Adobe Sees a Bright Future as AI Bet Pays Off (2 minute read)
Adobe reported record annual revenue of $23.77 billion in 2025, an 11% year-over-year increase, driven primarily by the integration of generative AI across its creative software and marketing solutions. AI-influenced annual recurring revenue now accounts for more than one-third of Adobe's overall business, with CEO Shantanu Narayen citing strategic partnerships with major AI platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Gemini, and OpenAI as key accomplishments.
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iOS 26.2 adds new way for your iPhone to make notifications pop (2 minute read)
iOS 26.2 adds several system updates, like Urgent alarms in Reminders, AI-generated Podcast chapters, Apple News redesigns, and offline Apple Music lyrics, plus a new notification accessibility feature. Users can now have the iPhone screen flash brightly for incoming alerts (alone or with the LED flash), making notifications harder to miss, especially without an Apple Watch.
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Runway Releases its First World Model, Adds Native Audio to Latest Video Model (3 minute read)
Runway's GWM-1 is a world model that simulates physics and real-world behavior through frame-by-frame prediction. There are specialized versions for interactive environments (GWM-Worlds), robotics training (GWM-Robotics), and human avatars (GWM-Avatars). Runway positions GWM-1 as more general-purpose than competitors like Google's Genie-3, targeting applications in robotics, life sciences, and agent training. The company has also updated its Gen 4.5 video model to include native audio capabilities and long-form multi-shot generation, enabling users to create one-minute videos with consistent character and dialogue.
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Prompt to Design Interfaces: Why Vague Prompts Fail and How to Fix Them (13 minute read)
Designers often struggle with AI-prototyping tools because vague prompts produce cluttered, poorly organized interfaces with repeated elements, illogical content flow, and mismatched visual hierarchy. To improve results, use precise visual keywords, attach lightweight visual references or moodboards, conduct AI-powered visual analysis to formulate prompts, generate mock data for realistic content, and include code snippets from design systems. While these techniques enhance prompt specificity and output quality, they cannot replace the critical thinking and informed decision-making required for effective design work.
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A New Navigation Paradigm (13 minute read)
AI doesn't eliminate navigation in digital products but delegates it to invisible algorithmic agents that operate behind conversational interfaces, creating a "pharmakon"—a remedy and poison simultaneously. This delegation creates cognitive debt by removing formative practices such as searching, choosing, and discovering, while naturalizing algorithmic control under the guise of frictionless convenience. Meaningful resistance requires critical design therapeutics that preserve users' capacity for autonomous thinking, serendipity, and conscious engagement with tools that shape human cognition.
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The dark pattern that cost Amazon $2.5 billion (6 minute read)
Amazon leverages dynamic pricing and deceptive interface design to influence buying decisions, including inflating reference prices to create the illusion of discounts. It also uses manipulative UX patterns in Amazon Prime sign-ups and cancellations that prioritize short-term gains over user trust, but such practices can harm brand value and increasingly carry legal consequences.
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Ease Master (Website)
Design motion that feels real. The ultimate easing visualization tool for generating Cubic Bezier curves and Spring physics for CSS, Tailwind, Framer Motion, and more.
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A Googler Explains How to “Meta Prompt” for Incredible Veo Videos (5 minute read)
Google DeepMind UX Engineer Anna Bortsova uses "meta prompting" — asking Gemini to write detailed prompts for Veo rather than crafting them herself — to create striking stop-motion, paper-engineered ASMR videos. Her technique involves instructing Gemini with specific tasks, format requirements, material constraints, and desired emotional responses, which then generate elaborate multi-page prompts that produce high-quality results. Bortsova's approach, which she shares with colleagues through internal demos and social media, emphasizes experimentation with subjects you're passionate about while providing clear creative direction to the AI.
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LEGO Bricks Transform into Letterforms in the International Design Project ‘A2Z' (3 minute read)
A university assignment led designer Pedro Neves to develop a global project using LEGO bricks as modular tools for type design, culminating in “A2Z: Learning Through LEGO® and Letterforms”, which features contributions from 36 designers across six continents. The project resulted in a publication and exhibition, with thousands of LEGO bricks used to create and letterpress-print a full alphabet exploring cultural expression through constrained, playful modular design.
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Welcome to the brand tweak era (7 minute read)
Brands are increasingly favouring subtle evolutions over full rebrands, refining design systems, tone of voice, and messaging to extract more value from existing identities while preserving recognisable assets like logos, colours, and symbols. Evidence shows that maintaining and consistently using these distinctive brand assets protects recognition, avoids costly backlash, and often delivers stronger brand equity than dramatic redesigns, making thoughtful tweaks a smarter path than total facelifts going into 2026.
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