🤖 Goodwipes spoofs OpenAI’s Astra ad with an AI-powered bathroom twist.

🏢 Small agencies share how to build the right client roster.

🛒 Lowe’s CMO is taking on digital commerce as the CMO role keeps expanding.

🎵 Coach is taking its fall campaign on the road with Spotify.

📲 Meta is rolling out Meta One with new paid AI and business features.

🍺 BrewDog ads have been banned for being socially irresponsible.

🕶️ Meta is preparing camera-free smart glasses.

AI might feel universal, but its answers aren’t always culturally neutral.

Ask an AI the same question in different languages or cultural contexts, and you may get surprisingly different answers. That’s because AI systems can pick up on cultural assumptions, preferences, and norms that aren’t always obvious to the person using them.

For UX teams, that matters. A product can technically work across markets while still feeling very different to different users.

Keep cultural context in mind when designing AI experiences:

• Test prompts and outputs across different languages and regions.
• Don’t assume a response that feels “normal” to one audience will feel the same everywhere.
• Look for hidden assumptions in recommendations, rankings, examples, and defaults.
• Give users enough context or control to understand why an AI system responded a certain way.
• Treat localization as more than translating the interface.

The goal isn’t to make AI completely culture-free. It’s to recognize where culture is shaping the experience — and design for it intentionally.

Head to UX Collective for more.

Ever wish you could just watch what people actually do on your website?

Inspectlet records user sessions so you can see where visitors click, scroll, hesitate, rage-click, and eventually give up. You can also use heatmaps, form analytics, funnels, and error logging to figure out where the friction is hiding.

The fun part is that you’re not just staring at numbers trying to guess what went wrong. You can watch the actual journey and see exactly where things start to fall apart. Basically, a little window into what your analytics dashboard can’t tell you.

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Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show to dive into the dark patterns that have been a UX and marketing problem for years. Now, they’re increasingly becoming a legal one.

In this episode of The Daily Carnage Show, we’re looking at Meta’s growing legal scrutiny over the design of Facebook and Instagram—and what it could mean for marketers, UX designers, and anyone building digital products.

We break down what deceptive design and “dark patterns” actually are, including manipulative defaults, difficult cancellation flows, buried information, infinite scroll, autoplay, and other design choices that can steer users toward decisions they might not otherwise make.

We’ll also look at the bigger question behind the current litigation: When does persuasion become manipulation, and when can a company become legally responsible for the way its product is designed?

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• Dissecting the Brand Apology (11:35)
• Instagram’s Controversial New Logo (10:34)
• Google Image Search is… Pinterest? (9:26)
• Sony & The Death of Physical Media (8:57)
• Brand vs. Planet: The Marketer’s AI Footprint (12:14)
• The Future of Google Search (9:56)
• GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
• Transgressive OOH (18:45)
• Your Brain on AI (12:33)
• Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)

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Remember 2013? When getting groceries meant actually… getting groceries?

Uber Eats Australia is taking us back to the pre-delivery era in its new “Phew” campaign, where people are stuck in queues, making inconvenient shopping trips, and generally doing way too much to get everyday essentials.

With cameos from Troye Sivan and Redfoo, the campaign turns a very familiar kind of inconvenience into a nostalgic trip back to a time when pressing a button wasn’t an option.

Honestly, we’ve gotten pretty spoiled.

Ericsson, 1997