Weekly Design News #2

7 Important Visual Hierarchy Design Principles 2023

This article discusses the most important visual hierarchy design principles that new designers need to follow if they want their app interfaces or website designs to succeed.

Simplified: Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics

Whether you’re a design pro or just getting started, these principles will help you make websites and apps that people love to use.

10 UX Tips From My Summertime Waterpark Adventure

When I showed up, I realized our local watering hole had recently optimized its experience. These changes brought some good UX tips to my attention, and I bet you can apply them to your work as well.

Typography Trends in Web Design 2023

In 2023, the web typography world has enjoyed an explosion of creativity. Richer typefaces, 3D styles, bold fonts, and various other interesting typography trends have taken over the world of web design.

Getty Specifically Calls Out Adobe Firefly in Its Latest Rejection of AI

Last year, Getty rejected AI generated content and announced that it would not accept any submissions created with AI models. The company is reiterating that in an email sent to creators.

OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3 with support for text and typography

Today, the company announced DALL-E 3, its latest text-to-image generator and showed off some of its new impressive features, including the ability to generate readable text baked directly into images themselves.

Facebook alters its logo in “subtle, but significant” rebrand

As rebrands rip through the tech world, Facebook takes stock, altering its logo, wordmark, reactions and colour palette – but keeping the blue.

A designer’s guide to weekly, scrappy, rapid iteration and testing

The goal of this guide is to give you an actionable plan of how to set up weekly user testing in an efficient way that while challenging, can be accomplished by a single designer.

Why Use React in 2023

Well, in this article, we’re unpacking the magic of React from a designer’s perspective, emphasizing its impact on user interface design, user experience (UX), and team collaboration.

The best logos of the 1960s

Swirling psychedelic symbols, playful motifs and abstract icons – these are the best logos of the 1960s, as picked by designers and industry experts.

How Smashing Magazine Uses TinaCMS To Manage An Editorial Workflow

In 2019, Smashing Magazine adopted a static site architecture, resulting in a 6× improvement in page speed but sacrificing some writing and editing bells and whistles that come with a bona fide content management system.

ChatGPT Isn’t Coming for Your Coding Job

New technologies have long promised to make human software engineers redundant. But developers have only gotten more important over time.

Building and evaluating UX Research portfolios

Current and best practices for job seekers and hiring managers.

The Next Generation of Web Layouts

Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Who will design them? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing.

Substack’s redesign makes it feel like a more traditional social media app

Substack’s app feels pretty familiar, but maybe that’s a good thing.

Louise North

Louise is a staff writer for WebdesignerDepot. She lives in Colorado, is a mom to two dogs, and when she’s not writing she likes hiking and volunteering.