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A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer — Smashing Magazine
If you are new to using AI in design or curious about integrating AI into your UX process without losing your human touch, this article offers a grounded, day-by-day look at introducing AI into your design workflow. Artificial Intelligence isn’t new, but in November 2022, something changed. The launch of ChatGPT brought AI out of…
Tips For Running Competitor Campaigns In Paid Search
Paid search professionals constantly debate the merits of running paid search campaigns bidding on competitor brand names. Questions such as the following may arise: Is bidding on your competitors ethical? Are the high costs-per-click (CPCs) worth spending the budget on? Are you actually reaching people with buying intent? In this article, I’ll talk through answers…
GitHub – mbuhot/glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering support, built on Syn.
Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering support. Built on the Erlang syn library. Glyn provides two complementary systems for actor communication: PubSub: Broadcast events to multiple subscribers Registry: Direct command routing to named processes Both systems integrate seamlessly with Gleam’s actor model using selector composition patterns. Creating Message Types and Decoders…
Microsoft’s Xbox handheld is a good first step toward a Windows gaming OS
The first thing I did when I got my hands on the Xbox Ally was reboot it. I wanted to see exactly how Microsoft manages to hide Windows beneath the Xbox interface that’s debuting on these handheld devices. After a short startup, I was met with the standard Windows login prompt. But I could use…
Everything announced at Made by Google, including Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2a
Maybe to avoid the jargon-heavy format of last year, Google decided to flip the script at its annual Made by Google showcase. Instead of the usual California stage presentation with slides and specs, this year’s event went full late-night. Hosted in New York, it played out like a special, offbeat episode of The Tonight Show,…
Web Design & Web Development Salaries Around the World in 2025
If you’ve been in tech for more than five minutes, you know salaries swing harder than a startup’s “pivot” plan. In 2021, it felt like everyone and their dog was being handed six figures and a sign-on bonus the size of a down payment. Then came the hiring freezes, the layoffs, the “we love your work…
3D Layered Text: The Basics | CSS-Tricks
Recently, a client asked me to create a bulging text effect. These are exactly the kinds of creative challenges I live for. I explored several directions, JavaScript solutions, SVG filters, but then I remembered the concept of 3D layered text. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I managed to get a result…
Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design — Smashing Magazine
AI tools are improving fast, but it’s still not clear how they fit into a real product design workflow. Nikita Samutin walks through four core stages — from analytics and ideation to prototyping and visual design — to show where AI fits and where it doesn’t, illustrated with real-world examples. These days, it’s easy to…
Why CMOs Should Rethink ROAS As A North Star Metric
If you lead a marketing team, chances are you’ve had this conversation: “How are the campaigns doing?” “Well, our ROAS is 4:1.” The room breathes a collective sigh of relief. The good news: the marketing budget is justified (for the time being). But here’s the problem: that number might not actually tell you anything useful….
Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia
The ACCC has today commenced Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific over anti-competitive understandings that Google admits it reached in the past with Telstra and Optus regarding the pre-installation of Google Search on Android mobile phones. Google has co-operated with the ACCC, admitted liability and agreed to jointly submit to the Court that Google…