Our VP of engineering recently asked me how we could level up the design skills of our engineers. It made me think about the question “how do great designers become great?”
Google released a bunch of new logos and icons for its various Workspace apps in 2020 – to a chorus of disapproval. Users continue to complain about these bafflingly similar designs – but a series of fan-made icon concepts seems to be gaining applause on Twitter.
If you need a trouble-free method to understand what the design industry is up to, look at the typography trends. Fonts are like friends, they never lie.
After Mark Zuckerberg announced expansion plans in summer 2022 for Meta’s virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, critics took to social media. They compared the platform’s graphics to those of Second Life, an early 2000s life simulation game: The avatars were legless. The Eiffel Tower sat at the base of a bubbly, pixelated hillside. There was no way the design would be accepted by gamers who had seen what was possible…
If you are a reader of Wikipedia on desktop, you might have noticed something new over the past couple of days. The website looks a bit different — it’s simpler; less cluttered; and, hopefully, easier to use. After three years of development, the Wikimedia Foundation has finally released the updated desktop interface for Wikipedia. The new look went live today on English Wikipedia, during the month of its 22nd birthday,…
Find any icon font or SVG icon for any design project. Access Unicons directly from your favorite design tools with a simple drag and drop, or with React or Vue. Choose from four different icon styles: line, monochrome, solid and thin line.
On Monday, Netflix rolled out updates to its iPhone app that introduced a revamped interface featuring a new billboard layout, new card transitions, new animation for both the launch and profile screens, updated haptics and more.
Sidebar is a modern MacOS Dock replacement that feels really intuitive to use and adds tons of features compared to the standard MacOS Dock
Designer Dan Sullivan wants to change your brain. As VP of R&D at Kova, a maker of building materials, facades, and windows, he’s been exploring the practical implications of what’s being called neuroaesthetics, or the ways that physical design can lead to measurable changes in the brain’s chemistry.
Here’s our roundup of the twenty best new websites released in the past four weeks. Enjoy!
