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UK design job postings remain sensitive to broader tech hiring swings, and live demand data beats secondhand takes. itjobswatch tracks per-role UK vacancy and salary trend data you can pull yourself.
itjobswatch.co.uk
Nielsen Norman Group's usability heuristics remain one of the most reliable low-cost methods for catching UX problems before user testing, and they're still underused by junior designers.
nngroup.com
Design tokens — shared variables for colour, spacing and type — are becoming the default way teams keep Figma or Penpot files and production code in sync.
alistapart.com
Adobe keeps folding Firefly-generated AI features directly into Creative Cloud apps, a sign generative AI is now baseline tooling rather than a novelty plug-in.
blog.adobe.com
AI agents are moving from chat assistants to workflow automators, taking on repetitive design tasks. IBM's research suggests most process leaders expect this shift to deepen by 2027.
ibm.com
