UX and application design

How Norway's welfare system moved 400GB of daily logs to managed OpenSearch without a service interruption

The Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) pays out 33% of Norway’s state budget. A thousand developers rely on its central logging infrastructure every day. At OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, platform engineer Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven Product Director Dmitry Kan walked through how they swapped out the underlying search engine while the lights stayed on – and what happened when a last-minute integration problem turned up three days before Christmas.

NAV's Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven's Dmitry Kan at OpenSearchCon 26 © AlyxMacQueen

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Zoho's Raju Vegesna argues that vibe coding is not a SaaS slayer but an opportunity for vendors to remain integral by guiding non-developers with the parameters, guardrails and expertise to do it right.

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Canva Create - Canva launches its mission to democratize AI automation in the workplace

With the launch of a new AI platform, Canva makes a pitch to broaden its reach beyond visual design to become the home for all your work.

Canva founders Cameron Adams, Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht launch Canva AI 2.0 on stage at Canva Create 2026

What if natural language interfaces are a journey not a destination?

An interview with integration vendor Celigo about Ora, its new conversational agent, sparks some thoughts about the future of how we interact with AI and the limitations of chat.

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Expanding access to visual design across the enterprise - Canva customers tell their stories

Rolling out Canva to broaden access to visual design tooling has helped cut costs and do more with less at enterprise customers Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, HubSpot and SAP.

Panel discussion with customers - four people seated on stage - at Canva EMEA analyst day Feb 2026

Why should you ever log into Salesforce again? It's a good question, says co-founder Parker Harris

Slackbot is driving fundamental changes to the way businesses work, argues the Salesforce co-founder.

BrightEdge introduces AI Hyper Cube to help brands understand AI search. Here’s how it works

Trying to figure out how to get your brand to appear in AI search engines the right way? BrightEdge says its new AI Hyper Cube is the answer.

From ‘buy’ to ‘build’ – how FranklinCovey CIO Blaine Carter is replacing packaged apps with low-code and AI

The rise of AI-powered vibe coding is tempting enterprise teams to custom-build apps rather than buy packaged solutions. This is the story of how FranklinCovey long ago made the same choice using the low-code Make app builder.

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Workday rolls out Sana, its conversational AI gateway to enterprise work

Workday delivers a new conversational UX for its own applications and other enterprise workflows based on its acquisition of Sana

Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, speaks at Workday Rising 2024

Speaking of AI-generated voice technology, how do organizations get the tone right?

The AI voice generation market is growing apace as organizations aim to cut costs and boost efficiency. But do customers even like the technology?

AI adoption at Marriott Bonvoy - Drew Pinto, Chief Revenue & Technology Officer, checks-in on progress to date

Alongside a massive platform transitioning, along comes AI to add to the mix...

How you treat an AI agent determines the results you'll get, says Professor Taha Yasseri

People tend to push back on AI decisions, even if they're right - and more so if the agent has a female voice. These are just some of the findings of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines.

Prof Taha Yasseri, seated, speaks at a Workday event in London, February 2026

Canva adds video to its pro design toolset and steps up its enterprise play

Hot on the heels of two new acquisitions last week, we caught up with visual design vendor Canva to dig into its strategy for winning over the enterprise market.

Duncan Clark stands to side of presentation screen on stage at Canva EMEA analyst day