Figma agent skills, and ten to start with
Figma now lets you author, publish and browse skills for its agent, packaging repeatable design workflows into something you invoke with a slash. There is a Community library of 50+ to try.
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Figma agent skills, two-state toggles, a heckling Clippy
Figma opens up agent skills and Cursor starts hosting your repos, while Lea Verou makes the tidy case that dark mode needs two states rather than three. Also a word game with a rude assistant, and an uncomfortable read about where training data comes from.
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Mizko on where UX and UI design is heading
Mizko argues that development is no longer the bottleneck, citing Figma survey data showing designers contributing to code jumping from 21% to 41%. He also covers parallel AI agent workflows and why talking to customers matters more once shipping is commoditised.
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Reddit is turning text posts into AI podcasts and clips
An experiment adapts posts into video and audio read by AI voices. Worth watching if you think about how content changes shape across formats.
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Cursor now hosts your code with Origin
Cursor's new Origin beta adds repos, pull requests and GitHub sync directly inside the editor, with agents working in the same place. Worth watching if your team's build loop already runs through Cursor.
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Publishing and installing Figma agent skills
Figma walks through the new Community sharing for agent skills. A concrete look at how AI is landing inside the design tool.
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Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI models
Rare texts are valuable training data now that models have exhausted the open web. An uncomfortable look at where training material comes from.
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A word game where Clippy heckles your guesses
Game designer Sam Rosenthal built a daily word game with an unhelpful assistant character. A fun study in personality and friction in interfaces.
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Dark mode toggles: two states are enough
Lea Verou argues the light / dark / system triple toggle is a needless complication and makes the case for two states. A tidy piece of interface reasoning you can apply this week.
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A realistic guide to becoming an AI designer
A grounded look at shipping your own designs when engineers move faster than you can prototype. Less hype than the title suggests.
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Reddit tests audio and video versions of posts
Popular text threads are being turned into watchable and listenable formats. A look at how a text-first platform reshapes itself for feeds.
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Spotify adds notes to playlists
Playlist Notes let listeners and editors explain why a track made the cut. A small feature with interesting implications for context inside media apps.
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