TLDR Design 2024-09-03

Nike developed a versatile typeface for Olympic team kits that is legible across various sports clothing and appealing to fans. The variable font can adapt to different products with unique letter designs. This approach ensures functionality and style coherence across multiple platforms.

The Vitra Design Museum's "Nike: Form Follows Motion" exhibition showcases over 200,000 rare Nike artifacts from the brand's secret archive, the Department of Nike Archives (DNA). The exhibit explores Nike's history, innovative sports designs, and future direction, showcasing the company's creative approach and groundbreaking research initiatives.

Freepik and Magnific AI have released Freepik Mystic, a new AI image generator that accurately creates hyperrealistic visuals following complex prompts. It's built on top of a series of fine-tunes of Stable Diffusion, Flux, and Magnific-built models. Offering high-resolution (2k) outputs, it is currently exclusive to Freepik premium users, but a wider rollout is anticipated.

Understanding context is crucial when evaluating accessibility. Key questions can be adapted for different products or services, forming the basis of a procurement checklist. A balanced approach that combines automated tools with manual reviews while also focusing on the intended audience and fostering learning in accessibility is essential.

To avoid being seen as a generalist, focus on skills, enjoyable tasks, and achievements rather than job titles. Tailor CVs to each role, use LinkedIn to understand job requirements, seek mentors, join networks, and showcase leadership and project examples for senior roles.

AI's lack of inherent direction aligns perfectly with Customer Experience's (CX) current struggles because it allows for flexibility and experimentation. AI's focus on solving simple, repetitive tasks contrasts with CX's outdated problem-solving models, creating opportunities for unexpected, innovative approaches that redefine CX by combining insights from diverse fields.

Figgy allows users to quickly build and maintain websites from Figjam files with a drag-and-drop interface. It offers instant updates and doesn't require any coding or technical experience.

AppMotion is a mobile motion design gallery that showcases the best, hand-picked examples of app motion design. The gallery allows you to explore various design elements, such as checkboxes, pinch, spin, morph, and more.

Noteey is a visual learning tool that offers an infinite canvas for organizing and connecting ideas, annotating PDFs, and creating mind maps.

Rigid adherence to design processes stifles creativity and reduces innovation. While frameworks offer structure and efficiency, overemphasizing steps and ignoring context limits effective design. Embracing flexibility, understanding core concepts, adapting to context, and fostering collaboration allows designers to maintain creativity, enhance problem-solving, and produce more impactful and user-centered designs.

A/B testing improves user experience, supports data-driven design decisions, and enhances product usability by measuring conversion and click-through rates. The process involves forming a hypothesis, defining changes, selecting outcome metrics, and choosing a tool based on ease of use and integration.

Tavern rebranded Fishers Island Lemonade to evoke a classic coastal New England aesthetic, evolving it from a drinks brand to a lifestyle brand rooted in modern Americana. The new identity, with its "Worth the Squeeze" tagline, emphasizes the value of the product and the Fishers Island experience. It was showcased through a photoshoot inspired by vintage catalogs and adaptable messaging for various vacation destinations.

Max Prentis crafts captivating cyberpunk art inspired by childhood cartoons and comics, blending digital and traditional techniques to create dynamic, nostalgic compositions.

Artificial intelligence cannot create true art because it doesn't make human artists' numerous nuanced choices.

Tri-track agile improves upon dual-track agile by adding an exploration track for ongoing research to identify unmet user needs and opportunities.