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Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that doesn’t just tell you how to do something online. It can actually go and do it. There is an important distinction here: Meta introduced Muse Spark, the underlying AI model, back in April. What’s launching now is Muse, the consumer-facing agent built on that technology, capable of navigating websites, filling out forms, sending emails, booking travel, making payments and handling longer tasks in the background.

Adobe is looking for designers to test Project Oasis, a mysterious web-based graphic design app that combines a “modern workspace” with brand-aware AI. And if you’re curious, you can apply to get inside. Better still, Adobe is currently inviting designers to apply for early access. Adobe is looking for agency, freelance, and in-house designers who regularly work on brand identity and marketing projects. It’s particularly interested in designers who use Illustrator, Figma, or similar tools every day.

Today is World Ampersand Day, which means designers finally have an excuse to celebrate the hardest-working squiggle on the keyboard. The & is so familiar that we barely notice it, but it’s actually one of typography’s great survivors. Its story stretches back almost 2,000 years — and after all that time, type designers still haven’t agreed on what the thing should look like. The ampersand wasn’t originally a symbol at all.

Canva is best known for presentations, social posts and making everyone in the office think they’re a graphic designer. But it has quietly become something else: a surprisingly huge website platform. Canva says close to one million new websites are now being published through its platform every month. Since Canva Websites launched in 2022, more than 89 million websites have been created. Those are numbers web designers probably shouldn’t ignore.

Instagram has redesigned its wordmark for the first time in a decade. The company says it’s cleaner, sharper and more modern. There’s just one problem: people keep reading it as “Instagzam.” And once you see it, it’s remarkably difficult to unsee. Congratulations, Meta: you’ve accidentally launched another social network. Instagram unveiled the new wordmark in August as part of a broader refresh of its visual identity.

Try to log out of Netflix on your TV right now. Go ahead. I’ll wait. If you’re like most people, you’ll end up aggressively mashing the left arrow key, accidentally opening a profile selector, hunting through a “Get Help” menu that feels like an interrogation room, and finally finding the exit buried under a sequence that feels like entering a cheat code in an old Nintendo game. It’s not just Netflix. Instagram hides it at the very bottom of a scrolling settings abyss.

If you’ve ever sat down at 11:00 PM to check a single notification and snapped back to reality at 2:00 AM staring at a stranger’s video of a house renovation, you didn’t just lose three hours of sleep. You were mugged by the single worst architectural decision in the history of web design: the infinite scroll. For nearly two decades, the tech industry worshiped Aza Raskin’s 2006 invention like holy scripture.

Look, I love Figma. If you’re anything like me, you probably spend eight hours a day inside it, neatly organizing your component variants, color tokens, and beautifully nested frames. It’s snappy, it’s collaborative, and honestly, it’s a joy to use. We’ve built a massive global design community around it, and it feels like we’ve reached peak product design. But I’m going to say something that might make you want to close this tab immediately: Figma is turning us into terrible web designers.

There is a specific kind of sadness in the digital world. It’s the local “ghost site.” You know the one: you search for a dry cleaner or a boutique plant shop, click their link, and you’re transported back to 2021. The “Latest News” section mentions a holiday sale that ended three years ago. The copyright in the footer says 2022. On a mobile device, the navigation menu overlaps the logo like a pileup on the freeway.

In the digital landscape of 2026, we have reached a fascinating crossroads. For years, we treated web performance as a technical chore—something for the developers to fix in the basement after the “real” work of design was finished. But as we move deeper into an era defined by instant gratification, specialized hardware, and AI-driven browsing, speed has evolved into something much more profound. It is now the primary way we show respect for a human being’s time.