TLDR Design 2024-03-27

Disney Plus has updated its logo and splash screen with a new teal/seafoam color to signify its upcoming merger with Hulu and enhance its distinctiveness among competitors. The redesign has stirred nostalgia among fans who cherished the old logo, which was a homage to Disney's Cinderella castle and embodied elements of Disney magic.

Canva, an Australian design company, has acquired U.K.-based creative tools company Affinity for an estimated $380 million. Canva aims to expand its user base to include professional designers. The acquisition aligns Canva with Affinity's culture and offers advanced capabilities to compete with Adobe, adding 3 million users and 90 employees to Canva's portfolio.

GenStudio serves as a centralized hub for promotional campaigns, providing brand kits, copy guidance, and preapproved assets alongside other generative AI-powered tools that can generate backgrounds and ensure the overall tone remains on-brand. It also shows users which attributes, generated assets, and campaigns are performing best, which can be used to direct AI prompts for other campaigns.

Designers who want to grow must be comfortable with losing the wrong type of clients who demand cheap and low-quality designs and start charging more. This way, they’ll attract clients who value design value quality, are easier to work with, and pay premium fees.

UX Design is not devoid of creativity, it’s merely constrained to time, space, and place. Designers must carefully select moments to deviate and experiment or take advantage of nexus points like technological change and novel interfaces.

In product design principles, you describe the most important goals a product or service should achieve for users and use them to frame decisions. This article describes ten principles when designing your next product, from simplicity and consistency to sustainability and ethical considerations.

Organize a story using draggable index cards.

A curated collection of over 140 design systems that includes corresponding Figma libraries GitHub code implementations.

Create a full-fledged multipage website from a single prompt.

In just 30 minutes, learn the skills to create advanced prototypes efficiently with live demonstrations and gain insights from design leaders like Ridd from Figma Academy. This webinar, which focuses on practical prototyping techniques and essential product thinking, is part of Maven Learning's short lessons scheduled between March 28 and April 19.

'UX Unicorns' refers to unique and emerging design elements that enhance user experience. Black-and-white imagery is making a comeback, creating a classic and purposeful feel when used in conjunction with brand and design storytelling, and bright color palettes, including pink and purple, are returning to various design projects, adding freshness and happiness.

According to recent rumors, a Vision Pro-compatible Apple Pencil could launch alongside new iPads soon. Reports say that users wearing the headset will be able to use apps such as Freeform and Pixelmator to draw using the Pencil on a flat surface.

Taking you behind the scenes of the perfume-making process, Louis Vuitton: A Perfume Atlas offers a rare glimpse into the art and science of scent.

Cliik's branding, developed by Little Troop, blends decades of references – predominantly 1970s retrofuturism, but with a touch of 60s modernism and even 80s Lego advertising sprinkled in.

Three layers of forces create user experience: action — the visible surface or the “what”, intent — the “why” behind every action, and dispositions - the long-term effects of user experience, including trust, loyalty, and reputation.