Google Unveils Substantial Updates to its Stitch AI Design Tool for UI/UX Designers (2 minute read)
Google has introduced major updates to its Stitch AI design tool, including an "Annotate" feature that lets users add visual notes processed by Gemini AI for context-aware changes, a "Theme" feature for managing design systems, and "Interactive" capabilities for prototyping user flows. The updates enable direct exports to Firebase Studio, aiming to streamline workflows for UI/UX designers and product teams working on rapid prototyping. These enhancements position Stitch as a potential competitor to established platforms like Figma, particularly for teams already using Google's ecosystem.
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Bringing Design Creation to AI Workflows: Create with Canva Inside ChatGPT (4 minute read)
Canva launched full design creation capabilities inside ChatGPT, allowing users to generate, preview, and edit designs without leaving the conversation. The integration includes bulk text editing across entire presentations, instant translation into multiple languages, and full-screen design previews—all controlled through natural language prompts. This builds on Canva's earlier deep research connector that enables searching and summarizing existing Canva content, making it one of the first visual design platforms to offer native, action-based integration within AI assistants.
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Apple spotlights Designers of Tomorrow in debut exhibition at Design Miami.Paris (5 minute read)
Apple is partnering with Design Miami for the Paris edition of the fair to launch “Designers of Tomorrow,” an exhibition curated by Rodman Primack that spotlights four emerging international designers who use iPads in their creative process. Selected by a jury including Apple's Alan Dye and Molly Anderson alongside renowned designers and curators, the initiative aims to showcase fresh, technology-driven perspectives in design, with the chosen designers to be revealed when the show opens on October 21 at L'hôtel de Maisons in Paris.
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Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles (9 minute read)
The Inclusive Design Principles provide people-centered guidance for design decisions that fall outside WCAG's technical scope, helping determine whether interfaces are inclusive and usable. The seven principles—providing comparable experiences, considering situations, being consistent, giving control, offering choice, prioritizing content, and adding value—can be applied across any digital interface from websites to AR/VR environments. These principles help product teams embed inclusion from the start while improving usability for everyone, serving as a framework that bridges the gap between compliance standards and thoughtful, user-centered design throughout the entire product development lifecycle.
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It's not too late for Apple to get AI right (10 minute read)
OpenAI now lets users run third-party apps directly in ChatGPT, hinting at a new kind of app platform. However, Apple's upcoming AI-powered Siri overhaul could rival it by integrating similar capabilities natively into the iPhone. With control over hardware, the App Store, and user privacy, Apple may be better positioned to modernize how people use apps in the AI era despite Siri's lagging reputation.
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Designers need to think more like artists (5 minute read)
John Spencer argues that art and design are not separate but intertwined disciplines, both rooted in human emotion and meaning. In his book “Blurred Lines”, he urges designers to think more like artists—challenging convention, embracing emotion, and resisting formulaic, data-driven work—to create design that resonates deeply, transforms the functional into the memorable, and preserves the humanity lost in algorithmic standardization.
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Library for Accessibility Testing (Website)
Accented is a frontend library for continuous accessibility testing and issue highlighting. Add a few lines of code to your web app, and you'll see interactive callouts appear next to elements with accessibility issues.
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Usability vs Usefulness: Key Aspects of a Product's UX (12 minute read)
Usability focuses on making products easy and intuitive to navigate, while usefulness ensures they solve real problems worth addressing—both are essential for creating products users adopt and retain. Utility (features), usability (ease of use), and usefulness (utility + usability) must work together, with testing methods like prototype evaluation, heuristic reviews, and session recordings helping identify friction before and after launch.
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Are Client Briefs Getting Worse? (6 minute read)
Creative briefs are evolving in contradictory ways, becoming simultaneously longer and more collaborative while potentially losing focus, with a third of marketers admitting they lack briefing skills. Some founders report improvements in client understanding and more ambitious, story-focused briefs, while others struggle with information overload, AI-generated wordiness, and stakeholder misalignment that derails projects. Despite concerns that perpetually fluid documents may replace definitive direction, the brief remains essential, as face-to-face clarification is crucial for cutting through written ambiguity.
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I sailed to be a developer. Became a designer instead. (10 minute read)
A former aspiring developer discovered a passion for solving human problems through design rather than code. Over seven years, they evolved from a self-taught designer into a senior UI/UX leader, learning that real design happens in conversations, strategy, and collaboration—not just pixels. What began as late-night coding turned into a career built on empathy, teamwork, and shaping experiences that truly help people.
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