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Montreal-based illustrator Chiara Xie has developed a distinctive, motion-driven style shaped by her multicultural background, artistic influences, and interest in vitality, and now plans to expand into botanical themes and larger commercial projects.
Will Toulan is a Massachusetts-based digital artist who creates daily renders combining Cinema 4D and AI to produce surreal, cinematic landscapes and structures.
Five international design exhibitions opening this season that explore how creativity, science, innovation, and technology intersect to shape contemporary culture.
User groups in Figma enable bulk sharing of files, projects, and teams, with automatic access granted to all current and future group members. Content can be shared directly through the share modal, streamlining permission management across multiple resources. Groups can also be mentioned in comments and FigJam using @Group name to notify all members simultaneously.
IBM invested in generative AI startup Anima, which specializes in "design-to-code" technology that converts UI designs into functional code using AI. Anima's platform integrates with design tools like Figma and Adobe XD to automatically generate frontend code, helping bridge the gap between designers and developers in the "vibe coding" trend. The investment will help Anima expand its enterprise integrations. The company is already working with major clients like Samsung, Amazon, and Apple to accelerate design projects by up to 50%.
A new leak from Evan Blass reveals that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus will launch in four finishes—Black, White, Blue, and Cobalt Violet—with matching frames and a refined but largely unchanged design, keeping both models visually aligned. Rather than a dramatic exterior overhaul, Samsung appears to be focusing on AI-driven software enhancements as the main selling point, meaning buyers will likely choose between the two based on size, battery, and chip differences rather than color or design.
UX research should challenge assumptions and reduce risk rather than validate pre-made decisions. Start with small sample sizes (5 interviews per segment) to identify critical issues before scaling up. Effective research requires clear goals first, then appropriate questions, methods, and sample sizes, while triangulating both quantitative behavioral data and qualitative motivational insights.
Traditional product design with intentional structure and hierarchy has been replaced by evolutionary development, where teams make hundreds of random changes and keep only the successful ones. Instagram exemplifies this shift, evolving from a simple photo timeline into a chaotic mix of features like Stories, Reels, and IGTV that lack logical organization. This approach eliminates the need for human designers since the process mirrors natural evolution, where variants are generated variants and survivors are selected without conscious planning.
The Museum of Failure debuted in the UK at Packaging Innovations & Empack 2026, showcasing infamous flops like the Tetra Pak Rigello bottle and the noisy Sun Chips compostable bag to highlight how “good” failure—experimentation that pushes boundaries—drives innovation. Founder Samuel West and collaborator Ricardo Campos argue that industries must foster psychological safety, avoid groupthink, and critically manage AI use to prevent costly overconfidence, emphasizing that smart experimentation and learning from mistakes are essential to real progress.
Scaffold is a free platform that lets users build custom AI tools and chatbots without coding or API keys, then embed them anywhere on their site.
Somake is an AI creative suite that generates stunning images and videos from text descriptions or uploaded images, offering over 300 AI-powered tools, including background removal, image upscaling, and video creation.
Dessix.io combines traditional brainstorming and ideation tools with AI assistance. Users can leverage this digital workspace to organize their thoughts and generate ideas more effectively with AI support.
AI literacy involves two distinct skills: prompt fluency (the ability to communicate effectively with AI) and output literacy (the ability to evaluate and verify AI responses). Research identified four user types based on these skills: AI novices (low in both), naive power users (good at prompting but poor at evaluation), skeptical abstainers (good at evaluation but avoid using AI), and AI experts (strong in both areas). Understanding these different literacy levels is crucial for designing inclusive AI experiences that support users across all skill levels.
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith found that creating a single AI-generated Keynote presentation consumed 47% of his monthly Apple Creator Studio limit—far from the “50 presentations per month” Apple suggested—meaning he could realistically make only two, while building an entire app with Xcode's Codex used just 7% of his weekly allowance. The stark contrast, also highlighted by John Gruber, raises questions about how Apple calculates AI usage across tools and whether the advertised limits reflect real-world use.
Figma variables are good at storing values, but fail to show how those values relate to each other or are derived from base values. Most design systems use a few base values that are modified across different states, but Figma variables don't support this composition model. This post proposes a lightweight CMS-like system within Figma that would allow variables to reference shared structures and automatically generate predictable token sets with proper error handling.
Major redesigns trigger user backlash because they disrupt the brain's ability to perform familiar tasks without conscious thought, forcing users to revert to effortful, deliberate thinking that feels exhausting.
The Adobe Creative Collective is a cross-disciplinary group formed to help navigate rapid changes in the creative landscape, particularly around AI.
Autodesk is suing Google over trademark infringement, claiming Google's AI video generator, Flow, will confuse customers with Autodesk's own "Flow" brand of AI-enabled filmmaking tools launched in 2022. Autodesk alleges that after requesting that Google stop using the name, Google misrepresented its intentions and filed trademark applications, even though confusion between the products had already occurred on social media. The company is seeking a court order to block Google from using the Flow trademark and unspecified damages.
Webflow has launched an official connector for Claude that lets users design pages, manage CMS content, and structure websites directly via AI prompts. The connector enables Claude to perform real actions in Webflow, including bulk CMS updates, SEO audits, managing design systems, and applying custom code changes. Users need a paid Claude plan and can configure the connector's permissions to balance automation with oversight for their workflow.
Meta has introduced AI-powered features on Facebook that animate profile pictures, restyle photos in Stories and Memories with text prompts or preset styles, and add animated backgrounds to text posts. The updates aim to boost creativity and help revive “OG Facebook” appeal, as Meta seeks to make the platform more culturally relevant again.
Many design leaders talk about quality and strategy but have lost touch with actual design craft, making them unable to recognize or build good work. While these leaders focus on metrics and facilitating meetings, the real value comes from designers who maintain hands-on skills and can make tangible decisions that improve products. The gap is widening between those who only talk about design and those who actually practice it, with the latter being more valuable in today's fast-moving environment.
Product taxonomy directly impacts user adoption, conversion, and growth across PLG companies. Without deliberate structure (ideally 2-3 hierarchical levels, like Product > Tool > Feature), confusion compounds from pricing pages to analytics, leading to drops in conversion, slower time-to-value, and misalignment across teams. Simple, consistent classification systems enable users to learn faster, teams to build cohesively, and growth to scale without accumulating "clarity debt."
Design leadership is far less about crafting pixels and far more about communication, mediation, justification, and stakeholder alignment — often leaving little to no time for actual design work. AI's biggest opportunity for design leads isn't generating mockups, but reclaiming time through automating meetings, research synthesis, documentation, and quick “vibe-coded” prototypes that help win alignment, de-risk ideas, and free up space for the strategic judgment only humans can provide.
Genstore lets users launch an AI-powered online store in just 2 minutes with a single prompt. The platform offers ready-to-sell products across categories such as fashion, beauty, and home decor.
CreateOS is a unified execution environment where ideas move seamlessly from concept to live deployment and monetization.
Unleash your creativity with IconScout AI's powerful text-to-image generator. Type your idea and watch it come to life.
Linear design emerged from decades of UX research and represents a practical approach to minimalism, featuring monochrome color palettes, single sans-serif fonts, and subtle animations that prioritize usability and accessibility. Unlike brutalism, which uses extreme contrast for bold visual impact, or neumorphism, which creates artificial lighting effects through shadows, linear design focuses on clear boundaries and visual affordances that enhance user experience. Linear design's minimalist traits serve functional rather than purely artistic purposes, making it more effective for usability than other design trends.
Claude Code is a coding agent that executes plain English instructions, enabling designers without coding backgrounds to build and deploy functional apps in days rather than months. This guide covers installation, basic terminal commands, project creation, iterative prompting, version control with GitHub, and live deployment through Vercel. Advanced steps include adding authentication, databases, and AI features using services like Supabase to transform static sites into full web applications.
AT&T's amiGO Jr. is a kid-focused smartphone built with Samsung that gives parents advanced controls over screen time, apps, location sharing, and school-hour restrictions via their own devices. While it offers strong parental safeguards and solid specs, the phone looks like a standard Android device, raising debate over whether a controlled smartphone is better than no phone at all — and whether its design truly feels kid-friendly.
Wondershare's Filmora offers AI-generated video features, allowing users to create videos from simple prompts.
A recent update to a macOS icon collection to include Apple's new Creator Studio family revealed how these app icons have evolved over time.
In “Physics for Cats”, cartoonist Tom Gauld blends thoroughly researched science with absurd cat humor—drawing inspiration from The Far Side—to make complex ideas playful, accessible, and joyfully relatable for both scientists and everyday readers.
Apple will celebrate its 50th birthday on April 1. CEO Tim Cook has promised "some celebration" during an internal company meeting. The details remain unclear, and it's uncertain whether this will be an employee-only event or include public festivities. Apple may release special anniversary accessories, such as themed Apple Watch bands or iPhone cases, though the company could also launch something bigger for this milestone.
The European Commission issued preliminary findings that TikTok's addictive features, like infinite scroll, autoplay, and personalized algorithms, likely violate EU Digital Services Act regulations designed to protect users, especially minors. Regulators claim TikTok failed to assess how these design choices harm users and ignored warning signs of compulsive behavior among children using the app late at night. If confirmed, TikTok could face fines up to 6% of its global revenue and must make design changes.
Apple is reportedly preparing to release the Studio Display 2 soon. It will have a similar design but notable internal upgrades, including a higher refresh rate (90Hz or 120Hz), an A19 chip, mini-LED backlighting, and HDR support. The update is expected in the first half of the year, though pricing and connectivity details remain unknown.
Current AI tools poorly align with good tool design principles: they exhibit high latency with multi-second waits, require text descriptions rather than hands-on control, and impose usage costs or limits. Emerging tools like real-time video manipulation models offer a contrast by allowing immediate interaction, being open-source, and enabling users to shape outputs directly. AI tooling should evolve toward faster, more directly manipulable systems that reduce the gap between user intent and execution, particularly as local models improve.
Generative AI is transforming brand identity from rigid, fixed assets into flexible systems that adapt across contexts. Designers are shifting from crafting individual assets to becoming system architects who define constraints, behaviors, and brand logic. Successful implementation requires establishing a clear core brand DNA, defining what stays fixed and what is flexible, building governance early, and addressing ethical considerations around bias and inclusivity.
UX designers today must understand data and metrics to connect their design work to business impact, beyond just creating intuitive user experiences. They must be able to interpret analytics, question data findings, and understand when quantitative metrics don't align with qualitative user research. The role has evolved from focusing solely on usability to requiring collaboration with data teams and the ability to challenge data when it doesn't tell the complete user story.
The world's most extensive longitudinal study on the role that brands play in driving revenue and creating market value.
Fimo helps teams build motion-first multi-page websites with AI-powered workflows, collaborative editing, and automated publishing.
Honter is a platform that helps designers run design projects like a professional studio with organized workspaces for branding, web, and ongoing tasks.
Typography hierarchy organizes text by importance through size, weight, color, spacing, and position, enabling users to scan interfaces efficiently. An effective hierarchy reduces cognitive load, improves scannability, supports faster decision-making, and enhances accessibility. Common mistakes include using too many font sizes, overusing emphasis, inconsistent styling, poor contrast, and inadequate spacing.
Apple reported record iPhone sales last quarter driven largely by a surge in China, where the new iPhone 17 Pro models' eye-catching Cosmic Orange color—resembling Hermès orange and emphasizing status and luxury—played a key role in boosting demand.
Successful contests require preparation.
The newly revealed Super Bowl LXI logo, which features orange and light blue on a purple background, has reignited fan conspiracy theories that its colors predict the finalist teams and winner, despite the theory being wrong in previous years.
Apple fans discovered that the paper emoji secretly contains the opening line of the iconic 1997 “Think Different” campaign.
Jony Ive reportedly spent years designing the interior of Apple's cancelled car project, and the new Ferrari Luce—created by his firm LoveFrom—may hint at what that vision looked like. The cockpit features Ive's signature design language of precise circles and “squircles,” extensive use of Gorilla Glass and anodized aluminum, and playful details like an E Ink key that symbolically “transfers life” to the car.
Canva has integrated with ChatGPT to automatically create designs that match users' brand colors, fonts, and logos through the Canva Brand Kit. The integration includes features like Guided Presentation Builder and Live Design Preview, allowing users to see and edit designs directly within ChatGPT. This eliminates the need for manual editing after AI generation, enabling users to go from idea to branded design without design expertise.
Mito AI raised $4.5 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to develop AI orchestration tools for video professionals. The platform offers browser-based collaborative tools that integrate AI and audio models with professional editing capabilities, allowing filmmakers and creative professionals to work together in real-time. Mito competes with other AI video platforms from companies like Adobe, Google, and various startups by focusing on a directing-style experience rather than simple editing or prompting.
There's no single correct portfolio format—PDFs, websites, Figma links, and even Instagram can all work—because agencies care most about the quality of the projects, not the platform. Designers should choose the format that best showcases their work (especially motion), keep layouts simple and accessible, and focus on strong presentation, clear rationale, and polished details rather than overcomplicating the delivery method.