It's issue #263 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize 2025 for Heart Lamp, the first collection of short stories to win the prize. Read all about it here.
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“It was a bit nuts” – Teo Connor on designing the new Airbnb app
It was an enormous design challenge for Connor and her team, who had to introduce a dizzying new array of options and information into the UX.
“Design leaders must manage the invisible client – time”
Reflecting on her studio's first 12 months, Badberries' Natasha Szczerb says it's vital to make time to think about the long-term alongside the day-to-day.
Andrew “Boz” Bosworth's 10 rules for navigating the next design paradigm
Meta’s Chief Technology Officer on consciousness, questioning design paradigms, and building for the future.
Everything Google announced at I/O 2025
Artificial intelligence is now in everything Google touches, including its Android XR mixed-reality glasses, a revamped search experience, and Gemini’s new agentic capabilities.
Microsoft Build 2025: The age of AI agents and building the open agentic web
Hundreds of thousands of customers are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to help research, brainstorm and develop solutions, and more than 230,000 organizations — including 90% of the Fortune 500 — have already used Copilot Studio to build AI agents and automations.
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
✨ Product find of the week
Granola: Takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Granola is an AI-powered notepad designed for professionals with back-to-back meetings. It transcribes your meeting audio directly from your Mac and turns it into structured notes you can actually use. With customisable templates and seamless sharing options, Granola ensures your notes are structured, actionable, and easily distributable across platforms.
📰 In other news
From idea to app: Introducing Stitch, a new way to design UIs
Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output
The art of not naming your layers
Are Humanoids the next big leap for humankind?
Special mentions this week
We Are Rewind brings back the boombox with the deliberately retro GB-001 cassette recorder
‘LegoGPT’ designs Lego models with nothing but a prompt
Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
And that's the lot! Thanks for checking out what we had to share with you this week, we shall catch up with you next Wednesday. Incase you aren't subscribed to the newsletter, you could subscribe here.
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