iFixit has published its teardown of the iPhone Duo and given it a provisional repairability score of 5 out of 10, the highest it has ever given a foldable. It also points to details that may explain why some early inner screens are failing. Five is, for foldables, a triumph.
Read more at 9to5Mac →A UX Collective essay notes that products keep shipping the same AI panel behind a sparkle icon while people hunt for the off switch. The author argues spending has outrun returns and that teams should build features with AI, as opposed to AI features. The off switch is still missing.
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With redesigned artist pages in iOS 27, Apple Music lets musicians upload stylised logos, pick colours for prominent buttons and choose which release gets featured. Until now every artist shared the same standard layout, which suited the standard artist.
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Apple is reportedly working on a user interface problem on the outer display of the foldable iPhone Duo, where Safari's controls compete for limited space. The issue came up in a WebKit blog post and raises questions about how iOS will adapt to a phone that folds.
Read more at gizchina.com →A UX Collective essay notes that nearly every B2B application now has a chat box on its roadmap, and few teams know who it is for. It offers six questions to judge whether a conversational layer will speed experts up or get in their way. The chat box ships anyway.
Read more at UX Collective →Early iPhone Duo reviews complained that opening Control Center is awkward in left handed use, since it needs a swipe from the top right corner. 9to5Mac reports users have found a hidden, more reachable way to open it. The users did the usability testing after launch, as is traditional.
Read more at 9to5Mac →The city of Sedona in Arizona is inviting residents, business owners and frequent users to join a limited term Website Community Working Group, advising on usability, design principles and navigation and supporting user testing of a light redesign. The city website will be tested on the people who use it.
Read more at signalsaz.com →After the iPhone Duo launch, Apple published support documents on hinge problems, Touch ID and display troubleshooting, along with an official repair manual. The guides give users and independent technicians step by step instructions for replacing individual parts of the foldable, which arrived promptly.
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For its 2026 After Dark Tour of women's night races, Nike designed a medal that doubles as a necklace, bracelet, keychain loop or belt chain, with miniature laser engraved Swooshes and a city specific carabiner for hosts including London, Shanghai and Mumbai. Finishing now comes with accessories.
Read more at Fast Company →
Toronto based Underline Studio has rebranded the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, named after Group of Seven painter F.H. Varley, around a deconstructed VA monogram and a bold print system. Quiet neutral museum templates have been politely shown the exit.
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Creative Bloq reports on a library logo that was censored, the latest design victim of the US war on woke. It follows the Cracker Barrel rebrand backlash and the State Department dropping Calibri, while brands such as Mars and Bob's Red Mill held firm.
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A throwback Atlanta Falcons logo drew criticism two years ago for resembling 1930s fascist aesthetics in its black on red, hard edged bird. Creative Bloq reports the NFL team has now released a remixed design that critics say pushes the resemblance even further.
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London studio Two Times Elliott has created the identity for Union, a UK managed office services brand. It pairs extended grotesk type and Swiss grids with tactile print monographs, avoiding both the stiff landlord brochure and loud co working styling. The beanbags are not mentioned.
Read more at Abduzeedo →For the Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria, Studio Tumpic Prenc designed a book on Pula's 19th and early 20th century fortifications using kraft paper, binding cord and archival tabs. The museum papers and photographs look like documents pulled from a drawer, which is where documents usually are.
Read more at Abduzeedo →Designer Wessam Hussien's Tijdschrift 001 is an editorial portrait of TASTWERK, an atelier working with craft, primary colour and raw material research. Built on a six column InDesign grid, it shows founder conversations, workshop observations and object studies alongside the polished final objects. The workbench gets equal billing.
Read more at Abduzeedo →Creative director Florian Cornut built the Shapes and Forms identity between March and June 2023, pairing Vinila and GT Alpina Fine type. It spans letterhead, charcoal and cream business cards for producer Thomas Knight and circular die cut stickers in warm taupe and black. The system is calm about it.
Read more at Abduzeedo →Toronto studio Partisans has designed the Jenga Light, translucent blocks on a powered base. Electricity travels up through every point where one block rests on another, so the lamp glows brick by brick as it is built. Knocking it over is now also a lighting decision.
Read more at yankodesign.com →Moscow designer Alexey Yakushik has released Yuri Gagarin: First in Space, a titanium watch from his brand launched in 2025. Yanko Design notes the first human orbit gets far less attention than the Speedmaster and the moon landing, which had better marketing.
Read more at yankodesign.com →Aleksander Kozera's Neo Brutalist Vases, from his Warsaw based Yird Ceramics brand, have cylindrical bodies split into rectangular panels with tiny indentations that suggest a concrete facade. Yanko Design says they look complete even without flowers, which saves on flowers.
Read more at yankodesign.com →Matter / Memory, an interactive installation by Leonardo Garza for Byredo, is a field of tiny steel spheres that visitors explore by hand. Commissioned for the brand's Mexico City launch on October 7, it gives perfume a physical presence, for a product whose main feature is being invisible.
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Canva has launched Craft, its first AI image model, which creates images up to 2K resolution in more than 30 aspect ratios. It is available through Dream Lab and Canva's public API and debuted fourth on DesignArena, a crowdsourced ranking based on user preferences. Fourth, on day one.
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Design Week looks at Apple Music's new identity, made with an oil bath, lighting and a transducer driven by sound. Curtis Free of Conran Design Group discusses how brands are seeking signals of authenticity now that generative tools make pristine visuals instant. Authenticity now requires an oil bath.
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Meshy's browser based platform supports text to 3D and image to 3D generation, AI texturing, auto rigging and developer API access. It also offers a free tier and browser utilities to help creators prepare 3D assets for games, design and 3D printing.
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The BBC's Blue Planet III is leaving in imperfect shots that would normally be cut, to prove its footage is real. Executive producer Elizabeth White told The Guardian that footage which looks too polished is now a giveaway of AI. The ocean has been asked to look slightly worse.
Read more at The Verge →
Adobe and NVIDIA will open ICNX 2026 with keynotes on November 3 at Songdo Convensia in Incheon. Adobe's head of film and television Darren Frankel will speak on how AI infrastructure is rewiring content production, followed by NVIDIA's Jeff Kember, who sells some of the infrastructure.
Read more at kentertechhub.com →LaredoMLOps, developed at the University of Cantabria in Spain, puts the full machine learning lifecycle behind a no code web interface. It scored 87.69 on the System Usability Scale and runs free on your own hardware, without licence fees or cloud dependencies. Academia has shipped a usable product.
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Adobe reported double digit Q3 fiscal 2026 growth with record revenue of US$6.76 billion and raised full year EPS guidance. It says it now has more than 1 billion monthly active users and has expanded AI partnerships with NVIDIA and BWT Alpine. The subscription remains, as ever, a subscription.
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9to5Mac reports Apple will reverse its decades long stance against laptop touchscreens with a redesigned OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro this week. The lineup will have three tiers, with the lighter OLED models at the top and a premium price expected. The stance has been updated.
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With Arc being wound down after Atlassian bought its maker and moved focus to the AI browser Dia, The Verge's reviewer recommends Zen Browser. He has not missed Arc since switching, and says Zen fits for users willing to accept some minor inconveniences, which describes most browser switchers.
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Apple is set to give the iPad mini its first new display technology since 2021, an OLED panel, and its first chip refresh since 2024. 9to5Mac says it will not be Tandem OLED, and whether it gets a 120Hz display is unclear. Mini owners have waited patiently, as they do.
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Kopek Japan announced on October 21 a project with Keychron and illustrator and designer lack to build a left hand keyboard device for illustration and creative work. A survey on key layout, usability and preferred software is open until November 15. The users are being asked first.
Read more at green-keys.info →The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone sized E Ink reader for books, articles and documents. It runs Android with Google Play, so other apps work too. TechCrunch's reviewer says its size finally ended the habit of reading on a phone, by being shaped like one.
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The Greater Bengaluru Authority has opened Bengaluru Design: Open Call, inviting designers, architects, artists and students to propose improvements to bus stops, streetlights, benches, medians, bins, shopfronts and neighbourhood identities. Entries close November 15, with a shortlist at Bengaluru Jatre in December. Residents have notes.
Read more at The Hindu →
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has invited applications for Design for Bharat 2027 under the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders' Dialogue. Open to Indians aged 18 to 29, it seeks practical, inclusive design solutions. The deadline has been extended to October 31, as deadlines are.
Read more at Nicobar Times →
For Durga Puja, ITC Sunfeast Mom's Magic SHINES and experiential agency Alive India built a 1,200 sq ft illuminated pandal at Harish Park, Bhowanipore. It translated the biscuit's sugar glazed shine and signature patterns into architecture. The biscuit now has a building.
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Dassault Systemes India managing director Deepak NG says the company has worked on the industry academia gap since its first Centre of Excellence with Karnataka in 2016. More than 2,000 academic institutions across India now use its software, which also helps close the gap.
Read more at The Financial Express →
Designers are borrowing colours like lemon sorbet, pistachio, blueberry and vanilla for interiors. Tejas Shintre of Koriv Design Studio tells The New Indian Express that colour should be part of the architecture, and that thoughtful use matters more than quantity. Dessert is now a palette.
Read more at The New Indian Express →Mahindra has introduced the Bolero Bold Edition in India with bronze accents on the bumper, grille, fog lamp surrounds, alloy wheels, mirror caps and roof rails, plus extra door cladding. The changes are purely cosmetic, with no mechanical updates. Bold, in this case, is a colour.
Read more at livechennai.com →A Myntra report titled Beauty in the Age of Gen Z says the generation treats beauty as prevention first, with sun protection products up 60 percent among Gen Z shoppers. They also try premium brands through minis and are buying well beyond the metros. Sunscreen has won.
Read more at YourStory →
Territory Group, the collective behind Territory Studio and Cantina Creative, has launched Lux Meridian, an AI native studio for features, premium series and animated films. It draws on Adobe's Firefly Foundry custom models, already tried on Brad Peyton's Dark Zone.
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AI field management platform FYLD, which raised a 32 million pound Series B in February, won High Growth Company of the Year at the GP Bullhound 2026 Allstars awards. MAGIC AI, maker of the MAGIC AI Mirror, was also among the big winners. The mirror has an award now.
Read more at businesscloud.co.uk →
TechCrunch's running list of failed AI projects includes Relay, a Zapier alternative that shut in August, and Character.ai, which filed for bankruptcy. Citing S&P Global, it says about 42 percent of AI initiatives are abandoned by their corporate parents. The list is updated regularly.
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L and T Finance has launched the second edition of Pitch Point, a competition for early and growth stage AI startups ahead of its RAISE 26 event. Selected startups will pitch BFSI or non BFSI solutions to venture capitalists and LTF senior management, which covers most solutions.
Read more at Business Standard →
Cardboard, which builds an agentic video editor, is hiring for six full time roles in Bengaluru, covering product design, design engineering, full stack development, mobile engineering, backend systems and applied machine learning. The agent edits the video. Humans are still needed to build the agent.
Read more at Global South Opportunities →TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 takes place on November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, hosted with Fidelity Private Shares. Founders, investors and operators will cover scaling, product market fit, enterprise sales, hiring and pitching to investors, some of whom will be in the room.
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At Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, collective Show Not Show presents The Table of Power, inspired by Jacqueline Hassink's 1990s photos of empty Fortune 500 boardrooms. A long table sits at the centre of the exhibition as a symbol of institutional power. Nobody is sitting at it.
Read more at Dezeen →
French mangaka Ye Wei, author of Astral and founder of the online drawing school Manga Dojo, shows Creative Bloq his 30 square metre studio. Once two bedrooms, it now holds two desks, 3,000 markers and a bed for splitting his working day in half. The markers have the larger share.
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At Design Week Lagos 2026, themed Making a New Africa: From Material to Market, founder Titi Ogufere called for designers and manufacturers to work together more. The show, which ran from October 18 to 25, featured furniture, lighting and contemporary pieces by Nigerian and African designers.
Read more at nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng →
A three month NBER field experiment with 133 patent attorneys found AI assistance improved immediate performance, especially for juniors. When the AI was taken away, only senior attorneys kept the benefits. The juniors had borrowed the expertise and returned it.
Read more at The Decoder →
Textile designer Maryna Zhuravlova ran her own studio in Kharkiv for 20 years before Russia's invasion. After moving to Edinburgh she took a job at Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers and found a new passion in the traditional craft, which she says keeps her inner light on.
Read more at heraldscotland.com →Union Minister Piyush Goyal said the commerce ministry is identifying professions less vulnerable to AI and sectors where India can lead. The focus is on areas where AI improves efficiency without replacing workers, using India's young skilled talent. Readers may wish to check which list they are on.
Read more at YourStory →Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok looked at the S&P 493, the index minus the big tech names, and found flat profit margins and revenue per worker. He says there is no evidence yet that AI is improving productivity outside the tech industry, which continues to report that it is.
Read more at TechCrunch →Veteran game designer Warren Spector, known for Deus Ex and System Shock, publicly condemned Electronic Arts' decision to shut BioWare, in unusually blunt language. His comments came within a day of EA confirming the closure, which affects about 400 jobs.
Read more at shattered.io →Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, first published in 2000, is back in a new edition from Tin House. Borsook told TechCrunch the book is almost a travelogue of her attempts to understand the techno libertarian influence on Silicon Valley culture. The destination has not changed much.
Read more at TechCrunch →Canadian company Flash Forest uses drones to launch biodegradable capsules of native seeds and beneficial fungi into wildfire damaged land in northern Quebec. Each capsule carries the start of a new tree and ingredients to help it grow in damaged soil. Drones have found gentler work.
Read more at designboom →Chennai hosted the third edition of the art festival Contemporary Now across 10 venues, with exhibitions, panel discussions and curated walkthroughs. YourStory's photo essay notes much of the work came from galleries in other cities, including Kolkata, working together. Galleries, it turns out, can share.
Read more at YourStory →UX and product design roles checked today, research included. Every listing links to the original posting. The portfolio review is still ahead of you.
Design conferences and meetups coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Someone else is bringing the sticky notes.
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