TLDR Design 2024-05-01

Axure RP has introduced new features to improve efficiency in the prototyping workflow. These include easy widget nesting within dynamic panels, enhanced selection tools for busy canvases, and quick alignment options for widgets in parent containers. These updates simplify arranging and customizing widgets using keyboard shortcuts and selection boxes, greatly enhancing the user experience for designers.

Bumble's updated app introduces the "Opening Move" feature, designed to help women initiate conversations quickly with prewritten prompts or custom messages that the app sends to all matches. The refresh includes "dating intention" badges and profile enhancements, which aim to foster better match insights.

Yelp is enhancing its platform with Yelp Assistant. This AI chatbot helps users find local service professionals by asking detailed questions to generate service requests and provide more accurate quotes. The assistant uses OpenAI's large language models. It is available on iOS. The assistant supports various services, including food, massage, pet care, and financial services.

A new study found that over half of Americans have used generative AI in the last year and more than 80% believe it will make life easier or help them learn a skill shortly. 41% of Americans expect brands to use generative AI in their customer experiences today to assist them with price comparisons, shopping, and customer support. Most consumers surveyed are more likely to shop with brands that use generative AI on their websites and 58% believe it has already improved their online shopping experience.

Online hate speech has real-world consequences, including increased hate crimes. Current AI tools understand hate speech semantics and can generate empathic replies for effective counter-speech. Social media platforms can combat hate speech by flagging instances and providing context while providing emotional guidance for counter-speech, which can help reduce its prevalence.

Figma has introduced color variables in gradients for improved design consistency and reduced manual adjustments, facilitating easy adjustments across modes or brands. Variables support typography, enabling the creation of font-related variables like family, size, line height, spacing, and weight and streamlining text management within components and systems.

Create stunning 3D mockups with your app and web designs on the device screens.

Magnific AI upscales and enhances your images, guided by your prompts and parameters, allowing you to reimagine as many details as you wish.

Scribe quickly auto-generates step-by-step guides with text and screenshots, saving you hours in training and explaining how to do something.

Designers need to continually learn and innovate to stay relevant in the rapidly changing industry. They prioritize mastery of design fundamentals over tool proficiency. Embracing curiosity, adaptability, and a proactive mindset fuels a designer's growth and impact, with career trajectories influenced by various factors rather than a singular path or expiration date.

Break long forms into shorter, multi-page forms. Use top-aligned labels for input fields. Use hint text, not placeholder text. Use native form controls, highlight elements on focus, style and write errors correctly, label related fields in a group, provide instructions, clearly identify required fields, and avoid time limits for users to complete forms.

Stagnant growth, toxic environments, and a lack of alignment with personal values are good reasons for designers to quit their jobs. Designers should learn to recognize the red flags before it's too late and leave for opportunities that better align with their career goals and well-being.

There's one big problem with AI video software: making minor changes is not possible with AI alone at this point.

The identity of Ljubljana's Center Rog was created by a collective called Ansambel.

Michael Jackson's Estate is involved in a logo dispute between the tribute concert MJ Live and Broadway's MJ: The Musical.