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“These aren’t just stylistic tweaks. They’re structural choices grounded in accessibility principles. It would be lazy to assume that glass equals exclusion; the real work is in mastering it. It’s even lazier to think Apple as a company will ignore accessibility as a whole.”
Liquid Glass isn’t a design failure; it’s Apple’s most tactile future yet →
By Darren Yeo
Editor picks
- How LinkedIn passed $2bn in subscription revenue →
Once you’re a mature company, growing again is hard.
By Rosie Hoggmascall - How jam jars explain Apple’s success →
Fewer, smarter choices to convert better.
By Ira Haldavanekar - AI replacement and people displacement →
What NAFTA can teach us about AI and power inequality.
By Luis Berumen Castro
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Make me think
- Design is care (and sensing carelessness) →
“In contrast, there are design choices today that cost lives and cause great damage to communities, places and people. We often recognise these choices more as business models, especially in the world of tech and AI, but they are by design.” - Coding agents have crossed a chasm →
“Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted for me with autonomous AI coding agents. They’ve gone from a ‘hey this is pretty neat’ curiosity to something I genuinely can’t imagine working without. Not in a hand-wavy, hype-cycle way, but in a very concrete ‘this is changing how I ship software’ way.” - What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding →
“To explain this apparent contradiction, we need to understand what it is translators actually do because, like us programmers, they suffer from having the nature of their work consistently misunderstood by non-translators.”
Little gems this week
AI is here — so where is Seaman? →
By Ben Hickman
The future of content design in an AI world →
By Andrew Tipp
Liquid Glass has reignited ideas that never quite disappeared →
By Joel Gutierrez
Tools and resources
- How to define a distinctive design language →
From theory to practice.
By Filipe Nzongo - What can you do if your boss starts generating AI designs? →
Teams that turn to AI instead of UX.
By Kai Wong - The 5-step AI UX playbook →
Crafting AI experiences that drive material improvements for users.
By Patricia Basuel
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