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October 30, 2026

Best AI Creations This Week: 50 AI Agents Play Minecraft (Oct 30)

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Best AI Creations This Week: AI Agents Clean Up Smart TVs (Oct 23)

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October 30, 2026

Best AI Creations This Week: 50 AI Agents Play Minecraft (Oct 30)

The best AI creations this week: 50 agents build a bureaucracy in Minecraft, a neural net runs inside DOOM, Block's speech-only model talks, Hob runs locally.

Flat-lay of a desk with a laptop showing a voxel village, a handheld console with a pixel dungeon, a phone with a layered app, colored acetate layers, a glass flower, a mini speaker and a CD-ROM case
Design
November 1, 2026

Dashboard UX Best Practices: Creators Wanted Clarity, Not More Charts

Dashboard UX best practices from a creator platform with 500,000+ users: design around one question, name features after decisions, make empty states sell.

Laptop in a creator studio showing a minimal analytics dashboard with one highlighted card and a single line chart, camera on a tripod behind
Design
November 1, 2026

UI UX Design Explained in Simple Words, With Real Product Examples

What UI UX design is in simple words, how it works step by step, and real examples with published results: 13% to 65% activation, 82% fewer support tasks.

Designer desk with a monitor showing an app flow of interface cards, a pencil-sketched screen flow on paper and a phone with a simple colorful screen
Design
October 31, 2026

UI UX Designer Dubai: What Hiring One Really Costs in 2026

What a UI UX designer in Dubai costs in 2026, four ways to pay for design, the Arabic RTL test most portfolios fail, and how Morocco shares your afternoon.

Product designer desk high in a Dubai tower with bilingual app wireframes on a laptop, a phone prototype, Arabic coffee and dates, Burj Khalifa in the haze
Design
October 30, 2026

How to Make a 3D Configurator That Weighs Gummy Bears Live

Six flavours, up to 560 physics bears and a scale that beeps when it settles. How to make a 3D configurator in three.js and Rapier, from one working build.

Haribo Pick & Mix 3D configurator experiment: gummy bears pouring into a bag on a live scale
Design
October 30, 2026

What Is a Design Engineer in Software? I Became One at ViewStats

What is a design engineer in software? A designer who ships the code. How the role works, tools, real examples, and how to become one, from someone doing it.

Design engineer desk with an interface design canvas on one monitor, a code editor on the other and an iPhone prototype between them
Design
October 29, 2026

Framer MCP: Your AI Agent Can Publish Your Site. Should It?

Framer MCP lets Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT edit your canvas, CMS and publish. A design engineer's take on setup, cost, branches and where to keep a human.

Designer desk with a laptop showing a website layout canvas, a phone with an AI chat, and a notebook of wireframe sketches
Design
October 27, 2026

Future of UI UX Design With AI: 5 Shifts I Already Ship

AI is not killing UI UX design. It is changing what we ship: working prototypes, motion, sound, trust. 5 shifts from real builds, and what to learn now.

Pulse Health iOS app experiment with Liquid Glass cards for heart rate, steps, hydration and sleep, built with Figma, Claude and SwiftUI
Design
October 26, 2026

Best AI Creations This Week: AI Agents Clean Up Smart TVs (Oct 23)

The best AI creations this week: agents that debloat smart TVs, a tiny model that fakes a terminal, llama.cpp on a PS5 and an AI designer for real dielines.

Flat-lay of a desk with a smart TV showing a clean home screen, a remote, a game controller, a tiny terminal, stickers, a pop-up card, a gummy bear, a mini synth and a phone
Design
October 26, 2026

Is Product Design a Good Career in 2026? My Answer After 12 Years

AI is eating the production half of product design and raising the value of the judgment half. A lead designer on who this career fits in 2026, and who it does not.

Designer's desk in morning light with a laptop showing app screens, a notebook of user flow sketches and a rising career path drawing, and a phone prototype
Design
October 26, 2026

Chrome Extension UX Design: How Ours Reached 200,000+ Users

The Chrome extension UX design lesson behind ViewStats' 200,000+ users: bring insight to the page users are on, pick the right surface, keep it simple.

Creator desk with a monitor showing a video page and an analytics side panel, a camera on a tripod, headphones and thumbnail sketches
Design
October 26, 2026

Product Designer Paris Startups Can Hire From Morocco, Same Hours

Paris office or remote? Why a product designer in Morocco shares your working day, how French consent rules shape onboarding, and a hiring checklist.

Product designer desk by a Paris Haussmann window with app user flows on a laptop, a phone prototype, wireframe sketches and a cafe creme
Design
October 26, 2026

Enterprise UX Design: 95% of Our Users Never Used It Alone

At Accern, 95% of users needed our team to use the product. How we fixed enterprise UX design: one path, plain language, 82% fewer support tasks.

Desk with a laptop showing an analytics dashboard, research notes with jargon crossed out, and user persona cards
Design
October 26, 2026

Micro Interactions Examples: A Bank Card You Shatter to Unfreeze

A card freeze you can see, hear and shatter. How the Payno build works under the hood, and what these micro interactions examples teach product designers.

Payno app on an iPhone showing a bank card that freezes and shatters
Design
October 26, 2026

Product Designer vs UX Designer: The Difference Is Ownership

Same skills, different accountability. A lead product designer explains product designer vs UX designer, with real examples, a comparison table and a checklist.

Desk split between UX research materials like sticky notes, a journey map and wireframes, and product materials like a metrics dashboard and a roadmap
Design
October 26, 2026

Will AI Replace Product Designers? What It Replaced in My Work

I ship apps end to end with AI, from Figma to App Store. Here is what AI replaced in my product design work, what it never touched, and what to learn now.

Designer desk with a laptop showing code next to app screens, an iPhone prototype, a microphone and headphones, and a sketchbook of wireframes
Design
October 26, 2026

Onboarding UX Best Practices From a 13% to 65% Activation Fix

Creators signed up but would not connect their channel. How value-first onboarding UX took activation from 13% to 65%+, and the practices you can reuse.

Creator desk with a laptop showing an app onboarding screen, a phone on a tripod, a camera and a sketched user funnel in a notebook
Design
October 26, 2026

What Does a Product Designer Do? A Lead Designer's Honest Answer

What does a product designer do all day? A lead designer explains the real job: research, decisions, prototypes, code and the 13% to 65% activation story.

Product designer desk with app user flows on a laptop, a journey map with sticky notes, a phone prototype, code on a tablet and hand-drawn wireframes
Design
October 18, 2026

Product Designer in Casablanca: How to Hire the Right One

How to hire a product designer in Casablanca: roles compared, portfolio red flags, remote vs in-house, costs and the questions to ask, from a Moroccan lead designer.

Product designer workspace on a Casablanca rooftop with app wireframes on a laptop, an iPhone prototype and mint tea, Hassan II Mosque in the background
Design
October 18, 2026

5 Learnings from designing a Series-B Pitch Deck that Raised +$40M

Five lessons from designing a Series B pitch deck that helped raise over $40M: tell a real story, size the market, make numbers readable, connect personally, and make it look sharp.

Design
October 18, 2026

Mini Case Study: How can we make the Shopping experience x10 better?

A mini product design case study on fixing online shopping's biggest trust gap, product size and scale, using AR, 3D and VR prototypes instead of flat listing photos.

Design
October 18, 2026

Mini Case Study: What if you had the ability to celebrate new year at home?

A VR product design concept for celebrating New Year at home: jump between 360 cameras in cities worldwide and trigger fireworks with friends using hand gestures.

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