 3D update

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Vizcom – product visualizations in seconds

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Also

The Top 10 Talks on the Future of AI and Design | Designer Fund

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Free AI images for creatives & professionals | Neurascapes

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Procreate Dreams: A First Look at the All-New Animation App 

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🤪 Memes

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