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Apple has quietly expanded John Ternus's remit to act as executive sponsor for all design, giving him greater strategic influence. Design leaders will still formally report to Tim Cook. The move positions Ternus as a leading internal CEO successor.
San Diego Comic-Con reversed its AI-friendly art show policy after artists publicly protested, now banning AI-generated material from the exhibition altogether. Artists Tiana Oreglia and Karla Ortiz led the backlash, arguing the policy normalized exploitative technology that threatens their livelihoods and diminishes creative spaces. The convention changed its rules within 24 hours, shifting from allowing non-sale AI art with disclosure to prohibiting any AI-created work.
Donald Trump unveiled a new entity called the Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum, complete with a shiny gold logo that closely resembles the United Nations emblem. The near-copy—featuring a gold wreath and a globe reduced to North America—has sparked online ridicule, especially since no official design rationale has been offered.
An inclusive design workshop with the Korea Disability Arts & Culture Center flipped the design process by starting from excluded users—challenging hidden “reference user” assumptions in everyday products and services. By mapping personas, journeys, emotions, and scalability across permanent, life-stage, and situational constraints, the workshop showed that designing for exclusion often creates solutions that benefit everyone and protect user independence.
UX designers face growing pressure to demonstrate business value as AI tools can now generate visuals quickly, making their strategic work appear invisible to stakeholders. Designers must translate their research, user insights, and problem-solving into measurable business outcomes by connecting user behavior to revenue and cost savings. Rather than focusing on visual execution, UX professionals should position themselves as essential troubleshooters who bridge user needs, business objectives, and technical possibilities in an AI-integrated workplace.
AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code enable designers without coding experience to build functional web applications through "vibe-coding". The guide demonstrates how to create a personal portfolio website with AI chat functionality in 48 hours and a growth design tool in 5 days, using a workflow that includes planning with Claude Code, iterating on natural language prompts, and deploying to GitHub and Vercel. Step-by-step instructions cover how to set up these tools, build projects from static sites to full web apps with authentication and databases, and deploy them with custom domains.
Join the premier platform where artists showcase their work and collectors discover emerging talent. Connect with the global art community, build your professional portfolio, and be part of the next generation of art.
Honters is a platform for building workspaces designed around real design work across branding, web, and ongoing tasks.
Cursor AI for Figma bridges Cursor's AI capabilities with Figma via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI-driven design workflows that don't exist natively in Figma.
New convenience brand STORRD has launched its first store in Camden, positioning itself as a radically different, more uplifting take on the “top-up” shop. Working with London agency Among Equals, the brand uses an ultraviolet purple palette, bold logo, and highly legible typography to cut through high-street clutter and make late-night convenience shopping feel safer, brighter, and more enjoyable.
Multimodal UX enables users to interact with digital products through multiple modes like touch, voice, gesture, and vision, working together naturally, reflecting how people actually behave in real-world contexts. This approach improves accessibility for over 1 billion people with disabilities and situational limitations while increasing user satisfaction through choice and control. Successful implementation requires harmonious design patterns, contextual testing in messy environments, and careful restraint as AR, VR, and AI-powered interfaces become mainstream.
Pharrell Williams unveiled Drophaus, a water droplet-inspired "future living concept" created with Tokyo-based Not a Hotel, as the centerpiece of his Louis Vuitton A/W 2026 menswear show in Paris. The compressed glass structure blurs indoor-outdoor boundaries and features the Homework furniture series, designed with intentional "ten percent imperfection" in irregular forms and textured surfaces. Williams' collection explored timelessness through reimagined menswear archetypes, using technical fabrics like reflective yarns and crystal embroidery that evoke water droplets.
Wikipedia has revealed rejected early logo concepts to mark its 25th anniversary.
The best game art is subjective and often nostalgia-driven.
Taekhan Yun's Chair for Kids project transformed children's drawings into functional furniture.