TLDR Design 2024-05-02

Google I/O 2024 will take place on May 14. The Material Design team will be there to showcase the latest updates and on-demand content. The event's sessions include lessons on designing adaptive apps, creating UI with the Material 3 adaptive library, and using Material for Compose for faster, more expressive designs.

The latest Skittle brand refresh, which tries to appeal to Gen Z, focuses on the brand's quirks. The letter 'k' in the logo now has a distinctive upward flick. The signature upside-down rainbow icon was given a more vibrant makeover, and the iconic lentils have a 'dynamic signature layout', with matching flowing visual effects to boot.

WK Kellogg Co Script is a new typeface based on the signature of founder William Keith Kellogg. The proprietary typeface will be used for the company's corporate messaging, communications, website, and social media assets. It was created as a joint effort between WK Kellogg Co, advisory firm Brunswick, and XYZ and Plau-type foundries. The process of creating the typeface involved its designers looking at old Kellogg's ads and painted signs from the early 20th century.

A design system should consist of high-quality, vetted solutions, not rushed or low-quality work known as "crap," which undermines its reliability and the trust of its users. To handle inevitable crap, organizations can adopt strategies like establishing a layered UI ecosystem, allowing different paces for product and design system development, and formalizing conversational governance to manage and mitigate the impact thoughtfully.

Anthropologist and illustrator Julien Posture explains why creative work has always been seen as opposing productive labor. The problem has been made worse with generative AI models since they require massive amounts of unpaid and uncredited input, whereas the labor that drives their output needs to be noticed. Creatives rarely organize in unions, but this can strengthen their bargaining position and create the standards they want to operate.

Every product goes through five stages according to the Product Life Cycle (PLC). As a product matures, system thinking provides the flexibility necessary for a more sustainable existence, which avoids unnecessary rewrites or pivots. Incorporating system thinking into a workflow requires establishing a dedicated and centralized platform, implementing frameworks and patterns, creating a shared UI library, and implementing system processes and checks.

Lumni is a collection of free stock photos and royalty-free images generated by AI. Photos can be filtered by color, orientation, focal point, luminance, and category.

Pre-visualize your ad in real-time on various social media platforms so you can try different visuals, captions, calls to action, and titles and see what works best.

Visualize your color choices on accurate designs like websites, business cards, illustrations, and more.

Business design applies design methodologies to enhance business strategies, with business designers focusing on human-centered innovation and customer needs to improve models, processes, and services, merging business management with design principles to achieve both economic and human-centric outcomes.

Porto Rocha designed PAC NYC's identity to welcome diverse audiences with a bespoke typeface merging 19th-century American Gothic fonts with the building's cubic shape. The color palette, contrasting vibrant tones with a foundational monochrome, offers flexibility to convey seriousness and expression across different contexts.

When looking at numbers within a font, there are many considerations, such as whether the characters are capital-height or have ascender and descender lines. Additionally, check whether the zero is similar to a capital O. You should also remember that a minivan font can cause the number 1 to appear lonely if tracking is not applied. This article lists the best number of fonts based on tips like these.

John Ed De Vera is a designer with diverse skills and interests. He specializes in lettering, paper-cutting, and exploring innovative media.

Joey Spiotto's new art show "Creators" is now at gallery1988.com.

Agricultural and food-production practices are an ideal place to begin rethinking how we design since they're the ultimate example of people in partnership with their contexts.