Nothing is more personal, mysterious, and valuable for a creative person than their individual artistic style. No matter their medium, the idiosyncratic way an artist expresses themselves is not only their currency in the creative market, it is fundamentally how their past and human experience informs their unique point of view — and it is how they represent themselves. https://webdesignernews.com/safeguarding-artistic-expression-in-the-age-of-ai/
Mixed media design is one of the most popular trends in graphic design that combines reality with creativity to birth visuals that not only stand out but also tell captivating stories. https://webdesignernews.com/blending-photography-with-graphics-a-designers-guide-to-mixed-media/
Happy Thursday, hope you are having an amazing week! We’ve got a packed edition so let’s get reading! https://webdesignernews.com/codrops-collective/
Looking for ways to shake up your teaching? These collaborative templates help students connect, create, and learn together. https://webdesignernews.com/27-figjam-activities-to-spark-creativity/
In this new tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a flexible website page configurator to customize the page UI on the fly. https://webdesignernews.com/build-a-website-page-configurator-with-css/
There are many ways to elevate a design project from good to incredible. For web and product designers, it’s not just about adding more animations and flair. What it truly comes down to is a reframing of your thought processes starting before the project even kicks off. Olivia De Alba presents three approaches that designers can implement and which will change the way they make their projects more successful. https://webdesignernews.com/three-approaches-to-amplify-your-design-projects-2/
I’ve been talking to a lot of junior designers lately. After one of these chats, I reflected on how my career evolved. Interestingly, I couldn’t say I was much different from today’s junior designers. What’s different today compared to a decade ago is the environment. The job market has changed for the worse, and design tools have bloomed. https://webdesignernews.com/reflecting-on-a-decade-in-product-design/
Ant Design X is a brand new AGI component library from Ant Design, designed to help developers more easily develop AI product user interfaces. Building on Ant Design, Ant Design X further expands the design specifications for AI products, offering developers more powerful tools and resources. We look forward to driving the development of AI technology with you! https://webdesignernews.com/ant-design-x-1-0-is-out/
I have this habit where when I’m watching a TV show where I like to read about it on my phone while I’m watching it. Reviews, summaries, fan theories, whatever. Seems like that would be distracting — but I think it’s extra engaging sometimes. I’d often end up on Wikipedia where they do episode informational summaries in a particular layout where the small screen layout had a horribly obnoxious side... https://webdesignernews.com/responsive-tables-readable-paragraphs/
Over the past two decades I’ve been hearing people I’ve worked with and in the product community — other designers and PMs, clients when I ran an agency, founders and CEOs — saying they want designers to “design like Apple”. The problem has always been a chicken-and-egg one: to design like Apple, you need to prioritize simplicity in all parts of your organization (like Apple). https://webdesignernews.com/design-like-apple/