TLDR Design 2024-04-30

Apple is introducing an upgraded CarPlay interface with deeper car integration, offering split-view design, customizable features, and expanded access to car functionalities. Porsche and Aston Martin will lead its implementation in 2024. Users will be able to customize their driving experience by choosing different gauge cluster designs, managing the layout of the instrument cluster, and selecting custom fonts, font sizes, and font colors.

Lotus Biscoff has revealed a new global brand identity by BrandMe to strengthen recognition during expansion. It features a bespoke typeface and a smile-shaped logo to convey joy. BrandMe's redesign retains iconic elements like the red color and cookie imagery while ensuring consistency and expressing Biscoff's vibrant personality.

Poetry Camera is an open-source passion project that generates poetic descriptions of scenes based on visual input received via its lens. Equipped with a Raspberry Pi device to capture and process images, the device uses the OpenAI GPT-4 AI model to create poetry based on the extracted information about objects, situations, patterns, colors, and other variables.

Figma variables empower designers to store and share design values across documents and libraries, like color and spacing, promoting consistency and efficiency in element styling and layout. This practice aligns with the "design tokens" concept in design systems and fosters reusability, scalability, and simplified maintenance of design decisions.

This product prioritization framework emphasizes four core areas: invest, ignore, de-emphasize, and deprecate. It encourages the scaling of successful products and features while monitoring and maintaining areas that don't require immediate attention. The framework can be applied in various contexts, such as personal audits, cross-functional workshops, or strategic planning, to enhance decision-making efficiency.

Designers should select visuals for their presentations with the same care as they choose their words. If a visual lacks meaning, it becomes a decorative placeholder. It can dilute the message, distract from what they want to say, and even express disrespect to their audience.

Adobe's Project Neo is a powerful tool that helps users create illustrations faster and supercharges 2D designs with 3D magic. It is now available in beta.

Wonder Dynamics is an AI tool that automatically animates, lights, and composes CG characters into a live-action scene.

Boom is a macOS camera app that works on Zoom, Meet, Teams, and more. It lets you brand your calls, use GIFs, and supercharge your screen shares.

When selecting a website typeface, prioritize factors like style, device compatibility, language support, weight variations, unique characters, spacing, and adherence to accessibility guidelines. Additionally, use italics, all caps, and underlines judiciously. Consider maintaining the original word shape by combining upper and lowercase characters while avoiding mirrored letter shapes and tight spacing.

The Game Boy's 35th anniversary reminds us of the power of simplicity. Its design features a straightforward aesthetic and an easy-to-understand layout. The device also innovated by allowing players to carry a whole library of games in their pockets for the first time. One hundred eighteen million units later, the Game Boy's innovative design, robust functionality, and cultural resonance have made it an icon in the video game industry.

The term "polish" encapsulates meticulous design details, like professional electricians' vertical screw alignment and subtle adjustments in traditional go boards and typefaces. In UI design, it's evident in smooth animations and intuitive interactions, exemplified by the iPhone's keyboard adjustments, which are essential for elevating products from good to great.

Apple is licensing copyrighted works to train its AI to avoid legal issues faced by competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft due to copyright infringement lawsuits.

If you wish to grow as a designer, you must be comfortable with losing clients who demand cheap and low-quality designs.

84-24 is a new book that explores Marc Newson's love for all things mechanical and futuristic and an appreciation for softer forms and materials, often with bold pops of color.