The Most Impactful Agencies in 2026: Top Picks

Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants

Prosus ra mắt ToqanClaw, một nền tảng no-code giúp 5 triệu thương nhân xây dựng ứng dụng, bảng điều khiển và tự động hóa thông qua giao tiếp ngôn ngữ tự nhiên, sử dụng AI nội bộ Toqan và ưu tiên bảo mật dữ liệu. Đồng thời, Prosus cũng tung ra rộng rãi Zapia, trợ lý AI tiêu dùng với 6 triệu người dùng, trong sự kiện Prosus Forward, nhấn mạnh sở hữu dữ liệu khách hàng là lợi thế cạnh tranh chủ chốt.

Nếu bạn là một lập trình viên muốn chuyển hướng sang giải pháp no-code hoặc tự động hóa kinh doanh, ToqanClaw của Prosus sẽ giúp bạn hiểu rõ cách xây dựng các ứng dụng, dashboard và tự động hóa thông qua AI mà không cần mã nguồn, đồng thời đánh giá tiềm năng của các công cụ tương tự trong tương lai.

Shaping Stories into Experience: The Work of Kevin Lam

A designer spotlight on Kevin Lam (urfd), a Brisbane-based brand and digital designer at Nightjar Studio. Kevin shares five featured projects — including a medical aesthetics clinic, a photographer's portfolio, a real estate brand, a natural event documentary site, and a lifestyle precinct — each built around translating brand stories into soulful digital and visual experiences. He also covers his design philosophy (curiosity, finding a north star, caring about craft, collaboration) and his toolset including Figma, Cinema 4D, After Effects, Cavalry, and Photoshop.

Design Systems, Tokens and AI

AI is reshaping how design systems are built and maintained by automating the generation of design token sets from natural language descriptions. Rather than manually defining hundreds of CSS custom property values, teams can describe a desired aesthetic and let AI produce a complete, internally consistent token hierarchy covering global, alias, and component-specific tokens. Progress ThemeBuilder is used as a practical example, demonstrating how AI-generated tokens can be exported as CSS or SASS and consumed directly by component libraries. The token layer acts as a contract between AI tooling and components, enabling mixed workflows where AI-generated baselines are refined with manual overrides. For enterprise teams, this compresses the time between brand decisions and implementation while keeping governance in human hands.

Learn Notion Workers

Notion Workers is a major new feature that enables powerful native automations directly within Notion, eliminating the need for third-party no-code connectors. A free one-hour course on freeCodeCamp's YouTube channel, developed by Notion expert Matthias Frank, covers everything from initial setup to deploying your first automated worker. No coding background is required, as AI handles the technical complexity on the backend.

I tested 3 local LLMs for UI design work, and only one of them behaved like a real designer

A hands-on comparison of three local LLMs (Qwen 3.5 9B, Mistral 7B, and Gemma 4 12B) for UI design work using Open Design and LM Studio on 8GB VRAM. Qwen produced a functional but visually underwhelming result after context-length tweaks. Mistral failed to render properly in Open Design and produced a compressed, incomplete design even via direct HTML generation. Gemma 4 12B, despite failing entirely in Open Design, produced the most polished output when run directly in LM Studio and rendered via VS Code's Live Server — with proper nav, event cards, and a well-structured café menu. The author concludes that strong code generation ability is the key differentiator for local UI design models, and recommends Gemma for local vibe design workflows despite its hardware demands.

The Most Impactful Design and Development Agencies in 2026

A curated list of 17 design and development agencies recognized for blending product strategy, UX, interface design, and engineering. Each entry includes the agency's service focus, location, and a featured project showcasing their work — ranging from AI agent platforms and telemedicine apps to EV charger marketing sites and ferry booking platforms. The list is aimed at companies seeking digital partners capable of delivering both visual quality and technical depth.

Finding curated public domain images

A personal roundup of curated resources for finding public domain images, particularly vintage woodblock and lithographic illustrations. Highlights three for-profit curation sites — The Public Domain Review, Artvee, and Heritage Type — that pair quality image collections with merchandise or design assets, making it easier to find usable images without wading through low-quality search results or poorly maintained library databases.