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Design's Holy Grail & The Next Big Growth Channel

It's issue #288 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.

Google has a research project for exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design. Read all about it here.

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Kind products win

Why do so many products feel soulless? The next wave of great products won’t be defined by what they do, but by how they make us feel.

Design’s holy grail – from linear to multidimensional thinking

Journey's Andy Zimmerman explains how design thinking must evolve to keep pace with a brave new world of technological advancement, societal shifts and more ambitious brands.

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes

In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.

Ecosystem is the next big growth channel

How to stand out in a noisy landscape by leveraging partners who already have access and trust with your target audience.

Altman and Masa back a plan to build a new bell labs ultra

Episteme and Louis Andre would like to fix science.

A breakthrough that might break the internet

Take a look at how a chip named Willow recently proved that reliable quantum computing is not science fiction anymore, and how this might affect you and me sooner than you think.

✨ Product find of the week

Dither Garden - Professional image dithering tool

This tool transforms images through mathematical dithering algorithms including Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, and Blue-Noise techniques for professional image processing.

📰 In other news

Design connects everything

The AI data center boom is warping the US economy

It’s not right. It’s the way it is.

Red Bull Racing’s secret weapon? An engineer who treats workflows like lap times

Special mentions this week

Fei-Fei Li's new AI venture

Great repo for design systems

Dithering - explained

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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