Fabio Franchino

The Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech recently released “Taking Responsibility in the Age of AI: The 2024 Institute of Design Report.” This report was informed by interviews with 29 design leaders, who identified five key challenges that other design leaders need to address for the field to remain relevant and effective. But how does a disruptive technology affect design leadership - and the design capabilities that activate value? The program also hosted an online discussion facilitated by Mark Jones with senior design leaders Kevin Bethune, Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, Katrina Alcorn of Accenture Song, and Robert Fabricant, Co-Founder and Partner of Dalberg Design. Come with me to a discussion about the recent Writers Guild of America strike attempts to move to design up the macroeconomic ladder, the "Figmaization" of design activities, and seven critical skills for emerging design leaders to prepare at the executive table and manage their design team capabilities that benefit from AI integrations. A conundrum of uncertainty : Designers taking responsibility in the age of AI https://lnkd.in/gciDJie2 Thank you, Matt Mayfield, Chris Bernard, and Natasha Kallish, for reviewing this article and your constructive comments. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Reading Time : 30 minutes Level of Difficulty: Moderate #designleadership, #iitdesign, #artiicialintelligence

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Accessibility doesn’t have to be expensive. It's the late implementation that drives up costs. I’m thrilled to partner with Sarah Massengale to host a transformative workshop on creating #accessible #design_systems. If you want to learn how to prioritize accessibility from the start, making your products more inclusive and saving resources in the long run, this is the perfect workshop for you. Here’s a peek at what we'll cover: 🔹 Define accessible user stories and acceptance criteria 🔹 Design accessible components and experiences 🔹 Conduct user research with participants with disabilities 🔹 Create accessible prototypes tested by screen reader users 🔹 Collaborate and hand-off accessible components with developers 🔹 Leverage #DesignTokens for accessibility Learn more from Sil Bormüller's post below.

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Serious? I gave a talk on Empirical Software Design & Tidy First yesterday. I got a question about how Rich Hickey advocates doing some "serious" design first. I'm afraid I interrupted the questioner. There's nothing inherently serious about speculative design. Empirical Design is serious--you're making design decisions in context. You're making decisions in the flow of features. You can't afford to break the current behavior. Serious! But I'm sorry I interrupted the questioner.

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I ❤️ designing controlled experiments. But while the A/B tests are quietly running, I also ❤️ experimenting with electronic music (call them time-series experiments to be fair). Latest signal-noise exploration here: https://lnkd.in/geaPXtfu #elektron #melodic #electronicmusic #synths

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The role of design is evolving... From this paper on "Framing design as conversations about systems" https://is.gd/BXDzt6

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At the Community of Practice Innovated by Design we imagined and researched the possibilities of scheduling a doctors appointment with a simple text message using zero UI. Here’s how John Maeda predict the exciting challenges of designers in a world of AI. ‘Agentic UX uses AI agents to make service design actionable. But in order to get there, you have to break free from the idea that AI technology is just for chat. AI technology can be used for much more by using something called a function-calling model, which most people have not heard of. In my 2024 Design in Tech Report, I put a spotlight on the function-calling model, which will likely result in a world where zero UI is completely possible. Meaning no user experience needs to be made by a human being. It can be generated on the fly.’ An absolute must read for every designer!

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While working with AI based design projects this may come as a way finder to establish our design decisions for generative AI user experience. We're hopeful to see more laws and slowly adapt to new design rules. #userexperience #AI

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New Tutorial! This time out I'll show you how to create a reusable circular loader in Lottielab and ProtoPie. This is the first of new tutorials that focus on the whole range of new no-code interaction design tools. I'll be focussing on single tools and also blending tools together. The ultimate goal for me isn't just to show you how to use these tools but also ways to use them on real projects in real workflows. Check out the full tutorial here: https://lnkd.in/eNg_fz7m #lottie #protopie #nocode #tutorials #uxdesign #interactiondesign

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Design system principles: a foundation for reusability | by Beau Ulrey | May, 2024 | Medium https://lnkd.in/d2drsJv4 #designsystem #reusability #ux

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REMINDER: We're LIVE in 40 minutes! Just a quick reminder that Piccia Neri and I will be going live in 40 minutes — 11:00 AM EDT/5:00 PM CET — to show you how to lead with accessibility first, get buy-in from team and bosses more easily, and increase conversions at the same time.   So if you haven't registered, it's not too late: Head here and sign up — at the very least, you'll get access to the replay if you can't make it. ;-) Register here (for FREE): https://lnkd.in/eKcci-wh #a11y #AccessibilityForAll #AccessibilityMatters #WebAccessibility

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🚨 Learn how to create #accessible #DesignSystems with Sarah Massengale and Marcelo Paiva 🗓️ Sept 9+10 Online 👉🏻 2 day workshop 🔓Limited spots only! 👉🏻Reserve your spot: https://lnkd.in/dWctaCn2 This workshop teaches you how to create accessible #DesignSystems and components from the ground up. Over the course of two days, we’ll cover the fundamentals and advanced techniques of accessible design, ensuring that product owners, user researchers, and product designers can plan, architect and design high-quality systems that are usable by everyone. What you will learn: 🔹 Define accessible user stories and acceptance criteria 🔹 Design accessible components and experiences 🔹 Conduct user research with participants with disabilities 🔹 Create accessible prototypes and test them with screen reader users 🔹 Collaborate and hand-off accessible components with developers 🔹 Leverage #DesignTokens for accessibility What's included: 🌟 Live Q&As with Sarah Massengale and Marcelo Paiva 📼 All recordings 🏆 Certificate of attendance to boost your CV Hosts: Sarah Massengale, a blind technologist, who will give participants firsthand insights into the challenges and solutions for designing experiences with #accessibility in mind. Sharah serves as Able SC’s Community Access Specialist, where she assists in preparing accessible documents, facilitates accessibility training, and ensures that websites and other digital content are accessible and inclusive. Born totally blind, Sarah has over twenty years of lived experience with disability perspectives and access technology such as screen readers. An IAAP certified CPACC, she loves training and engaging with organizations about digital accessibility. Marcelo Paiva, the creator of the WCAG plugin for Figma (https://lnkd.in/d7SrJkH5). Marcelo is an accomplished professional in the field of User Experience (UX) and Accessibility, currently serving as the Accessibility Lead at the Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data. Marcelo specializes in developing accessible design systems and experiences, and advocates for integrating accessibility considerations early in the design process. ⏰ Time & Schedule This workshop is split over two days. The workshop sessions will run on the following days: Monday, September 9, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET (6PM - 10 PM CEST) Tuesday, September 10, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET (6PM - 10 PM CEST) Join us for a transformative learning experience that will equip you with the skills and knowledge to design truly inclusive and accessible digital products. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from accessibility experts and ensure your design systems are usable by everyone. 👉🏻 Secure your spot today: https://lnkd.in/dWctaCn2

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Good advice / actionable insight

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Honest UX talks is my go-to UX podcast to listen to when washing the dishes or doing some mindless tasks. Anfisa Bogomolova and Ioana Teleanu just launched a new episode, recorded live at the Hatch Conference in Berlin. This time, they discussed design market predictions, and, as always, I find their opinions refreshingly down-to-earth. The market is changing, and the design profession is in need of a makeover.

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Even if AI is kind of becoming the new UI, let's not forget about essential design principals, Apple still the best for this. Newly released Apple Developer videos on YouTube are a treasure trove of design insights #AI #UI #Design

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Vitaly Friedman’s (typically excellent) post https://lnkd.in/ehguxtQu reminds me of a particular, perennial risk with design systems. As a business continuously grows and evolves, meanwhile system adoption and absorption viably keep pace, demands on the system and its maintainers will never decrease, only increase. This is not a bad thing—rather, it is the price of success. The system becomes the product at a fundamental substrate level. At this point the product being sold, the people doing the making and selling, and the processes of these activities, can all suffer due to resource starvation of the design system. The business itself may suffer—after all, the user interface is everything a customer sees, interacts with, and thinks of as the product. If a design system is the main vector of accessibility, suffering may extend beyond usability into significant contractual and legal waters. There are sharks in those waters—best to avoid. Don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with your design system investment. Productize and scale its resources with understanding and preparation for what success means, and be ready for it. Thank you. #DesignSystems #Accessibility

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I appreciate this rapid overview of documenting a refactor design using a whiteboarding application. https://lnkd.in/eM_sj_J2 I like Miro, but Whimsical or FigJam also can be used for starting out with the system arch and collaborating with the product trio or quad to identify existing issues and decide which ones to handle. Succinct and well done.

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