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Web Summit highlight: The New Rules of UX / UI: Human Intuition in an AI Era. By the epic Sara Vienna / CDO at Metalab Digital products are undergoing a transformation that will shift our entire relationship to technology. Content is moving from: Overwhelming to Curated Clickbait to Valuable Questionable to Trusted Generic to Unique Rigit to Generative You can take this framing and apply it to every touchpoint across brand, interface, and experience and paint a picture of the future of product. Full video on the Web Summit app. If they post it to YouTube I’ll post the link bellow.

Storm trooper turns a G-Wagon into a Ninja Turtle Van to kill a Jedi & save the day. Followed by Cantina Band music celebration. Fortnite IP mash ups are too epic.

Some of the best ideas I’ve ever had didn’t come from a strategy session. They came from sitting in a cramped cafe in Istanbul, watching locals play backgammon. Or walking alone through the hills above Medellín. Or typing under a thatched roof in Ubud while a monsoon hit the jungle around me. We talk a lot about innovation. But we forget: the environment you build from is part of the product. Being a digital nomad isn’t just about freedom. It’s about friction. About dropping your routines. About leaving behind your habits, assumptions, and the sameness of your surroundings and letting the new shape what you create. You get inspired by people who think differently. By cities that move to a different rhythm. By the quiet moments of disorientation that force you to listen more, notice more, and trust your instinct. Starting a startup on the road isn’t easier. But it’s raw. Real. Clarifying. You have to make decisions without comfort. Build systems inside instability. Find your edge in places where you don’t speak the language—but you understand the vibe. And somehow, in the chaos, something clearer emerges. If you ever feel stuck, maybe the answer isn’t in doing more. Maybe it’s in being somewhere else.

To the “Experts” sayin “nothing will be untouched by AI”: F*ck that. Some things are beyond “optimization & automation” AI could never.

Is it true? Might be. But still my platform of preference.

Are you clowning? Be honest. Most early stage founders are. But the game has changed. The “make cool shit and people will buy it” era is over. Technology isn’t a moat anymore when anyone can vibe code up what used to be a fundable MVP. Traction is everything and distribution is key. Now, more than ever, it’s all about eyeballs and community. Engaging with your would-be customers. Building a following of 1,000 true fans and talking to them. Understanding them. Serving them. At Polyform Studio we often form a “user board of advisors” for our clients, to do this. Often it’ll be composed of the early adopters, the constant voices on social, and those whose pain the product solves is the greatest. We’ll bring em into a private Discord. Hold AMA’s. Test feature ideas. Get their input on beta builds. And compensate them as we do. We’ve even put their names in the “credits” of the product to show our gratitude. You, as a founder in the early stages, have NO IDEA how people are going to use your product. Building WITH your customers is the way. How do you interact with your customers? How do you validate features or ideas? I wanna hear all about it below. 👇

Novelty. Imperfect, often hilarious novelty. That’s the gist of it for AI video right now. Well done. 👏👏👏

The Next UI Revolution? For thousands of years, we’ve interacted with 2D content, from cave paintings to smartphones. In this excerpt from an interview with Cory Hymel, we explore what it means to shift from 2D surfaces to immersive, dimensional experiences. Apple and Meta have taken the first steps, but are we ready to walk through a blog article or interact with data spatially? This clip is from a conversation originally hosted by Crowdbotics—check out the full interview on their YouTube channel.

RIP The Grind 🪦 We’re doing leisure lifestyle now. Art by Poorly Drawn Lines

Web Summit Vancouver day 01 is in the books…kind of. Still plenty of happy hour drinks & chats to be had. Good times 🍻

Huge insights & value in this series of posts, thanks for sharing Guillermo Flor 🫡

Codex from OpenAI is changing the game very rapidly.

This is dope.

I hear a lot on AI on LinkedIn. Just like I used to hear a lot on Web3. Just like I used to hear a lot on Metaverse. Just like I used to hear a lot on NFTs. Just like I used to hear a lot on AR/VR. Just like I used to hear a lot on wearables. Just like I used to hear a lot on gamification. Just like I used to hear a lot on IoT. Just like I used to hear a lot on ML. Just like I used to hear a lot about Big Data. Just like I used to hear about 3D Printing. Just like I used to hear about… Hype cycle image from Visual Capitalist.

I'm think I'm shadowbanned on LinkedIn. Impressions have dropped +90% in the last week. Drop me a like if you see this 🙇🏻‍♂️

it really do be like this tho

Thanks to the 13,000 great folks I've met on LinkedIn over the years! The platform has changed a LOT recently, but I still think it's the best place to hang out, talk shop, and meet like minded people doing cool work. Made with Veo3 obvs. Sidenote: You wouldn't BELIEVE how many tries it took to get the number right. 1,300 / 13 00 / 13,00 / etc. It's weird that this is such an issue still despite all the dope enhancements. Loving the sound effects and physics tho.

Someone sent me this awhile back and it’s everything I want VR to be. Fun, immersive, hilarious, nostalgic! What would you play?

Google just dropped Material Design 3 Expressive. As a long time Apple fan-boy & Android hater... not gonna lie, this is dope.

🚨 Big News in AI & Design: OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s Startup in $6.5B Deal OpenAI is making its boldest move into hardware by acquiring io, the AI device startup co-founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive, in a $6.5 billion all-stock deal. This marks OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and signals a major shift toward consumer AI products. While Ive’s design firm, LoveFrom, will remain independent, it will now lead creative direction across all OpenAI products—including software. About 55 engineers and designers from io will join OpenAI, with the first AI-powered hardware expected to debut in 2026. Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been collaborating for two years on a new class of AI-native devices. Altman describes the first prototype as “the coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen.” The Verge This partnership aims to redefine how we interact with AI—beyond screens and smartphones—by combining cutting-edge research with world-class design.