TLDR Design 2024-04-29

The expansion of Headspace's mental health services comes with a new brand identity, evolved illustration style, and updated animations that aim to portray a more professional image. The rebrand was developed in-house in collaboration with Italic Studio. Colophon Foundry created a new proprietary typeface and changed the color scheme - orange still leads, but there is now a supporting palette that prioritizes accessibility.

The Reddit mobile app for iOS and Android has been updated to emphasize comments, remove hurdles, and reduce friction. Clicking on the comment icon on a post now loads comments faster and takes users straight to the top comment. A context bar with the original post and compressed text, image, or video content will appear at the top of the screen. A click on the thumbnail will take the user to the original post.

A team of industrial designers has prototyped a furniture collection that dramatically transforms flat sheets into fully functional objects. Recognizing the high demand for online commerce and the inefficiency of shipping large furniture items, the team developed a line of collapsible stools, chairs, wine racks, and other products made from cellulose sponges. These products can be flattened and dried to fit into standard envelopes.

Musixmatch's Ritmo design system ensures a consistent user experience across Web, iOS, and Android by establishing cross-platform standards and components using React Native for a unified codebase. Its design library in Figma centralizes specifications for consistent implementation across platforms, complemented by component swaps tailored to viewport size for optimal user experience.

Pinterest's Monetization team helps businesses connect with users while connecting them with the right commercial opportunity at the right time to help users realize their dreams. However, Frances Lee, a designer on the team and an end-user advocate, found it challenging to overcome her long-standing bias towards ads. With Quiz Ads, users can interact with advertisements for personalized recommendations or entertainment and discover unfamiliar brands.

Figma addressed C++ build time inefficiencies by removing unnecessary includes, utilizing a new DIWYDU tool, implementing forward declarations via Fwd.h files, and applying caching strategies. This comprehensive approach halved build times and prevents dozens of potential daily slowdowns, significantly boosting developer productivity.

Work with special characters in Figma and seamlessly insert symbols, characters, and glyphs into your design.

Leverage AI's power in your design process, generate wireframes and hi-fi UI designs, turn data into insight, and run design reviews.

This point-and-shoot camera app uses a custom ProRAW image processing pipeline to recreate the look and feel of film.

Time to the "Magic Moment" or activation moment can be reduced through mini magic moments in the early user experience. Otter.ai leverages social proof for trust on its registration page, while Loom tailors messaging for user needs. Canva and Otter.ai use imagery and social proof to highlight product benefits and use cases.

The democratization of UX research aims to involve more individuals for quicker results, though concerns arise about maintaining research quality amid varied expertise levels. A mature design and research culture requires governance, quality standards, training, and tools to support collaboration and overcome resistance to change.

Even though reentering credit card information frustrates users, 34% of test sites don't keep credit card numbers when errors happen. Persisting card data saves time and allows users to review potentially incorrect input and find the error. Comply with PCI standards and mitigate user frustration by validating input field-by-field, splitting the checkout flow, and validating input in two stages.

Street artist Frankey breathes life into everyday objects in Amsterdam, creating thought-provoking artwork that sparks whimsy.

The future of creativity will continue to be shaped by the intersection of technology, legal frameworks, and ethical considerations.

The Almaty Museum of Arts in Kazakhstan's distinctive slanted walls, with one facing the city and the other the Alatu mountain range, influenced Studio Thonik's logo design, which features two bouncing capital A's, embodying the duality of the museum's architecture and creating a dynamic yet simple brand identity.