Weekly Links — 1st July 2026

🕰️ Ten Minute Focus Someone designed this -- Why bad UX is often a business decision, not a design failure. There’s a screen most people have seen at least once. You’re trying to cancel a subscription. You’ve made up your mind. You click the button that looks like it starts the process. And ... The bullshit asymmetry principle was survivable. AI made production of slop almost free. -- The press never tires. The inspector does. AI assisted. It costs ten times more to refute than making it. Generative AI drove the cost of making to zero. The fix is a design problem, not a fact-checking race. In 2013 an Italian programmer named Al... Branding How Anne-Julie Dudemaine turned burnout into a career of colour, pattern and Montreal murals -- The self-taught illustrator, muralist and pattern designer on swapping advertising for a sketchbook, painting 42 feet in the air, and why slow periods are easier when your income isn’t relying on o... Bluemarlin designs identity for Cisk Session…