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Design System Contribution Models

Contribution models allow product teams to add new features to existing designs based on their product requirements without breaking the quality of existing designs.

Behind the design: crafting over 800+ icons for Webflow’s rebrand

A deep dive into the creative process, challenges, and design principles behind Webflow’s new iconography.

3 Essential Design Trends

There are so many good things happening with website design right now. From simplification of style and brand to creating warmth with color to finding ways to incorporate motion throughout a design without feeling obtrusive, we love the concepts that designers are playing with.

What are Design Specifications?

In the world of digital product design, a seamless design handoff is crucial for ensuring that the vision crafted by designers is accurately brought to life by developers. Yet, this phase can often be fraught with miscommunication, inconsistencies, and inefficiencies.

The Art of Collecting: How Objects Inspire Better Design

I have somewhat magpie-like tendencies: strange or beautiful objects catch my eye as I move through the world and often end up on a shelf or window ledge in my flat. I’d like to try and convince you that a little bit of hoarding can help us design better things.

Lessons from My 30-Year Logo Design Archive: Then vs. Now

Recently I took a trip down memory lane and explored my logo design archives from the ‘90s. I’ve been designing logos since then—almost 30 years ago, before the internet was even a thing. In this article, I’ve gathered some of those early logo designs, along with background information from the client projects I’ve worked on over the past three decades.

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!

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