Google Says: Massive Gemini App UX Update (4 minute read)
Google is overhauling the Gemini app with "Gemini App UX 2.0," a massive redesign aimed at improving multimodal flows, tool discovery, and thread management, following user complaints that the current interface is hindering adoption. The update may include a compact overlay for Gemini Live, streamlined file handling, better context controls, and faster performance. A macOS app is also in development. Google hasn't released timelines or screenshots, but the redesign signals an effort to match competitors like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot in user experience quality and cross-platform accessibility. |
iOS 26's Messages app adds five great new group chat features (2 minute read)
iOS 26 brings major upgrades to group chats in Messages: typing indicators now work in groups, polls can be created directly from the "+" menu, and Apple Cash finally supports group payments. You can also set shared chat backgrounds for everyone and quickly save new participants with a new "Add to Contacts" button. |
New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2 (5 minute read)
Runway's Gen-4.5 AI video model has topped the Video Arena leaderboard with an Elo score of 1,247, surpassing Google's Veo 3 and relegating OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro to seventh place. The model runs on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture and excels in physical accuracy, realistic object dynamics, and surface detail rendering. The release coincided with ByteDance's Vidi2 and Tencent's HunyuanVideo-1.5 launches. |
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"Designers Crave Connection" – Fighting the Loneliness Epidemic (7 minute read)
Initiatives like Billy No Mates' co-working collective and Creative Boom's The Studio are combating designer loneliness by creating spaces for meaningful connection, addressing what surveys reveal as an epidemic affecting 90% of freelancers. These grassroots communities have emerged as freelancers and remote workers increasingly suffer isolation. Loneliness is costing UK employers £2.5 billion annually and impacting health as severely as smoking 15 cigarettes daily. These collectives foster collaborations and provide the genuine human connection that corporate community-building often fails to deliver through informal monthly meet-ups and online gatherings. |
Are we in the era of the disposable artist? (4 minute read)
As AI tools make it effortless to generate images, videos, and text, tensions are rising over who actually "creates" AI-assisted work. Creators using generative AI are making real money, but copyright rules remain blurry—prompting alone doesn't make you an author, and only human-made edits are protectable. The artists whose work trained these models are seeing their own value eroded. Beneath the excitement lies a deeper crisis: AI systems are built on vast amounts of unpaid creative labor, but they are leaving many human creators increasingly replaceable and forming a "creative underclass" whose work is essential to the machines yet undervalued in the market. |
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AI Prompt Manager (Website)
Get instant access to proven prompts you can trust. Save, adapt, and reuse them across top AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more. |
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How to Turn Metrics into Actionable Insights (6 minute read)
Design system teams often measure component adoption rates but miss whether users can actually complete tasks, leading to situations where high adoption masks poor user experiences. Connecting product analytics tools like PostHog via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables teams to query real user behavior data and automatically generate contextual feedback in Figma design files. This approach transforms weeks of manual analysis into seconds by linking quantitative behavior metrics with design decisions. Qualitative research remains essential for understanding why problems occur. |
Five Reasons Why WCAG AA Compliance Does Not Mean Your Website is Accessible (5 minute read)
WCAG 2.2 AA compliance serves as a baseline rather than a guarantee of true accessibility, since websites can technically pass all criteria while remaining unusable for everyone. The guidelines focus on ensuring people with impairments aren't disadvantaged compared to others, not on creating genuinely good user experiences. Examples include links indistinguishable from text, 1-pixel fonts with proper contrast ratios, and incomprehensible audio with transcripts, all of which pass WCAG AA despite being practically inaccessible to all users. |
Derek&Eric reshape Furl's brand around clarity, calm, and the quiet power of great design (3 minute read)
Derek&Eric's rebrand for Furl shifts the company from a purely functional, engineering-focused furniture maker to a calmer, lifestyle-oriented brand. The new identity uses modular typography, soft neutrals, and sunlit photography to convey clarity, ease, and emotional headspace while still reflecting Furl's precision craftsmanship, positioning the company to speak more broadly about living well in thoughtfully designed spaces. |
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