AI UX DAILY
Friday, August 14, 2026
4 stories · curated for designers
The stories
Today in AI Products
 Smashing Magazine / EU |
Aug 13 |
EU publishes concrete guidelines on when and how to label AI-generated content
New EU guidelines clarify exactly when AI labels are legally required, why a sparkle icon alone isn't enough, and what compliant labeling looks like for AI-powered features and generated outputs.
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Audit every AI-generated or AI-assisted surface in your product and check it against the EU criteria before your next release cycle. — Designer's Takeaway |
 Figma |
Aug 13 |
Figma lets designers author custom skills for its AI agent directly inside Figma
Figma now lets anyone write and publish agent skills inside Figma itself, sharing reusable AI-powered actions with teammates. Ten starter skills are available to demonstrate what's possible.
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Build one team-specific skill, such as applying your brand voice or resizing to a spec, to test whether authored agent actions actually save repeatable design work. — Designer's Takeaway |
 Microsoft Copilot |
Aug 13 |
Microsoft kills AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, and Deep Research while merging Copilot apps into one
Microsoft is combining its consumer and commercial Copilot apps and simultaneously retiring several AI features, including generated podcasts, Group Chats, and its Mico avatar, that failed to gain traction.
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Before adding another AI feature, identify one existing AI feature in your product that isn't earning engagement and design a clear offboarding or removal path. — Designer's Takeaway |
| UX Movement | Aug 12 |
A three-stage redesign approach for making pricing options clearer
UX Movement walks through a specific three-stage redesign process for pricing screens, surfacing abstract details that users need to compare options without being overwhelmed.
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Apply the three-stage reveal to any pricing or plan-comparison screen you own and test whether surfacing one additional concrete detail per stage reduces hesitation. — Designer's Takeaway |
Today's Idea
Shipping AI features is easy. Knowing which ones to keep, cut, or label is the hard part.
This week's news lands on three connected problems: EU guidelines demand designers move beyond decorative AI labels and make disclosure genuinely informative. Figma's authored skills push designers toward building AI actions they can actually own and evaluate. And Microsoft's quiet culling of Copilot features is a public record of what happens when teams ship AI without a clear measure of value. The pattern is the same in all three cases: AI features now need explicit criteria for what earns their place in the product.
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