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02OPINIONS & TUTORIALS

SLACK CONTENT DESIGN IN THE AGE OF AI

Slack's AI-drafted UI copy is almost indistinguishable from human work, and content designers are uniquely equipped to close the trust gap that "almost" opens. When Slackbot appeared to leak private information that was actually hallucinated, the team redesigned the UX to fetch correct data and explain why LLMs hallucinate. Three tenets guide the work: trust is the product, human judgment is irreplaceable, and language is infrastructure for AI agents.

slack.design8 min read

BUILDING A GENERAL-PURPOSE ACCESSIBILITY AGENT—AND WHAT WE LEARNED IN THE PROCESS

An experimental general-purpose accessibility agent piloted at GitHub has reviewed 3,535 pull requests with a 68% resolution rate. It gives engineers real-time guidance in Copilot CLI and VS Code, and fixes straightforward issues before code reaches production. A parent agent directs two sub-agents, a passive reviewer and an active implementer, and escalates drag-and-drop, data grids, and rich text editors to human specialists.

github.blog11 min read

IMPERFECTION

A personal website redesign became an excuse to explore deliberately playful details, including fake game cartridges for past jobs, draggable photo prints, paper-like shaders, animated labels, unusual links, and dynamically generated social cards. Many of these touches serve little practical purpose, but that lack of optimization is precisely what makes the process enjoyable and gives the site its personality. Personal projects can create space for experimentation that professional work often removes, making unnecessary details, imperfection, and prolonged tinkering valuable in themselves.

mamuso.dev5 min read

03LAUNCHES & TOOLS

CREATE PHYSICAL PRODUCTS

Create physical products with Autonomyware: everyday objects, complex systems, sculpts, and toys, engineered autonomously from your idea.

autonomyware.aiTool

ENERGY ICONS — ENERGY TRANSITION ICONS

Energy Icons is an open-source library of more than 1,200 icons for energy and climate products, covering areas such as renewables, electricity, transportation, buildings, and decarbonization in two optical sizes and two weights.

energyicons.comTool

04MISCELLANEOUS

TESTING THE IPAD AIR M4 AS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST: DOES IT STACK UP?

The M4 iPad Air's 12GB of unified memory brings it much closer to the iPad Pro for demanding creative work, comfortably handling large Procreate files, 3D models approaching 20 million polygons, and ProRes video editing. Its M4 chip delivers roughly 42% higher single-core and 44% higher multi-core Geekbench performance than the M2 Air, while Apple Pencil Pro support provides the same drawing experience as higher-end models. The iPad Pro still offers advantages such as an OLED display, nano-texture glass, and more memory, but many artists, illustrators, 3D artists, photographers, and video editors may no longer need to pay the premium.

creativebloq.com7 min read

MOTHER DESIGN EXERCISES RESTRAINT WITH NEW M&S PACK SYSTEM

Mother Design has created a restrained packaging system for thousands of M&S Home and Lingerie products by removing competing sub-brands and hierarchies and looking to classic information design rather than other retailers for inspiration. The system standardizes MS London typography, introduces a geometric numeral set called MS London Geo, and uses grids, consistent hierarchy, restrained colors, and color-coded sizing to make complex product information easier to navigate. Packaging materials, photography, and tone adapt between Home and Lingerie while maintaining a shared structure designed to strengthen the M&S master brand and scale into additional categories.

designweek.co.uk5 min read