OpenAI Launches New GPT Image 1.5 Model Optimized for Image Editing (3 minute read)
OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 is a new AI model for image generation that offers 20% lower API pricing and generates images up to 4x faster than its predecessor. The model excels at preserving important details during edits, handling multi-step modifications, and rendering small dense text for tasks like infographics. GPT Image 1.5 is accessible through ChatGPT's interface with pre-configured filters and via API for developers. It has limitations with certain drawing styles and scientifically complex images.
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Pixel search bar changes to a more generic Google UI (5 minute read)
Google has replaced Pixel's distinctive on-device search overlay with the standard Google app search, prioritising web and AI (Gemini) results and making Pixel search feel more generic and less tightly integrated with the launcher. While this aligns with Google's AI-first strategy and simplifies access to AI Mode, it weakens Pixel's unique identity and slows everyday local search for users who valued speed and cohesion.
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New BMW logo sparks debate as first IRL photos appear online (3 minute read)
BMW has quietly refined its logo, making it flatter and more minimal by removing chrome from the inner circle and flag while keeping a matte black outer rim, signalling a subtle modernisation rather than a full redesign. Reactions are mixed: some fans welcome the restrained update, while others feel any change risks diluting the brand's heritage, highlighting the delicate balance of evolving an iconic identity.
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Prototypes are the New PRDs (12 minute read)
Product managers at Figma are increasingly using Figma Make to create interactive prototypes instead of traditional PRDs, enabling faster exploration and more precise team alignment. The tool helps PMs validate concepts through user testing, communicate nuanced product behaviors, and make decisions by showing rather than describing features. By building working prototypes early, teams pressure-test assumptions, gather stakeholder buy-in, and create detailed specifications that engineers can use as development foundations.
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The Anatomy of a Good Design Review (3 minute read)
A good design review examines whether an interface guides users effectively through a clear visual hierarchy, adherence to accessibility standards, and brand consistency. The process varies by stage—sketches need questions, prototypes need structure checks, and launched products require comprehensive analysis across product, structure, flow, and screen levels. Reviews focus on real user behavior, identifying where people hesitate or get confused, with annotated findings in Figma that tie recommendations to research and principles.
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Why Dark Mode Isn't Always the Best Choice: A UX Perspective (6 minute read)
Dark mode has become a popular design trend, but it's not a universal UX solution and can actually weaken readability, increase cognitive load, and create accessibility challenges when misused. While dark mode works well in low-light environments and for creative or entertainment applications, it struggles in bright settings, with text-heavy content, and for users with astigmatism or low vision due to contrast issues and halation effects. The most effective UX strategy is to offer both light and dark modes based on user context, not forcing dark mode everywhere simply because it looks modern.
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Finnish Illustrator Creates Dream‑like Forest Turning Nordic Folklore Into Soft, Escapist Magic (1 minute read)
Ulla Thynell, a Finnish artist near Helsinki, crafts dreamy fantasy imagery inspired by forests, folklore, and Nordic mythology using watercolour, ink, and coloured pencils. Dense woods, starry skies, foxes and unicorns emerge in soft, layered colours that transport viewers into quiet, escapist worlds. Her traditional drawings, enhanced with digital touches, appear in art books, calendars, and children's titles.
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How to recover when creative burnout strikes (7 minute read)
Burnout is widespread, reversible, and not a personal failure. Recovery comes from acknowledging it, ruling out health issues, resting without guilt, and making gentle changes—like stepping away, switching mediums, learning something new, or reducing pressure—until creative energy slowly returns.
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Morson combines 19 brands into four in “fundamental reshaping” (5 minute read)
The Morson Group has streamlined its 19 brands into four clear business units—Praxis (technical consultancy), Edge (recruitment), Vital (expert project teams), and Nexus (training)—to simplify messaging and strengthen cross-selling. Alongside this restructure, the company introduced a modern visual and verbal identity with a bold colour palette, 45-degree design elements, geometric typography, and a more human-focused art direction, guided by the principle of being “uncommonly clever,” which has been well received internally and externally.
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