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AI's real value lies beyond flashy outputs like art or essays. It can optimize business decisions by processing unstructured information flows. AI enables better decision-making and scalability by enhancing how organizations capture, share, and interpret information. Businesses should use AI to augment expertise, not just generate content.
More than just a design step, prototyping is a mindset of exploration and learning. In this post, Charlota Blunarova demonstrates how prototypes can test ideas, spark feedback, and shape life decisions. She highlights how low-fidelity tools and curiosity help guide choices before committing to a final version, from cardboard artifacts to AI-assisted brand sprints.
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Wildish & Co. developed a warm, neighborly brand identity for Ding, a home repair service, using a house-shaped mascot, vibrant colors, and friendly typography. The design aims to make home maintenance feel approachable and personal, setting Ding apart from competitors.
Mid-Century Modern Designers is a new book profiling 300 iconic and lesser-known figures who shaped the midcentury movement.
Dropcity has opened with Prison Times, a provocative exhibition revealing how design shapes prison life.
Koto rebranded Beaconstac as Uniqode, positioning it as an enterprise-ready leader in QR technology.
Figma has introduced several new features, including collapsible layers, inline controls for corner radius, and accessibility contrast tools. Auto flyouts will speed up effect selection, while updates to the file browser aim to improve navigation. Reorderable modes facilitate organization, and annotations will now include color-coded categories. FigJam has gained over 1,700 cloud icons. The new Dev Mode features an eyedropper tool that allows users to copy raw color values, variables, and code syntax.
Final Cut Pro is getting significant updates, integrating Apple Intelligence for AI-generated images via Image Playground. The Mac version is adding color correction for multiple clips, Quantec QRS audio simulation, and improved shortcuts. The iPad version will gain portrait mode, enhanced capture options, and keyboard shortcuts, while Final Cut Camera for iPhone will add telephoto lens support.
Hyundai has updated the Ioniq 6 for 2026 with a sportier and more unconventional design that features squintier headlights and a sleeker front end. A high-performance Ioniq 6 N model, based on the RN22e concept, is also on the way and will be fully revealed in July. While the original Ioniq 6 was a strong Tesla Model 3 competitor, Hyundai is refining its identity in the EV lineup alongside the Ioniq 5.
Adobe GenStudio streamlines performance marketing by integrating creative and marketing workflows. Its success relied on a robust design strategy, aligning stakeholders through research, visualization, and strategic facilitation. Understanding business goals, technology, and future trends helped create an intuitive product. Conviction-building, clarity, and collaboration were essential in driving adoption and innovation.
AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style images have flooded social media, but like all internet trends, this will pass. The real issue lies in copyright debates, intent, and commercialization. AI challenges artistic norms, sparking discussions on monetization rather than bans. Artists must engage as AI-driven creativity reshapes the economy and artistic value.
AI-powered coding has transformed design by removing technical friction, shifting the focus from execution to clarity of thought. Designers must now refine their vision, articulate intent precisely, and embrace a new role as conductors of creativity rather than mere tool operators.
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A growing collection of articles, reports, and hot takes declaring the many deaths of design.
In a roundtable with Microsoft designers, Harold Gomez, Jeremy Knudsen, and Kim Sealls explore 25 years of Windows design evolution. They discussed balancing user feedback with design instincts, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and key design principles.
CO_LAB Theatre Group has unveiled a minimalist rebrand on creativity, accessibility, and inclusivity. With a stripped-back design and the tagline "Everybody's Stage," the new identity highlights diverse theatre talent and personal expression.
UI design relies on both static and interactive components. Badges indicate status or updates, while tags can also serve interactive functions like filtering and selection. Clear differentiation in design and naming prevents confusion. Design systems typically require only badges and tags, ensuring interface consistency and usability.
James Willan blends analog and digital techniques to craft dark, melancholic, yet playful animations inspired by skateboarding, street art, and hip-hop.
A zero-waste lifestyle reduces waste, conserves resources, and minimizes environmental impact.
The Light Phone III rejects addictive smartphone features, offering only essential functions to promote mindful usage.
The new iOS update introduces eight new emojis, but the standout is “Face With Bags Under Eyes,” which perfectly captures the collective exhaustion of 2025. With droopy eyelids, dark circles, and a deadpan expression, this emoji resonates with overworked teachers, burnt-out workers, and tired parents alike. Already making waves online, it's being hailed as the unofficial symbol of modern-day burnout and is expected to become one of the most used emojis of the year.
ChatGPT's new viral image generator, known for Studio Ghibli-style recreations, is now available to free users with limits. Powered by GPT-4o, its rollout was delayed due to demand. OpenAI recently raised $40 billion, reaching a $300 billion valuation, marking the largest funding round for a private tech company ever.
Nintendo has revealed a glimpse of Switch 2's home screen, which closely resembles the original Switch UI with only minor aesthetic tweaks. While there's no confirmation of customization features like those on PlayStation or Xbox, a dark mode option will likely return. Although the UI wasn't the focus of its recent presentation, Nintendo did highlight the console's upgraded specs, new features, and preorder details ahead of its June launch.
The design industry is under financial pressure as rising costs, increased taxes, and cautious client behavior create uncertainty. Industry leaders are noting tighter budgets and a slowdown in hiring. Despite these challenges, many professionals emphasize the importance of collaboration, demonstrating the value of creativity and staying adaptable to meet changing client needs in a shifting economic landscape.
Relying solely on AI-driven "synthetic" user testing can create misleading insights lacking customer context. AI should enhance, not replace, traditional UX research, which remains essential for understanding user needs and behaviors.
Bounding boxes ensure consistency but complicate the pixel-perfect design. Issues like excessive padding and loose gaps arise, requiring overrides. Alternative sizing approaches, such as height-based bounding or inherent width sizing, may improve scalability. Fixed sizes help accessibility but should be defined by the wrapper, not the icon.
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The Center for Art and Advocacy's new identity, designed by Made Thought, balances institutional credibility with artistic freedom to support justice-impacted artists. Centered on the theme, "Empowering creativity that challenges the limits of incarceration," the rebrand includes a flexible logo, adaptive visuals, and a storytelling-driven website.
Effective collaboration between designers and developers requires designers to consider feasibility and developers to understand design intent. Focusing on alignment, implementation, design flexibility, and invisible states helps teams build better products.
Design is embracing fluidity, blurring boundaries between work, home, and leisure. Flexible spaces are redefining offices, retail, and industry, prioritizing adaptability and experience. Derwent London integrates hospitality into workspaces, Rains merges logistics with creativity, and Molteni&C transforms showrooms into lifestyle destinations.
The Refugee Council's rebrand, designed with refugees and Britons, highlights its contributions to society and challenges misconceptions.
Pinterest isn't just for DIY projects - it's a powerful visual research tool for graphic designers.
David Delahunty, known for ‘designershumour,' reimagined Apple's Spinning Wheel of Death as a rainbow-colored Wilson tennis ball.
A leaked Apple Watch Series 10 prototype revealed a new sensor layout with a mysterious "extra light ring," hinting at blood pressure and glucose monitoring experiments. Though these features will be likely delayed, the prototype, running on watchOS 11.1, suggests Apple is still developing advanced health sensors for future models.
Google Slides is enhancing its visual capabilities with Imagen 3 for AI-generated images, a new design sidebar, additional templates, building blocks, an expanded stock library, and proportional scaling. Users can access millions of high-quality stock images and GIFs from an expanded stock library. These updates streamline presentation creation with improved visuals and easier customization.
Runway has launched a new video tool, Gen-4, that helps creators keep characters and scenes consistent across different shots. Users can generate videos where people and settings stay the same from different angles and in various lighting by using just one reference image and a description. This update comes after last year's Gen-3 Alpha release, which allowed for longer videos but drew criticism for how the training data was collected.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2025 offers a professional-grade alternative to Adobe, with strong illustration tools, decent photo editing, and a one-time purchase option. While it provides solid user experience and broad file compatibility, it lacks robust AI features and occupies a middle ground between Adobe's dominance and cheaper alternatives like Affinity.
AI is reshaping UX roles and bringing back the generalist. While specialization dominates large organizations, AI tools enable broader expertise across disciplines. UX professionals are increasingly handling tasks once reserved for specialists, accelerating skill development and shifting focus toward strategic thinking.
Designers should acknowledge AI's growing creative abilities instead of fixating on flaws. AI threatens creative jobs by making high-quality design accessible at lower costs. It will have a disruptive impact on artists' careers. Fair compensation is needed for human creators.
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