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Effective design management involves helping team members grow by guiding, not controlling, their work. Managers should create a balanced feedback rhythm and understand individual needs for success. Supporting an inclusive practice, adapting to project rhythms, and leveraging empathy and curiosity are key to fostering growth and achieving team goals.
Designing web interfaces directly in the browser offers real-time feedback, ensuring accurate typography, animation, and layout adjustments. This approach enhances flexibility, responsiveness, and efficiency while enabling immediate use of new web standards.
Stuart Wainstock, PUMA's DesignOps and Design Systems Lead, shares his journey from teaching to design, highlighting DesignOps' role in supporting teams and bridging gaps. He discusses PUMA's design system, its implementation challenges, and how cultural shifts, not just tools, drive success.
Snapdeck uses LLM to create interactive web slides in seconds. Just enter your content and audience details to instantly build your presentation with version control and natural language upgrades.
Create more dynamic and engaging animations within designs by animating the anchor points of vector shapes.
With Crosshatch, users share their preferences and history with a tap, allowing you to deliver experiences that feel personally crafted for them.
Eventbrite partnered with BUCK to rebrand as a dynamic events platform, shifting its image beyond ticketing to discovery and hosting. The new identity features an energetic logo, bold colors, authentic photography, and a flexible design system to inspire connection and creativity.
A solo designer can build a design system by collaborating with engineers, starting with core components, and keeping documentation minimal. Focus on simplicity, reuse existing elements, and refine things gradually. Accepting some early inconsistencies is okay, and being flexible is key. Avoid over-engineering and save complex interactions for a later stage.
Effective form design is crucial for a seamless user experience, which can impact conversions and brand reputation. Key principles include clarity, accessibility, user control, feedback, and minimal input. Properly designed forms should be intuitive, logically organized, and responsive across devices.
Atari has released a special sauce collection inspired by classic games like Pong and Crystal Castles.
Jennifer Hines created a pop-up book, Sandwiches: The Inside Story, that explores global sandwich cultures through intricate paper engineering.
Longbottom & Co rebranded with Derek&Eric, adopting a premium yet playful identity with a witty Queen Mary mascot, refined typography, and a vibrant tomato-inspired palette.
AI-assisted coding is making it trivial for anyone to build software quickly, eroding a once-defining moat. Complex code isn't a huge differentiator anymore—so real advantages must come from things like trust, unique data, or rock-solid distribution. This piece breaks down how to steer your product strategy when writing code is no longer a major barrier.
There's a growing sense that AI might eventually develop creative preferences that differ from human sensibilities. Early signs show it praises its own AI-written poetry or text in ways humans might find off-base. While AI isn't matching human literary brilliance just yet, this “AI taste” could lead to new forms of expression and markets we haven't imagined. Engaging with these shifts now might reveal novel opportunities in art and writing.
Inspired by the rigor of public-market quants, some VCs are starting to apply advanced analytics to spot promising startups. With more data on private companies, they can scale their coverage beyond the typical few hundred deals and do deeper checks than the traditional “pattern matching” approach. For entrepreneurs, it means you may face more precise questions around growth signals and market data—and new ways of standing out if your metrics are strong.
If your product-led motion is attracting hordes of free users, how do you convert the most promising ones into paying customers? This guide shares multi-touch sales “plays” from Miro, Unity, and Clay, all of which rely on usage data and well-timed, personalized outreach. It's not about sending generic mass emails, but about noticing signals—like hitting a feature limit or inviting new teammates—and positioning your upgraded plans at precisely the right moment.
Startups should focus on optimizing conversion, engaging communities, and building a following well before officially launching. Collecting contact information ensures direct reach unaffected by algorithm changes. Establishing relationships with journalists and utilizing scalable event models can also amplify launch success.
Yes, and here's why: gross margin sets the upper limit for how profitable your startup can eventually become. Early on, you might focus more on growth than on unit economics, but if it's always expensive to deliver your product, profitability remains out of reach. For AI-heavy solutions, shifting compute costs can make margins unpredictable. Savvy founders calculate how each new technology change impacts the direct cost of offering their service.
AI canvas for designers.
Sendbird AI is a tool that enables proactive customer service across mobile, web, and social channels powered by a platform handling 7 billion monthly conversations.
Airtop Auth is an AI-powered cloud browser that automates web tasks and effortlessly handles authentication for seamless scraping and control.
Developers often obsess over deadlines and functionality but forget how crucial an intuitive, visually coherent design can be. Here's a short primer on building “taste”: follow time-tested UI patterns (like consistent button styles), avoid messy grid layouts, and keep prototypes cheap and quick so you can spot awkward flows early. The reward is a product that feels natural and satisfying, even if users can't put their finger on why.
DeepSeek impressed by training a powerful AI model for $6M using creative engineering, sparking calls for tighter export controls. Its success highlights the ongoing importance of reinforcement learning in post-training, though it is still behind top US models in real-world performance. US labs, with superior resources, continue to lead the push towards AGI, emphasizing the need for robust AI infrastructure and security.
When funding is easy, social-status chasers swarm into tech, hoping to appear as visionary founders.
Zapier's journey shows that staying unusual can give a real edge—like going fully remote years before it became standard or opting for minimal VC funds.
A short reflection on how not all hours in the day are equal: some are bursts of peak energy or creativity that shouldn't be squandered.
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Everybody knows data breaches can cost millions and negatively impact your brand. That's why robust security programs and inbound security reviews are critical to building customer trust. But when lengthy security processes begin stalling deals and creating internal friction, leadership starts to question security's ROI.
Two cybercriminals, Tyrone Rose and Shamara Simmons, were arrested for stealing hundreds of digital event tickets, including for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. They intercepted legitimate StubHub URLs after purchases and resold about 900 tickets for over $600,000. The pair face grand larceny charges and potentially 3-15 years in prison.
ChatGPT Operator is an advanced AI agent equipped with web browsing and reasoning capabilities that can interact with websites on behalf of users. It is vulnerable to Prompt Injection attacks via instructions embedded into text or web content that can cause the model to browse sensitive pages and leak the information to attacker-controlled websites. OpenAI has implemented defenses such as prompting the user for confirmation, but researchers have shown that these mitigations can be bypassed.
Researchers at SquareX Labs developed a new “polymorphic” attack allowing malicious Chrome extensions to steal sensitive data. Once a user is tricked into installing the extension, it scans for password managers, impersonates them, and prompts users to reauthenticate, sending the information to attackers. SquareX Labs has urged Google to restrict extensions' ability to alter their appearance or behavior, but no mitigations currently exist for this attack.
This post details the concepts and tools behind EntrySign, the AMD Zen microcode signature validation vulnerability disclosed last month. It delves into microcode fundamentals, AMD's anti-tampering measures, and the specific vulnerability involving the CMAC hash function. It also announces the release of the Zentool suite, which consists of tools for microcode patch examination, including limited disassembly, microcode patch authoring using a limited amount of reverse-engineered assembly, microcode patch signing, and microcode patch loading.
Grant access to a specific IAM role using the Principal element of the resource-based policy, an AWS account using the Principal element, a particular IAM role in an account using the AWS:PrincipalArn condition, and an entire AWS organization using the AWS:PrincipalOrgId condition. This post includes an example scenario with an S3 bucket and discusses tradeoffs associated with each method.
Palo Alto's Unit 42 is monitoring a new malware known as Auto-Color. Upon startup, if the malware is not named Auto-Color, it will try to install a malware implant that imitates libcext.so. It also copies itself to /var/log/cross/auto-color and adds this library to ld.preload. Besides its command and control capabilities, the harmful library implant uses custom encryption and strives to conceal network communications by hooking into libc's open function.
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Organizations have been using SIEMs for decades — but the needs of SOC leaders and practitioners have changed dramatically.
Aryon scans the cloud application and infrastructure for security issues or policy violations before deployment. If any issues are detected, the platform alerts the developers with suggestions for resolving the problem.
copa is a CLI tool written in Go and based on buildkit that can be used to directly patch container images given the vulnerability scanning results from popular tools like Trivy.
CaptainCredz is a modular password-spraying tool with a cache mechanism and fine-grained timing control.
Badbox Android botnet was disrupted by a coordinated effort by Google, Human Security, and others to stop the compromised devices from talking to C2 servers. It was distributing malware through compromised Android-based TV boxes.
The UK government took down encryption advice from its websites shortly after requesting backdoor access to Apple's iCloud. The National Cyber Security Centre has stopped recommending encryption for individuals at high risk of being attacked.
UK Government's Digital Security by Design (DSbD) is championing technologies like CHERI to improve memory safety to add hardware-level memory safety that could work with existing C/C++ codebases. CHERI provides extensions to hardware ISAs to enable fine-grained memory safety.
The US Justice Department has charged APT27 hackers with conducting global cyberattacks on government agencies since 2011.
Scammers used AI deepfake technology to impersonate YouTube's CEO in a phishing scam targeting content creators.
The U.S. Secret Service seized the domain of sanctioned Russian crypto exchange Garantex with the DOJ's Criminal Division, FBI, and Europol.
Canadian airlines are adjusting their marketing in response to U.S. tariffs. Porter Airlines paused U.S.-focused advertising after consumers called it “tone-deaf” but is keeping fares low to maintain demand. Flair Airlines used the tariffs as a marketing opportunity, launching a “Tariffic Flight Deals” sale with 25% off non-U.S. routes. Meanwhile, Air Canada is shifting focus away from certain U.S. leisure markets.
Americans are generally uncomfortable with personalized ads, with 54% saying targeted ads make them uneasy. The discomfort rises with age, peaking at 62% among Gen X and Boomers, and 59% cite browsing history-based ads as the most intrusive. 52% say opt-out options would make them feel less concerned and 44% have already turned to ad blockers.
Hinge finds and selects influencers through social listening, internal recommendations, and creator referrals to build a curated partnership network. The brand adopts an open-ended briefing process, giving influencers clear guidelines while allowing creative freedom to enhance authenticity. Success is measured beyond cost-per-metric performance, with a focus on audience demographics, engagement quality, and comment sentiment to drive long-term brand impact.