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Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/endra-ai-startup-automating-mep-design…

Exclusive: Swedish startup automating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings raises $20 million in seed round
Notion Capital is leading the seed round for Endra, which says reduces the time to design buildings' electrical systems from months to hours.

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

War am iPhone Air beteiligt: Apple verliert wichtigen Designer
Bei der Apple-Keynote im September stellte er noch das iPhone Air mit sonorer Stimme vor, doch nun geht Abidur Chowdhury. Es ist natürlich ein KI-Start-up.

Explaining an Eyebrow-Raising Decision That Preceded the Raiders' Loss https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-explaining-eyebrow-raising-decision-preceded-loss

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Deichkind:
🎵 So 'ne Musik
#NowPlaying #Deichkind
https://chrispopofficial.bandcamp.com/track/deichkind-so-ne-musik-chrispop-throwback-blend
https://open.spotify.com/track/4GqLvfkDkoFjuEoUXFUnZg

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

Figma integriert Tools zur KI-Bildbearbeitung
Figma erweitert seine Designplattform um KI-Tools zur Bildbearbeitung. Sie isolieren und retuschieren Motive oder erweitern den Hintergrund direkt im Layout.
https://www.

❌ Interior Design
👉 Ulterior Design

Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October (Ted Litchfield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus…

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

Why Winning in 2025 Depends on the Decisions You Make for 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/winning-in-2025-depends-on-decisions-you-make-for-2026-las-vegas-pete-carroll