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Google Gemini launches, mobile search patterns, Monotype type trends report...
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Product Design & UX
Key takeaways from Airbnb’s winter redesign
When Airbnb announces something new, it’s the result of months of hard work, thinking, and testing.
Mobile search: which pattern should you choose?
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
On the blurring of boundaries between checkboxes and radio buttons
AI & Machine Learning
Google’s Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of the AI future
It’s useful, but it’s also thoroughly Google.
Digital Trust
Instagram and Threads will no longer ‘proactively’ recommend political content
Meta doesn’t want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an announcement today, the company detailed how it will approach the recommendation of political content across both Instagram and its sister app, Threads, a competitor to Elon Musk’s X. In short, it will no longer push politics on users. Similar to Meta’s existing policies on Facebook, Instagram and Threads’ recommendation engines now won’t proactively suggest political posts to users by default, the company said on Friday.
Design
An extraordinary website of old Japanese hotel and inn luggage tags
Branding
Artek Helsinki by Tsto
Artek is a Finnish furniture and product design business and retailer with a flagship store in Helsinki. It was founded in 1935 by architect Alvar Aalto and wife Aino Aalto, the arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl.
Artek worked with Scandinavian graphic design studio Tsto to build out the visual identity system of their flagship store, Artek Helsinki. The studio’s approach layers this system with additional type, illustration created from the partial forms of Artek’s product range and establishes a new set of visual guidelines.
Typography
Monotype Visualizes 2024 Type Trends With Bold AI-Generated Album Covers
For typography aficionados everywhere, there are a few banner days throughout the year to look forward to annually. The release of the Monotype Type Trends Report is one such highlight when the experts over at the heralded font foundry unveil the key trends in the typography space they forecast for the upcoming year.