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WorldBuilder Summit launches awards for user-generated content creators

GamesBeat Summit on May 18-19 in Los Angeles connects gaming leaders and celebrates user-generated content with the inaugural WorldBuilder Awards.

Arts

fromColossal

An Interactive Archive Celebrates the Wide Ranging Projects Inviting 'Unruly Play'

Play fosters creativity, connection, and challenges fixed ideas through interactive and participatory art projects.

Yoga

fromDesign Milk

Basic Space: Designed for Calm, Built for Community

Basic Space in Camberwell is an inviting yoga studio designed to foster inclusivity and community through its thoughtful architecture and materials.

Design

fromDesign Milk

Aesop Presents The Factory of Light Installation in Milan

Aesop's new Aposē luminaire reflects the brand's minimalist aesthetic and is showcased in a unique installation during Milan Design Week.

What improv taught me about why innovation falls out of sync

Coordination among teams is crucial for successful innovation and maintaining a cohesive experience.

Startup companies

Innovation is not magic; it's technique

Marketing

3 days ago

What improv taught me about why innovation falls out of sync

Coordination among teams is crucial for successful innovation and maintaining a cohesive experience.

Startup companies

Innovation is not magic; it's technique

The Living Room Is Tech's Next Battleground

The living room is evolving into a strategic digital space, with TVs becoming integrated platforms for media, commerce, and user engagement.

Renovation

fromwww.archdaily.com

3 days ago

NTH/ Neutral Tactile Habitat / Ply Architecture

NTH by Ply Architecture is a thoughtful addition in Colonel Light Gardens, harmonizing with heritage bungalows while addressing family life needs.

Independent films

fromwww.theguardian.com

The cinema lab: brain activity tracked to find secret to creating immersive films

Researchers at the University of Bristol study audience reactions to films using biometric data to improve filmmaking techniques.

#ai

fromeLearning Industry

Marketing tech

D-ID Launches "Agentic Videos" For Interactive AI Experiences

The Death of Digital Product Design

AI tools have disrupted product design, enabling anyone to create designs quickly without special skills.

Notes from the people building your future

AI-driven job displacement requires thoughtful policy to ensure equitable distribution of prosperity and prevent increased inequality.

fromJonnyburch

I love AI, but it still can't design for shit

AI lacks a critical eye for its own output, leading to poor presentations and accountability issues for users.

Marketing tech

fromeLearning Industry

D-ID Launches "Agentic Videos" For Interactive AI Experiences

D-ID launched Agentic Videos, transforming traditional video into interactive experiences with real-time AI agents for enhanced viewer engagement.

The Death of Digital Product Design

AI tools have disrupted product design, enabling anyone to create designs quickly without special skills.

Notes from the people building your future

AI-driven job displacement requires thoughtful policy to ensure equitable distribution of prosperity and prevent increased inequality.

fromJonnyburch

I love AI, but it still can't design for shit

AI lacks a critical eye for its own output, leading to poor presentations and accountability issues for users.

Don't stop hiring humans - stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisan's founder says | TechCrunch

Every founder must assemble the right team to scale, avoiding hiring mistakes that can jeopardize startup success.

Remodel

fromAol

15 Home Office Design Ideas to Inspire Fun

Transforming a home office with personality and fun enhances focus and productivity.

Samsung's design chief wants tech to feel more human

Samsung is focusing on emotional design to redefine its role in the tech ecosystem.

interview: samsung proves design is an act of love at milan design week 2026

Samsung's exhibition at Milan Design Week 2026 emphasizes the human side of technology, showcasing its emotional connection and creative design process.

Samsung's design chief wants tech to feel more human

Samsung is focusing on emotional design to redefine its role in the tech ecosystem.

interview: samsung proves design is an act of love at milan design week 2026

Samsung's exhibition at Milan Design Week 2026 emphasizes the human side of technology, showcasing its emotional connection and creative design process.

Using Design Systems in Claude Design: How Good Is It?

Claude Design is more effective with design systems imported from GitHub than from Figma.

How to Develop Creative Potential

Creative potential combines original thinking with motivation, growing through knowledge, experience, and small actions that invite ideas and explore options.

Making vs. the machine

Monetizing creativity can lead to sacrificing artistic passion and purpose for commercial demands and metrics.

Education

fromPsychology Today

How to Develop Creative Potential

Creative potential combines original thinking with motivation, growing through knowledge, experience, and small actions that invite ideas and explore options.

Making vs. the machine

Monetizing creativity can lead to sacrificing artistic passion and purpose for commercial demands and metrics.

Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra - and it's actually good | TechCrunch

A new email product, Extra, reimagines the inbox by organizing it around personal life rather than traditional methods.

5 days ago

Claude Opus 4.7 for Product Designers

Opus 4.7 is available across Claude products and its API, with a token cost of $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

Artificial intelligence

Designing with AI without losing your mind

Outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools in design can undermine the quality of solutions and diminish essential skills.

1 week ago

UX design

Rethinking the shape of design teams in an AI world

What AI exposes about design

AI is transforming design by automating tasks, emphasizing speed, and allowing a focus on user satisfaction and meaningful outcomes.

Designing with AI without losing your mind

Outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools in design can undermine the quality of solutions and diminish essential skills.

1 week ago

Rethinking the shape of design teams in an AI world

Organizations must adopt a dual transformation model to balance innovation and foundational mastery in design processes disrupted by AI.

What AI exposes about design

AI is transforming design by automating tasks, emphasizing speed, and allowing a focus on user satisfaction and meaningful outcomes.

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Design

at milan's cinema of dreams, paf atelier immerses viewers in a suspended time capsule

Paf atelier's Cinema of Dreams transforms cinema into an introspective space for reflection and mental projection during Milan Design Week 2026.

Marketing

fromThedrum

Using digital tools to make branding decisions

Branding has evolved into a complex process that utilizes digital tools and data, particularly search engine data, for informed decision-making.

fromSpeckyboy Design Magazine

How design leaders influence decisions without being in the room

Effective design communication requires clear annotations to convey decisions, hypotheses, and outcomes.

Marketing tech

fromMarTech

3 days ago

AI + human ingenuity: Where creative and technical teams meet | MarTech

Balancing AI adoption with maintaining a human brand identity is crucial for successful marketing.

Web design

6 days ago

How AI Could Change Collaboration for Web Designers & Developers - Speckyboy

Connecting with web professionals enhances learning and productivity, while AI is transforming workflows and relationships in the industry.

Vibe Coding Myths Debunked

Vibe coding enables anyone to create products using AI, but quality depends on design skills and critical thinking.

UX design

Spatial vibe coding: prototyping immersive reality with AI

35 minutes ago

Vibe Coding Myths Debunked

Vibe coding enables anyone to create products using AI, but quality depends on design skills and critical thinking.

UX design

Spatial vibe coding: prototyping immersive reality with AI

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6 days ago

Inside Ikea's dream factory: Its prototyping lab (exclusive)

"It would be really hard without this space to make good products, if not impossible," Axelsson says.

Design

Data science

Context matters... A lot

Large language models excel at tasks but struggle with context, leading to potentially misleading answers despite their capabilities.

fromArchDaily

Moving Beyond Metrics Toward Neuroinclusive Daylighting

Neurodivergent individuals experience discomfort from sensory stimuli, necessitating thoughtful architectural design to enhance cognitive comfort through effective daylighting strategies.

'when I go to bed, I go to work': philippe starck describes a design practice guided by dreams

'When I go to bed, I go to work.' Starck describes dreaming as an active method in his design process, where sleep becomes a space for production and innovation.

UX design

fromeLearning Industry

How AI Prompts Are Redefining Creativity In Instructional Design

AI prompts enhance the efficiency and creativity of Instructional Designers in crafting effective learning experiences.

#ux-design

fromSmashing Magazine

The UX Designer's Nightmare: When "Production-Ready" Becomes A Design Deliverable - Smashing Magazine

The role of UX designers is evolving to include technical skills due to AI integration, impacting user experience and design responsibilities.

UX design

The mirage of UX Design's demise keeps coming back

fromLogRocket Blog

UX design

UX designers don't need to be data scientists - but they must challenge data - LogRocket Blog

fromSmashing Magazine

The UX Designer's Nightmare: When "Production-Ready" Becomes A Design Deliverable - Smashing Magazine

The role of UX designers is evolving to include technical skills due to AI integration, impacting user experience and design responsibilities.

The mirage of UX Design's demise keeps coming back

The claim that 'UX Design is dead' reflects deeper anxieties about existence and professional relevance.

fromLogRocket Blog

UX design

UX designers don't need to be data scientists - but they must challenge data - LogRocket Blog

Working in the open

Working in open source enhances design skills through collaboration, user empowerment, and continuous learning.

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

Designers now have the opportunity to redefine their influence and role within companies, moving beyond traditional constraints.

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.

5 days ago

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

Designers now have the opportunity to redefine their influence and role within companies, moving beyond traditional constraints.

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.

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#ai-agents

Designers, your next user won't be human

Every SaaS company will transform into agentic-as-a-service platforms, requiring designers to solve fundamental problems in agent interaction, behavior, and user experience as AI agents become central to enterprise software.

8 months ago

UX design

Who are we designing for now?

Designers, your next user won't be human

8 months ago

UX design

Who are we designing for now?

Oh, but there's one more thing

Designers must address real project challenges while navigating the evolving role of AI in the creative process.

Designing for the invisible customer

The act of choosing in design is increasingly outsourced to digital gatekeepers, redefining the role of design and aesthetics.

Design

Design as a catalyst for wellbeing

Designers finally have a say in the product they design.

AI empowers designers by restoring their decision-making authority in the design process.

Sorry, designers, we don't decide the future of design

Designers do not shape their field; they respond to market-driven changes, especially with the rise of AI in design processes.

1 week ago

Oh, but there's one more thing

Designers must address real project challenges while navigating the evolving role of AI in the creative process.

Designing for the invisible customer

The act of choosing in design is increasingly outsourced to digital gatekeepers, redefining the role of design and aesthetics.

Design

Design as a catalyst for wellbeing

Designers finally have a say in the product they design.

AI empowers designers by restoring their decision-making authority in the design process.

Sorry, designers, we don't decide the future of design

Designers do not shape their field; they respond to market-driven changes, especially with the rise of AI in design processes.

Rethinking design critique

Design critique is essential for designers to build knowledge and confidence through structured feedback and reflection.

Software development

The last interface

AI will make software development so inexpensive that SaaS companies risk self-destruction through commoditization, while simultaneously disrupting the complex user interfaces that knowledge workers depend on daily.

Coffee

The art of unnecessary story

Humorous and intentionally unnecessary website copy on an Amsterdam coffee roastery's site increases customer enjoyment and strengthens brand appeal.

Beyond the user: why design needs to widen its circle

Human-centered design must evolve to consider ecological impacts alongside user comfort and needs.

The old design workshop is dead. Long live design workshops.

Workshops are becoming less effective due to unclear outcomes and lengthy formats, leading to stakeholder confusion and dissatisfaction.

The UX ground is shaking, synthetic users, building perspective

A clear design perspective is crucial; it defines what to exclude, ensuring focus on what truly matters.

Who are we really designing for?

Designing effectively requires distinguishing between the individual User and the collective Customer.

On craft and connivence

Relying on reused, trendy design assets can deliver quick results but leaves work vulnerable when clients demand original, high-stakes creativity.

The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore

Designers must prioritize screen reader compatibility to ensure accessibility, as users rely on spoken content rather than visual elements.

AI's text-trap: Moving towards a more interactive future

LLMs have made AI assistants a standard feature across SaaS. AI assistants allow users to instantly retrieve information and interact with a system through text-based prompts. Mathias Biilmann, in his article " Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters," discusses two distinct approaches to building AI assistants. The Closed Approach involves a conversational assistant embedded directly within a single SaaS product. Examples include Zoom's AI Companion, Salesforce CRM's Einstein, and Microsoft's Copilot. The Open Approach involves external conversational assistants, such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini,

Artificial intelligence

You're not supposed to get it right

Design challenges for UX writers can be intimidating due to the pressure of making quick, impactful decisions and the emphasis on visual elements.

Human-Centred Design has grown up. It's time we did too.

Technology must prioritize human needs over user convenience to avoid harm.

Design engineers, UX Design's demise, forget your "lovable" products

Design Engineering merges visual design and front-end development, focusing on the intersection of design decisions and technical implementation.

How behavioral science can help persuade our team to do one more user test

User testing is essential to identify usability issues and improve user trust before launching a product.

The Physics of Great UX: Making Digital Interfaces Feel Real

Building a motion system in product design enhances user experience by aligning with human cognitive expectations and physical principles.

Forget your "lovable" products; the real leverage point was always learning.

Learning reshapes the relationship between outputs and outcomes, serving as the true leverage point that design conversations overlook while chasing trending methodologies.

Context engineering: A repeatable AI workflow for product designers

Structuring information systematically for AI improves accuracy and reliability more than adding detail or complex prompts, as AI is highly sensitive to information organization.

fromArchDaily

"Users Are the Experts on Themselves": How People Shape the Spaces They Use

Design should be guided by lived user experience, using research, observation, dialogue, testing, and simulation to prioritize occupants' needs and behaviors.

The natural design process

Design should return to essential, natural practices emphasizing observation and focused problem-solving rather than bloated processes.

Made to create, learning to curate: the designer's dilemma

AI tools promise creative efficiency but simultaneously increase designer burnout and identity questioning, requiring careful attention beyond productivity metrics.

Stop Burying Your Impact: Why Most UX Storytelling Advice Falls Flat

Begin UX storytelling by answering 'Why should they care?' and choose the appropriate story type rather than defaulting to common frameworks.

Field study: prototypes over mockups

Engineering handoff occurs through PRs using runnable prototypes that reuse the design system components and tokens, enabling engineers to reuse components and reference prototype code.

5 design principles to feel fully alive

Meaningful life emerges through daily design practices and experiences rather than one-time discovery, with aliveness and human potential exceeding what any single lifetime can express.

The most popular experience design trends of 2026

Designing for intent, Machine Experience (MX) design, improved prompts, and AI-generated design systems will underpin hyper-personalized AI user experiences in 2026.

When design stops asking why and starts asking "can AI do it?"

The question dropped into the Slack channel before the user research summary. Before the problem was clearly defined. Before anyone asked if users actually needed this feature. Your product manager already generated three interface options in ChatGPT. Now they're asking which one to build. Not whether to build. Not why to build. Which. And when you slow the conversation down to ask those questions, you're about to discover that strategic thinking now reads as bottleneck behavior.

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