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Packaging Design: LeNOSE Fine Fragrance Hand Soap Identity

Explore LeNOSE's witty packaging design and fine fragrance development, pairing geometric die-cut labels with $10 luxury hand soaps. Somewhere over the last decade, washing your hands turned into a bi...

Abduzeedo · EN

Product Design: COLLECTIBLE NYC Opens This Week Uptown

Opening this week at 210 East 86th Street, COLLECTIBLE New York 2026 showcases boundary-pushing 21st-century product design and furniture. If you are anywhere near Manhattan over the next few days, cl...

Abduzeedo · EN

Un café inspiré des festivals traditionnels thaïlandais

L’idée de la lanterne puise ses racines dans la culture locale ; dès le départ, le studio a voulu qu’elle soit la plus grande et la plus marquante possible.

Journal du Design · FR

Rénovation d’une maison au bord d’un lac dans le Michigan

Pour ce projet, chaque décision, de la refonte de l’architecture à la superposition de matériaux naturels, a été guidée par la manière dont la maison serait habitée

Journal du Design · FR

MM Collective, trois vases associant design et graphisme

une collection qui ne se contente pas de s’inspirer des fleurs, mais cherche à comprendre un système fondé sur leur symbolique

Journal du Design · FR

Ingot, chaise en aluminium moulé

Elle se compose de quatre pieds fuselés, d’une fine assise marquée par quatre points de coulée circulaires.

Journal du Design · FR

The Truth Arrives in Nashville

From an in-house letterpress studio, a world-class whiskey bar and a vinyl listening room, Nashville's newest live music venue levels up the audience experience Nearly 24/7, and certainly 365 days a year, …

Cool Hunting Music · EN

Inside NI Absynth 6.2 and its updated workflows for exploring sound

This month, Absynth got two updates that refine its UI and editing navigation, freeing you up to shape your sound. Product designer Hannah Lockwood and Absynth creator Brian Clevinger join us to talk about the work they did on that. I already knew Hannah and Brian were really passionate about their craft, so let's get our tour from the source -- and dive into more Absynth sonic frontiers. The post Inside NI Absynth 6.2 and its updated workflows for exploring sound appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

How to put your design system to work with the Figma agent

Your design system can help the Figma agent understand the principles and guidelines that define your product. Here’s how to make that context useful to the agent.

Figma Blog · EN

If smart glasses take off, I predict a new golden age for the billboard

As they lift our gaze from our phones, we'll start looking up.

Creative Bloq · EN

Will your digital work still exist in 2046? Here’s why the answer might be no

Our stuff is more fragile than we think.

Creative Bloq · EN

The real star of the new MacBook Pro is the Apple logo

After more than a decade, the logo is up in lights again.

Creative Bloq · EN

Struggle together

I learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. When I hit a wall, I figured out how to climb it.

Sidebar · EN

Product design with AI: our job is about setting our standard for AI

TLDR: AI can do a lot of what designers used to do, and it’s easy to feel replaced. One analogy I heard encouraged me to think it’s less about losing our jobs and more about knowing our own standard of work well enough to teach it to AI. Even my mom talks about AI Everyone hears about AI, and everyone talks about AI. I walk down the street and hear people talking about it. Even my mom talks about AI. Her new hobby is sending me AI-generated memes, which is quite sweet, to be honest. This is an opinion I shared with my design team recently, about what all this means for us. Underneath the noise

Muzli · EN

This is how I work with AI as a Designer right now.

TLDR: This is what my actual day-to-day workflow with AI looks like right now, skill by skill: ideating an idea deeply before writing any code, turning it into tickets an agent can run, branching into a few prototypes before committing to one, then bringing in style and polish last. The way I used to work For a long time, my way of working with AI was just stacking prompts. I’d write one, wait, look at what came back, give a note. Then often remember a second thing I’d forgotten and have to write another prompt just for that. The context window kept getting longer, and I never knew how many pr

Muzli · EN

How Bad Bunny Turned the World’s Cheapest Chair Into a Pop Icon

A collage of Bad Bunny with the Monobloc chair by Francesco Maria Furno No one paid any attention to the Monobloc until Bad Bunny came along to dignify the most common chair in the world. A piece of white plastic that has filled our everyday spaces since the day it was born, with its bland, anodyne spirit. The Monobloc is the commercial product par excellence for resting our backsides. Cheap, easy to stack, transport, and replace, and pretty sturdy for the price it sells at. After the Puerto Rican artist’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it’s not only one of the best-selling objects but one of the most

Muzli · EN

Samia Halaby and the Amiga 1000

The unique features of the Motorola 68000 that facilitated an enchanting Golden Age for pixel art Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective · EN

When colors pass but palettes fail

The accessibility challenge of generative AI diverging color palettes. Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective · EN

Sparkle buttons, Autonomy by design, AI reckoning in UX, Figma with MCP

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Open any product you pay for and look at the top right corner. There is a sparkle. Behind it is a panel that slides in from the right, says “Ask anything”, and offers three suggestions you did not ask for. Close it and it comes back after the next update, sometimes with a new name.” Nobody asked for the sparkle button → By Jon Sabutis What AI interviews taught us about designing conversational AI → [Sponsored] Follow-ups that build on what you said. Less pressure to perform. Control over pacing. What participants, skeptics included

UX Collective · EN

Virtue ethics in everyday interface design

How wording, hierarchy, and moments of friction can support considered action. Aristotle statue by Jerry Anderson at Southern Utah University’s Centurium, Cedar City, Utah. Image source: Southern Utah University . One thing that troubles me about designers is how readily some treat public expressions of moral conviction as evidence of sound ethical judgment. They announce their commitments to causes they regard as worthy, speak confidently about responsible practice, yet fail to examine their own biases or the ethical tensions within their decisions. Virtue signaling is not a substitute for re

UX Collective · EN

State of a system

Almost eight years ago, I started working on a design system that I got the opportunity to revisit just a few years later. The second round became as big a push with far fewer people. Now, three years after ending the work I’m finally ready to share that experience. My thesis: A rigid design kit is a cache of design decisions, prone to becoming obsolete with the requirements constantly evolving. Documenting practices and boundaries leaves powerless responsibility for upholding coherence to designers and developers. Governing an LLM skill could be a better basis for an evolving design system th

UX Collective · EN

17th-Century Embroidery Meets Hand-Carved Wooden Vessels by Aspen Golann

Golann creates uniquely sculptural, contemporary iterations of furniture and vessels in a nod to early American craft traditions. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article 17th-Century Embroidery Meets Hand-Carved Wooden Vessels by Aspen Golann appeared first on Colossal .

Colossal · EN

Editorial Design: Merch by Counter-Print

Counter-Print champions physical branding with Merch, an editorial design survey exploring the strategic power of tactile brand collateral. For decades, branded merchandise occupied a strange, slightl...

Abduzeedo · EN

Forget Zillow. Vermonters are fighting the housing crisis with catalogs

One state is preapproving a whole neighborhood’s worth of home designs in advance, and it’s a step that a growing number of local governments across the U.S. are taking to build more homes—and fast. In Vermont, state officials are preparing a 10-home catalog called 802 Homes that’s named after the state’s sole area code and is expected to be released early next year. Once it’s out, the catalog’s blueprints will be free to use for home builders and developers, and since those designs have already been approved, they can expect to zip through the zoning and approval process. The U.S. is short 10

Fast Company Design · EN