A well-thought design with buttery smooth animations and stunning graphics. Our pick this week.

“Visual Hierarchy” is a core design principle that refers to how different elements are arranged in a design by order of relevance. The best product, website, or app interface designers manipulate the characteristics of different elements (colors, alignment, fonts, etc.) to give their designs engaging visual hierarchies.

A thoughtfully curated collection of websites showcasing exceptional web designs.

Pratik Joglekar takes a philosophical approach to remind designers about the lost joy within themselves by effectively placing massive importance on mindfulness, introspection, and forward-looking. Without joy, the work we do would feel meaningless. To prevent it from happening, check out a few ideas that would help rediscover that spark of joy.

The Google Fonts website has been thoroughly updated with a Material 3 redesign that serves as an interesting showcase of the design language on mobile web.  

Fonts play an instrumental role in making the content of newspapers legible, inviting, and engaging. Their choice can influence the reader’s mood, ensuring the news is conveyed as effectively as possible.

Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google’s widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material You design language in the coming weeks, and in this case, that will include refreshed icons with “a focus on legibility” and new color palettes that “better complement your tabs and toolbar,”

Small details that will greatly improve the readability and aesthetics of your website

Part of Google’s #BestPhonesForever series, the ad, titled Spa Day, depicts an iPhone and a Pixel phone relaxing at a spa (naturally), and has already racked up over 33M views. With their cameras covered by cucumbers (again, naturally), the iPhone laments how its fall launches used to be huge, celebratory occasions, but now the Pixel line up has taken the lead with features including “unblurring old photos, answering unknown calls…

We chat to the graphics team behind the Barbie film, Wes Anderson’s go-to graphic designer, motion designer and 3D artist Lorenzo Bernini, and Cartoon Network’s president Michael Ouweleen.