Design Digest #33: Design system myths, No-code websites 101 & UX Research in the Age of AI

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Kyryl Kostritskiy and Server Terlekchi at Awesomic.

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

Intranet Usability Guidelines: New Findings From 57 Intranets | NN/group

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What should we ship? New Vercel landing page – case study | Rauno Freiberg

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Designing Zenly: Part II. 2018–2020 Era | Julien Martin, UX Collective

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Ambient Co-presence – Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web | Maggie Appleton

Key takeaways from Airbnb’s winter redesign – When Airbnb announces something new, it’s the result of months of hard work, thinking, and testing | Daniel de Mello, UX Collective

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Indicators, Validations, and Notifications: Pick the Correct Communication Option | NN/group

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Grids and key shapes – Exploring the importance of grids and key shapes in icon design | Streamline Blog

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58 rules for beautiful UI design – The right UI can elevate an application from functional to unforgettable, making the difference between a user who engages once and one who returns time and again | Taras Bakusevych, UX Collective

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Redesigning Design Systems – A practical guide to Design System components

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Designing better target sizes – An interactive guide on designing better target sizes on the web | Ahmaad Shadeed

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Design system myths. How to finish an idea after blurting… |  Nathan Curtis

Memory Recognition and Recall in User Interfaces | NN/group

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Case Study: AI-Powered Spatial Banking for Apple Vision Pro | UXDA

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Data vs. Findings vs. Insights – Data refers to unanalyzed user observations, findings capture patterns among data points, and insights are the actionable opportunities based on research and business goals | NN/group

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Projects

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Amie – the joyful productivity app. Calendar, todos and email all in one place.

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Rabbit – a new AI pocket companion

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Superlist – a new to-do list app from the creators of Wunderlist

Superpower Health – Become the best version of yourself with the world's most advanced health platform.

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Trunk – The fast lane for your PRs

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Lovi – Science-backed AI Cosmetologist you can trust

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Knob – The low-profile mechanical keyboard of your dreams.

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Due – a global payment platform powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

“We work as a gas and a brake pedal. No-code websites 101 with Maryan Ivasyk and Emil Tybura | The Brand Identity 

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Elizabeth Goodspeed on Juergen Teller and how we understand “flawed” images | It’s Nice That

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AI Art is The New Stock Image | iA Writer

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Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic Sans | It’s Nice That

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PJ Harvey's deceptively simple album cover wins Best Art Vinyl 2023 Award | Creative Boom

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Album Cover Bank traces over 70 years of Nigeria’s album design and visual culture | It’s Nice That

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A little more of, a little less of: five designers share their goals for work and life in 2024 | The Brand Identity 

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The creative's guide to resolutions: how to set and keep your goals for 2024 | Creative Boom

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Do We Still Collectively Care About the Pantone COY? Color Experts Weigh In | Dieline

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Why I was wrong about sparkles ✨ UI for AI: sparkles revisited | by Daley Wilhelm, UX Collective

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The cost of obsessing over design perfection | Michael F. Buckley, UX Collective

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Leaked File Shows the Thousands of Artists Midjourney Has Allegedly Used to Train Its AI Models | Hypebeast

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Samar Maakaroun on designing multilingual scripts and avoiding lazy visual stereotypes | It’s Nice That

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Projects

👁 Aerotech | brand identity by Obrazur Verchetti

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👁 Esper Bionics | rebrand by dimadima

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👁 Tresi | branding by Carla Palette

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👁 Feeld | rebrand by Made Thought

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👁 Begrowth | brand identity by Berriel Brands

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👁 Dante | brand identity by Bedow Studio

👁 Holcomb | brand identity by Parker Studio

👁 Ventura Foreman | brand identity by Studio Blackburn

👁 The Shaw Prize | brand identity by Toby Ng Design

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👁 Be Equitable | brand identity by For The People Agency

👁 Sanctuary | visual identity by Grapheine

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👁 Letscook | brand identity by Roser Padres

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👁 Google DeepMind | branding by someform Studio

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👁 The Dieline's Best of January 2024

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🔠 Typography

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The 2024 Typography Report: A Circus of Type | PRINT Magazine

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Type in Motion | Collection of type animations by DM2 Graphics

Turf + Made Up Studio | Series of monochromatic type works

Michaux | typeface by Plain Form

Jun Mincho | typeface by Type Project

Lofi Forest | concept font by Kilotype

Lavishe | Typeface by Duong Tran

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👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

The Business of Creativity: How We Can Transform the Future of our Industry | PRINT Magazine

What's the unit of impact? | Ryan Singer

PMs often prioritize work by something called "impact." But too often what a PM considered "high impact" doesn't get a green light from leadership. Why?

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If you want to be creative, you can’t be certain | Ida Persson, UX Collective

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41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective | Jakob Nielsen

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What does a design systems program manager do? | Adobe Design

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On Starting the New Year and Every Day Thereafter | PRINT Magazine

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🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

What’s next for Dev Mode: Annotations, Compare Changes, Plugins, and More | Figma Blog

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How Razorpay Sharpened Developer Workflows | Figma Blog

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Sketch

Sketch v99.5: Automatic saves for Workspace documents, New prototype player and more

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Adobe

Adobe Gives Up on Web-Design Product to Rival Figma After Deal Collapse | Bloomberg

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AI tools

Take teamwork to new heights with Mural and AI | Mural

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Sycophancy in Generative-AI Chatbots | NN/group

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UX Research in the Age of AI  Will we lose our jobs? | UXinsight

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Generative AI’s Act Two | Sequoia Capital

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A new age of UX: Evolving your design approach for AI products | Intercom

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Using AI for 3D rendering—a practical guide for designers | by Antoine Vidal, UX Collective

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Commercially Safe AI Image Generator | iStock

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Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 | Simon Willison

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Also

InVision design collaboration services shutdown | Inside Design Blog

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Dispatch from the Future: The Must-Have Gadgets and Gear of 2053 | WIRED

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🤪 Memes

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