New keyboard suggestions from the Gboard team for 2025 https://blog.google/intl/ja-jp/products/android-chrome-play/gboard-2025  Gboard is a keyboard app for smartphones and tablets that offers excellent conversion capabilities, as well as convenient features such as themes that allow you to use your favorite photos as backgrounds, voice input, and translation functions.  The Gboard team is dedicated to providing you with the ability to type the way you want, anytime, anywhere. For example, the handwriting input feature makes it easy to type even the elusive \( ˆoˆ )/ or other difficult characters you may not know how to read. We have proposed a variety of keyboards and input devices to create a unique text input environment. And today, we're introducing a new DIY keyboard that you can actually build: the Gboard Dial Edition. We realized there was one action missing from previous keyboards: rotation. This keyboard revisits the traditional typing, pressing, and tapping actions, and allows for text input by rotating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4   Simply insert your finger into the beautifully positioned keyhole in the innovative circular design and turn the dial. The curved operation method and the nostalgic buzzing sound of the keyboard will lead you to a new typing experience. If conventional dial input were adopted in its current form, the increase in the number of keys would result in an increase in size and a decrease in rotation speed, but this was resolved by arranging the main dial in three layers. The result is a dramatic reduction in size, three times faster speeds, and parallel inputs.   Various function keys and cursor keys are provided as independent dials, making them ideal for use with the character dial. The enter key and number keys are designed to fit comfortably in your hand. Dial input prevents erroneous input and ensures reliable input. The time it takes for the dial to return allows for a calmer thinking and input experience.   We are considering continuing to develop color variations to suit different tasks and preferences, frill covers that match a calming room, and mouse stands and curled cords for expansion devices. Up until now, keyboards have relied primarily on pressing. That's not to say pressing is bad, but after taking a step back and thinking about it, I came up with this nostalgic yet new keyboard.  https://stacker.news/items/1250927

New keyboard suggestions from the Gboard team for 2025 https://blog.google/intl/ja-jp/products/android-chrome-play/gboard-2025  Gboard is a keyboard app for smartphones and tablets that offers excellent conversion capabilities, as well as convenient features such as themes that allow you to use your favorite photos as backgrounds, voice input, and translation functions.  The Gboard team is dedicated to providing you with the ability to type the way you want, anytime, anywhere. For example, the handwriting input feature makes it easy to type even the elusive \( ˆoˆ )/ or other difficult characters you may not know how to read. We have proposed a variety of keyboards and input devices to create a unique text input environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4        https://stacker.news/items/1250927

New keyboard suggestions from the Gboard team for 2025 https://blog.google/intl/ja-jp/products/android-chrome-play/gboard-2025  Gboard is a keyboard app for smartphones and tablets that offers excellent conversion capabilities, as well as convenient features such as themes that allow you to use your favorite photos as backgrounds, voice input, and translation functions.  The Gboard team is dedicated to providing you with the ability to type the way you want, anytime, anywhere. For example, the handwriting input feature makes it easy to type even the elusive \( ˆoˆ )/ or other difficult characters you may not know how to read. We have proposed a variety of keyboards and input devices to create a unique text input environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4        https://stacker.news/items/1250927

Smart one from @deSign_r: "Light and Shade: exploring creativity’s AI conundrum". Protects what words cannot. Function meets #designtips & #creativity: https://stacker.news/items/1250921/r/deSign_r

@deSign_r shares "IKEA Museum - Time travelling with IKEA catalogues from 1951" - bringing beauty to life. Dynamic #design & #creativity. https://stacker.news/items/1250922/r/deSign_r

IKEA Museum - Time travelling with IKEA catalogues from 1951 https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/  For over 70 years, the IKEA catalogue was produced in Älmhult, constantly growing in number, scope and distribution. From the 1950s when Ingvar Kamprad wrote most of the texts himself, via the poppy, somewhat radical 1970s and all the way into the scaled-down 2000s – the IKEA catalogue always captured the spirit of the time. The 2021 IKEA catalogue was the very last one printed on paper.  https://stacker.news/items/1250922

Light and Shade: exploring creativity’s AI conundrum https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/editors-letter-exploring-creativitys-ai-conundrum-light-and-shade-digital-220925  **Light and Shade: exploring creativity’s AI conundrum** As AI systems advance in unstoppable motion, the creative industry faces an era of rapid change. We give pause with Light and Shade, a series interrogating the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the AI-creative conversation. In early 2022, I saw something weird on the internet. Martin McAllister, a Cannes Grand Prix winning ECD, was using (what was then) rudimentary AI to draw other people’s “dream careers” on (what was then) Twitter. That account, thankfully, is still available to explore here. At the time, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion were in their early stages, and many generative AI platforms were still in beta. Generated drawings like this had begun cropping up online and, at the time, I could think of no better use of AI technology than Martin’s job bot. It was funny, frivolous and bizarre. AI, I thought, has been completed.    https://stacker.news/items/1250921

Vision from @Scoresby: "Fedi App redesign". #Presentation transforms ideas into poetry. Persuasive #art for #designer & #cretive #brains. https://stacker.news/items/1250611/r/deSign_r

Smart one from @deSign_r: "Making useful filters". Protects what words cannot. Function meets #designtips & #creativity: https://stacker.news/items/1250280/r/deSign_r

ZEEKR unveils new 001 design refresh with 900V architecture, 7-minute charging https://electrek.co/2025/10/06/zeekr-001-design-refresh-900v-architecture-7-minute-charging  Chinese EV brand ZEEKR has announced a new design refresh to its flagship 001 EV model – the second in as many years. This latest upgrade to the 001 features ZEEKR’s 900V architecture, enabling better performance and some of the fastest charging speeds we’ve seen. The interior also appears quite cozy, allowing for a starry night setting on the panoramic roof. If you know anything about the EV brand ZEEKR, you’ve probably heard of the 001 shooting brake EV. The flagship EV initially debuted in April 2021 and found early success in China before expanding its availability to new markets in Europe. By 2023, the 001 has contributed to 64% of Zeekr’s annual global sales, including a high-performance quad motor variant called the 001 FR that was introduced in 2023. However, ZEEKR began selling a new model called the 007 in January 2024, which immediately overtook the 001 in popularity. As a result, ZEEKR introduced a 001 refresh in February 2024, which offered customers new, lower-priced trims, plus improved performance. Even after the refresh, ZEEKR’s other models, like the 007 GT (which features newer tech at a lower price), continue to outsell the 001. So, ZEEKR has gone back to its design lab and introduced yet another 001 refresh for 2025, a much bigger overhaul.   https://stacker.news/items/1250289

Making useful filters https://uxdesign.cc/making-useful-filters-24a841dc4aab  ## Filters can make or break your UX, and designing them is not as straightforward as you might think. A lot has been written about filters in the context of the user’s journey, complex enterprise software, UI patterns, and UX patterns. Surprisingly, there’s little to nothing written for designers about the logic of how filters work, outside the realm of engineering articles. Which is a shame, given how important they are for the user’s experience. If you don’t understand the logic behind how filters affect results, your designs will be limited to just visuals, you’ll be shifting a critical part of the user experience to engineers, and you won’t be able to discuss tradeoffs if needed. https://stacker.news/items/1250280

@deSign_r brings wisdom: "THE STACKER (a remastered horror movie poster)". Authentic at its finest. Get inspired by its #designThinking: https://stacker.news/items/1249489/r/deSign_r

@deSign_r contributes "Designing agentic loops" to the minimal conversation. Less is more, #simplicity is law. #KISS Experience with #designThinking & #creativity: https://stacker.news/items/1248872/r/deSign_r