Pantone named the Color of the year 2025: PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse. A soft brown hue that evokes the warmth of coffee, chocolate and cocoa.

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse highlights the evolving role of design, where colour choices go beyond aesthetics to evoke deeper emotional connections. This trend reflects a growing emphasis on adding dimension and meaning to design, making it more impactful and resonant.

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse brings harmony and balance, inspiring a positive state of inner peace—creating spaces that feel like a warm embrace. An evocative soft brown that nurtures with its delectable warmth.

Each year, forward-thinking and innovative brands collaborate with Pantone to develop products inspired by the Colour of the Year. This year’s launch partners include Motorola, Joybird, Pura, WIX Studio, Libratone, Spoonflower, IPSY, Society6, Ultrafabrics, Capsule 11, Oyuna, and Post-it, showcasing a diverse range of applications from technology and furniture to fashion and office supplies.

Read more: https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year/2025

Apple Vision Pro is a wearable spatial computer that blends the digital with the physical, heralding a whole new platform for experiencing technology.

At the heart of Apple Vision Pro is an unrelenting consideration of personal use. Each device is modularly assembled in order to ensure a tailored and personalised fit for a wide range of faces and people. It also features a Light Seal, which is made of a soft textile that flexes to conform to the face, also available in a heavily researched range of shapes and sizes.

Check out the Apple Vision Pro site.

I’m officially UX Certified! With a specialty in Interaction Design from Nielsen Norman Group.

Huge thanks to Jakob Nielsen and instructors Kara Pernice, Alita Joyce, Raluca Budiu, Evan Sunwall and Page Laubheimer. You are the best.

These are some of the courses I’ve completed:

• Information Architecture
• Mobile User Experience
• Design Systems
• UX Deliverables
• The Human Mind and Usability
• ResearchOps
• Remote User Research
• Omnichannel Journeys and Customer Experience

Covid-19 has meant a great deal of free time at home so I’ve been able to read more regularly. Here are a few of the books I’ve read over the last few months. I can highly recommend all these!

Design Systems by Alla Kholmatova (2017)

Atomic Habits by James Clear (2018)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (2020)

Art Direction for the Web by Andy Clarke (2019)

Don’t Make me Think by Steve Krug (2014)

I’ve been following the amazing work Stanford University d.school has been doing for a few years, so when I got the email saying I was accepted to join them at Stanford campus for their Launchpad Apprenticeship, I was delighted. I had planned a 3-day stop in San Francisco on my trip back to Australia from Mexico, so the timing worked out just great!
Launchpad 10 is a celebrated accelerator program, which recruit a cohort of dedicated apprenti to work with stellar startups. It is also a great opportunity to work directly with Perry Klebahn and Jeremy Utley to push startups to scale utilising various design thinking methods.
I had been looking forward to my trip for days. Then, before I knew it, I was taking an Uber from San Francisco’s airport to Palo Alto, ready to go, camera in hand…

Nothing says “Welcome to Stanford” like Palm Drive, with its perfectly placed palm trees for a mile long.

Arriving to d.School

The d. School sure knows how to delight a designer

The second floor of d. School is what my dreams are made of: plenty of hot glue sticks, tape, cutter blades, sticky notes, pliers, cardboard, whiteboards, etc.

All hands on deck! time to get to work.

My selected startup was Kaleido AR, an Augmented Reality startup. I was able to help them remotely with some design work over the next few days. The project is really cool, make sure to check them out!

After a fun kick-off session and plenty of inspiring ideas in my head, they pointed that a stroll around the campus was necessary before wrapping up the day.

A stroll around Main Quad

Memorial Church

That would turn out to be the best day weather-wise during my 3-day trip.

What a cool experience!

I’m back to Australia now, thinking about my amazing first trip to the Bay Area and realising now why everyone is charmed about it.

Needless to say, I have to go back there soon! maybe I should get a second degree at Stanford? Hey. A girl can dream 😉