TLDR Design 2024-05-07

YouTube may have decided not to roll out its most recent UI redesign after backlash on Reddit and X, where users questioned the practicality of the overly cluttered new look. The redesigned UI places video recommendations and the Shorts shelf below the video player, taking up space generally used for video details and comments. While most people now see the traditional layout, some have reported still seeing the trial layout.

Music, photos, and videos can now be shared more interactively on Instagram. A new feature called Reveal blurs the contents of a story post, preventing viewers from seeing it unless they DM the person who shared it. Another feature, Frames, overlays Polaroid images on grayscale images that turn into pictures when you shake the phone. Instagram will add a music template feature that lets users post songs directly to their stories using prompts.

Apple's AI approach focuses on practical uses and improving user experiences rather than just showcasing technological prowess. A group of Apple researchers has been working on a way to use Siri without needing to use a wake word. Instead of listening for “Hey Siri,” the device might be able to intuit whether the user is talking to it. It will also know whether the user is asking a follow-up or new question.

This interviewer focuses on fostering a conducive environment for candidates while assessing their portfolios for skills and aesthetic appeal. Their evaluation encompasses a blend of subjective and objective measures, favoring a showcase of a few robust projects over exhaustive case studies. Throughout the process, attention is drawn to candidates who exhibit problem-solving prowess and have the potential to impact the team dynamic positively.

Sometimes, you can't access users because of legal restrictions, high costs, or because they still need to be created. Still, there are a few workarounds that help us better understand users' pain points and issues. These strategies include connecting with people in your organization who regularly communicate with customers, accessing analytics, CRM reports, and call center logs and reading reviews, discussions, and comments about your product and its competitors.

Many studies have consistently shown that color and shape can influence user behavior and create feelings. The findings of a new study shed light on how our brains may respond to digital stimuli differently based on evolutionary psychology and neuroimaging. As a result of its insights, designers are advised to use color judiciously and align with brand identity, choose rounded shapes, and minimize cognitive strain by implementing calming colors, clear and concise content, intuitive navigation, and clutter-free layouts.

Effortlessly collect and analyze user feedback as it happens, getting immediate insights into user sentiments, preferences, and pain points.

This free open-source icon library features over 400 SVG and web font icons.

Untools is a collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions, and understand systems.

The applications that designers build are contributing to an expanding mental health crisis, and the messages they craft are making people buy more while feeling less and less satisfied. Through an intentional shift, designers can move design from a tool contributing to division, destruction, and isolation to a practice that unites, rebuilds, and reconnects.

The Apple.com homepage has been updated with a last-minute teaser to celebrate the upcoming Apple event, where the company will announce a new lineup of iPad Pros and iPad Airs. The new teaser at the top of the page cycles between the various illustrations of the Apple logo, with a twist that users can erase the art with their mouse pointer.

Car companies like Tesla, GM, and Volkswagen have recently released unfinished or ill-conceived products, possibly risking their reputations or even customers' safety, while asking people to trust completely new technologies. Automobile quality and safety standards are slipping due to a fascination with Silicon Valley's stock valuations and product culture, a need for clarity between intelligent and valuable, and simple overpromising and underdelivering.

People prefer concise, engaging writing due to shorter attention spans.

Elon Musk teased the new X TV app by featuring its new logo design in a cryptic video.

Alba Hurup Larsen, a 15-year-old rising star in motorsport racing, challenges gender norms in the male-dominated sport.