Digest for Sunday 2 August 2026

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• Adoption

  UK entry-level design roles: thin, but not zero

  A market analysis of Glassdoor listings found UK entry-level Product Designer roles were relatively more plentiful than in the US or Spain, while entry-level UX Designer roles stayed scarce across the board. Job title framing matters more than it should.

  fundament.design · 3 May

• Established

  Nielsen's 10 heuristics still hold up in the AI era

  NN/g's usability heuristics, first published in 1994, remain the fastest baseline checklist for evaluating any interface — including ones you or an AI tool just generated. They haven't gone out of date.

  nngroup.com · 1 Jan

• Adoption

  Material 3 Expressive: Google gets bolder with UI

  Google's Material 3 Expressive update pushes bolder colour, shape and motion to make interfaces feel more human, rolling out across Android and Google apps. It's a shift from the flatter, quieter Material 3 look.

  design.google · 13 May

• Adoption

  Figma Sites: publish designs as live pages, no code

  Figma launched Sites, letting you turn a canvas design into a responsive, published website directly from Figma. It's early — expect gaps versus a proper dev handoff, especially for anything complex.

  figma.com · 7 May

• Hype

  Figma's AI tools are maturing — but check the output

  Figma's AI features (First Draft, Make) can generate UI from a prompt, but the results still need real design judgement before they're usable. Treat them as a fast first pass, not a finished screen.

  figma.com · 11 Jun

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