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We've got some good reads for you so let's jump right in.
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Figma taking over Adobe: Eating the elephant, slowly 🏆
No incumbent is too big to topple. Adobe was big once, ubiquitous as recent as 2012 in the world of digital design. Looks like Figma is giving is a run for its money. And for good reason.
Thought-detection, AI's final breach into our privacy 🔓
Our thoughts are private – or at least they were. New breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence are changing that assumption.
The Psychology Behind Going Viral 🔥
Read into this indepth research about how motivations and language are the two agents to getting a person to (digitally) share something.
Understanding Design Systems 📝
If you have often wondered where designers get the smart-sounding concepts like typography, vertical rhythm, content architecture etc, you'd be best to refer to truths laid out like it is in this article. The writer, Anna Stumpf talks about Design Systems well beyond their established understanding of being a component library.
The scariest design blunder in US history ☢️
On March 28, 1979, the United States came within thirty minutes of unthinkable doom, after a near-meltdown of Reactor Two at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, PA.
Anthology of Design Resources 📚
What is Product Design? Find here a collection of links that talk about the discipline, its basics, inspirations in the trade and why business cares about it today.
Understanding 'Interaction Costs' and their implications on your product ⌛
Interaction design is more than just user flows and clicks, it also involves weighing out the heuristic costs involved with each step added or removed from your product flows.
Google simulates Synesthesia through Kandinsky's art 🎧
Can you hear sound when you’re looking at colours? Google’s Play a Kandinsky lets you in a phenomenon which is called synesthesia, inspired by abstract painter Vassily Kandinsky.
One of the world's most prolific cybercriminals, turned Bitcoin millionaire, has retired 💰
According to Elliptic’s analysis, the founder of one of the most popular carding marketplaces, Joker’s Stash, has retired having amassed a fortune of over $1 billion.
Meet Moflin, the adorable AI pet robot that will learn to love you 🤖
Created by Vanguard Industries with a successful Kickstarter campaign, Moflin is an AI pet robot with "emotional capabilities", and it looks like a fluffy guinea pig.
Honorary mentions
How Tim Cook transformed a post Jobs Apple into a $2.3 trillion behemoth 📈
Robinhood and Reddit CEOs to testify at GameStop hearing 💸
How to deal with designers.Not. 🎁
The webdesign of this slick boi 🌀
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.
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