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Top storyThinking·1 Aug

Perplexity diverges with color

Perplexity, a text-based generative AI model, can serve as a color suggestion tool for building diverging color schemes in data visualizations, requiring user modification of Hex code suggestions.

UX Collective
7 min read

In this edition

Stories from Saturday, 1 August 2026

AI & Tools
OpenAI Blog
AI

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI details its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices, which are designed to support responsible artificial intelligence governance as the EU AI Act progresses.

31 Jul
AI & Tools
OpenAI Blog
AI

Building abundant intelligence

OpenAI is pursuing a full-stack approach to develop advanced AI that is more capable, affordable, and widely useful for various applications.

31 Jul
UX Planet
Thinking

I Tried Logo Design with Claude Design and It’s Amazing

Claude Design is used for logo creation and various design tasks, including slide deck and HTML email template design.

31 Jul·7 min read
CSS-Tricks
Tools

What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More

Sibling-index() function enables animations and is soon to be baseline with Firefox 154 release.

31 Jul·2 min read
UX Collective
Thinking

Jakob’s law: How to apply it as AI collapses surfaces into one chat box

AI assistants are consolidating tasks into one conversational surface, changing how Jakob's Law applies to user interface design.

30 Jul·17 min read
UX Collective
Thinking

Rethinking friction in an AI world

Frictionless design can sometimes be counterproductive, as removing all obstacles can lead to a lack of engagement or understanding.

30 Jul·6 min read

Editor's pick

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Creative technologists are increasingly central to product teams, bridging design, code, systems, and storytelling as AI reduces the gap between ideas and implementation.

UX Collective
13 min read

UX & Thinking

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UX Planet
Thinking

I Tried Logo Design with Claude Design and It’s Amazing

31 Jul·7 min read
UX Collective
Thinking

Jakob’s law: How to apply it as AI collapses surfaces into one chat box

30 Jul·17 min read

Look & feel

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Visual references from across the design web.

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Codrops

Building an Infinite GSAP Scroll Gallery with Parallax and Flip Transitions

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Femke.design (YT)
Video

The sentence that changed how clients see my work

30 Jul
Flux Academy
Video

Webflow's New MCP 2.0

30 Jul

AI & Tools

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AI & Tools
OpenAI Blog
AI

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

31 Jul
AI & Tools
OpenAI Blog
AI

Building abundant intelligence

31 Jul
One Page Love

Website Inspiration: Housemait

Codrops

Between Print and Digital: The Making of MERSI’s Website

Muzli

Why Most UX Advice Fails in Tier 3 or Rural India