Google I/O, AI Reading List, Apple Glasses, Jony Ive, and Proving Yourself
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 Unstructured Data
🏢 Google I/O
✍️ AI Reading List
👓 Apple Glasses
📱 Jony Ive
🪢 Constraints
🧑💼 Proving Yourself
Podcast
Structured Thinking for Unstructured Data: A Conversation with Founder Kirk Marple
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle is joined by Kirk Marple, founder and CEO of Graphlit, to explore the world of unstructured data and how it’s transforming with the rise of LLMs and AI-native tools. Kirk shares his journey from working at Microsoft and General Motors to building Graflit—a platform designed to make unstructured data as usable as structured data.
News and Useful Reads
Everything unveiled at Google I/O 2025: Smart glasses, Gemini, Search, more
AI video generation seems to have stolen the show this week. But Google announced a host of new things at their annual I/O event.
How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers
Anyone who plans on using AI as a substitute for work or thinking will have some serious issues, as we’ve recently seen.
Some newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer have published a syndicated summer book list that includes made-up books by famous authors.
Apple’s AI glasses are coming, but not the way you think
Adding technology to glasses continues to be the next phase of wearables, though no one has got it right yet.
Apple is reportedly accelerating development on their new wearable: AI-powered smart glasses designed to compete directly with Meta’s Ray-Bans. According to Bloomberg, the Cupertino-based company is targeting a late 2026 launch and has begun preparing large-scale prototypes for production.
What in the world are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
Probably not glasses. But something akin to the AI iPhone?
If you’ve somehow missed the headlines, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company was buying Ive’s AI hardware startup for $6.5 billion.
The creative power of constraints
Some often think of creativity as conjuring something out of nothing. However, it is far from that as told in common sayings. “Everything is a remix” — creative work responds to what came before. “Thinking outside the box” — novel ideas acknowledge and break out of previous limitations.
Other Interesting Finds
Breaking the Cycle of Proving Yourself
I’ve been dealing with this issue frequently. It is easy to focus on proving why we’re right or the best person for the role we’re in. But that mindset can lead to burnout (believe me). But it doesn’t have to be that way.
In today’s high-stakes workplace, it’s easy to fall into the exhausting loop of proving yourself—seeking validation, justifying decisions, striving for recognition. But here’s the truth: the drive to prove ourselves often stalls the very growth we’re chasing. It’s time to make a quiet but powerful shift: From proving to improving.