Issue 51: Post quantum-led growth

Tips for transferring design to development; The role of UX design in the "Product-Led Growth" strategy and so much more!

Hello, dear readers! 👋

In this issue, among other things:

• Tips for transferring design to development

• The role of UX design in the "Product-Led Growth" strategy

• Comparison of Shape builder vs Pathfinder tools in Illustrator

• Simple but important idea about the key role of constant practice

• How interaction with real-world objects can be implemented using AR

• Templates for creating user personalities

• Webflow and Microsoft announced AI assistants

• Interactive website about the basic principles of animation

• Tools for generating patterns

• How Quantum Computers Break The Internet

Enjoy reading!

📌 This is worth noting

Coffee illustrations by Alessandra Olanov from Brooklyn.

🗞 News and articles

Designing A Better Design Handoff File In Figma

Ben Shih has prepared tips for transferring design to development, which will reduce misunderstandings between the designer and the developer. It describes the process of communication, layout and prototype design, export, documentation, as well as the use of plugins and other subtleties.

Designing A Better Design Handoff File In Figma — Smashing Magazine

This article provides practical tips for improving the handoff process between design and development in product development. The guidance covers effective communication, documentation, design details, version control, and plugin usage.

Smashing MagazineBen Shih

Product-Led Growth and UX

NNGroup was told about the product strategy of attracting and retaining customers "Product-Led Growth", which is aimed at increasing the number of users due to the quality of the product itself. As a rule, as part of this strategy, users are offered to try and evaluate the product before buying it.

The authors of the article described the pros and cons of the strategy, its varieties and performance indicators, and also explained why UX design plays a key role in its success and why UX solutions need to be linked to the key metrics of this strategy.

Product-Led Growth and UX

Product-led growth is a try-before-you-buy business strategy. Successful product-led growth relies on strong product utility and usability.

Nielsen Norman GroupBruce Tognazzini

To be creative, practice

A cool motivational article by Paul Jun, editor-in-chief at the Collins Agency. Paul analyzes a simple but important idea about the key role of constant practice in the career of any person. As examples, he cites the stories of famous choreographers, athletes and writers who, thanks to their perseverance and consistency, have achieved significant results.

In addition to the importance of daily practice, Paul points out the main obstacles that prevent us from practicing and gives advice on how to overcome these obstacles.

Main obstacles:

• Internal resistance arising from the fear of failure

• Perfectionism and the desire to make everything perfect right away

• Lack of ritual, habits

• Lack of love for your work (it's hard to practice what you don't like)

To be creative, practice

I didn’t consider myself creative until my mid-twenties. I played sports my entire life and failed at school. What has helped me—and continues to—is to look at creativity as a daily practice. To do something repeatedly until I change who I become.

COLLINSPaul Jun

⚡️ Briefly

Comparison of Shape builder vs Pathfinder tools in Illustrator. The author of the article analyzed different scenarios and usability, and also described the pros and cons of each of the tools.

Shape builder vs pathfinder

In Adobe Illustrator, the shape builder tool and the pathfinder panel can both add and and subtract segments of overlapping shapes. They’re predominantly used to create complex shapes from simple ones.

Bjango

Augmented Reality UI Speculation. Luke Wroblewski reviewed the main scenarios for using augmented reality and told how interaction with real-world objects can be implemented using AR.

LukeW | Augmented Reality UI Speculation

Augmented reality has the potential to bring digital actions and information to the real world. But what user interface paradigms could help make this a reality…

LukeWLuke Wroblewski

User Interviews has compiled a selection of 54 templates for creating user personalities, as well as for using Jobs to Be Done and other mental models.

54 Templates for User Personas, Jobs to Be Done & Other Mental Models

Use this comprehensive list of 54 templates for user personas, jobs to be done, and other mental models to visualize research findings for stakeholders.

Lizzy Burnam

Calm Referral Strategy: Drive Viral Growth With Simple Rewards. Growth Design analyzed the system of achievements and referral links in the Calm meditation application and talked about how it helps to increase the number of users.

Calm Referral Strategy: Drive Viral Growth With Simple Rewards

Calm is trying to democratize meditation, and they’re doing it with seamless referral tactics. Discover all their tricks in this growth case study!

Growth.DesignLouis-Xavier Lavallée

New technologies

Microsoft announced Windows Copilot, a personal assistant based on Bing AI and GPT—4, which will be built right into Windows 11. In addition to the usual AI functions, the assistant will be able to perform tasks within the operating system itself. For example, you can ask him why an error occurs, and he will help you fix it. The beta version of the assistant will gradually become available to Windows 11 users from the beginning of June.

The company also introduced a library of AI models and APIs that will help developers create their own applications for Windows with artificial intelligence.

Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 – unlocking a new era of productivity for customers and developers with Windows Copilot and Dev Home

The team and I are pumped to be back at Build with the developer community this year. Over the last year, Windows has continued to see incredible growth fueled by Windows 11 adoption. In fact, one of the mo

Windows Developer BlogWindows Developer Blog

Webflow has announced the launch of new AI-based features in the coming months. New AI tools will allow:

• Perform a smart search for tips on the database of lessons directly in the editor

• Create custom templates based on a text query

• Generate code snippets, styles, components and parts of interfaces

• Create and edit content, including dynamic content in CMS

• Perform SEO optimization

• Automatically generate alt tags for images

• Translate content into different languages

• Generate images

Bringing the power of AI to Webflow | Webflow Blog

At Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. That mission is about to get an AI supercharge.

WebflowVlad MagdalinCo-founder & CEO

A group of German researchers together with Google has developed a method for editing generated DragGAN images. It allows you to flexibly adjust the objects in the picture, changing poses, position, emotions, environment and other details. Works with animals, people, cars, landscapes and other objects.

At the time of publication, the technology is at the stage of closed beta testing.

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

Synthesizing visual content that meets users’ needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial networks (GANs) via manually annotated training data or a pr…

Xingang Pan

🧘 Inspiration

Branding

Infinite Love Marathon Concerts. A pleasant style of music festival with unusual abstract illustrations of flowers and modern typography.

Behance

Beams. The brutal identity of the art space for events with unusual procedural typography. Especially for the project, the authors have made a generator that allows you to flexibly adjust the effect of text repetition.

The Beams | Only Studio

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