Design is inspiring. However, the industry is changing incredibly fast and it is sometimes difficult to keep up with all the trends. We have prepared a digest of the best recent cases, fresh news, tips, and funny memes on design to make your day a bit brighter. Enjoy ;) 🦄 Product Design Articles — tips on how to compile a guide for in-depth interviews from the Nielsen/Norman Group. Writing an Effective Guide for a UX Interview — a guide to conduct a design review and discuss the industry in a more “ecological” way. Design review means asking questions — another good article from Nielsen/Norman Group on what makes design aesthetic, namely: consistent typography, clear hierarchy, good color scheme and grid. Why Does a Design Look Good? — an annual review of design trends from behaviorist experts. Behavioral Design 2021 — some reflections on what a modern web designer can learn by analyzing the legacy of graphic design. What Saul Bass Can Teach Us About Web Design — the review of design techniques for mobile that improve UX. Obscure Mobile Design Techniques That Boost UX — a good article on the consistency in icon design with nice examples. Mastering Iconography: The 3 Do’s & Don’ts of Icon Design — tips on how to work with photography in website design with some nice examples of popular Dribbble shots. 7 photography tips to enhance your UI designs — We all pretend to strive for "simple" design. But what does it really mean to each of us? What does simple design really mean? Works is the website of an HR-agency where the grid, 3D, and typography are as minimal as possible. Created by Anton & Irene. true • overview Here is how they presented . their project on their website — a case study of the Museum of Mountain Photography website from Tubik. Case Study: Lumen. Website Design for Museum of Mountain Photography : a clean, simple, and still impressive website. Liquid Crystal : an attractive website with nice fonts and minimal animation. TheRoom : there is something interesting in horizontal scroll, right? :) Bonjour Paris : fonts have never been presented so elegantly before. VJ Type Typefaces — a great work with 3D and animation on the website. Helsedirektoratet — a website-portfolio of the Berlin-based studio in the form of a desktop. You can interact with different elements on the page. MAD from UX Planet. Just a lot of inspiration 👁️ Graphic design Articles and case studies Last month, McDonald’s . Later, Packaging in Europe discussed with the creators, the Pearlfisher agency, . updated its global packaging design with a focus on illustration what exactly stood behind these changes Booking.com designers revealed the details of creating illustrations in products for travelers. The Dieline tells how Pizza Hut expands its consumer experience with the Pacman AR game and pizza packaging. - Creative Review what exactly has changed in logo design over the decade. Another season of logo redesign: automakers ta , jewelry manufacturer and even the venture fund . Renault Peugeot Swarovski Andreessen Horowitz - An article about design trends and what's wrong with them from It's Nice That. Is graphic design too trendy? - a variable font that represents irreversible climate change and, according to the author's description, is based on real data of glaciers in the Arctic seas. The Climate Crisis Font Works — a system of visual brand identification based on the definition of sepia by all possible methods. Concise and complicated. Pasta Sepia . Identity, custom typography, illustrations, and stationery in a minimalistic and elegant style for a restaurant in central Paris from Violaine & Jeremy. Mun Champs Elysées : bright geometric brand identity for the German digital insurance company MORPHORIA. Nexible : brand identity for a geomarketing startup based on thermal maps and interface visualization from Polar, Ltda. Mapfry Visual identity of Sendlane from Balkan Brothers. 🚀 Products and tools Figma Improved prototyping capabilities. . A brief overview of the beta features of Figma Interactive Components. Designing micro-interactions with Figma interactive components , individual accounts will remain free of charge as before. Subscription terms have changed for team work Adobe - now featuring personalized recommendations for project editing from an "artificial intelligence" Adobe Sensei. The new mobile application Creative Cloud Updated work with . cloud documents Plugins, addons — a plugin that adds a 3D effect to vector objects. Fig3D — Figma project with ready-made objects in the style of glass morphism. Glass-Morphism in Figma Other — if you don’t want to search for photos of avatars on Unsplash, you can find them here :) FREE AVATAR LIBRARY FOR FIGMA AND SKETCH — an application that predicts (or at least tries predicting) the popularity of shots on Dribbble. Draftshot — an online platform for creating design and collaborative work. Creatopy — no-code online platform that allows people to create their own mobile applications, providing fast iterations. FlutterFlow — visual website designer from Designmodo. Siter.io — a tool for creating recursive images. Droste Creator — an application for saving workspaces in Mac OS. Freezeframe — pattern generator of geometric shapes. You can change colors, quantity, size. Tabbied 🤔 All at once What to read The Awesomic team has created the . first design community in Ukraine Forbes on the NFT phenomenon and whether you should become an owner. on what skills future leaders need. Adobe research — FastCompany about innovations in design. From blind optimism to sober responsibility: How design has changed since the first Innovation by Design Awards — a new book from A Book Apart. Sustainable Web Design from Helvetica/Objectified/Urbanized movies. Full interview - Google has posted a course for UX designers on Coursera that costs $39 per month after the trial period. Duration - 6 months. There are also courses for and . Google UX Design Professional Certificate Project Managers Data Analytics Lockdown is a good time to make a new home workplace setup. Inspiration can be found . here What to listen — podcast, authored by Rob Johnston, a designer and photographer from New York who seeks to bridge the gap between entry-level creative professionals and the best in the industry. Meet the Creatives Memes Hope you enjoyed it 🤗 Stay tuned for more!

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