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From Web Page to Web Player: How Spotify Designed a New Homepage Experience
After a two-year journey that included more than 10 teams, three design sprints, and four A/B tests, the results validated our hypothesis: changing the Spotify homepage to the web player would better serve our users who want to listen to audio and would grow Spotify’s business.
On Spotify Design
ESPRIT - Refresh of one of world’s most iconic fashion brands.
The design strategy is built around Esprit’s three core brand attributes—“joyful,” “authentic,” and “effortless.” The identity is designed with a built-in flexibility that can be dialed up or down on a spectrum of simple to bold, depending on the context of the communication.
On Pentagram
New Logo and Identity for Qualcomm
Working with Interbrand, Qualcomm has established a new brand strategy to engage [new] audiences, optimized the expression of their portfolio to better position their complex purpose-built platforms, and updated how they go to market with a cohesive approach across their businesses. This strategy also laid the foundation for a refreshed identity, expressing an openness and approachability that mirrors the way technology has become a more accessible, seamless part of people’s lives. The visual elements and voice highlight Qualcomm’s role in the innovation landscape—always in context of real world application, always at the center, and always powering and improving from within.
On Brand New
Uber Rebrand 2018
A tech startup turned global mobility platform in eight short years deserves a holistic brand system that’s instantly recognizable, works around the world, and is efficient to execute.
On uber.design
★ How to Write Project Case Studies for Your Portfolio
Writing case studies might be the most dreaded part of building a design portfolio. After all the work and time it takes curating projects, designing pages, saving out images, etc., who wants to actually sit down and EXPLAIN it all? But next to your About page, case studies are the most important part of your portfolio.
By Tobias Van Schneider on vanschneider.com
★ marks a special series of posts. They’re not design case studies per se, but they’re usually important, helpful or fun, and related to the blog topic.
A look behind the scenes of Adobe Portfolio — at the product design, specs and styleguides
By Andrew Couldwell
Building the Google Photos Web UI
A few years ago I had the privilege of being an engineer on the Google Photosteam and part of the initial launch in 2015. A lot of people contributed to the product — designers, product managers, researchers, and countless engineers (across Android, iOS, Web, and the server) to name just some of the major roles. My responsibility was the web UI, and more specifically the photo grid.
We wanted to try something ambitious and simultaneously support a full-width (justified) layout, preserve the aspect–ratio of each photo, be scrubbable (ie let you jump to any section of your archive), handle hundreds-of-thousands of photos, scroll at 60fps, and load near instantly.
At the time no other photo gallery supported all of this, and to the best of my knowledge they still don’t. While many other galleries now support some of these features they usually square crop each photo to make the layout work.
Here is a technical write up about how we solved those challenges, and a peek under the hood of how the web version of Google Photos works.
By Antin Harasymiv on Medium
Smart calendar for traveling salespeople
I recently took part in a UX/UI Design challenge where the idea was to design a calendar which is smart enough to accommodate meeting times based on every user’s schedule, accounts for changing timezones and proactively working for the user to make sure they are on time for their meetings. The piece expands on the design process and details out how use cases and edge cases were tackled in this short sprint.
By Kanwar Arora on UX Collective
Design Systems at GitHub
Design systems have become core to the way we design and build at GitHub. Since 2011 GitHub designers have documented UI patterns and shared common styles. In 2012, CSS and other assets were packaged up into a Ruby Gem for use in GitHub websites — this package was named Primer. Primer continued to be used internally for years before eventually having its CSS and accompanying documentation open-sourced as Primer CSS. In 2016 the design systems team was formed with its first full-time employees. This post shares a brief history of how the team grew, what we’ve been working on, and what’s next.
By Diana Mounter on Medium
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
The development of the user interface for a large commercial software product like Microsoft® Windows 95 involves many people, broad design goals, and an aggressive work schedule. This design briefing describes how the usability engineering principles of iterative design and problem tracking were successfully applied to make the development of the UI more manageable. Specific design problems and their solutions are also discussed.
On Socket 3
An MVP to help simplify nurse scheduling
Carta creates software for the healthcare industry. We worked together from scratch to create an MVP nurse scheduling tool (web app) to be used at the surgical center at Stanford Children's Hospital.
By James Stephens on jstephens.design
The Making of Apple’s Emoji
When design leads to friendship, and that friendship leads back to design, magic happens. This is the story of how an intern and her mentor designed Apple’s original emoji set and together changed the way people communicate around the world. It was also a project that led them to become lifelong friends, a key ingredient in the success of these tiny icons.
By Angela Guzman on Medium
Best of 2017
★ UX Writing: How to do it like Google with this powerful checklist 64 notes
Atlassian: Behind the Scenes of Our Bold New Brand 46 notes
Redesigning Adobe’s File Type Icon System Language 42 notes
★ Flat Design. History, Benefits and Practice. 26 notes
Uber - Perfecting the Pickup 25 notes
Building a New Illustration Style for Shopify 24 notes
Uber Navigation 24 notes
Designing the new Flipboard 23 notes
From concept to reality: rebranding Google Squared 22 notes
★ Tips & tricks for tongue-tied designers 21 notes
Happy New Year!
★ Google Map’s Moat
How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? Over the past year, we’ve been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London—but some of the biggest differences are outside of large cities.
On justinobeirne.com
★ marks a special series of posts. They’re not design case studies per se, but they’re usually important, helpful or fun, and related to the blog topic.
Creating new features for guests with disabilities
As designers and researchers, it’s our job to know our community and its needs. Focusing only on most or some of our guests goes against our company’s vision of creating a world where everyone can belong. To design effectively, we need to continually question our assumptions and find ways to remain aware if and when our solutions don’t work for everyone.
By Nanako Era, Jake Hytken and Chris Arvin on airbnb.design
★ Tips & tricks for tongue-tied designers
Here’s a fairly long list of things that have helped me improve my design communication skills. Some of these are very basic, some of these are very detailed, and some of these are very specific to my own communication style. I’m sharing it all because I had to learn through making lots of mistakes, and I haven’t found similar documentation online. Most of it has been shaped by my experiences working with product-focused tech companies, but some of the broader points can translate to design projects for all types of industries.
★ marks a special series of posts. They’re not design case studies per se, but they’re usually important, helpful or fun, and related to the blog topic.
By Carolyn Zhang on loremipsum.ueno.co
Hello Class
"Hello Class" — A product experience for primary and secondary school teachers to effectively learn and remember names and faces of all their students in a shorter time. It serves as an add-on to support day to day teacher-student interactions without hinder. To remember names and faces easier, it uses voice technology for voice recognition and voice search input. Secondly, it relies on having more profiling of each student's characteristics and background.
By Ee Venn Soh on eevennsoh.com