Have you ever found yourself hooked on an app or website, wondering what keeps you coming back? Chances are, gamification—the art of incorporating game-like elements into non-game contexts—is playing a significant role. Whether it’s earning badges on a learning platform, competing on leaderboards in a fitness app, or unlocking rewards while shopping online, gamification strategies are subtly enhancing our digital experiences. Let’s dive into how you can harness these strategies…

With a single layer of texture or a few brush strokes, you can give a vintage look to a modern illustration or instantly add depth to a shallow design.

From KnockoutJS to modern UI libraries like SolidJS, Vue.js, and Svelte, signals revolutionized how we think about reactivity in UIs. Here’s a deep dive into their history and impact by Atila Fassina.

The world of UI/UX design is constantly evolving, and as technology advances, so too does the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this field. With AI becoming more integrated into design tools and processes, designers (like you and me) are poised to experience some major shifts — both exciting and a bit unnerving. But before you start worrying about robots stealing our jobs, let’s dive into how AI is shaping…

To create innovative Generative AI experiences that users will adopt and use, we need to ensure appropriate responses. To accomplish this, we need these experiences to be trained on how the business operates, how it is measured, the company’s goals, flows, and processes, how the company should be discussed in different contexts, and how activities like initiatives and projects relate to each other.

If you’re a creative professional working in a visual medium like web design, photography, illustration, or motion graphics, it’s important to put effort into your craft. But even if you’re great at what you do, if you don’t have a well-designed portfolio, you’re missing out on getting your artistry out in front of a bigger audience.

Yes, you read that correctly—we’ve made a major update! Frames X now includes its own open-source code components and design tokens! We’re bringing your favorite UI kit directly into your codebase because we believe great design should be available everywhere.

Imagine you’re given a design file. You’re clicking around, trying to figure out the margin values, when you accidentally nudge a button out of place. You hit “undo” only to discover that you didn’t actually move anything—but now you’ve erased someone else’s work. Panic sets in, and you start apologizing to your design peers for potentially messing up “their” file. You feel like a bull in a china shop.

Hope you’re having a productive week! I’ve hand-picked some awesome resources for you this time around – we’re talking slick new CSS techniques for toggling content, a deep dive into why designers and developers sometimes clash (and how to fix it!), a sneak peek at the design trends that will dominate 2025, and an inspiring story about designing a custom keyboard.

Typography plays a pivotal role in every design and it has the power to make or break a creation or sometimes even an entire business.