Cron becomes 'Notion Calendar' 📆

Plus Google launches new ways to search; Recraft's foundational AI model for graphic design; To be creative, be less certain; How noise creates churn ; Thoughts from the latest Vision Pro demos; and more ...

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Cole Derochie
January 18, 2024

🟢 TODAY IS A FAST NEWS DAY

Here’s what’s happening today in design: Cron becomes 'Notion Calendar'; Google launches new ways to search; Recraft's foundational AI model for graphic design; To be creative, be less certain; How noise creates churn ; Thoughts from the latest Vision Pro demos; The biggest logo design library (coming soon); Iconic Iskra wall clock screen saver; Creating a culture of craft; Stefan Sagmeister is on Design Matters pod; These are the Notion icons we deserve; When 2D designers evolve — to 3D; Excellent splash screen presentation.

TODAY IN DESIGN 1896

A Glimpse Within: The First Public Demonstration of the X-Ray Machine.

On January 18, 1896, a significant moment in medical history unfolded as H.L. Smith conducted the first public demonstration of the X-ray machine. This event unveiled a groundbreaking technology that allowed for the first time a non-invasive view inside the human body. Smith's demonstration, coming just weeks after Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, showcased the immense potential of this new form of radiation in medical diagnostics. The X-ray machine represented a leap in medical technology, providing a tool that could diagnose internal injuries and illnesses without surgical intervention. This moment marked the beginning of a new era in healthcare, setting the stage for advanced imaging techniques that continue to be crucial in medicine today.

NEWS

Notion’s new calendar app is designed to keep your meetings organized

Notion wants to be the only app your company uses, and that means winning at meetings.

New ways to search in 2024

We’re launching Circle to Search and an AI-powered multisearch experience to help you search even more naturally.

Can Recraft's foundational model for graphic design swerve the AI controversy?

Controversy continues to surround the world of AI-generated imagery, and even as AI-generated images used in elections became a source of concern this

ARTICLES

If you want to be creative, you can’t be certain

Embracing ambiguity as a superpower.

When (and why) noise creates churn

Do you have a long 'time-to-value', and an orchestra of noise? This might be why your churn is so high.

EyeSight, comfort, and more impressions from my latest demo

Vision Pro pre-orders begin on Friday, and Apple invited me to New York City this week to spend some more...

RESOURCES

The biggest logo design library (Coming soon)

Get inspired by exploring this logo design library. Coming in Q1 2024

Iconic Iskra wall clock screen saver (instructions included)

With a little bit of work, you can turn this in-browser version of the iconic Iskra wall clock into your screensaver.

PODCASTS

Creating a culture of craft

There’s a new design super team emerging at Clerk and in this episode we get a behind-the-scenes from the leader, Derek Briggs.

Stefan Sagmeister

Iconic graphic designer, typographer, author, and educator Stefan Sagmeister joins live on the CreativeMornings stage to talk about his multi-decade, ever-evolving career and his newest book, Now is Better, transforming facts about the state of our world into abstract data visualizations.

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