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Jakob Nielsen's 1994 usability heuristics via NN/g remain the industry's default critique checklist, and they apply just as well to AI-generated interfaces as hand-crafted ones. Established, not trendy — that's exactly why it's useful.
nngroup.com
Eleken's June 2026 guide walks through pairing Claude Code with Figma's MCP server to help generate and maintain design tokens and components. It's genuinely new practice — teams are still working out how much to trust it.
eleken.co
Design News reports engineering teams using AI agents that run multiple simulations in parallel to explore dozens of design variants before a human picks one. It's live in engineering/CAD workflows now — UI design tools are heading the same direction, just slower.
designnews.com
Firefly, Canva's Magic Studio and Figma AI are being used for early-stage exploration — moodboards, layout drafts, quick variants — while designers keep control of the final polish. This is adoption, not a fad: these features have been bedding into mainstream workflows for over a year.
rgd.ca
