YouTube Has a New Video Player (1 minute read)
YouTube is rolling out a redesigned video player across mobile, web, and TV with updated controls, new icons, and rounded translucent buttons that obscure less content. The update includes a modernized double-tap skip feature and a structured comment reply system for improved readability. Some videos will display dynamic animations when users hit the like button, such as music notes appearing on music videos.
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Apple unveils new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by M5 chip (3 minute read)
Apple has unveiled the new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip, delivering up to 3.5× faster AI performance and 1.6× faster graphics than the M4. The laptop features a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, doubled SSD speed, up to 4TB storage, and 24-hour battery life — all at the same $1,599 starting price, available from October 22.
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How to Build Patterns from Your Design System Components with AI (7 minute read)
AI can transform design system components into functional patterns, such as contact forms, by utilizing detailed specification documents that define component usage, states, interactions, and responsive behavior. Two approaches are available: a simple method for basic pattern assembly and a context-aware approach that incorporates regional compliance, localization, and platform-specific requirements through reusable context files. This framework enables designers to generate clickable, testable prototypes in hours rather than waiting weeks for developer implementations, while maintaining design system consistency.
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GenUI Design: Foundational Patterns (6 minute read)
GenUI (Generative User Interface) represents a paradigm shift where AI dynamically generates interface elements in real-time based on user context, combining LLMs for intent interpretation, design systems for building blocks, and rendering engines for assembly. Six foundational design patterns have emerged for GenUI products: intent capture to infer user goals, undo/time-travel for backward navigation, progressive disclosure to prevent cognitive overload, contextual hints to guide users, stable anchors with fluid details for orientation, and harm prevention through dual control for critical actions. While feedback loops are common in GenUI apps, they often fail as users ignore rating buttons, turning them into visual clutter rather than meaningful training mechanisms.
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AI interfaces and the role of good writing (5 minute read)
AI technology is advancing quickly, but many AI products suffer from confusing, unclear user experiences due to poor UX writing. To make AI tools more intuitive, writers should define their audience, clarify AI's role, guide users with clear input and next steps, use structured and honest language, cite sources, and write inclusively — ensuring products feel understandable, trustworthy, and human.
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Designers Have to Move From the Surface to the Substrate (14 minute read)
The design profession faces extinction as AI shifts control from surface interfaces to invisible intelligence layers—where designers currently have near-zero presence. While designers once controlled 85% of user experience through pixels and flows, AI models now dictate 95% through training data, system prompts, context windows, and policy layers that designers neither understand nor influence. Unless designers move from polishing surfaces to shaping the substrate of intelligence itself—learning to design retrieval chains, tool orchestration, and agentic behavior—they will be reduced to decorating outputs of systems built entirely by engineers optimizing for performance rather than human experience.
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The Grayscale Problem (10 minute read)
A study revealing that 80% of US cars are now black, white, gray, or silver reflects a broader "grayscale problem" affecting the modern web, where AI slop, A/B testing, and monopolistic platforms are draining color and creativity from digital spaces. While billions connect online, activity concentrates on fewer websites using standardized designs and templates, with dominant players like Google breeding complacency and AI producing muddy averages from already-homogenized content. Citizens can counter this trend by embracing audacious design choices, randomization, and experimentation in their own digital spaces, remembering that the web's flexibility allows for technicolor creativity beyond the safe, proven approaches demanded by corporate entities.
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The age of imperfection – why brands are embracing flaws as features (6 minute read)
Angelo Ferrara celebrates imperfection as the heart of a more human design culture, arguing that flaws create authenticity, emotion, and connection. From Patagonia's repaired jackets to Vans' scuffed sneakers and Aesop's irregular stores, he shows how brands use imperfection as honesty, generosity, and identity — proving that while perfection is admired, imperfection is what people truly love.
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