Amazon Ads Launches New Agentic AI Tool that Creates Professional-quality Ads (5 minute read)
Amazon Ads introduced a new agentic AI tool within Creative Studio that enables advertisers to create professional-quality video and display ads through conversational interaction. The tool leverages Amazon's retail insights and customer data to generate creative concepts, storyboards, and complete ad assets, including animations, music, and voiceovers at no additional cost. Previously requiring tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of development time, sophisticated ad creation can now be accomplished in hours, democratizing high-quality creative support for advertisers of all sizes.
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Meta introduces Vibes, a TikTok-style AI video feed (1 minute read)
Meta's Vibes is a new channel in its AI app and on meta.ai for browsing and creating short AI-generated videos. Users can generate, remix, or enhance clips with music and effects, then share them on Vibes, Instagram, or Facebook, though early reactions have been skeptical. For now, Meta is partnering with Midjourney and Black Forest Labs, with plans to expand tools and collaborations with creators to refine the platform.
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The Productivity Paradox: Why AI Won't Speed Up Creative Work (13 minute read)
AI tools promised to automate tedious tasks and free up creative workers for meaningful work, but creatives report working more than ever with escalating client demands and new forms of digital maintenance. Studies show AI users produce more output but don't gain free time, as market expectations rise to match increased capabilities—a pattern consistent with historical technological advances. Creative professionals find that AI generates endless iterations and removes valuable friction from the creative process, while the most innovative uses emerge when artists reject speed-focused frameworks entirely.
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Ambient Animations in Web Design: Principles and Implementation (9 minute read)
Ambient animations are subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere to web designs without being distracting or intrusive. A recreated Quick Draw McGraw comic cover illustrates how to recognize natural motion cues and apply CSS/SVG animations to elements such as swaying feathers and wobbling characters. Key principles include restraint, smooth looping, accessibility considerations, and layering multiple subtle animations to create a rich visual atmosphere.
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Is imitation theft or apprenticeship? (4 minute read)
In the 18th century, artists and writers learned by imitation before developing their own style, a practice championed by Anna Laetitia Barbauld as a path to originality and by Richard Bentley, who treated style as evidence to detect authenticity. Today, with AI tools accelerating production, we risk losing that process of growth. Instead of judging work as “too AI,” we need clearer guidance, feedback, and systems that help people build their own voice, using imitation and style awareness as stepping stones to true authorship.
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VisualGPT (Website)
VisualGPT enables you to create, edit, and enhance images all in one place. With AI tools for quick design, photo retouching, and creative visuals, you can turn any idea into clear, stunning results.
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Create Good-looking Presentations Quickly (Website)
Modul makes creating presentations easy with unbreakable layouts and styles. Customize colors, fonts, and themes with just a few clicks, while content automatically adjusts to any layout, keeping everything polished.
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Text-Guided Video Editing (Website)
Transform your videos with Lucy Edit AI, a groundbreaking AI video editor that edits videos using simple text prompts—experience professional AI video editing with precision and creativity.
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Designing for Dribbble Killed Real Web Creativity (4 minute read)
Dribbble transformed from a creative showcase into a popularity contest that prioritized visual aesthetics over functional design, training designers to create "portfolio bait" rather than user-focused solutions. The platform fostered aesthetic groupthink through identical gradients and rounded corners, divorcing design from real-world constraints such as accessibility, loading states, and actual user needs. True web creativity requires embracing messy, contextual problem-solving over polished shots that look impressive but fail in practice.
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The Human Side of AI: Mastering Conversation Design in a Digital Age (21 minute read)
We live in a world of instant responses, and conversational design helps businesses meet those expectations by making digital interactions feel natural, fluid, and human. It's not just about chatbots, but about structuring dialogue—clarity, timing, error recovery, and tone—so that every interaction respects user intent, emotion, and action. Done well, it builds trust and connection. Done poorly, it feels robotic and breaks relationships.
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Pentagram creates logo for Austin based on its "natural beauty" (5 minute read)
Pentagram, with TKO Advertising, designed a new $1.1 million city logo for Austin that features green and blue arches forming an “A” to reflect the Hill Country and Colorado River. Intended to replace over 300 fragmented logos and give the city a unified identity, the design has faced early criticism after a leaked low-quality version spread online, though Pentagram says it reflects Austin's independent character and natural landscape rather than traditional state motifs.
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