Rebuilt 90s Video Shop Exposes Smartphone Dangers for Kids →
Today's kids hold more content than all VHS stores combined. And Smartphone Free Childhood made a 60-second dark film about it.
Must Be the Coffee →
La Colombe, a coffee brand from Philadelphia, turns coffee into part of the matchday ritual.
Add the (Whole) Look →
Unilever-owned hair brand eGo added something new to the online shopping experience: a haircut.
Podcast: Brain Rot, AI Slop & Doomscrolling →
How brands win in the attention economy.
The Guild of Better Assay →
Ed Cotton's Hardwired is now The Guild of Better, aiming to locate "better" in organisations and find an an antidote to enshittifcation.
Breaking Down the Nostalgia Industrial Complex →
A new collab podcast from WARC and Contagious examines how brands ride the nostalgia train.
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AI Won't Save Your UX →
UX isn't about pretty visuals—it’s about empathy and logic. Discover why algorithms still fail at the core of true design.
Fully Machine-Readable Design Systems →
The frontier of our design work is no longer documentation. It is context architecture.
Your DESIGN.md Should Tell a Story of Your Product →
How to write a DESIGN.md file Claude can actually use.
How Sports Marketing Is Shifting from Media Buys to Moment-Based Activation →
Sports marketing is shifting from traditional TV ads to automated digital campaigns triggered by high-emotion, real-time moments in a game.
News Sites Are the New Newspapers: People Are Abandoning Them for Social Media →
The 2026 Reuters report notes online news growth is driven by third-party platforms, while publishers' own sites and apps decline.
Why the World Cup Will Have In-Game Ads for the First Time →
The new inventory, along with skyrocketing ticket prices, are a preview of how soaring rights fees are reshaping live sports.
The Most Overlooked Space in Marketing →
3 misconceptions about media in third places.
Assume You Will Be Hacked →
This beautifully written essay tells everything in its title.
AI Predictions Timeline →
First time I've read about Steve Wozniak’s Coffee Test, otherwise, see the next description.
ChatGPT’s Market Share Slips Below 50% for First Time →
All Good Things (Come To An End).
Live Baseball in Pixels →
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