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New research shows how creativity with AI improves academic outcomes

Today’s colleges and universities are being asked to do far more than just award degrees. Rising tuition costs, shrinking enrollment and retention, and a rapidly changing job market are forcing institutions to rethink what academic success looks like today.

The golden age of women’s sports branding is here

From rising media valuations to record-breaking attendance and brand investment, the shift is undeniable. Publications like Print Magazine are calling it a “golden age” of women’s sports branding. Forbes is outlining how brands can meaningfully participate in the revolution. And leagues like the WNBA are doubling down on expansion, storytelling, and identity-driven growth.

Agents, meet the Figma canvas

Starting today, you can use AI agents to design directly on the Figma canvas. And with skills, you can guide agents with context about your team’s decisions and intent.

A Practical Guide To Design Principles

We often see design principles as rigid guidelines that dictate design decisions. But actually, they are an incredible tool to rally the team around a shared purpose and document the values and beliefs that an organization embodies.

The design layer for your agentic tooling

CLI coding tool that generates design system specification and style guides for agentic programs like OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.

Life after Figma is coming

Across waves of software cycles in every vertical, we’ve seen dominant platforms that capture the vast majority of the value of a market over time. Workday, Salesforce, Hubspot, Adobe, Zoom, Google. The power law dictates that there will be one or a handful of winners as data, trust and recognition accrues.

My favorite type of designers

There are many types of GREAT designers I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally. Below are some of my favorites for the various circumstances.

A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces

Every high-resolution hero image, autoplay video, and complex JavaScript animation carries a cost. Sustainable UX challenges the era of “unlimited pixels” and reframes performance as responsibility. In 2026, truly sophisticated design is defined not by how much it adds, but by how thoughtfully it reduces its footprint.

Best Outdoor & Adventure Fonts

Today, we are bringing you a collection of adventure and outdoor fonts capable of just that. These fonts can instantly evoke a sense of nature, freedom, and exploration.

Design as an act of courage

Something that has always impressed me when working with a great designer, is their willingness to stay suspended in ambiguity—curious and gently dissatisfied—just a little bit longer than everyone else. They’ll explore that little bit more widely, push an idea a little bit further, keep their team and manager at bay whilst they push through a couple more iterations of an idea.

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