He spent $70,000 on what???

Instagram is feeling nostalgic

What’s old is new again. Instagram is adding the ability for users to add their favorite song to their profile.

Thankfully this feature doesn’t seem to be coming to Twitter… yet. Design Twitter™️ has enough drama without worrying about falling out of someone’s top 8. Which is the logical next step if this feature gains any sort of traction.

Myspace Tom was truly ahead of his time.

Brb… going to queue up some Sum 41 for old time’s sake.

“This is a company for grown ups”

Well then…

Nothing — the company known for their unique and bold design choices when it comes to physical tech — is requiring their entire 450-person workforce to return to the company’s London offices 5 days per week.

Adding, “Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed”.

Building hardware is… well… hard. So being back in person might make sense. But the cynic in me thinks this is a nice way of trimming some $$$ without having to do an actual layoff.

What else happened this week in design?

Icongate continues.

This is truly a wild one so we will just let you dive in at your own risk.

TL;DR - company pays freelance designer $70,000 for essentially a giant icon pack and never receives the icons. Instead of taking legal action it’s been tossed to the court of public opinion on Twitter.

Procreate makes an anti-AI pledge and the design world rejoices.

“Creativity is made, not generated.”

The Midjourney web experience is now available to all. Cya never Discord.

An 8 year old dunked on everyone still arguing whether designers should code.

Elementary students armed with AI are officially coming for our jobs.

Resources

🤖 Icons for AI is a collections of free 16x16 icons made specifically for AI projects.

📚 Logo System is the biggest logo design library.

👨‍🎨 Fountn carefully curates design resources every week.

🤝 Layers is a place where designers can share, connect and grow.

📢 Noisy Gradients generates retro background/gradients with the click of a button.

Design Dopamine

Dads everywhere rejoice as giant text becomes the new norm.

Apple wallpapers to freshen up your background.

Someone tell me how I should feel about this one…

Design Roulette

We doomscroll the internet so that you don’t have to. Here are the websites that we loved this week.