Pinterest Experiments With New AI-powered Personalized Boards (2 minute read)
Pinterest is rolling out AI-powered features to transform its boards into personalized shopping and style tools, including "Styled for you" collages that help users mix and match saved fashion items and "Boards made for you" with curated outfit inspiration. The company is testing these features in the US and Canada over the next few months, aligning with its goal to become an AI-enabled shopping assistant. New tabs will also organize saved Pins by categories like "Make It Yours" for personalized product recommendations and "More Ideas" for related suggestions across beauty, recipes, and other topics.
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Stability AI and EA Partner to Empower Artists, Designers, and Developers to Reimagine Game Development (3 minute read)
Stability AI and Electronic Arts have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop generative AI models, tools, and workflows that will transform how EA's creative teams design and build games. The collaboration will focus on accelerating asset creation, including developing new workflows for generating physically based rendering materials and previsualizing 3D environments from prompts to enable faster iteration and prototyping. By embedding Stability AI's 3D research team directly with EA's artists and developers, the partnership aims to unlock new creative possibilities in world-building and visual storytelling while maintaining artist control and quality.
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Designing AI Products and Features: Study Guide (5 minute read)
The Nielsen Norman Group's study guide compiles research-based recommendations for designing AI products. The collection covers strategic considerations, such as determining AI's value proposition, practical guidance on prompt assistance and interface design, and product-specific recommendations for features like review summaries and intranet integrations. Resources include articles that examine AI's four "superpowers" (content creation, summarization, data analysis, and perspective-taking) and best practices for hybrid interfaces that combine prompts with traditional GUIs.
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The Myth of a Perfect Design (11 minute read)
Perfect design is impossible because every design involves tradeoffs among competing objectives — such as business needs, customer satisfaction, and resource constraints — with no algorithm to balance them all. The challenge intensifies as user needs constantly evolve, people adapt their behavior to work around flaws, and different user groups have conflicting requirements. Success depends on designers, engineers, and business leaders developing cross-domain fluency to make informed tradeoff decisions rather than seeking mythical optimization formulas.
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Adobe's personalised AI generators could change creative software forever (5 minute read)
At Adobe MAX 2025, Adobe announced a shift toward personalized AI with custom Firefly models for brands and creators, letting users train generative tools on their own content and style. It also introduced Project Moonlight, AI assistants that analyze social media to suggest ideas, and expanded partnerships with Google, OpenAI, and others. New tools like AI Object Mask, Assisted Culling, and the high-resolution Firefly Image Model 5 further enhance Adobe's intelligent, creative ecosystem.
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Bad UX World Cup (Website)
The Bad UX World Cup 2025 invited people to design and build a deliberately awful date picker component. Catch the finals live on YouTube on October 29.
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Alienation by Design (10 minute read)
Design systems intended to reduce friction and improve efficiency may erode everyday human interactions that help people feel less alone, contributing to social isolation. While video games can provide cognitive benefits and reduce loneliness in elderly populations when designed for collaboration, the digitization of services often prioritizes productivity over preserving opportunities for face-to-face connection. Designers should consider second-order consequences of their work, as systems that sever small human bonds collectively weaken society's fabric, even when meeting their intended success criteria.
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Timedash: Where Retro Watch Aesthetics Meet Modern Widgets (3 minute read)
Timedash, created by former Pentagram designers, revives the 1970s Ana Digi watch aesthetic through customizable widgets for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The newly redesigned Timedash Widgets 2 lets users build modular dashboards combining data like steps, weather, and date with sleek, retro-futurist visuals. Blending design culture with functionality, it aims to make personal data visualization both elegant and playful.
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If creativity is a delicate ecosystem, how do we keep things in balance? Emmi Salonen's new book explores creative burnout (2 minute read)
Finnish designer Emmi Salonen, founder of Studio Emmi, transformed her burnout experience into “The Creative Wellbeing Handbook”, a guide to sustaining creativity through balance rather than constant output. Inspired by her travels and global conversations, she developed a “creative ecosystem” model that emphasized five key inputs: connection, wonder, pause, movement, and joy. Featuring insights from over 100 creatives worldwide, the book reframes rest and self-nourishment as essential parts of the creative process and offers practical tools for a more sustainable creative life.
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