It's issue #268 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
Axiom-4 mission with India’s Shubhanshu Shukla, 3 others embarks on 28-hour journey to ISS. Shubhanshu Shukla, in his first message from the mission, says, “This is not the start of my journey but the start of India’s human space programme”. Read about it here.
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When you’re feeling stuck and need to approach things from a different angle, an open brief can crack creativity wide open. Anthony Burrill, Ramin Nazer and Poupay Pinyodoonyachet give a lowdown on making the most out of them – and set some briefs of their own.
Welcoming Payload to the Figma team
Together with Payload’s developer-focused mindset and tools, Figma will be able to supercharge what we offer developers across both our platforms.
What’s the one thing you’d change about the design industry?
From kinder discussions to transparent pricing, ten designers tell what they'd improve if they had the power.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
The product leader who grew Facebook, Uber, and ChatGPT to billions shares what actually matters.
Why designing for users who don't know they have a problem matters
How to design for problem-unaware users.
Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.
✨ Product find of the week
Felt: Make maps, apps, and dashboards in seconds
It is a cloud-native GIS platform. Felt geocodes street addresses, geomatches boundaries, and parses geometry columns. All of it is visualized instantly with a data processing engine.
📰 In other news
New podcast takes listeners inside one designer’s “career crisis”
Can the Gulf buy its way to AI supremacy?
A mirrorless camera that is redefining minimalist design
Special mentions this week
The largest camera ever built releases its first images of the cosmos
Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
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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