Adobe Wants to Help You Get Better at AI – and Land a Creative Job (3 minute read)
Adobe's Future of Skills survey of 2,000 people found that 44% consider creativity essential for future careers, while 38% cite AI skills, yet nearly one in five workers feel unprepared for an AI-driven workplace. The research reveals that 33% of employers report significant AI and automation skills gaps among candidates, with those staying in roles long-term 50% less likely to feel ready for AI tools. To address this gap, Adobe is expanding its Digital Academy across the UK with new courses and certifications, aiming to reach 30 million people globally by 2030 through partnerships and platforms.
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'Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year by Collins Dictionary (2 minute read)
Collins Dictionary named "vibe coding" its 2025 word of the year, referring to creating apps or websites by describing them to AI rather than writing code manually. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined the term in February to describe how AI enables programmers to bypass traditional coding and focus on conceptual instructions. While the practice allows non-programmers to build basic applications through simple descriptions, more complex tools still require coding expertise, and the results aren't guaranteed to work perfectly.
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We Wanted Superman-level AI. Instead, We Got Bizarro (5 minute read)
A research paper by Apple revealed that LLMs don't genuinely reason but instead match patterns that resemble thinking. Their logic collapses into pure prediction as problems become increasingly complex. Modern AI has evolved from transparent symbolic systems to statistical methods, and now to today's generative models, trading logical transparency for fluent prediction that appears human but lacks true understanding or accountability. The real danger isn't AI outthinking humans, but flooding the world with convincing illusions that sound correct while being fundamentally indifferent to truth.
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Why the Smartest Designers Move Between High and Low Fidelity (9 minute read)
Designers strategically shift between high and low-fidelity designs to guide conversations and control feedback, using simplified wireframes to focus teams on structure and user experience rather than visual details. Blending fidelities helps direct attention to specific changes while signaling what's open for discussion versus finalized. Several Figma plugins now automate this conversion process, making it practical for designers to defidelity screens quickly and use visual simplicity as a communication tool throughout the design process.
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Affinity's free gambit could shatter Adobe (but if it doesn't, that tells us a lot) (4 minute read)
Affinity has made its professional creative suite—photo editing, vector design, and page layout—completely free, offering a strong alternative to Adobe Creative Cloud. However, because it lacks Adobe's AI-powered tools, the industry's response will reveal whether creatives can work without AI or have become dependent on it, highlighting a divide between valuing traditional craft versus AI-assisted convenience.
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Google Flow (Website)
Flow is an AI filmmaking tool that enables you to create cinematic clips and scenes seamlessly using Google DeepMind's most capable generative video model, Veo.
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Animated SVG Icons (Website)
AnimateIcons is a sleek React library for animated SVG icons that move with purpose. Transform static designs into engaging user experiences with smooth, performant animations.
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Why It's So Hard to Talk About Preventing Loss of Trust with Design (6 minute read)
Design leaders struggle to defend trust-preserving decisions because prevention is not reflected in quarterly reports, creating a "prevention paradox" where successfully avoiding catastrophic events goes unrecognized. Interviews with 18 design leaders reveal five measurement frameworks: pairing satisfaction scores with support data, tracking task completion rates, balancing qualitative and quantitative research, using acquisition-engagement-retention-churn metrics, and referencing industry case studies as proxies. Success requires partnerships with product managers, customer support teams, and data analytics teams to translate abstract trust concerns into concrete business outcomes that stakeholders can understand.
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The invisible gap: Designing for users who reconstruct, not just read (8 minute read)
Around 1.19 billion people use English as a second language, meaning most web users navigate content in a language they learned later, which requires active “context reconstruction” — decoding, translating, and rebuilding meaning before acting. Designing for this process with plain language, consistent terms, clear structure, accessibility, and early localisation not only aids non-native speakers but also improves usability for all users, reduces cognitive load, and benefits business outcomes by lowering support needs and improving comprehension.
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What should you do if a colleague steals your creative idea? (7 minute read)
Idea theft at work is common and undermines respect and professional credibility. The recommended approach is to document your contributions, address the colleague privately and respectfully, reclaim ownership during meetings if needed, escalate to management with evidence if the behaviour persists, and strategically protect your ideas, while knowing when to prioritize your wellbeing in toxic environments.
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