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✦Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery✦German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews✦macOS Container Machines✦Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars✦Google Chat icon tweaked to look less like Google Messages✦I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works✦How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund✦Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI.✦RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon✦Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare✦Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion✦The App Store is going to add subscription bundles soon✦If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know✦Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases✦Apple says it may remove apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users
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Design Tools

27 stories curated in design tools.

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A smaller screen needs a different story

Adapting a website for mobile often requires a different design approach, not just making elements smaller.

25 May·5 min read
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Everyone’s a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking.

Most people on LinkedIn strive to be thought leaders, but few actually think, instead relying on AI-generated content.

25 May·2 min read
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AI in Design Report 2026

Designers are rebuilding their tools, craft, and teams around AI in 2026.

25 May·15 min read
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The interface is no longer the product

The interface is no longer the product, as AI agents will interact with apps rebuilt around structured representations.

25 May·8 min read
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After automation

AI automation paradoxically creates more, not less, work for humans by commoditizing explicit expertise and increasing demand for unique human contributions.

25 May·32 min read
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html.to.design — New Chrome extension feature

A Chrome extension converts websites into fully editable Figma designs with a companion Figma plugin.

18 May·5 min read
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Defense against dishonest charts

Understanding chart anatomy and visual encodings helps defend against dishonest charts.

18 May·12 min read
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theSVG

TheSVG offers a free open-source library of over 6,030 brand SVG icons for developers and designers.

18 May·5 min read
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How the pursuit of optimisation reshaped art, aesthetics and us

The pursuit of optimisation has reshaped art and aesthetics, prioritising frictionlessness and legibility in design.

18 May·9 min read
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A catechism for robots

A catechism for robots outlines guidelines for artificial intelligence to make decisions and interact with humans in a helpful and ethical manner.

18 May·8 min read
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The text is not the product

Academia's focus on text production is being reevaluated due to generative AI's ability to create coherent text.

15 May·7 min read
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Emotion Explorer

Emotions are mapped on a valence-arousal space for exploration.

15 May
Sidebar.io
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Still Night: A painting you can play

Researchers found that brightness in colors and sounds evokes similar emotional responses, with bright colors and sounds feeling happier and darker ones feeling sadder.

15 May·1 min read
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Sidebar.io
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The duality of language models in the browser

Small language models in browsers offer a private and energy-efficient alternative to large models.

15 May·6 min read
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Sidebar.io
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How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

Claude Code can follow a design system in Figma by binding values to it through specific skills.

15 May
Sidebar.io
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AI slop is killing online communities

AI-generated content is flooding online communities with low-quality work, driving up noise and making valuable content harder to find.

14 May·9 min read
Prototypr.io
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Doing Design Right

Doing Design Right is a UI/UX course focused on practice through redesigning a complex application with an outdated UI.

17 May·1 min read
Prototypr.io
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Feedback Wizard

Feedback Wizard is a Figma plugin that provides AI-generated design feedback to improve UX and UI designs.

17 May·1 min read
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Typr Editor

Typr Editor is an open-source, customizable rich text editor for React.js, built with Tiptap.dev, offering content management and user state features.

17 May·1 min read
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Loop

Loop is a macOS application that streamlines window management, allowing users to move, resize, and arrange windows efficiently using a customizable radial menu.

17 May·1 min read
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Aider

Aider is an open-source, AI-powered command-line tool designed for developers to collaboratively edit code in their local git repository using an interactive terminal interface.

17 May·1 min read
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Uimagine.io

Uimagine.io generates design and code from ideas through AI prompts, creating working React components from text or screenshots.

17 May·1 min read
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Owl AI

Owl AI leverages GPT-4o and Dalle-3 to generate unique logos from text descriptions, refine hand-drawn sketches, and create variations of existing designs for creators.

17 May·1 min read
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Motiff

Motiff is an AI-powered UI design tool featuring automated tasks and collaborative interface design capabilities.

17 May·1 min read
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