One Click Flags Every Design System Mistake You Made
Figma launched Check Designs on June 4, an AI-powered quality check built directly into your design file. It scans every layer, compares your elements against your connected design system, and surfaces mismatches — wrong type styles, off-brand colours, detached components — before you ship. Each flagged item comes with a one-click suggested fix.
How Koto Rebuilt an 80-Year-Old Logo Without Changing It
Studio Koto unveiled a full rebrand for the Norton Museum of Art in Florida, centred on a revival of the museum's original 1941 wordmark — dormant for eight decades. The team dug into the archive, extracted the original letterforms, and digitally reconstructed them while preserving their mid-century proportions and ink-press quirks. The new identity layers this historic mark over a sharp contemporary grid and a bold seasonal colour palette.
A Two-Person Spanish Studio Just Beat Everyone at Design
Poti Poti Studio — a two-person indie team based in Spain (Founders of an award-recognised studio; winners of a major Apple Design Award) — took the 2026 Apple Design Award for Delight and Fun for their game Is This Seat Taken?, a cosy cartoon-style logic puzzle about organising groups of people. The visuals are deliberately low-fidelity: flat colours, chunky shapes, no shadows. Apple's senior design jurors singled it out specifically because every visual choice serves the game's feeling rather than demonstrating technical skill.
Figma's AI Builder Now Plans Before It Builds
Figma rolled out Plan Mode inside its AI generation tool Figma Make. Instead of generating layouts immediately from a text prompt, the tool now pauses, asks clarifying questions about your intent, and drafts a structured building plan — sections, layout logic, content hierarchy — for your review and edits before anything gets built on the canvas.
Make Something That Looks Intentionally Broken
Canva's 2026 Visual Trends Report named "Imperfect by Design" the defining aesthetic direction of the year — a deliberate rejection of AI-polished outputs in favour of hand-made texture, analogue surfaces, scan artifacts, and visible craft. Across Behance and Dribbble, designers are posting experiments with intentional grain, misregistration, worn edges, and low-fidelity elements to create work that signals "a human made this."
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