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🟡 Fountn Weekly - Issue #48 is out. What's in this week ↓ UI DESIGN ✢ Photo Gradient - Image to Mesh Gradient — Daniel Destefanis TUTORIALS ✢ Layout in UI Design — Erik Kennedy   INSPIRATION ✢ SCRNSHTS – A hand-picked collection of the finest app store design screenshots — Thomas Vimare CODING ✢ Tailwind CSS button collection FIGMA ✢ LeanDS Framework — Marianne Ashton-Booth ✢ TK_Brand Handover + ABS™ - a toolkit designed for smooth brand handoffs — Love + Money Agency ✢ Responsive Table Components — Gabriel Inyamah ✢ Design activities planner — Jess E. LEARNING ✢ Inside Design Tokens: Definitions & Traits — Thomas Gossmann ✢ How to Name Colors in Design Systems — Felix Oginni ✢ 21 Methods of UX Research: When to Use Which — Denis Elianovsky ✢ Designing Depth- Techniques to introduce depth in visual and digital design — Rauno Freiberg ✢ What communities are best for creative entrepreneurs — Lex Roman ✢ How to Organize User Feedback with a Severity Scale — User Interviews That's all for the week, everyone. Happy designing! ✢ Sign up for the Fountn newsletter to receive a weekly dose of design resources delivered to your inbox. → https://fountn.design

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📣 New PRINT release! 📣 Collaborative Software Design, by Evelyn van Kelle, Gien Verschatse, and Kenny Baas-Schwegler. 📚 How do you deal with the social dynamics when designing software with stakeholders? Our latest print release - Collaborative Software Design - is a unique and practical guide for effectively involving all stakeholders in the #SoftwareDesign to ensure sustainable design decisions. Thank you for the quote, Diana Montalion. ❤️ THE LINK IS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION. #SoftwareArchitecture, #CollaborativeModeling #DDDesign #ManningBooks

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Conversational UX design - the specialist discipline - deals with how to make interaction with a digital assistant intuitive and natural. 🤖🌿 We are now able to experience AI communication forms, such as chat, voice or e-mails, in the easiest manner imaginable: with natural, spoken language - just like conversations between humans. 🗣️ A pleasing customer experience pays off in several ways: 🏆 It deepens customer loyalty to the company. 🏆 It promotes customer willingness to buy and pay for products and services. 🏆 It reduces support costs. Are you also captivated by the benefits of Conversational AI? Discover more about it here: https://lnkd.in/dq3murdR And share your thoughts with us below! #conversationalAI #digitaltransformation

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CGI is increasingly vital in advertising and marketing due to its versatility, creativity, and impact. Here are some reasons why CGI is beneficial for advertising and marketing: 1. Visual Appeal High-Quality Graphics: CGI can produce stunning visuals that are often more appealing than real-life images, grabbing consumer attention. Unmatched Creativity: It allows marketers to create imaginative and visually striking content that wouldn't be possible with traditional photography. 2. Cost-Effective Long-Term Savings: Though the initial cost can be high, CGI eliminates the need for costly physical sets, props, and locations, reducing long-term expenses. Reusable Assets: Once created, CGI assets can be reused and adapted for different campaigns, providing more value over time. 3. Flexibility and Control Full Control Over Elements: Marketers can control every aspect of the visual elements, from lighting to textures, ensuring perfect execution of their vision. Adaptability: CGI can easily be adjusted to fit various platforms and formats, making it ideal for cross-channel marketing campaigns. 4. Enhanced Storytelling Complex Narratives: CGI can bring to life complex stories and concepts that might be difficult to convey through live-action footage. Emotional Engagement: It enables the creation of engaging and emotionally resonant content, enhancing the overall storytelling experience. 5. Product Visualization Detailed Product Demos: CGI can showcase products in great detail, highlighting features and functionalities that might not be easily visible in real life. Virtual Prototypes: It allows for the creation of virtual prototypes, which can be used to market products even before they are physically manufactured. 6. Immersive Experiences Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR): CGI is crucial for creating VR and AR experiences, providing immersive and interactive marketing opportunities. Interactive Content: It enables the development of interactive content, such as 3D product views and virtual tours, enhancing consumer engagement. 7.Consistency Uniform Branding: CGI ensures consistency across all marketing materials, maintaining a uniform brand image regardless of the medium or platform. 8. Global Reach Localized Content: CGI makes it easier to create localized content for different markets by simply modifying certain elements, making global campaigns more manageable. Examples of CGI in Advertising and Marketing Automotive Industry: Companies like BMW and Mercedes-Benz use CGI to create photorealistic ads showcasing their vehicles. Fashion: Brands like Nike and Adidas use CGI to create dynamic and visually appealing ads for their products. Entertainment: Movie studios use CGI to create trailers and promotional material that captivate audiences. Overall, CGI provides a powerful tool for advertisers and marketers, enabling them to create visually stunning, cost-effective, and flexible campaigns that captivate audiences and drive engagement.

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Tips of the week: Designers to Follow: Jared Spool and Vitaly Friedman What they have in common? Both will lead workshops during UX Nordic Conference. Do you want to attend those workshops and much more? Send Rafael Basso a DM to grant 10% DISCOUNT. Outcome-driven UX Metrics (lead by Jared Spool) Outcome-driven UX Metrics is a radical approach to creating strategic UX metrics that raise your team’s visibility and increase UX leaders' influence. When you use Outcome-driven UX Metrics, you’ll directly track the user experience improvements your team makes. Outcome-driven UX Metrics focus you, your team, stakeholders, and executives on improving your customers’ and users’ lives. These improvements are so exceptional that customers immediately see the enhanced value, and users see increased benefits. You’ll uncover how you'll: - Align Your Teams to Great UX with UX Outcomes - Reach Your Objectives with Your UX Success Metrics - Achieve Key Results with Your UX Progress Metrics - Eliminate the Costs of Poor UX with Problem-Value Metrics Smart Interface Design Patterns (lead by Vitaly Friedman) Join Vitaly Friedman’s workshop to enhance your UX skills with practical examples and patterns for complex interface design. You’ll learn about multi-level navigation, enterprise-grade tables, advanced search, complex forms, data visualization, expert interfaces, sustainable UX, AI design, accessibility, and more. Plus, you’ll earn a UX certificate and gain access to a toolkit for design and UX research. This comprehensive workshop covers everything from mobile and desktop navigation to designing for various user needs, ensuring WCAG 2.2 compliance, and integrating AI and sustainability into design. Book to read: Inspired - How to Create Tech Products Customers Love. By Marty Cagan (Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group). It is a guide for tech product managers on creating beloved products. It details unique methods used by giants like Amazon and Google, focusing on building effective teams, discovering great products, and fostering a strong culture. The book offers insights from successful companies and personal anecdotes, aiming to boost innovation and customer engagement. This updated edition includes new practices and techniques, making it a vital resource for product managers at any company stage. Published by: Wiley ***Sponsored Content*** #designworkshop #designconference #uxdesign #productdesign #uxnordic

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Insights from Digital Boutique: Quality Service in Action 🚀 Digital Boutique serves as your on-demand Chief Digital Officer, focusing on digital transformation. To meet their high standards, they needed a design partner who could match their expertise, and they found that in Wellevate. 🌟 With a dedicated approach and attention to detail, Wellevate has developed a productive partnership with Digital Boutique. Here’s what Remo Giger, Co-founder of Digital Boutique, has to say: "This solution is absolutely perfect for our requirements, and we sincerely appreciate your assistance. Thank you so much for providing exactly what we needed." 👥 Partner with us and see how our visual design expertise can benefit you. (See the link in the comments to get started.) #DigitalTransformation #Design #Innovation #Partnership #VisualDesign #BusinessGrowth #Wellevate #DigitalBoutique

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🚀 Quick update from Punkt! We've just launched a fantastic new feature for our "Surveys" tool – you can now easily edit question types! We're just getting started! Look out for upcoming posts where we'll introduce even more new question types and a total redesign of the Punkt UX Surveys tool. Our goal is to make our UX as intuitive as possible so everyone can use it effortlessly, leaving behind the old, Excel-looking, cumbersome surveying tools of yesterday. #UXResearch #UXSurvey #UXTool #ContentDesign #UX #PunktHQ

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AI is emerging as a powerful tool, but will it replace designers or work alongside them? Swipe to see how we at Klimter with AI are changing the design game. 🙌📈 Share your thoughts in the comments below! Book a call with us and get your design project started📞 https://lnkd.in/d2pdEJmA #AI #design #ai #uiux #productdesign

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How to simplify complexity with good service design? 🧠 Find out in our new interview with 👽 Sahar Naderi Dive into the intersection of service design and UX research with the new guest of Women in UX series. Sahar is a lead UX researcher, strategist and service designer! ➡️ Swipe right for a quick sneak peek of what to expect or read the full interview on our blog: https://lnkd.in/dmfvcXkQ In this new interview with UXtweak she talks about: - the art of storytelling within research - tips for navigating complex problem spaces and simplifying complexity - intersection of service design and UX research - advice for kickstarting your UX career

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Tips of the week: Designer to follow - Peter Gregersen Join Peter at UX Nordic Conference 2024 and explore the power of sketching. UX Sketching Workshop Are you ready to step away from your digital tools and embrace the tactile world of pen and paper? Turn off your Mac, close Figma and Photoshop, and join us on a pixel-free adventure. What to Expect: Our UX sketching workshop is a dynamic day filled with engaging presentations and hands-on exercises—all done on paper. Together, we’ll explore how simple doodles evolve into low-fidelity prototypes and, ultimately, transform into functional designs using AI. No Drawing Skills Required Don’t worry if you’re not an artist. This workshop is for everyone, regardless of your drawing abilities. Through a series of exercises, you’ll develop a visual vocabulary that empowers you to communicate and visualize elements from your daily work life. What You’ll Learn Sketching Confidence: Grab that pen and start sketching confidently on paper or a whiteboard. Visual Vocabulary: Build your own set of visual symbols and concepts tailored to your work. Low-Fidelity Prototyping: Dive deep into low-fi prototyping techniques to enhance your digital design skills. Materials Provided All participants will receive a sketching pad and a set of sketching pens to kickstart their creative journey. Join him for a day of exploration, creativity, and skill-building. Let’s turn your ideas into compelling models—one stroke at a time! Book to read - Non-Designer's Design Book, The: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice By Robin Williams For nearly 20 years, designers and non-designers alike have been introduced to the fundamental principles of great design by author Robin Williams. Through her straightforward and light-hearted style, Robin has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make their designs look professional using four surprisingly simple principles. Now in its fourth edition, The Non-Designer’s Design Book offers even more practical design advice, including a new chapter on the fundamentals of typography, more quizzes and exercises to train your Designer Eye, updated projects for you to try, and new visual and typographic examples to inspire your creativity. Whether you’re a Mac user or a Windows user, a type novice, or an aspiring graphic designer, you will find the instruction and inspiration to approach any design project with confidence. THIS ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DESIGN WILL TEACH YOU: The four principles of design that underlie every design project. How to design with color. How to design with type. How to combine typefaces for maximum effect. How to see and think like a professional designer. Specific tips on designing newsletters, brochures, flyers, and other projects Published by: PEACHPIT PRESS INC #uxevent #uxworkshop #uxnordic #uxconference #uxdesign

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📸 New Image Search Widget In pre-designed blocks, when you search for images using the Image Library, a new widget with Unsplash, Pixabay and Pexels appears. Select a service, then explore categories or use the search bar to find the perfect image. You can add an image to the block right away or browse all available options first. The widget also includes other third-party stock services offering free and paid images, icons, and image generation tools. Once you add an image, it's automatically optimized. All images in the library are uploaded to Tilda's servers and converted to the WebP format to ensure fast website loading. Where to find: Block's Content → Search photos Have you tried using the Image Library yet? Share your thoughts in the comments! #nocode #design #webdesign #free #freeimages #unsplash #pixabay #pexels

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Having the right tools at your fingertips can make all the difference, right? If you're looking for a new design inspiration hub, we have compiled a list of the top 20 UX/UI design resources that every designer should have in their toolbox! 💡 From wireframing and prototyping to user testing and collaboration, there’s a tool here for every stage of your design journey. For example, take Figma—our personal favourite for real-time collaboration and prototyping. However, if you’d rather leave all the nitty-gritty design work to the experts, we have your back of course. At Elephant in the Boardroom, our UX/UI team is passionate about crafting beautiful, functional, and user-friendly designs that make an impact. Whether you need a website refresh or an app that users can’t get enough of, we are here to help your brand stand out from the crowd. #webdesignresources #webdesigntools #UXdesign #UIdesign #webdesignagency #digitalmarketingagencymelbourne #websitedesigners

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Having the right tools at your fingertips can make all the difference, right? If you're looking for a new design inspiration hub, we have compiled a list of the top 20 UX/UI design resources that every designer should have in their toolbox! 💡 From wireframing and prototyping to user testing and collaboration, there’s a tool here for every stage of your design journey. For example, take Figma—our personal favourite for real-time collaboration and prototyping. However, if you’d rather leave all the nitty-gritty design work to the experts, we have your back of course. At Elephant in the Boardroom, our UX/UI team is passionate about crafting beautiful, functional, and user-friendly designs that make an impact. Whether you need a website refresh or an app that users can’t get enough of, we are here to help your brand stand out from the crowd. #webdesignresources #webdesigntools #UXdesign #UIdesign #webdesignagency #digitalmarketingagencymelbourne #websitedesigners

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Having the right tools at your fingertips can make all the difference, right? If you're looking for a new design inspiration hub, we have compiled a list of the top 20 UX/UI design resources that every designer should have in their toolbox! 💡 From wireframing and prototyping to user testing and collaboration, there’s a tool here for every stage of your design journey. For example, take Figma—our personal favourite for real-time collaboration and prototyping. However, if you’d rather leave all the nitty-gritty design work to the experts, we have your back of course. At Elephant in the Boardroom, our UX/UI team is passionate about crafting beautiful, functional, and user-friendly designs that make an impact. Whether you need a website refresh or an app that users can’t get enough of, we are here to help your brand stand out from the crowd. #webdesignresources #webdesigntools #UXdesign #UIdesign #webdesignagency #digitalmarketingagencymelbourne #websitedesigners

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🎨 New Feature Alert!** Say goodbye to the hassle of switching fonts one by one. With our new Font Preview in the Canvas editor, find the perfect font effortlessly and make your design process faster and more intuitive. Ready to elevate your visuals? Dive in now by logging into your account at https://hubs.li/Q02V-d8Z0. We can't wait to see what you create! #DesignSimplified #FontPreview #ProjectContent

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Is CGI really helpful? CGI can be great for your D2C brand and here is what can be done: 📌Realism and Engagement: With advancements like mid-journey and realistic generative AI, CGI marketing campaigns can offer a level of realism that is almost tangible, drawing viewers into immersive, quirky, and highly engaging narratives. 📌Cost-Efficiency: While large-scale physical production stunts demand monumental budgets, CGI offers a more budget-friendly alternative, allowing for grandiose visions to be realized without the hefty price tag. 📌Eco-Friendly: As brands gravitate towards more sustainable practices, CGI emerges as a green alternative to physical productions, mitigating the environmental impact that large-scale productions can have. CGI is helpful enogh to elevate your beauty brand. #CGI #marketing #campaigns

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What's Your Take on AI Taking Over the Design Industry? 👀🌀✨ AI in the design world: revolutionary or risky? At Techtio, we've got our opinions, but we want to hear yours! Do you think AI will enhance creativity or take over too much? Spill the tea and drop your thoughts below. Let's get this convo started! 👇 #socialmediamanager #graphicdesigner #blogpost #interview #softwaredevelopmet #colours #ux #digitalmarketing #socialmediamarketing #business #seo #branding #instagram #advertising #contentmarketing #marketingstrategy #colour #design #marketingtips #smallbusiness #webdesign #graphicdesign

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Optimize your AI usage with these proven strategies 📽️ We share the relevant skills you need to stay current in the AI landscape in our ‘AI for Designers’ course, link down below. https://lnkd.in/dahs53wJ

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