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A couple of months ago I started reading about designers’ thoughts on design. As I was digging deeper, I found an index with more than 200 manifestos from all around the world, some of which were over 100 years old. I was struck by the way people talked about the transformative power of our field and how it shapes the world around us, so I decided to read them all…

We’ve started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are released throughout the year by a bunch of different companies and organizations researching everything from web design trends to developer skills to popular coding languages and so many other things.

Conversational UX requires a big-picture understanding of the landscape of both the frontstage, or what a recipient of a service sees, and the backstage, the behind-the-scenes work happening to generate their experience. It’s the interaction layer on top of an ecosystem that incorporates a range of device types. Wearables, intelligent assistants, augmented or virtual reality -you name it. The idea is not to confine design to an interface, but to…

The website CyclingTips had observed the furore around the new technology and decided to put it to the test, asking several AI models to generate images of cycling-related scenes. Close your eyes now if you want to avoid a horror show. Some of the results look like the aftermath of a particularly horrendous Tour de France pile up (to learn how the tech works, see our guide to how to…

Massimo Vignelli, the multi-faceted designer and thinker, was the last of the great modernist designers. A utilitarian, design reactionary, and vocal critic of poor design, his views feel unfashionable today, yet, younger designers can learn much from the Canon.

Do you plan to create a mobile app with a well-designed, custom interface? One of the challenges you can come across is building UI components. For small teams, they can become a real frustration, costing precious time and money. How to make a custom interface that works well and attracts people?

No matter whether you go for vibrant, muted, or full-on technicolor, the color palette you choose for your website or app doesn’t just make the interface look visually appealing, it also helps to develop your entire brand identity. Hence, crafting the perfect color combination is necessary.

The hashtag has become a form of silent protest—and a rallying cry from concept artists and illustrators around the world.

In this post, we are listing some of the best alternative tools to Google Sheets. All of these tools have different attributes. So read on to know about each tool’s features, pros, and cons in the following.