November 13, 2026 08:09 AM
The EU's proposed Digital Fairness Act would ban dark patterns and hard-to-cancel subscriptions, and restrict loot boxes and other pay-to-win tactics that push minors to overspend. Companies in breach could face fines of up to six percent of their global revenue. Enforcement would also shift from member states to the Commission, which gains direct powers to investigate large-scale cases.
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Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generates AI video clips of 3 to 15 seconds, up from a 10-second ceiling in the previous version. Clips can be refined through multi-turn chat, swapping backgrounds, weather, or aspect ratio without regenerating everything. Pricing drops 30% to $0.07 per second of 720p video, with less visual drift and clearer lip-sync.
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WhatsApp is testing a new Contacts tab on iOS that replaces Communities in the bottom navigation bar, making it easier to find people and start conversations. The redesigned hub displays favorite contacts, highlights online users with green indicators, and lets people sort contacts alphabetically, by recent activity, or by upcoming birthdays. Communities will remain accessible through a filter in the Chats tab, while the new Contacts experience is currently limited to selected beta testers.
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In a randomized trial with 20 participants, human moderators surfaced more themes than an AI moderator built on Gemini 3 Flash, averaging 6.9 of eight versus 5.0 in Claude's coding. The widest gap was sleep climate, which humans uncovered in six to nine of ten sessions by probing beyond the discussion guide. Where the guide covered a topic, AI came within about eight percentage points, so a strong script closes most of the gap.
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Good design should improve the product without unnecessarily increasing the difficulty of building and maintaining it. Designers need to consider implementation costs, explain why proposed changes justify the work, and collaborate with engineers when technical constraints require compromises. Design engineering reduces the overhead of iteration by allowing designers to implement their own adjustments, while design systems should help teams ship consistent interfaces rather than create obstacles they constantly work around.
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DS Contracts is an experimental system that converts React components into editable Figma components and back using deterministic JSON contracts that describe layout, tokens, properties, and visual appearance. A test with IBM's Carbon design system generated 84 button variants in roughly 30 seconds, but only 40 passed validation, exposing subtle differences in icon dimensions, font naming, rotations, and layout behavior. Rather than relying on AI-generated approximations, the project uses strict visual comparisons, explicit failure reporting, and planned held-out tests to measure whether conversions genuinely preserve design intent.
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Clayzo is an animation engine built for coding agents. You describe the motion, and your agent writes it, looks at the result, and iterates.
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A community-submitted gallery of iPhone app icons. Browse, track redesigns, and submit icons you've spotted in prod.
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Interactive world exploration with Atlas.
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Chrome's dark mode on Android pairs HighlightText with Highlight at just 1.98:1 contrast, making active buttons unreadable despite system colors being named to work together. The System Color Study compares resolved values and intended pairings across browsers, operating systems, and preferences, checking each against five WCAG thresholds.
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Creative portfolios don't always need conventional navigation and predictable layouts, particularly when expressing personality and encouraging exploration are central to their purpose. Five designers demonstrate alternative approaches, including interactive bookshelves, chronological timelines, and unconventional visual structures that make browsing feel like discovering someone's creative world. These choices introduce usability trade-offs, but a portfolio can prioritize curiosity, memorability, and artistic expression when those goals are more important than helping visitors reach specific information as quickly as possible.
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Studio Bright Green has rebranded UK heritage architecture practice Heritage Architecture as Levrant, using internal workshops and client research to create an identity that better reflects its broader architectural and consultancy expertise. The restrained visual system combines a custom geometric logotype, Klim Type Foundry's Söhne, stone-inspired neutrals, Venetian Red accents, and architectural photography emphasizing material, light, and proportion. Flexible templates and a consistent art direction extend the identity across the website, reports, presentations, and everyday communications, allowing the practice to present its expertise with greater clarity and confidence.
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Founded by Ty Mattson in 2004, California studio Mattson Creative gives Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, and Disney princesses fresh identities through bold silhouettes, punchy color, and vintage-poster nostalgia.
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An environment works best as a character in its own right, carrying the story's stakes, history, and identity rather than serving as a pretty backdrop.
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AI makes it increasingly affordable to recreate complex professional software, but copying established tools like Photoshop may overlook opportunities to rethink how people accomplish creative tasks.
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