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Adobe Turntable is now fully available in Adobe Illustrator, allowing creators to instantly generate up to 74 editable multi-angle views—including full rotation and tilt—from a single vector illustration while preserving its 2D style. First previewed as Project Turntable at Adobe MAX 2024, the feature dramatically reduces work that once took hours to seconds, enabling animators and game designers to quickly produce character turnarounds, concept art, and production-ready assets.

Lovable, an AI-powered app-building platform valued at $6.6 billion, is actively seeking acquisitions and looking for teams with founder backgrounds to join the company. The startup faces competition from tools such as Cursor, Replit, and Bolt, as well as larger AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Despite competitive pressures, Lovable has grown to $400 million in annual recurring revenue and sees over 200,000 new projects created on its platform each day.

Pinterest's "Promote a Pin" is a new feature that allows users to boost their pin's reach without creating complex ad campaigns. The feature is rolling out to US users first and uses Pinterest's Taste Graph system to target likely converters among the platform's 619 million active users. This launch comes as Pinterest faces challenges, having laid off 15% of staff in January and reporting disappointing Q4 results, though the company recently received a $1 billion investment from activist investor Elliott.

The design industry has grown rapidly over the last 20 years, requiring design leaders to develop business fluency and strategic skills beyond traditional craft mastery. Design schools have failed to provide adequate business education, leaving professionals unprepared for executive responsibilities like managing teams, securing budgets, and guiding organizational strategy.

AI is compressing design workflows and automating execution, shifting the focus away from UI production toward outcomes and faster experimentation. Rather than replacing design, it creates an opportunity to return to its core purpose—helping users achieve goals—by focusing on holistic, cross-system experiences instead of isolated screens. While tools like rapid prototyping and emerging ideas such as “Design Twins” can scale insights, meaningful design still depends on real user understanding and empathy, positioning designers as orchestrators of systems, research, and outcomes rather than just makers.

Slicer.dev is a browser extension that allows users to copy any interactive or static website element and convert it into AI-ready prompts for coding tools like Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Cursor.

To mark Apple's 50th anniversary, 99designs collaborated with global designers to reimagine iconic Apple products in era-specific styles, pairing them with personal stories that highlight the brand's lasting impact on creative work.

Playcode offers an AI website builder that creates, hosts, and updates business websites without requiring programming skills or credit cards.

Figma variables can be used to test font size increases across scales from 100% to 200%, fulfilling WCAG 2.2's mandatory AA criterion that text must be resizable up to 200% without loss of content. The workflow requires structured auto layouts, text styles, and number variables for font-size and line-height — foundations that most teams with a design system already have in place. According to APPT data from February, 26% of mobile users increase their device's default font size, making accessibility testing a non-negotiable part of the design process.

Birkenstock has launched Your Blank Canvas, a new in-store customization platform at its King's Road flagship in London, developed with KIT Studio, marking a shift from purely functional design toward playful self-expression. The system features mascot versions of iconic styles, a bespoke bubble-style typeface, and city-inspired “passport stamp” graphics, allowing customers to personalize footwear with charms, messages, and travel references while blending the brand's heritage with a more expressive, youth-oriented identity.

Great UX results from small daily design habits rather than just big research projects or major redesigns. Key habits include keeping design iterations rather than deleting them for a visible history and faster branching, organizing Figma files with clear sections and page structure for better team navigation, and using Auto Layout from the start to enable faster iteration and a smoother developer handoff. These workflow decisions dramatically affect how quickly you iterate, how clearly teams collaborate, and how easily developers implement designs.

Pixel Theory is a modular furniture collection inspired by computer pixels and video games like Tetris.

Art triggers measurable neural events in your brain, activating reward circuits and motor regions that simulate the creative actions you observe.