Creative Commons Debuts CC Signals, a Framework for an Open AI Ecosystem (2 minute read)
Creative Commons' CC Signals is a new framework that allows dataset holders to specify how their content can be used for AI training. It aims to balance internet openness with growing AI data demands. The project addresses concerns that continued data extraction could prompt websites to implement paywalls or access restrictions to protect their content. CC signals will offer legally enforceable tools with ethical weight, similar to existing CC licenses. An alpha launch is planned for November.
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Bring a Consistent Look and Feel to Your Figma Make Prototypes and Web Apps (1 minute read)
Figma Make now allows users to import styling context from published libraries, enabling the extraction of color palettes, typography with custom fonts, and core styling elements. Users can also establish manual guidelines through a guideline.md file to direct how the model creates their Makes. This feature bridges existing design systems with Make's creation process, ensuring consistency across generated content.
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When AI Has Better Taste Than You (7 minute read)
AI is rapidly surpassing human capabilities across domains, from physical to analytical to creative skills, challenging the belief that taste remains humanity's unique advantage. While great taste involves pattern recognition that AI could replicate, the highest form of taste requires cultural courage to champion unfamiliar work and shape new movements. Human agency, the will to act on values and direct AI toward meaningful purposes, is the most distinctly human moat in an age of commoditized capabilities.
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The broken rhetoric of AI (9 minute read)
The current discourse around AI in design is dominated by fear, status anxiety, and performative noise, turning what could be a moment of shared learning into a toxic race for attention, dominance, and validation. Instead, we need to shift toward healthier conversations grounded in curiosity, nuance, humility, and community — ones that invite reflection, experimentation, and collective growth rather than exclusion and anxiety.
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Is this the twilight of the smartphone? (10 minute read)
The dominance of the smartphone, largely unchanged since the first iPhone in 2007, is being challenged by AI-driven concepts from tech leaders like Jony Ive and OpenAI, aiming to create more intuitive, screenless, and ambient computing experiences. While some believe we may soon shift to new AI-powered devices like smart glasses or wearables, widespread adoption faces hurdles such as public distrust, privacy concerns, and the lack of a unifying cultural shift, suggesting we may be entering a fragmented tech era rather than a single, revolutionary replacement.
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Figma to App, Accelerated by AI (Website)
Turn your Figma designs into fully functional native apps for iOS and Android – faster than ever. Use AI tools and Web Components to simplify development and unlock endless possibilities.
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AI-powered Presentation Generator (Website)
Create professional, beautiful presentations instantly by simply inputting your content. With Pi, you get one-click generation, smart layouts, and customizable themes for creating efficient presentations.
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Create Effortlessly Beautiful Demos in Minutes (Website)
Arcade is an interactive demo platform that enables teams to create effortlessly beautiful demos in minutes. Designed for ease of use, Arcade removes the creative and technical barriers often encountered by teams seeking to showcase their product on a website, in content, or on social media.
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Story-Based Social Posts: Designing Narratives for Swipeable Content (5 minute read)
Story-based swipeable content transforms social media engagement by breaking information into digestible, sequential frames that guide users through structured narratives. These multi-image formats, such as Instagram carousels and LinkedIn document posts, achieve significantly higher engagement rates than single posts by tapping into our natural storytelling instincts. Compelling swipeable stories follow a five-part structure supported by consistent visual design and precise pacing: hook, context, main content, climax, and call-to-action.
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The new Detroit Red Wings logo is a soaring success (3 minute read)
The Detroit Red Wings' new centenary logo has been met with widespread praise for its clean, stylish update to the classic 'Winged Wheel' design, celebrating the team's 100-year legacy with subtle retro flair. Fans on social media have called it "gorgeous," "classic," and a rare example of a heritage redesign done right.
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