TLDR Design 2024-05-08

VSCO has launched a marketplace called VSCO Hub to connect photographers with brands. It offers a LinkedIn-like platform with its $59.99 Pro plan and allows businesses to search for talent using specific filters. CEO Eric Wittman says the hub aids discovery amidst challenging social network algorithms. VSCO plans to integrate AI to enhance search capabilities.

Nike is developing a generative AI model to design products using its vast bank of athlete data. Athlete Imagined Revolution (AIR) is a project that saw the design team create prototype shoes for 13 of Nike's top athletes based on their requests. Their preferences were translated to prompts for the generative AI models, which made hundreds of images that Nike designers then rapidly honed into single concepts using other digital fabrication techniques.

The Apple Pencil Pro, introduced during Apple's "Let Loose" iPad event, is a significant update to the stylus line, with new features like the "Barrel Roll" gyroscope for adjusting brushes, a squeeze gesture for tool switching, and Find My support to prevent loss. This third-generation stylus, priced at $129, maintains the advanced functionalities of its predecessor and adds enhancements like haptic feedback for a more intuitive creative process.

Invisible UX allows users to concentrate on what's beyond the interface and how technology makes their lives easier. Designers should strive for this attribute because it represents the best user experience design and is crucial to enduring products. Create tools that integrate seamlessly with your customers' lives by understanding how your interface aligns with their existing behavior and knowledge, designing maintenance-free solutions, and ensuring the product does more work than your users.

Adobe's Spectrum design system is shaped by thousands of designers, engineers, and product managers who work on one of the most complex software portfolios on the planet. Comprehensively changing it requires a lot of effort and coordination. In this article, Adobe's team shares its framework for defining its evolution. The framework includes building a community of advisors to give feedback, writing documents to explain decisions and communicate where the design is going, and developing principles to guide decisions.

Predictive analytics is a machine learning method for tracing patterns in datasets and anticipating future pattern changes. The maturation of AI will allow these processes to be automated, improving the accuracy and actionability of trend forecasts in the design industry. This article gives you a glimpse of how predictive analytics will be used shortly, explaining how it works, its main strengths, and how it will impact the design practice.

Apple has released 9 new templates and design templates, including a design library and templates for macOS Sonoma, visionOS, and iPadOS.

This guidebook describes the design of artifacts, spaces, and systems that impact the passenger air travel experience.

Quickly generate and extend the body or backgrounds in your photos and breathe new life into your images.

Many users sort product lists by ratings to compare items. Still, 64% of sites neglect to include the number of ratings in sorting algorithms, leading to distrust in highly ranked items. Combining ratings average and number of ratings will improve sorting accuracy and match users' preferences.

A close inspection of the accessibility of the 2024 US presidential campaign sites reveals that the sites for both Biden and Trump are better than average pages found in the WebAIM Million. Still, both could improve significantly with simple changes that would not require throwing out an entire widget or design. Biden's site scored 7.2 while Trump's was rated a 6.6.

The future of AI UX should prioritize holistic transformation of user experience over addressing individual user needs, while AI agents embedded in large language models facilitate complex tasks autonomously. Agentic workflows, epitomized by AI models, dissect intricate tasks into manageable steps, enhance reasoning capabilities, and have capabilities for vastly improving the user experience.

Rather than preventing errors altogether, it's sometimes better to allow users to make mistakes, give them the space to fix them, and allow them to learn from the error.

AI should be used wisely but thoughtfully based on its potential to help, not replace human capabilities

Polish artist Agnieszka Pilat is training Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot dog, to paint for the Heterobota exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on May 10.