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      <title>How to prompt AI for a landing page that actually converts</title>
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      <category>Conversion</category>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Ask AI for 'a landing page' and you'll get mush. The trick isn't a better model — it's treating the page as a sequence of jobs and prompting each one against a proven structure.]]></description>
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      <title>The 2026 web design trends worth your attention</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Most trend lists are a shopping cart of effects. The ones that matter in 2026 share a single thread — craft as the thing that's left when anyone can generate a decent-looking page.]]></description>
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      <title>When the interface stops being the differentiator</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Good-looking UI is now cheap and increasingly automated. That's not a threat to design — it's a clarification of where the value was all along.]]></description>
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      <title>Where AI actually earns its place in a design workflow</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The useful question isn't whether AI belongs in design. It's which parts of the process it genuinely improves — and which it quietly makes worse.]]></description>
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      <title>Claude Design and the end of rationed exploration</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Anthropic's new design tool is being framed as a Figma killer. The more interesting story is what happens when exploring ten directions costs the same as exploring one.]]></description>
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      <title>Ten UX fundamentals that still win in 2026</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Trends date fast. The principles below have survived every redesign, platform, and hype cycle — because they're about people, not pixels.]]></description>
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      <title>Why your homepage hero is doing too much</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Most heroes try to say everything at once and end up saying nothing. Here's how to give the top of your page a single, clear job — and let the rest of the page do the work.]]></description>
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