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🟣 TOOOLS #11: Brik, Uiverse Design, RadianceKit, Daily Designer, Lumen Tool

Section Icon   TOOOL OF THE WEEK
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Brik

Brik is an AI design platform that thinks like a creative director. Instead of producing assets one by one, you describe how things should look, move, and behave in your own words, and a Brik agent turns that vision into a working design tool: kinetic type, an interactive hero, a 3D effect, an animated gallery. Each tool becomes an instrument you can shape, remix, and play to generate assets on demand, scaling across formats, brands, and use cases. Export as high-resolution images, video including transparent video, or ready-to-embed visuals for the web.

Section Icon   ALSO ON THE RADAR
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Uiverse Design

A library of ready-made design systems you can drop into any AI tool, so your generated interfaces come out consistent and polished instead of generic.
 
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RadianceKit

A native Mac app that turns your photos or video into photorealistic, explorable 3D scenes, processed entirely on your own machine.
 
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Daily Designer

A daily dose of wisdom from design's greats, each quote pulled from a real talk or interview and linked straight back to the source.
 
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Lumen Tool

A free browser tool for photographers to plan portrait lighting: position, angle, softness, and color temperature, visually before setting up a single light.

Section Icon   A FEW READS & LISTENS

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

AI meets Sturgeon's Law

Applies the old principle that ninety percent of everything is crap to the flood of AI-generated work, and asks where that leaves quality. A useful frame for thinking about how to make the ten percent that actually stands out.
 

LENNY'S PODCAST  🎧 PODCAST

Building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era

Tony Fadell, who built the iPod and co-created the iPhone, on opinion-versus-data decisions, why taste still wins, and the risk of cognitive surrender to AI. A grounded take on craft and judgment from someone who shipped the products that defined modern hardware.
 

ANTHROPIC  📖 ARTICLE

When AI builds itself

Anthropic lays out how much of its own work is now done by AI, and where the human edge still holds: choosing what matters, judging what to trust, knowing when to stop. The taste-and-judgment case designers have been making, now backed by hard internal numbers.

Section Icon   UPDATES & NEWS

Ideogram unveils a full brand redesign and launches Ideogram 4.0, an open image model with sharp multi-language text and 2K output that doesn't read as AI

Figma now connects directly to Apple's Xcode, so iOS designs can flow into the build without a manual handoff

DaVinci Resolve 21 adds a full photo-editing page and eight AI tools, bringing Hollywood color grading to still images

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 arrives as a design-ready image model, ranking second for editing and now live in PowerPoint

Reve 2.0 introduces layout-first image generation, letting you position and edit every element before and after rendering

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A SHIFT WORTH NOTING

Don't hide the AI. Show the prompt, the edit, and the reason.

The best AI designer portfolios of 2026 do exactly this. The work on display is shifting from the final pixel to the judgment in the loop: what to ask for, what to throw away, and why. That story, not the output alone, is becoming the portfolio.

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