Adoption
UK junior design hiring: tighter, but not closed
UK design industry coverage keeps flagging a tougher junior market, with employers reading portfolios more for process than polish.
designweek.co.uk
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- Established
Usability testing is getting faster, not skipped
Method-focused coverage keeps pushing back on the idea that AI replaces user research — the real shift is faster, lighter testing loops.
smashingmagazine.com
- Adoption
Design tokens are now a baseline skill
Design systems coverage keeps circling back to tokens as the link between design files and code — not a nice-to-have anymore.
designsystems.news
- Hype
Figma ships more AI features, adoption still uneven
Figma's product blog keeps adding AI-assisted tools, but plenty of teams — especially smaller or open-source-curious ones — aren't using them fully yet.
figma.com