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Meet Ritmo, Musixmatch’s cross-platform design system

When Musixmatch initially embarked on its music and tech industry journey, it established itself primarily as a music player.

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Working on the BCWA new identity

Case study for a weighlifting logo redesign.

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How to design giant robots in shooters

A comprehensive War Robots retrospective.

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Redesigning navigation with a user-centric approach

We will detail every step we took in designing this new navigation menu component, and share our main takeaways about the whole experience.

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Inclusive Design’s next wave breaks for mental health

Our toolkit for designing with cognitive diversity extends into wellbeing.

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Behind the design: A deep dive into Aptos

Journey through the design process for our new default font.

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Introducing Spectrum 2: Our vision for the future of Adobe experience design

A preview of the comprehensive update coming to Adobe’s design system.

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Seeing the Systems in EdTech

How complex systems like buildings, software, & education are composed of interconnected layers that change at different speeds.

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Trust the Process

The Smith & Diction Identity Process.

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Save Our Libraries: a GIPHY Arts Q&A With Ari Farley

In 2021, Tennessee-based artist Ari Farley faced a life-altering decision: should she leave her job at a science camp to pursue art full time?

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52 things I learned in 2023

This year I worked on fascinating projects and learned many learnings.

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An updated illustration style for Document Cloud

Untying the trefoil knot icon to create a visual language of continuous motion.

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Behind the scenes of creating a new Web Accessibility Annotation Kit

We want to share how we built these tools and the insights we learned along the way.

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The Nintendo Ads You’ve Never Seen

A study of idyllicism, 癒やし (iyashi) & knowing your audience.

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Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you.

Trying to prove your value or justify your presence to organizations that are not ready to listen is being set up to fail.

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The Power of Variable Fonts

An Interview with Jason Pamental.

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Designing for Older Adults

Have your parents ever come over and asked for your help with one of their electronic gadgets?

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Photoshop is now on the web

Bringing Photoshop to the web represents an enormous milestone in bringing highly complex and graphically intensive software to the browser.

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Living Color: Designing through synesthesia

How a design director’s experience with synesthesia influenced her learning in design.

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Tabletop RPGs Have a Design Debt to Pay

How bad design haunts us.