The population of the giant panda, also called the bamboo bear, probably due to the areas it mainly inhabits, now numbers about 1,800 individuals. Thanks to the joint efforts of environmental organizations and the local community in the places of occurrence, the status of the giant panda species has been changed from the category of “endangered species” to “threatened with extinction”. March 16 is the day of the giant panda worldwide - we decided to celebrate it with a short comment and graphics in the introduction.
In the meantime - a new roundup of industry news below!
Trend Map 2023
The latest, this year's analysis of current megatrends and trends captured in different time perspectives, i.e. Trend Map by infuture.institute is a tool that can be used in many ways. This year's map is about thirty new trends that illustrate the directions in which the world and technology are taking. Progressive digitalization, psychological well-being and loneliness are three of the megatrends that, thanks to the map, can be analyzed in the context of the passage of time and political and social changes.
Effective Product Discovery Workshops
Faced with the challenge of creating a digital product that should meet the needs of users, we realize the importance and necessity of going through the product discovery phase well. This stage is absolutely crucial for the whole process, so it is worth knowing how to conduct workshops effectively and sensibly. Your knowledge and experience in the subject shared by Aneta Orszewska, Product Strategist at Boldare. From the entry you will learn how to prepare for such workshops, who to invite to them and what happens in the later stages, already after the conducted workshop.
The whole village is needed
Co-design, participatory design or co-creation is a working method that deviates from the traditional relationship between the designer and the client. Instead, it takes into account co-design and engages a wider group of people in solving the problem. Co-design is about saving time and building more engagement and relationships with stakeholders. Read the post in which Mihaela Iorga shares her thoughts on why acting alone is not the best solution. Every two heads is not one!
Lorem Ipsum in the age of AI
Is this the end of Lorem Ipsum, the best-known placeholder text? Such a question, in the context of the ever-growing popularity of ChatGPT, asks in the introduction of his article Shubham Agarwal. ChatGPT still arouses a lot of emotions and does not disappear from the headlines of industry portals. The initial fascination with the tool gradually waned when it turned out that ChatGPT could not cope with even conducting fact-checking on its own, which prevented most people from using it in their work. However, it quickly became clear that this tool could be useful in another field and the first textual alternatives to the most iconic phrase appeared: Lorem ipsum.
Web and graphic inspiration
Staying in the news trends for this year, at the very end set of cute and inspiring 3D characters and list of ten innovative trends in web design. Neo brutalism, fascination with VR and anti-design - these are just a few of the whole list of directions of inspiration.
