iOS 18.1 Makes Apple Photos Better in Three Key Ways, Here's What's Coming
17 days ago
iOS 18.1 introduces three major AI-powered upgrades to the Photos app: Clean Up for removing unwanted objects, improved natural language search, and custom Memory movie creation. These features enhance photo editing, search accuracy, and personalized video generation, making the app more intuitive a
Designing for Canvas Tools
17 days ago
Canvas tools are adaptable digital platforms that integrate customizable workflows, collaborative features, and accessibility improvements. By creating reusable design libraries, companies can streamline the development of canvas interfaces, ensuring consistent and accessible user experiences. Prior
Becoming a Better Designer
17 days ago
As challenges evolve from clearly defined problems to undefined complexities, the designer's role expands to encompass critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Mastery goes beyond technical skills, requiring leadership and the ability to navigate ambiguity while guiding teams toward solu
Albasound: Branding and Web Design for Audiovisuals
17 days ago
Albasound has revamped its branding and web design. Created by designer Manel Font and featuring a modern logo that integrates the company's initials as sound and light control panels, the new visual identity and website effectively showcase Albasound's audiovisual event management services, setting
Banking Innovations: Using ChatGPT Prompts in Digital Product Design
17 days ago
ChatGPT can enhance financial product design by recognizing patterns, boosting creativity, and simulating diverse user personas to improve UX and anticipate feedback. It aids in prototyping by generating design ideas, testing usability, and ensuring more inclusive, user-friendly products.
EAT Studio Crafts an Identity for Wide Worlds that Holds a Portal to Endless Creative Possibilities
17 days ago
EAT studio crafted a visually captivating identity for Wide Worlds, balancing AI and human creativity through a flexible design system based on opposing geometric shapes that emphasizes brand consistency and user-generated content.
Brad Frost's Smashing Conf talk explored the evolution of design systems, from early frameworks to today's AI-driven tools. He emphasized the growing gap between product needs and design systems, urging collaboration to balance the two. Frost also discussed AI's potential to streamline design system
Zero-Based Design: A Fresh Approach to Problem Solving
17 days ago
Zero-based design is a methodology that starts from scratch to create innovative solutions by focusing solely on current user needs, free from legacy constraints.
An Immersive Exhibition Focused on Sleep and the Influence of Design in This Area
17 days ago
IKEA's research identifies six key factors that influence sleep: comfort, furniture, light, air quality, sound, and temperature.
Creative Design with Substance 3D for Google's Pixel Arena
17 days ago
Andrea Arice, Associate Motion Director at Monks, collaborated with Google to create Pixel Arena, a customizable mobile gaming experience.
Generative AI's Act O1 (6 Minute Read)
17 days ago
The field of Generative AI is evolving from rapid, pre-trained responses to more deliberate, reasoning-based capabilities, enabling AI systems to tackle complex problems and make decisions in real-time. This shift is driven by advancements in inference-time compute, which allows models to 'stop and
Non-Obvious Behaviors That Will Kill Your Startup (6 Minute Read)
17 days ago
This post discusses subtle behaviors that could be quietly undermining your startup's success. From praise patterns to feedback failures, these seemingly innocent habits can erode team morale and slow growth. The post emphasizes the importance of constructive criticism, adaptability, and swift decis
Founder Personality and Entrepreneurial Outcomes (5 Minute Read)
17 days ago
Research has shown that team conflicts are a leading cause of startup failure. Understanding the personalities of founders can help predict these conflicts. A recent study used natural language processing to analyze the Twitter posts of over 10,000 founders and found that certain personality traits,
The ABC Method for Mindfully Managing Worry (5 Minute Read)
17 days ago
Worrying is a common mental state that many people experience, often serving as a background noise in daily life. Despite its negative effects, such as fatigue and impaired decision-making, worrying is reinforced by beliefs about its positive consequences, like proactive problem-solving and protecti
The Bottom-Up Planning Imperative (5 Minute Read)
17 days ago
Effective annual planning requires both top-down and bottom-up approaches to ensure that strategies, budgets, and goals are realistic and achievable. Bottom-up planning involves creating detailed models that map out specific activities, assumptions, conversion rates, and resources to validate the hi
How to Get Funded by Celebrity Investors (4 Minute Read)
17 days ago
Quaid Walker, a former Google employee, co-founded Bezel to create an authenticated secondary market for luxury watches, addressing the challenge of distinguishing genuine products from counterfeits. By strategically targeting seed-stage investors, watch industry experts, and celebrities like John L
Fire Faster (4 Minute Read)
17 days ago
Dealing with a difficult employee who resists improvement and negatively impacts team morale can be a significant challenge for leaders. In such cases, it's often necessary to make the tough decision to let the employee go to prevent further damage to the organization's culture and productivity. A s
Painkillers vs Vitamins in B2B Marketing (4 Minute Read)
17 days ago
In B2B marketing, selling 'painkillers' — solutions that address urgent problems — is more effective than selling 'vitamins,' which offer long-term benefits but lack immediate necessity. Painkillers appeal to buyers by addressing pressing issues tied to negative emotions, leading to quicker purchasi
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain (6 Minute Read)
17 days ago
The transfer of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius will lead to the discontinuation of the .io domain, a popular choice in the tech industry. This situation highlights how geopolitical changes can impact internet infrastructure. It serves as a reminder for tech founders to
SEC CHAIR GARY GENSLER ON CRYPTO: ‘IT'S UNLIKELY THIS STUFF IS GONNA BE A CURRENCY'
17 days ago
SEC Chair Gary Gensler expressed skepticism about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin ever becoming widely used as currencies, instead viewing them as more of a store of value. He defended the SEC's aggressive enforcement actions against crypto companies, emphasizing the need for strong enforcement due to
US CHARGES 3 COMPANIES, 15 PEOPLE WITH CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAUD
17 days ago
In an FBI-led investigation, three companies and fifteen individuals have been charged with fraud and market manipulation after agreeing to promote an FBI-created crypto security. The individuals and companies agreed to inflate token trading volume before selling tokens, a classic “pump and dump” sc
DELTA: A NETWORK OF NETWORKS WITH SHARED STATE
17 days ago
Delta introduces a “network of networks” architecture that separates execution and settlement. It uses zk-settlement and a leaderless consensus protocol to balance sovereignty and interoperability. It has a shared global state and native interoperability between “domains,” allowing for appchains and
UNICHAIN – AN ETHEREUM L2 DESIGNED FOR DEFI
17 days ago
Uniswap Labs has introduced Unichain, an L2 blockchain optimized for DeFi on Ethereum, aimed at improving transaction speed, reducing costs, and simplifying cross-chain swaps. The platform includes innovations like near-instant transaction times, decentralized block verification, and seamless multi-
Tesla just launched their robo taxi. I wonder if this is the future. I'm sick of driving so I'm hoping I can be a lazy ass and be driven around in one of Tesla's self-driving DeLoreans from the Back to the Future movie. Their robo van looked even cooler but I'll have to have more kids to justify tha
Flow States Start When Obsession Begins
17 days ago
Using more productivity hacks won’t make you successful. All they do is try to force you to get more done by doing stuff you’d prefer not to be doing. When I used to work a 9–5 finance job, I’d try to find flow. It was rare. I’d have to juice up on three coffees to have a chance. Then my phone would