Category: Designers

Custom AI Models for Brand Design: What Adobe and Disney Signal

Custom AI Models for Brand Design: What Adobe and Disney Signal

A brand can have a recognizable colour palette, a carefully selected typeface and a well-documented design system, yet still struggle to maintain visual consistency across hundreds of creative assets. The problem becomes more complicated when generative AI enters the workflow. Ask a general-purpose image generator to create ten images for the same campaign and you […]

Nov 11, 2026 16 min read
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CSS Typed Arithmetic: How calc() Works in Modern CSS

CSS Typed Arithmetic: How calc() Works in Modern CSS

CSS has been getting better at doing things that once felt like they belonged in JavaScript. We already use calc() for responsive widths, spacing, positioning, and typography. But there has always been an awkward boundary around CSS math: values have types, units matter, and some calculations simply could not be expressed directly. Typed arithmetic changes […]

Oct 20, 2026 11 min read
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JPEG XL for Web Images: Is It Finally Worth Using?

JPEG XL for Web Images: Is It Finally Worth Using?

For years, JPEG XL has occupied an awkward position in web development. The format had an impressive feature set. It could compress photographs efficiently, preserve images losslessly, handle HDR and wide color, progressively decode large images, and even losslessly transcode existing JPEG files. On paper, it looked like exactly the kind of format the modern […]

Oct 16, 2026 11 min read
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WCAG 3 in 2026: What Designers Should Know About the New Direction

WCAG 3 in 2026: What Designers Should Know About the New Direction

For years, accessibility work on the web has often ended up as a familiar exercise: check the requirements, fix the failures, run the tests again, and move on. That process has value. But it does not always describe the real accessibility experience of a product. A button can pass a technical check and still be […]

Oct 14, 2026 11 min read
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Claude’s New Animation Tools: What Designers Can Actually Use Them For

Claude’s New Animation Tools: What Designers Can Actually Use Them For

AI design tools have become very good at producing something that looks finished. That does not always mean they are useful. For designers, the more interesting question is usually what happens before the final design: exploring an idea, testing a visual direction, explaining a product, turning a static chart into something understandable, or quickly making […]

Oct 13, 2026 12 min read
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