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This piece covers what's working today, what's happening, and what new exciting things are happening in crypto. Stablecoins, onchain activity, and Bitcoin as an alternative asset are successful and growing. There has been a recent rise in social-fi and the proliferation of new L2s and L3s. New distribution and parity between the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems are coming.
Arkham announced a $150K bounty for identifying the creator of DJT, leading to a series of events where Martin Shkreli confessed he created DJT along with a group as a pump and dump scheme.
Decentralized social platform Lens Protocol was offered 0.5% of the total ZK supply ($22.4 million) to build in the ZKsync ecosystem.
According to Pantera Capital analysts, Biden's veto of the pro-crypto SAB121 is due to his reluctance to oppose the SEC and Gary Gensler, whom he appointed.
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Snap unveiled a real-time, on-device image diffusion model for creating vivid AR experiences and introduced new generative AI tools for AR creators at the Augmented World Expo. These enhancements, which include a new Lens Studio 5.0 with an AI assistant, aim to make AR content creation faster and more efficient with features like realistic ML face effects, 3D asset generation, and character creation using text prompts.
Linda Tong has stepped up as Webflow's new CEO, bringing her extensive experience and infectious energy to lead the company into its next chapter. Vlad Magdalin, Webflow's co-founder, has transitioned to Chief Innovation Officer and will focus on product innovation and customer engagement. This leadership change aims to enhance the company's growth, collaboration, and execution at a pivotal moment, ensuring the company reaches new heights.
Activist fund Starboard Value has acquired a $500 million stake in Autodesk. The company has raised concerns about the timing of Autodesk's disclosure of an internal investigation that led to the ouster of its CFO. The activist fund is considering legal action to reopen the nominating window for directors. It suspects that Autodesk's board delayed the disclosure to limit shareholder influence.
The US Justice Department sued Adobe for violating the ROSCA act, alleging deceptive sign-up and cancellation practices where the "annual, paid monthly" subscription terms were obscured in fine print and only clearly disclosed during cancellation attempts. The lawsuit highlights Adobe's use of "dark patterns" to manipulate users into costly, hard-to-cancel subscriptions and reflects the government's growing interest in addressing deceptive design practices.
Figma's AI report: Eighty-five percent of designers say AI has enhanced their productivity, mainly through text and image generation or as a thought partner, with a threefold increase in significant workflow transformations reported. However, only a third are proud of their launched AI products, though this rises to 82% among those for whom AI is crucial to the product, indicating a need for teams to focus on collaborative AI solutions for broader impact.
More than usability, Emotional Design is about creating products that people love. Don Norman's three levels of emotional processing, visceral, behavioral, and reflective, guide this approach. Visceral design evokes immediate and positive reactions, behavioral design ensures intuitive use, and reflective design aligns with personal identity. Understanding these can help designers craft experiences that resonate deeply with users, fostering lasting connections.
Discover how color contrast affects people with visual impairments using plugins and simulations to determine accessibility grades for color combinations.
Maxon Studio offers an intuitive After Effects template engine and interface for quickly creating stunning videos. It has customizable capsules for backgrounds, text, motion graphics, transitions, and effects.
Mapify uses AI to transform content into clear mind maps, summarizing documents, images, audio, and more.
Wilkinson Sword, a 250-year-old brand, has rebranded with a modernized logo, simplified brand architecture, and a new tagline, "Since 1772", to celebrate its heritage and differentiate itself in the market. The new logo features a modernized cross-swords design and logotype, while the brand architecture has been simplified for more explicit product naming and iconography.
Many UX job openings seek T-shaped designers with deep expertise in one area and broad knowledge in adjacent fields. However, V-shaped designers who combine deep expertise with curiosity in multiple regions can bridge gaps in UX design. Companies benefit from allowing employees to shape their roles and demonstrate their unique value when applying for jobs.
This case study is about how Atlassian designed and built the Pragmatic drag-and-drop feature — a flexible, efficient solution for web applications that leverages low-level browser primitives to minimize code and ensure a consistent user experience across devices. It offers modular customization and prioritizes accessibility. Its modular nature posed challenges for Figma outputs, which were addressed with practical solutions.
The original DC Comics style guide has been republished with 165 artwork scans and an introduction by Paul Levitz.
British artist Benjamin Shine creates mesmerizing sculptures and installations using tulle, exploring themes like energy and impermanence.
Canon's innovative design allows stereoscopic 3D photos and videos to be taken using existing cameras like the EOS R7 and offers a cost-effective way for professional content creators to explore mixed reality without needing new equipment.
Dr. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, has proposed warning labels for social media due to its supposed impact on teenagers' mental health. However, experts argue that social media should be understood rather than feared. The science on social media's harmful effects is not settled, with critics emphasizing the lack of consistent evidence linking social media to poorer mental health. Murthy cites studies showing adolescents who use social media heavily are more prone to anxiety and depression, but newer research indicates it can also improve mood.
A new study found that viewers' income and likelihood of buying a product were not factors that determined how much it costs to reach them — it's how active they are on the platforms where the ads run. More active audiences command a lower advertising price per impression, while groups that don't tune in as often cost a premium to advertise to. As a result, TV advertisers pay more to reach young men who watch TV infrequently and pay less to reach women and older groups, whereas on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, older audiences can be more expensive to reach. This scarcity factor explains why broadcast and cable advertising revenue largely held steady from 2014 to 2019, even as more people moved over to streaming services.
A case study on Oatly's effective sales copy. Paint a picture of how the product improves customers' lives, beyond the surface-level benefits. Use the same natural writing voice as you use in a blog post so it doesn't come off as salesy. Address objections directly with facts rather than ignoring them. Use conversational words like “we,” “I”, and “you.” Make readers feel good by inviting them in and creating a subtle sense of belonging.
A disruption story clearly outlines the most fundamental pain points your business was created to solve and how you solve them. Unlike typical top-of-funnel content, a disruption story provides the opportunity to sell your product or service, while also creating internal alignment on the core value props of the business. This article walks through how to create one that includes an overarching narrative, an attention-grabbing title, and a captivating introduction.
This method offers a clever tactic for marketers to identify low-competition SEO keywords to try to rank for. Search for a broad keyword topic in Ahrefs or Semrush, then filter by “Lowest DR” to bring up all the keywords where a site with a lower authority than yours ranks in the top 5. Analyze the results to find low-competition keywords that your website could likely overtake.
GTMetrix provides in-depth page speed insights. AlsoAsked is useful for keyword research and finding long-tail keywords. SEOQuake is an extension that uses Semrush data to provide on-page SEO analysis and findings. Google Keyword Planner within Google Ads offers free keyword research capabilities. Keyworddit extracts keywords from subreddits on Reddit.
Creators can now display key metrics to brand accounts on Instagram, including total follower count, accounts reached, and accounts engaged over the past 30 days. This allows brands to directly message interested creators or explore similar ones based on the insights provided.
Amanda Natividad, VP of Marketing at audience research startup SparkToro, grew her X following to 100K and LinkedIn following to 43K using an 80/20 content strategy focused on marketing and personal interests. She advises to target platforms where your audience is active, use tools like SparkToro for insights, and align content with user intent. Concentrate on one platform until it gains traction, engage with influential accounts in your niche, and ensure your bio clearly communicates your expertise and content focus. Repurpose successful content for other platforms while avoiding burnout.
This article identifies six key areas of friction between Product Managers (PMs) and Product Marketers (PMMs) and offers examples and tactics to address them. Common issues include role ownership, involvement in product strategy, launch date changes, performative jargon from PMMs, ICP misalignment, and GTM disconnects. Solutions to avoid these friction points include demarcating the swimlanes, changing the definition of shipping, and introducing PMMs earlier in the process.
Spend 80% of your time on fundamental optimizations, ensure you base them on long look-back windows using offline conversion data, and make global account-level changes sparingly.
Product and brand positioning are interconnected - brands set expectations and distinctions that help position products in the market.
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React 19 RC had changes to its Suspense behavior that caused concerns about performance. The React community's feedback led to a heated discussion, so the React team decided to delay the release to address issues.
Code reflection in Java allows developers to access and manipulate symbolic representations of Java code called code models. Code models are structured as trees, with nodes representing elements like operations, bodies, and blocks. They are stored in Static Single Assignment (SSA) form. Code models are used for things like generating derived code and optimizing existing code.
The CSS Working Group is adding an if() function to CSS that will allow developers to use conditional logic directly within CSS styles. This makes it easier to apply dynamic styles based on custom properties, media queries, or feature support.
This data scientist is frustrated with the current AI hype, particularly from those who lack understanding of the technology. He believes most companies should prioritize improving their operations and culture rather than blindly adopting AI. While AI has potential, most companies lack the expertise and infrastructure to utilize it effectively.
Vercel AI SDK 3.2 introduces new features like agent workflows for complex tasks, new model providers, embedding support for semantic search, and improvements in observability and client-side tool calls.
htmx 2.0.0 has been released. It features changes like the removal of Internet Explorer support and migration of extensions to a separate repository. There are changes to the default settings.
API Fiddle is a playground for REST(ish) APIs. It allows users to design endpoints and specifications for technical documents.
SSDs have a fast read and write throughput, but also suffer from high latency during write operations. To mitigate this issue, database systems use techniques like group commits and asynchronous processing. Enterprise-grade SSDs with capacitor-backed write caches can alleviate the latency problem, but at a higher cost.
This blog post discusses UI/UX trends in 2024, including the use of 3D graphics, complex gradients, 2D illustrations, minimalism, dark interfaces, animations, and characters. Aesthetics should be balanced with user needs, but users are increasingly looking for better-looking designs in today's web apps, especially for consumer-facing ones.
SQLite often gets a bad reputation for production use due to its limitations in handling concurrent writes and its historical lack of backup and replication features, but recent improvements like WAL mode and Litestream have addressed some of these concerns.
‘Git reflog' can be used to recover lost commits in Git since Git reflog is an audit log of everything that you do (to the HEAD reference).