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This week, we answer a crucial question: is UI design actually that important? Our answer may shock you 🫢

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This week, we answer a crucial question: is UI design actually that important? Our answer may shock you 🫢

• Viktor Atanasov asks on GitHub: Is UI design actually that important?

• Brian shared The Last of Us on HBO, a remarkably faithful adaptation of the game by the same name.
• Marshall shared The Last of Us Companion Podcast — in case you just can't get enough of the show.

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This week, we discuss strategies for building an excellent type stack in your designs.

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In this week's Sidebar, we discuss the tradeoffs of adding view counts to tweets and the implications of paid community resources coming to Figma.

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This week, we discuss strategies for building an excellent type stack in your designs.

• Joey Banks
• iOS 16 UI Kit for Figma

• Brian shared Janum Trivedi, one of the most fun interaction designers to follow on Twitter.
• Marshall shared Kaleidoscope. Recommended order: yellow, violet, orange, green, blue, red, pink, white.

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In the Sidebar, we discuss the tradeoffs of adding view counts to tweets and the implications of paid community resources coming to Figma.

• Robert Janezic's tweet
• Clarification about linking to external payments
• Figma's help center article

This week, we discuss current visual design trends and how the web will look in 2023.

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• Jon Fackrell
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• Stacy Lee
• John Casey
• Billy Purdy

This week, we discuss current visual design trends and how the web will look in 2023.

• 2023 Visual Design Trends
• Framer Motion
• Tailwind
• Linears.art
• Spline
• Rive

• Brian shared Avatar: The Way of Water — haters gonna hate, this movie kicks ass.
• Marshall shared Caricature Party on TikTok.

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In the Sidebar, we catch up on Marshall's AI adventures before digging into design lessons from the gaming and automotive industries.

• ChatGPT
• GitHub Copilot
• Magician
• Figma spell check
• How game designers solved these 11 problems
• The Rivian Electric Amazon Delivery Van Is Highly Innovative and Incredibly Cool

This week, we talk about the whole Twitter thing, and how we'd handle the verified badge design debacle.

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• Tom Miciak
• James Carthew
• Mike Moss
• Connor Lindsey
• Pavel Maček

This week, we talk about the whole Twitter thing, and how we'd handle the verified badge design debacle.

• Unsolicited redesign of YouTube

• Brian shared:
  • Shantaram, the show
  • Shantaram, the book
  • God of War: Ragnarok
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Marshall shared Quadeca's I Didn't Mean to Haunt You.

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This week, we talk about what gives software the feeling of heft and the effect of that feeling on how customers perceive the value of a tool.

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• Filip Pižl

This week, we talk about what gives software the feeling of heft and the effect of that feeling on how customers perceive the value of a tool.

• Brian shared Mexico City. It's great, go.
• Marshall shared music!
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  • Polyphia - Remember You Will Die
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This week, we recap Google's Pixel 7 Event and dig into our favorite design details of the new Pixel phone, tablet, and watch.

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• Ryan Jones tweeted about dynamic island gestures.

This week, we recap Google's Pixel 7 Event and dig into our favorite design details on the new phone, tablet, and watch.

• Google Pixel 7 event in 14 minutes
• Star Wars Minus Williams

• Brian shared Overwatch 2, the newest...iteration...of the original Overwatch. It's good? We'll see.
• Marshall shared Background Sounds on iOS — helpful for anyone like us with tinnitus!

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This week, we break down new Figma features, dissect the Live Activities HIG, and share our cool-takes on the Adobe + Figma acquisition.

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• Oleg Frolov
• Mark Stephenson
• Bryn Jackson
• Nancy Tran

This week, we break down new Figma features, dissect the Live Activities HIG, and share our cool-takes on the Adobe + Figma acquisition.

• Component properties, select features
  • Sho Kuwamoto
  • xkcd: Two Key System
• Human Interface Guidelines for Live Activities
• Adobe to acquire Figma
  • Penpot

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Glow is building the most elegant, powerful, and reliable crypto wallet. To do this, they need great designs — ones that are simple, familiar, and smart. Their small team is growing, and you’ll work closely with the team to craft new user experience patterns for interacting with crypto that will become the new normal for millions of people in the future.

Mercury — Mercury is hiring product designers! Mercury powers the banking stack for companies like Linear, Maven & Mighty. Join them to build beautiful software for founders. Learn about the remote-friendly team & roles at https://mercury.design — disclaimer: Mercury is a financial technology company that works with banks.

• Brian shared Barbarian: A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
• Marshall shared Everything Everywhere All at Once: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, in which she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.

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This week, we share our hot takes and first impressions of the new Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro.

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This week, we share our hot takes and first impressions of the new Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro.

• iPhone 14 Pro + Dynamic Island

We're curating the best product design roles from the world's most design-forward companies.

👉 Design Details Job Board

‌Figma — Figma is looking for designers to help shape the future of FigJam. They have a few open roles right now focused on everything from core product and meeting experiences to onboarding, user education, and templates.

Patreon is building the future of the creative economy, and they’re looking for Product Designers at all levels to solve the needs of creators and members on our platform. Their roles are based in SF and NY.

Raycast makes it simple, fast and delightful to control your tools. They’re looking for an experienced individual to join their small team to redesign and improve core app functionality, tools to enable Developers to create new Extensions, and rethink components across the platform.

Notion — Imagine in the 1970s thinking through how computing should be like. That's what Notion is trying to build — beautiful software that fits everyone's needs. They have infinite challenges that can only be solved by someone with innate product sense, technical aptitude, great taste, and impeccable craft.

• Brian shared tldraw, a tiny little drawing app that lives in your browser. Follow Steve Ruiz on Twitter.
• Marshall shared NOPE, the latest film from Jordan Peele.
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This week, we share our preferred naming convention for design files and react to the new Gmail redesign.

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This week, we share our preferred naming convention for design files and react to the new Gmail redesign.

• SingYu Lam asks on Twitter: do you guys prefer a certain naming convention when naming Figma layers and components? Like lowerCamelCase, UpperCamelCase, etc?
• Will Hsu asks on GitHub: So, earlier this year, Google revealed a new Gmail design, and lately they begin rolling out the new Gmail design to users as their default option. And there are discussions around the Internet... many feel the new design is not really better, and I did notice there are many design details missed 👀, like spacing, use of color, choice of the font...etc (not sure if it's mediocre development or just design ). I found it a little entertaining reading those reactions (trolling the new design mostly...) but as a designer also feel bad for the team behind this.😅 Wonder what are you folks' take and reaction on this update, and what changes you would like to see or make?
  • Gmail rolls out the new Material You redesign
  • Kevin and Rafa discuss this on Layout
  • Material You

We're curating the best product design roles from the world's most design-forward companies.

👉 Design Details Job Board

‌Figma — Figma is looking for designers to help shape the future of FigJam. They have a few open roles right now focused on everything from core product and meeting experiences to onboarding, user education, and templates.

Patreon is building the future of the creative economy, and they’re looking for Product Designers at all levels to solve the needs of creators and members on our platform. Their roles are based in SF and NY.

Raycast makes it simple, fast and delightful to control your tools. They’re looking for an experienced individual to join their small team to redesign and improve core app functionality, tools to enable Developers to create new Extensions, and rethink components across the platform.

Notion — Imagine in the 1970s thinking through how computing should be like. That's what Notion is trying to build — beautiful software that fits everyone's needs. They have infinite challenges that can only be solved by someone with innate product sense, technical aptitude, great taste, and impeccable craft.

• Brian shared The Rehearsal — a true masterpiece.
• Marshall shared Strong Will as the most effective way to start biting your fingernails.

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This week, we talk about a surprising new "smart desk" being shared online, and we talk about what our dream desk would look like. In the Sidebar, Marshall shares his tips and tricks for keeping his Figma files squeaky clean.

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This week, we talk about a surprising new "smart desk" being shared online, and we talk about what our dream desk would look like.

• Lumina Desk
• Evo Desk

We're curating the best product design roles from the world's most design-forward companies.

👉 Design Details Job Board

Current — Current is on a mission to help people create better financial outcomes for their lives, and they’re hiring a talented senior mobile product designer with great visual design and UX skills. You’ll be involved in the full product development cycle: from early research and product strategy, to design and developer hand-off.

Glow is building the most elegant, powerful, and reliable crypto wallet. To do this, they need great designs — ones that are simple, familiar, and smart. Their small team is growing, and you’ll work closely with the team to craft new user experience patterns for interacting with crypto that will become the new normal for millions of people in the future.

Webflow — Webflow is hiring designers across their various product pillars focused on growth, collaboration, the designer, and site capabilities. This role is remote-first with the option to work in our SF office.

Materialize — Materialize is building a reactive database to disrupt batch data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery, and they’re looking for their first full-time, in-house designer to come in and own the product design for Materialize Web UI. Technical and developer tools experience is a huge plus!

• Brian shared Bullet Train: Five assassins aboard a fast moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common.
• Marshall shared Prey: The origin story of the Predator in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago. Naru, a skilled warrior, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.

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