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Google reversed its recent Gboard emoji redesign after removing the dedicated delete button proved unpopular with users during beta testing. The company had previously eliminated the delete icon in favor of a floating action button that only appeared after an emoji was selected. These changes are currently in the beta testing phase before being potentially rolled out to all users.
AI is rapidly reshaping design by automating production and blurring the lines between roles, meaning many traditional design tasks may soon be handled by others—or machines. To stay relevant and lead through this shift, design leaders must act now by redefining their teams, investing in systems, and embracing strategic, AI-literate designers who can operate across disciplines and drive innovation in a fast-changing landscape.
User research often fails to drive change when it's misaligned with business goals, poorly communicated, or lacks follow-through. Still, with the right strategies, it can become a powerful catalyst for impact. By aligning research with KPIs, tailoring insights to stakeholders, simplifying communication, assigning ownership, and integrating findings into decision-making processes, teams can ensure their research doesn't just inform, but transforms.
Form design should minimize the number of required fields by collecting only essential data, as high-friction fields like phone numbers can trigger abandonment due to privacy concerns. Use asterisks to mark required fields, or state "all fields required" when everything is mandatory to reduce visual clutter. Success depends on balancing user motivation against friction: users complete forms when perceived value exceeds the combined cost of effort and privacy risk.
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In today's rapidly evolving creative industry—shaped by AI, tighter budgets, and shifting client needs—being a multi-skilled generalist is no longer seen as a compromise but a major competitive advantage. Clients now favor adaptable creatives who can confidently deliver across disciplines, offering both strategic thinking and flexibility, making them more valuable than ever in a landscape where range equals resilience.
Landor has rebranded Pearson to reflect its transformation from a traditional textbook publisher into a lifelong, AI-powered learning company, emphasizing accessibility, momentum, and purpose-driven education. The new identity features a wave symbol, rounded typography, and vibrant colors to convey continuous growth and human-centered learning, aligning with Pearson's vision to inspire learning across all stages of life.
Successful AI-powered search requires thoughtful UX design that focuses on user trust, control, and clarity, rather than just powerful models. Eight common problems exist in AI search interfaces, ranging from users not understanding capabilities to a lack of fallback plans, and these issues are addressed with corresponding design solutions. The key to great AI UX lies in setting honest expectations, explaining decisions, enabling user control, and designing graceful failure recovery rather than chasing flashy technology.
The new poster for “The Naked Gun” playfully mocks AI's infamous struggle with rendering hands, featuring Liam Neeson with an exaggerated number of fingers and a cheeky disclaimer that "No AI was used."
Chinese graphic designers are pushing back against AI image generators that create an "averaging effect" by enabling easy style copying and devaluing creative work.
Google resumed the rollout of its AI-powered "Ask Photos" search feature for Google Photos after previously pausing it due to performance issues. The updated tool now delivers faster results for simple searches, such as "beach" or "dogs," by showing immediate results while Gemini AI models continue processing more complex queries in the background. The feature is expanding beyond early access to more eligible users in the U.S.
Getty Images dropped its main copyright infringement claims against Stability AI in London's High Court, though the UK lawsuit continues with secondary infringement and trademark claims. Legal experts suggest that Getty withdrew the claims due to weak evidence and jurisdictional issues related to AI training outside the UK. A separate US lawsuit seeking $1.7 billion in damages remains active. The case highlights ongoing legal uncertainties around AI companies using copyrighted content for training.
Figma Make now allows users to import styles directly from published Figma Design libraries, simplifying the process of creating visually consistent prototypes and web apps by generating and customizing CSS files. Additionally, Figma has upgraded its Vector Edit Mode with new tools like Variable Width, Bend, Lasso, and Paint, enhancing precision and flexibility for interface design and illustration.
Overdesign often occurs when aesthetics are prioritized over usability or when UX best practices are misapplied. Common examples of overdesign include unnecessary hamburger menus that hide important navigation and "whiplash" layouts that disrupt the natural reading direction. Underdesign, on the other hand, manifests through poor color contrast and inaccessible typography. UX designers can avoid overdesign by conducting thorough research, presenting content in a way that aligns with users' natural reading flow, ensuring that accessibility fundamentals are met, and questioning whether design elements serve real purposes beyond aesthetics.
A seasoned product designer outlines 14 logic-driven guidelines for improving user interfaces, emphasizing that effective UI design relies on structured principles rather than artistic intuition. They illustrate these tips through a before-and-after redesign of a community blogging platform's profile page, addressing issues such as spacing, contrast ratios, button hierarchy, and accessibility standards. Key principles include using proximity to show relationships between elements, ensuring sufficient contrast for accessibility, limiting primary buttons to one per screen, and maintaining consistency throughout the interface.
Design is no longer confined to creatives—it's become a core skill across all business functions, with more teams than ever creating visual content thanks to intuitive tools and the growing demand for polished, on-brand communication. As design becomes democratized, professional designers are more essential than ever—taking on strategic roles as system-builders, educators, and brand guardians to empower teams, ensure consistency, and uphold quality at scale.
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Agencies are transforming client relationships by breaking down traditional boundaries and embracing collaborative workflows using tools like Figma. The shift from formal presentations to real-time collaboration allows clients to actively participate in the design process through shared files and continuous feedback. Studios of all sizes now work more intimately with clients across multiple project surfaces, from digital interfaces to physical products, creating stronger outcomes through transparency and trust.
Most design teams make product decisions without truly understanding whether features are seen, desired, used, or delivering value. The RAAEE framework—Reach, Attractiveness, Adoption, Effectiveness, and Engagement—offers a clear, data-driven way to evaluate feature performance and align design choices with real user behavior and business impact.
Amid the noise of bold Y2K visuals, a quiet movement rooted in Japanese minimalism is reshaping global design, favoring calm, space, and intention over clutter. This neo-minimalism, inspired by cultural ideals like ku, ma, and wabi-sabi, blends simplicity with meaning, guiding brands toward clarity, sustainability, and human connection in everything from packaging to furniture.
Metals, the New York-based design studio founded by Eddie Mandell and Chase Shewbridge, specializes in creating visual experiences for music industry clients, including Sabrina Carpenter, FKA Twigs, and Model/Actriz.
Named after "beautiful foolishness" from a Japanese poem, the Sigma BF mirrorless camera embraces radical minimalism with its bare aluminum unibody and stripped-down interface, prioritizing fundamental photography elements over conventional features.
Google's Doppl is an experimental AI app that creates digital versions of users to try on clothing from photos or screenshots virtually. Users upload full-body images and then select outfits to see how they'd look, with options to generate videos and share the results. The iOS and Android app, currently available in the U.S., builds on Google Shopping's virtual try-on technology, focusing on personalized body visualization rather than displaying clothes on diverse models.
Figma has introduced a variable-width stroke vector editing tool that allows users to adjust stroke width at any point along a path in both Figma Draw and Design. The feature enables pressure-sensitive drawing on tablets, automatically adjusting stroke width based on stylus pressure for more realistic freehand drawing. This enhancement makes digital drawing in Figma more responsive and natural for tablet users.
The Apple Sports app has been updated with a redesigned home screen that allows users to reorder leagues and prioritize starred teams, along with the addition of live tennis scores just in time for Wimbledon. The tennis experience includes detailed match stats, court visuals, and support for Live Activities on iPhone and Apple Watch. The app remains limited to users in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
Technology has matured to the point where new devices bring only minor improvements, making it possible to prioritize timeless design and material quality over always upgrading. With older devices remaining functionally viable, it's now easier to choose products for their aesthetic and durability.
Apple's new “Liquid Glass” design in iOS 26 marks its most dramatic visual shift since iOS 7, replacing static flat design with a dynamic, glass-like material that bends light, reacts to touch, and conveys depth through motion and translucency. More than just visual flair, this approach introduces a new paradigm — computational design — where UI elements behave like responsive, living materials, reshaping how designers and developers think about consistency, accessibility, and user experience.
Product designers often struggle to demonstrate impact when their work doesn't directly relate to revenue metrics, such as ROI or conversion rates. This article outlines alternative impact areas, including time savings, cost reduction, process simplification, and improved internal metrics that designers can measure and present to stakeholders. A technique from Leadership Ateliers involves mapping how design decisions create ripple effects across multiple departments, teams, and user personas simultaneously.
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A new rumor from leaker Majin Bu suggests Apple may reposition the Apple logo on the iPhone 17 Pro, moving it below the new rear camera bar instead of keeping it centered. While the claim is unconfirmed and somewhat questionable, similar leaks from case manufacturers have proven accurate in the past, lending some credibility to the speculation.
A developer analyzed Apple's new Liquid Glass effect by breaking it down into layered CSS and SVG techniques, including inset shadows for edge highlights, `backdrop-filter` for blur and color adjustment, and custom SVG filters for light refraction, ripple distortion, and chromatic aberration. While the effect can be convincingly replicated with modern CSS and SVG, it's not fully supported across browsers like Safari or Firefox, and its high GPU cost limits its use to select UI elements rather than full interfaces.
Loading spinners have evolved from symbols of hope into sources of user frustration, representing broken systems rather than actual progress. While spinners endlessly rotate without providing meaningful feedback, alternatives like progress bars and skeleton screens offer users honest, structured information about what's happening. The relationship between users and loading spinners has deteriorated to the point where the spinning icon now triggers anxiety and abandonment rather than patience.
Apple Podcasts is celebrating its 20th anniversary by highlighting its 20 favorite shows from the past two decades and unveiling a clever anniversary logo that doubles as an optical illusion.
Japanese-style fonts offer designers a blend of precision and calligraphic elements, suitable for creating impactful and serene designs in posters, logos, tattoos, and packaging without requiring Japanese literacy.
Key requirements for creating WCAG-compliant infographics include simple layouts, logical organization, appropriate contrast ratios, comprehensive alt text, and responsive HTML/CSS code rather than static images.
Creative Commons' CC Signals is a new framework that allows dataset holders to specify how their content can be used for AI training. It aims to balance internet openness with growing AI data demands. The project addresses concerns that continued data extraction could prompt websites to implement paywalls or access restrictions to protect their content. CC signals will offer legally enforceable tools with ethical weight, similar to existing CC licenses. An alpha launch is planned for November.
Figma Make now allows users to import styling context from published libraries, enabling the extraction of color palettes, typography with custom fonts, and core styling elements. Users can also establish manual guidelines through a guideline.md file to direct how the model creates their Makes. This feature bridges existing design systems with Make's creation process, ensuring consistency across generated content.
Google has redesigned its Phone app with a cleaner, more expressive Material 3 look, simplifying navigation to just three tabs: Home, Keyboard, and Voicemail. Visual updates include larger buttons, smoother shapes, and a new gesture-based system for answering calls. A full rollout is expected in September.
AI is rapidly surpassing human capabilities across domains, from physical to analytical to creative skills, challenging the belief that taste remains humanity's unique advantage. While great taste involves pattern recognition that AI could replicate, the highest form of taste requires cultural courage to champion unfamiliar work and shape new movements. Human agency, the will to act on values and direct AI toward meaningful purposes, is the most distinctly human moat in an age of commoditized capabilities.
The current discourse around AI in design is dominated by fear, status anxiety, and performative noise, turning what could be a moment of shared learning into a toxic race for attention, dominance, and validation. Instead, we need to shift toward healthier conversations grounded in curiosity, nuance, humility, and community — ones that invite reflection, experimentation, and collective growth rather than exclusion and anxiety.
The dominance of the smartphone, largely unchanged since the first iPhone in 2007, is being challenged by AI-driven concepts from tech leaders like Jony Ive and OpenAI, aiming to create more intuitive, screenless, and ambient computing experiences. While some believe we may soon shift to new AI-powered devices like smart glasses or wearables, widespread adoption faces hurdles such as public distrust, privacy concerns, and the lack of a unifying cultural shift, suggesting we may be entering a fragmented tech era rather than a single, revolutionary replacement.
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