🟣 TOOOLS #25: Modeinspect, Brilliant, Hover, VibePrompts, Sliick

   TOOOL OF THE WEEK

   ALSO ON THE RADAR

Brilliant

A vector design tool where a designer and an AI agent edit the same canvas, producing real editable vectors with design system tokens, syncing both ways with Figma, with a free editor to start.

Its Hover

An open-source set of animated icons built on one shared motion pattern, so every icon in an interface moves the same way and each one stays editable in your project.

VibePrompts

A free library of copy-ready prompts for page sections like heroes, pricing tables and dashboards, sorted by section for anyone prompting a layout into existence.

Sliick

A free browser tool that drops screenshots and recordings into device mockups within adjustable 3D scene templates, exportable without an account.

   A FEW READS & LISTENS

SMASHING MAGAZINE  📖 ARTICLE

The Death of the Button: Why the Best Interface Is No Interface

Carrie Webster on interfaces that take a goal in plain language, generate the screen on the fly and run the steps invisibly. Her real question is what the job becomes once the interface recedes: mapping generative components, making the system's interpretation visible, and keeping every action easy to reverse.

IBELICK  📖 ARTICLE

Anatomy of AI Input

Julien Thibeaut takes the AI input field apart into eight layers, from the text field to context controls, tool triggers, attachments and the loading, streaming and error states each one has to survive. The component every product is currently shipping, finally documented properly, with a clear case for moving anything non-essential out of the box.

APPLE DEVELOPER  🎬 VIDEO

Design for iPhone Duo

Apple's own ten-minute session on the first folding iPhone: why controls move to the outer edges, how sheets and toolbars change between the 5.4-inch outer screen and the 7.6-inch inner display, and why the advice is to design for two size classes and let resizing carry every pose. The clearest answer yet on what the Duo asks of every component library.

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

A short history of logos made of data

Louis Charron traces more than a century of identities built from real data, from a 1903 Bay Area streetcar company whose mark was its own route map to Visit Nordkyn's weather-driven logo and this year's Adelaide Biennial identity, 109 typeface variations reacting to live environmental data. His case is that a logo which changes when the data changes deserves its own category, and the examples make strong reference material for any generative identity.

   UPDATES & NEWS

Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, its first foldable: a 5.4-inch outer screen, a 7.6-inch inner display, iOS 27 with controls moved to the side edges and Split View for two apps at once, $1,999, shipping October 23

Shopify acquires Tailwind Labs, the team behind the styling system under most modern component libraries: Tailwind CSS stays free and open source, while the paid Tailwind Plus templates close to new customers

Adobe puts a Generative Media tool directly on the Premiere timeline, generating video clips, sound effects and music from Firefly, Veo, Kling, Runway or Luma inside the edit, and After Effects gets an AI Assistant in beta for the tedious motion work

ChatGPT Images 2.5 renders 50 percent faster with sharper detail and more natural light, adds a Sketch input so a rough drawing steers the result, and holds an image steady through several rounds of edits

Cursor launches Projects in beta: a coordinator agent plans a large build, splits it across helper agents in the cloud and keeps working after the laptop closes, so a whole feature stops needing a fresh chat every time

   ONE MORE THING ...

CURATION, BUT MEDICAL

“Someone built a properly organised directory of things human bodies do by accident. Filterable by body part, naturally.”