Design Digest #34: Rethinking the MVP, Spacial Design & Importance of Taste

This digest was collected by Oleh Idolov, Mirona Zulgarina, Oleksii Altunin, Ralph Brinker and Pavlo Sidash at Awesomic.

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🦄 Product and UI/UX Design

Articles & Case Studies 

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Apple Vision Pro: exclusive interview with Apple Design Team | Wallpaper

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Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product | Linear

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Hack Your Interviews: Six Ways Communication Unlocks Success | Sivan Hermon

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How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics | Jakob Nielsen

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Apple Vision Pro: First Experience | Luke Wroblewski

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Usable Internet: the Internet is a powerful tool, but recent trends and standards have made it unpredictable and frustrating for users | Alex Brady

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Dark mode UI design. Organizing color variables and naming | Vosidiy for Bootcamp

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Disabled Buttons UX — Usability Issues and How to Avoid Them | Saadia Minhas for UX Planet

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Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX | Jakob Nielsen on UX

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Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users | Smashing Magazine

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10 Heuristics to Simplify Design Decision-Making | Patrick Morgan

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How Airbnb Became a Leader in UX Design | Punit Chawla

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A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People | Smashing Magazine

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Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features | NN/group

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Tesler’s Law | Laws of UX

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Designing With Integrity: The Ethical Designer's Handbook On Dark Patterns | Raw.Studio

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Webflow’s new look: Designing a product for pros | Webflow

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The Psychology Behind Amazon's Purchase Experience | growth.design

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When Words Cannot Describe: Designing For AI Beyond Conversational Interfaces | Smashing Magazine

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The UX of AI: Lessons from Perplexity | NN/group

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How AI will influence creative tools: A conversation with Replit's David Hoang | Shortcut

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Design Principles for Generative AI Applications | by Justin Weisz, IBM Design

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Projects

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👁 Anygood – an elegant, simple and thoughtfully designed list-making app

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👁 Apple introduced Sports, a new app for sports fans

• Apple’s all new design language | Ameer, Bootcamp
  
  

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👁 Algo is a data visualisation studio specializing in video automation.

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👁 Relume – Use AI as your design ally, not as a replacement

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👁 Assemblio – Assembly planning in minutes, instead of weeks | Bonanza Studios

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👁 Aposta10 Sports Media Design | Hexagon Agency

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👁 Fast, scalable, and forever fair, Shardeum is EVM-based and truly decentralized L1. | Griflan, Justin Lerner

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👁 SHOPIFY EDITIONS | Shopify Creative

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👁 SAGE EAST | THE BLACKPEPPER STUDIO

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👁 MOUSE PARALLAX WONDERLAND | WOW Team

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👁 THE BETTERING COMPANY | Basilico

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👁 Active Theory | Aposta

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👀 Visual Communication

Articles and case studies

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Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it | It’s Nice That

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Marcus Lemonis offered $10,000 to design this Beyond logo on spec. Here’s what he got | FastCompany

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Former Studio Moniker founders publish zine with Hato on the complexities of digital technology | It’s Nice That

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Introducing the Pinterest Palette: A custom colour set to inspire your creative 

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Blurr Bureau on cultivating transparency and bringing a balance of “head and heart” to every project | The Brand Identity

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Just Say No To Free Pitches – Porto Rocha talks about their new initiative, NoFreePitches | Dieline - Design, Branding & Packaging Inspiration

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Refik Anadol hopes to demystify AI and look beyond the “shiny pixels” of generative art | It’s Nice That

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The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future | FastCompany

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The Dieline's Best of February 2024 | Dieline

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POV: AI-generated album covers prioritise virality over creativity | It’s Nice That

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The Freelancers: Joe Diver on cultivating creative connections and collaborating with passion | The Brand Identity

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🇺🇦 Behind Blue Eyes: Ukrainian children photo their lives in joyful charity art project | Creative Boom

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Projects

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👁 Grammarly Leads the Way in Transforming Workplace Communication, With a Refreshed Brand

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👁 New York Botanical Garden | visual Identity by Wolff Olins

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👁 Control Freak film production company | Visual Identity by Monga

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👁 Gustini | brand identity by Koto Studio

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👁 YoungCapital NEXT | brand identity by Verve

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👁 Go.Compare | brand identity by Ragged Edge 

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👁 Featured Projects | brand identity by Sitoh

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👁 Burger Service | brand identity by Studio Najbrt

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👁 Sweaty Betty | brand identity by fluoro 

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🔠 Typography

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Type Trends 2024 | Monotype.

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• How does Monotype’s annual Type Trend report even come together? The team gives us the inside scoop | The Brand Identity

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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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The era of spatial typography is here | FastCompany

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February’s font of Font of the Month Club is an updated version of Daily Special.

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NaN released NaN Serf A and B. Both of them come in four optical sizes.

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Poem released Almost Display.

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Fab new typefaces to freshen up your design projects this Spring | Creativeboom

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🇺🇦New AlfaBravo typeface releases:‍‍

Bravestone

Marevo

‍Zlam

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👩‍🚀 Productivity, Career Growth, and Design Management

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Business Design School: The Core Business Loop | PRINT Magazine

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Career in UX: 10 things I wish I knew 10 years ago | Matheus Mari, UX Planet

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How Controlled Daydreaming Can Be a Powerful Tool for Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Strategic Planning | Aytekin Tank

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Leading through the craft | David Hoang for Proof of Concept

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The Rebalancing of Design Management | Cap Watkins

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Writing’s gift? Better design | Anton Sten

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What I learned for two years at Awesomic | Artem Pohrebniak

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🚀 Products and Tools

Figma

Multi-edit playground | Figma blog and Video on Youtube

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

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Figma’s CEO on moving on after failed Adobe merger | The Verge

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How to plug in and power up your designer-developer handoff with Figma and Jira | Figma

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Algo gives design teams video superpowers. We build your Motion System inside Figma

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AI tools & News

Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024 | Tom May for Creative Boom

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OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model | The Verge

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How to keep your art out of AI generators | The Verge

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Adobe Patent Tackles Bias in Image AI Tools | The Daily Upside

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iOS design startup Play lets devs share app prototypes easily via App Clips | TechCrunch

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AI Design Assets with Midjourney Prompts

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Also

A Guide to Styling Tables

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Tech Icons Pack.

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SwiftUI Field Guide

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Motion Designers' Headquarters – A free tool that shares resources, tips, expressions and inspirations around motion design

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UX Challenges – A set of real-world challenges to practice crucial UX design skills. 

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Color Blindness Simulator

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Ultimate Memoji Creator | Figma Templates

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🔭 Also

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Carhartt Jackets Are the New Luxury | Highsnobiety

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Rick Rubin wants to build you a better internet | FastCompany

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🤪 Memes

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