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Integrating AI into UX: A New Frontier for Designers and Developers

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries around the world. UX design hasn’t been left behind either.

Maximize Compatibility: Testing Your Website in visionOS with Safari

Now that visionOS 2 is announced, it’s a great time to ensure your website works in Safari in visionOS. For the most part, there’s nothing special you need to do for the spatial web. It’s truly Safari, with the same WebKit engine and its extensive support for web standards.

The Essential Role of Designers in the Full Software Development Cycle

Collaboration between design and engineering can take different forms in different organizations. Designers can be more or less involved in software development, but whether they like it or not, they are essential to this process. I don’t mean that designers should code (although I think some should–I’ll explain it in another article), but rather, they should not switch to new tasks right after handoff.

Best New Fonts, August 2024

Welcome to August’s roundup of the best fonts we’ve found over the last few weeks. 2024’s trend for flowing curves and retro-inspired scripts continues apace this month. We’ve also included some very flexible sans serifs. Enjoy!

A guide to landing your first product design role

Curious about early career opportunities at Figma? Here are some tips on how to get your first product design job, along with insights on what we look for.

How to Optimize Fonts for Better Web Performance and User Experience

Font performance optimization is a set of web development techniques that make fonts load faster and render more smoothly. They involve practices such as thoughtful font selection, the use of performant font formats, self-hosting, optimized @font-face declarations, font display strategies, and more.

The 80/20 rule in design job interviews

One warm, Italian, summer day in August 1907, Vilfredo Pareto noticed something odd in his garden — some pea pods produced more peas than others, no matter what he did. Being a curious polymath, he inspected the peas closely and concluded that roughly 20% of pods produced 80% of the produce.

Navigation UX Design: Types & Best Practices

In today’s fast-paced digital world of instant gratification, users expect to find what they need quickly and efficiently. Poor navigation can cripple your website or app, driving users away and costing you valuable conversions. This is where navigation UX comes in, serving as a silent guide, enabling users to achieve their objectives quickly and intuitively.

Creating Complex Visuals with Grid Displacement

Learn how to apply a pixel/grid displacement to a texture in Three.js using shaders and GPGPU with a subtle RGB shift effect on cursor move.

The Future of Styling on the Web

CSS Houdini, a revolutionary advancement in web styling, is reshaping the way developers approach design on the internet.

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