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2025 Design Trends

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1. AI-powered design

  • Use to quickly explore ideas, refine visuals, and experiment with a styles.
  • Pushes the boundaries.
  • Some gen-AI tools:
    • Midjourney (image generator: retexturing and personalization – custom model)
    • Adobe Firefly (image generator: history, generative fill, upscale, composition and style references)
    • Magnific AI (upscaling/detailing images, relight, Mystic generator, style transfer)
    • Freepik (video /image generator. Reimagine – fastest variation generator, sketch to image)
    • Dale-E (image generator)
    • Recraft (vector art generator, with other features)
    • Runway (video generator: worlds – sref equivalent, frames)
    • Hailuoai (video generator)
    • Sora (video generator)
    • Wand (drawing with AI on iPad)
    • Vizkom (product design: turning sketches into renders)
    • Visual Electric (infinite canvas, collaboration)
    • Ideogram (generate text, with an infinite canvas, Magic Fill & Extend)
    • KREA (train: create custom gen AI model)
    • Flair AI (generate product photoshoots)
    • Blendbox (layering option for generated images)
    • ChatGPT (writing scripts for Adobe tools, critiquing comps and more)
    • Gemini (generate text)
    • DeepSeek (generate text)

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CNY2024-GreenWoodDragon

龍: dragon

By Chinese Word, colors, Design, Japanese Word, Language-Learning, Layout

龍 [龙] lóng

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: “dragon” radical in Chinese characters

noun
: dragon; imperial; symbol of emperor; (Chinese surname)

Kun Reading

竜 (龍) | たつ tatsu

noun
: dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)​
: naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology​
: promoted rook​ (shogi)

On Reading

竜 | リュウ ryuu or リョウ ryou or ロウ rou

 

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Rules for beautiful UI design

By Design, Language-Learning, UI, web

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credit: UXDesign

1. Understand Audience

  • Culture
  • Industry/Context
  • Demographics
  • Tech savviness

2. Seamless Flow

  • Negative Space
  • Golden ratio/Rule of thirds
  • Clear hierarchy: size, color, space
  • Use grid
  • Focal point
  • Rhythm/pattern: F / Z-pattern layouts
  • Use grid

3. Simplicity

  • Prioritize content. Remove non-essential
  • Organize in clear groupings
  • Flows: logical + predictable
  • Less is more
  • Break huge tasks into smaller steps
  • Optimize load time

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