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Claude Design, Anthropic's powerful new AI design tool
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with the most streamed rankings of the past two decades
The SND recognizes the world's best news design
⏭️ In brief
🤔 Express Quiz
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Claude Design, Anthropic's powerful new AI design tool
On April 17th, AI company Anthropic, maker of Claude, launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that lets users create all kinds of designs and high-quality visual work through conversations with Claude.
Claude Design is currently available only to paying Claude users (on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans), and has made a strong impression in its early days by enabling people with no design background or specialized software skills to create designs, prototypes, presentations, landing pages, and other visual elements with relative ease.
The design process starts from a text prompt provided by the user and, optionally, reference files such as images or documents. After the first draft is generated by Claude Design, it can be refined and adjusted through further iterations.
Once complete, the design can be exported in several ways: as a standalone URL, as PDF, PPTX, or HTML files, or sent to Canva for further editing.
Claude considers Claude Design to be a useful tool for experienced designers as well, allowing them to quickly explore different design directions for their projects.
Claude Design is being used to create realistic prototypes, wireframes, and product mockups, presentations, marketing materials (landing pages, social media assets, campaign visuals), and to explore different design options or creative directions.
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Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with the most streamed rankings of the past two decades
Spotify is marking its 20th anniversary with the first-ever publication of rankings of the most streamed content on its platform over those two decades — covering music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
The lists available are:
Most streamed artists of all time: Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and Drake lead the ranking.
Most streamed albums of all time: Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny tops the list, followed by Starboy by The Weeknd.
Most streamed songs of all time: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd is number one, ahead of Shape of You by Ed Sheeran.
Most-streamed podcasts of all time: The Joe Rogan Experience takes the top spot.
Most-streamed audiobooks on Premium: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas leads, with The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien in second place.
A visual history of Spotify's 20 years has also been published.
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The SND recognizes the world's best news design
The Society for News Design (SND) has announced the winners of its annual awards for the best visual journalism produced worldwide in 2025, in the 47th edition of its international news design competition.
The Best of News Design Creative Competition jury awarded 24 gold medals, 72 silver medals, 268 bronze medals, and 1,298 awards for excellence from nearly 4,200 entries received.
The ten publications with the highest number of awards this year were, in order:
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Straits Times
Reuters
South China Morning Post
DIE ZEIT
National Geographic
The Minnesota Star Tribune
ProPublica
POLITIKEN
The awards database allows users to view each entry's details, the jury's assessment, and a link to the corresponding piece. It is also possible to filter by outlet to see all the awarded work from each publication.
The SND also announced the global winners in the following specific categories:
Best in Show
The Pudding and The Washington Post have won the Best in Show award this year — the highest honor given by the jury.
The Pudding won Best in Show for small publications, recognized for its portfolio of designs spanning multiple topics.
The Washington Post won Best in Show for medium and large publications, recognized for its multiplatform visual coverage of the war in Gaza.
More details and examples of the awarded work here:
World's Best Designers
Two designers from The Washington Post won this year's top individual honors for their portfolios:
Hailey Haymond has been named World's Best Emerging Designer — a category that recognizes designers with up to five years of experience. Notably, Haymond no longer works at the Post, having been among the staff affected by recent layoffs.
Tyler Remmel has been named World's Best Designer.
The most notable work from both award winners can be seen here:
Best Designed Publications (Print and Digital)
Citing “experimentation and the skilled integration of visuals”, judges for the 47th edition of the Society for News Design’s Creative Competition, SND47, crowned Denmark’s Weekendavisen as World’s Best-Designed Print Newspaper and The New York Times as World’s Best-Designed Digital Presence.
The three finalists for the world's best-designed print newspaper were:
De Volksrant (Netherlands)
Die Zeit (Germany)
Weekendavisen (Denmark).
The four finalists for the world's best-designed digital publication were:
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⏭️ In Brief
TIME magazine has published its list of the 100 most influential companies in the world: TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2026.
This Sunday, May 3rd, marks World Press Freedom Day.
According to UNESCO’s World Trends Report 2022–2025, “press freedom has experienced its steepest decline since 2012. This decline is comparable to that seen during the most unstable periods of the 20th century – the two world wars and the Cold War.”
The New York Times has published a spectacular multimedia special on the 30 greatest living American songwriters:
A new study reveals that one third of all new websites are AI-generated:
You can watch this year's Canva Create event, browse more than 50 on-demand sessions, or discover the latest product launches from the tool.
🤔 Express Quiz
This week's question:
What is scrollytelling?
In the previous edition of Tendenci@s, we asked about the number of internet shutdowns in 2025 and in how many countries they occurred. The correct answer was the last and highest option: 313 shutdowns in 52 countries.
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