Riccardo Marconato

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The studios, the people, and the business of digital product design.

A minimal white webpage with large black text reading 'Nano Banana Pro x PORTO ROCHA' and small YOYOYO and INTRO navigation pills at the top.

Industry

Porto Rocha made a working yo-yo with Nano Banana Pro, and left the prompts on the page

Koto's Stack Overflow case study hero: a black page titled Stack Overflow, Always in Build, TECH 2026, with an orange-framed video showing the words Always in on a yellow block, above the heading A legacy recoded

Industry

Stack Overflow rebranded around the answer an LLM can't scrape

Coca-Cola media centre press release dated 20 July 2026, headline reading One Iconic Brand. One Iconic Look., with a red can below it

Industry

Coca-Cola shipped one visual system, and the rulebook now compiles

The Bud app interface with a banner reading The Bud team is joining Figma, under the headline Your AI Worker

Industry

Figma bought the team on 7 July, and the apps went dark on the 18th

The Mother Design Shop storefront in West Adams, Los Angeles: a terracotta building with three grey-framed windows, the shop name in small white type on the middle pane, and a red-bordered display on the right holding a Mr. Potato Head behind a NOT FOR SALE sticker

Industry

Mother Design opened a shop, and half the shelf is their own client work

Perfect Stranger homepage: the PS wordmark filling the screen in a teal-to-crimson gradient on a near-black background, with the nav reading The Work, Who We Are, Say Hello

Industry

Hornet grew a strategy department instead of buying one

Homepage of the AI in Design Report 2026, with a grid of cropped solarised flower photographs above the title set in large black neo-grotesk type, credited to Designer Fund in partnership with Foundation Capital

Industry

Designers shipped the code, and the performance review stayed the same

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