Reddit Will Help Advertisers Turn ‘Positive' Posts Into Ads (1 minute read)
Reddit has launched a new alpha advertising feature called Conversation Summary Add-ons that places positive user posts directly below advertiser content. The feature allows users to scroll through community posts under ads and view summaries of user opinions about advertisers. Reddit also introduced Reddit Insights, an AI-powered social listening tool, as part of announcements made alongside the Cannes Lions Festival.
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TikTok Launches New AI Tools for Advertisers, Including AI Avatars for Video Ads (2 minute read)
TikTok has launched new AI advertising tools, including image-to-video and text-to-video capabilities, plus a Showcase Products feature that allows AI avatars to hold or wear advertised items. These additions expand TikTok Symphony, the platform's existing AI advertising toolkit. The new features, which reflect an industry-wide trend toward automated ad creation using generative AI, will be available globally to advertisers in the coming weeks through TikTok Symphony Creative Studio.
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Max will show autoplaying video previews picked by AI (1 minute read)
Max has rolled out autoplaying video previews for its content library, using an AI tool to identify “standout” scenes from shows and movies. The AI aims to reduce manual editing by selecting clips that highlight key moments, which editors will then finalize for preview placement. This update is part of broader changes to Max's interface and branding, including an official rebrand back to HBO Max later this summer.
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What They're Not Teaching in Design Class—and What You Can Do About It (6 minute read)
Despite its critical importance, design education fails to teach business fluency; as Netflix's VP of Design, Steve Johnson, emphasized, "Design without business is just decoration." Early-career designers can bridge this gap by taking marketing courses, networking with cross-functional professionals, consuming business-focused content, and gaining hands-on experience building real products. Understanding business goals enables designers to collaborate more effectively and create a greater impact since design, craft, and business strategy work together rather than in opposition.
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Avoid Premature Solutions: How to Respond When Stakeholders Ask for Certain Designs (7 minute read)
Stakeholders often suggest specific design solutions, creating anchoring problems that limit design exploration and can lead to suboptimal outcomes. The 5 Whys technique helps uncover underlying business needs, while "How Might We" statements reframe solution-focused requests into neutral problem statements. Addressing these anchoring issues immediately in meetings prevents weeks of frustration and opens up better design possibilities.
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From Function to Emotions in UX Design (7 minute read)
Google's Material 3 Expressive design system reflects a shift toward creating emotional connections through design. Research shows that expressive designs perform better across usability and user satisfaction metrics. Don Norman's three levels of emotional processing (visceral, behavioral, and reflective) and Aarron Walter's Hierarchy of User Needs demonstrate that emotional design must build upon functional, reliable, and usable foundations. Emotional design helps products stand out in competitive markets by creating lasting user connections and increasing engagement and loyalty beyond basic functionality.
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The Smarter 3D Workspace (Website)
Virtuall is a collaboration workspace for creative teams powered by leading 3D AI engines. Generate, review, approve, and manage 3D models in one place.
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ESH's enigmatic rebrand for an orchestra invites you to a secret society of music (2 minute read)
Design agency ESH has rebranded the international orchestra Utopia with a mysterious, immersive website and a custom "alchemic" typeface that reflects the group's complex, emotional, and enigmatic musical identity. Combining strict modernist grids with expressive, esoteric typography, the project evokes a sense of timelessness and exclusivity, encouraging users to slow down and engage deeply with the rhythm and spirit of the orchestra.
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Meet NaN SuperX: a serif and sans typeface pair designed for impactful headlines and tight spacing (3 minute read)
The SuperX type system, designed for practical impact in tight spaces, combines large x-heights with short ascenders and descenders to maximize vertical efficiency while maintaining visual boldness, which is especially useful for headlines and mobile interfaces. Blending traditional and modern elements across its Serif, Italic, and Sans variants, SuperX offers a versatile, expressive family with shared proportions that ensure seamless alignment and consistent spacing when mixed.
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20(SOMETHING) rebrands eBay founder's philanthropic organization (4 minute read)
20(SOMETHING) rebranded the Omidyar Network to shift its identity from a tech-centric, Silicon Valley image to a broader, human-focused visual system that speaks to policymakers, funders, and change-makers in digital equity and tech governance. The new identity, which features a generative ON logo, expressive typefaces, and a diverse color palette, reflects the organization's mission to humanize technology and unify its efforts under one powerful, inclusive voice.
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Mariah Carey has a favorite font (2 minute read)
MrBeast makes a brief appearance in Mariah Carey's new music video “Type Dangerous”, but it's the custom-stretched Aviano Serif Black typeface—reminiscent of her longtime signature font Friz Quadrata—that subtly steals the show, offering a fresh yet familiar visual branding update.
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