TLDR Design 2024-02-20

Figma’s CEO Dylan Field will use the $1 billion cash from Adobe's breakup fee to acquire tech companies. Figma was never meant to be just a design tool. Field wants to explore the potential of generative AI and the role it will increasingly play in the design process.

Adobe has revamped its Spectrum design product design system, establishing a consistent language and user experience. The company recognized the evolving user landscape, technological advancements, and the need for even greater cohesion across its products. Spectrum 2's preview images suggest enhanced visual hierarchy, brighter aesthetics, rounded design elements, and improved readability.

OpenAI's Sora is an impressive diffusion model that translates visual data into "patches," or pieces, that the model can interpret and turn into hyperrealistic videos. While the company states it draws inspiration from large language models that acquire generalist capabilities by training on internet-scale data, it doesn't mention where the visual data came from. Many artists and creatives have already expressed on social media that the model was trained based on copyrighted data and will negatively impact their livelihoods.

With the help of Hick's Law, you can present choices strategically to users in a way that minimizes their cognitive load and effort, making their experience more efficient and enjoyable. By understanding user behavior and context within the interface, designers can reduce the number of choices in a user interface, highlight key options, use progressive disclosure, and simplify complex tasks.

Most of the widespread AI integration we’re seeing now lacks creativity. Many companies rushed to cram AI chatbots into their products as a quick, obvious way to integrate the new technology. These chatbots can be helpful, but they are rarely the right solution.

A user’s ability to realize the most value out of a new product (“performance”) might be correlated to the amount of friction (“stress”) involved in onboarding to it. The optimal onboarding experience can be represented as the peak of a bell curve graphed along those two measures. If the onboarding experience is too passive, or the new user is hand-held even through the most basic tasks, you risk the user not realizing the personal value they could gain from the experience - they will quickly lose interest.

Leverage an existing website and import its HTML to Figma to start your designs without building each element from scratch. It can also be used to capture websites for a benchmark of moodboard in Figma.

Turn any published Figma library into a fully and shareable documented design system into a custom domain website.

Recraft is a generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style. Designers can start with text or visual input, select a style, and edit with repaint and lasso on an infinite canvas.

The IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker browser extension helps you quickly scan web pages for accessibility issues and create a report of your accessibility audit. Combining its analysis with more complex automated tools and manual testing provides a solid foundation for tackling accessibility issues effectively.

Video generation models could provide a promising way to build general-purpose simulators of the physical world. OpenAI combined text-conditional diffusion models with videos and images of varying lengths, resolutions, and aspect ratios to generate its outputs to create Sora. Based on a transformer architecture, Sora can create a minute of high-fidelity video using spacetime patches of video and image latent codes.

Most front-end developers are not concerned about translating every single detail of your design into code. Becoming a design engineer is a valid option for those looking to transform their vision into the reality users experience.

The NFL collaborated with local artists after receiving numerous complaints about boring logo designs. Super Bowl's 2025 logo, designed by Tahj Williams, queen of the Black Masking Indian tribe, is bright, bold, and vibrant, like New Orleans.

James Cook's art has gained international acclaim for its pure use of letters and symbols from vintage typewriters. Over the past ten years, Cook has drawn over 300 portraits of celebrities and pop culture icons and recreated famous paintings from artists ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Banksy.

Ideas on how sticky sections can be animated while exiting the viewport.