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Product design is lost, Trends in GenAI, Inside Rabbit R1, Type Directors Club winners...
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Product Design & UX
Product Design Is Lost
How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back
“After several whirlwind years where design was hailed as the solution to everything, organizations are now deprioritizing design teams entirely. Executive-level design roles are slowly disappearing across corporate America. And even well-established practitioners within the design service industry were hit by the record layoffs that have swept through tech over the last two years.
These recent developments should serve as a wake up call to the field of product design, which I believe has lost its way a long time ago. Designers can bring immense value to the production of digital products, but our current product design practices too often fail to deliver value to both users and the organizations we serve. Designers have been painted into a corner and the only way out of this dead end is for our practices to evolve.”
AI wants a communication-first design paradigm
Designing interaction for AI: communication vs information
AI & Machine Learning
Key Trends and Forecasts Influencing the GenAI Market in 2024
Inside the rise of Jesse Lyu and the Rabbit R1
Rabbit’s founder and CEO, Jesse Lyu, tells all about the origins of the R1 and what he thinks about the AI gadget competition.
Digital Trust
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
Apple’s reckoning isn’t just the end of an era for the company — it’s a reflection of the smartphone’s fall from beloved gadget to commodity.
Design
How the meaning of colour varies per culture
What is all the hand-written type in branding trying to tell us?
Branding
Kloo Coffee Combines Minimalist and Maximalist Aesthetics with Perfect Harmony
New Barnardo’s identity by The Clearing
Typography
TDC70 winners announced
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization, announced the winners from 41 countries in its prestigious TDC70 Competition. The winners have been selected based on their exceptional accomplishments in three fields: Type Design, Lettering, and Communication Design.
Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers
An old project on soccer fan scarves opened Rüdiger’s eyes to the possibilities of textiles. Now he prototypes typefaces on screen and fabric.
