Issue 82

WELCOME

The last issue of 2023! Being Designerly 82 contains carefully curated content to help you think, feel and act like a designer. Read about the designerly behavior of experimenting & iterating, Google's Year in Search, a day-in-the-life-of a Figma designer, India fighting against deceptive design, Black Friday shopping using a screen reader, visualization of the most innovative countries of 2023, AI tools, and LI's ideas for 2024.

A big THANK YOU for allowing me in your inbox this year! Wishing you a happy holiday season, a wonderful new year, and see you in 2024!

FEATURE

Being Designerly: Experiment & Iterate

The habit of experimenting early and often and improving until it is perfect is a more successful approach than trying to perfect an idea before releasing it, only to find out that it fails. Everyone can use this method of experimenting and iterating to learn, improve and come up with a better result faster. Try that with your new year's resolutions for 2024!

CURIOSITY

Google's Year in Search

Explore the searches that shaped 2023, from Google Trends. The lists are based on search terms that had the highest spike this year as compared to the previous year.

Curious about it? I found out that the most searched parks are in NYC and Colorado.

A day in the life: a product designer at Figma

This has nothing to do with the headlines of the week about the Figma acquisition not happening. Natasha Tenggoro is a product designer at Figma, well known for its collaborative tool for interface design. She describes her day, from making meetings fun to launching Figma's new AI tools.

VISUAL

Visualization: The Most Innovative Countries in 2023

This visualization shows the most innovative countries in the world, based on the 2023 Global Innovation Index (GII) put together by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

For the 13th consecutive year, Switzerland was named the world’s most innovative country.

What's a design expert's verdict on Minnesota's new state flag?

Ted Kaye, who wrote the 2006 guidebook "'Good' Flag, 'Bad' Flag," gave Minnesota's new state flag design an "A" and called it excellent.

UX

Dark Design Patterns Catalog

New regulations from the Government of India prohibit the use of 12 common dark design patterns (a better way of wording these is deceptive design patterns). These sneaky practices are unethical applications of established UX knowledge to make interface designs that harm users instead of helping them.

INCLUSIVE

Holiday Shopping with a Screen Reader: A Black Friday Experience

Discover accessibility challenges faced by one screen reader user on Black Friday. Read about the importance of creating an inclusive shopping environment.

TOOLS

New Google Labs Design Includes AI Tools For Search & Creativity

Google introduced a new design for Labs.Google, highlighting AI experiments for search, creativity, and productivity. Read about the 12 AI experiments demonstrating the future of generative AI in search, productivity, and business.

INSPIRATION

34 Big Ideas that will change our world in 2024

Every December, LinkedIn editors ask the LI community of Top Voices and experts to share the Big Ideas they believe will define the year ahead. The result is 34 ideas that reflect on where we’ll go from here — at work, at home and beyond.

UNTIL NEXT TIME

Until Next Year...

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