Hi there! Hope you're having a splendid week thus far. This week and quite frankly the last few months have been massive for the Indian startup space, particularly for one of India's OG (and highest valued) startup, Paytm, seeing an IPO on the horizon.
We've got some great reads for you so let's jump right in.
Note: For any articles behind the paywall, open them on an incognito/private window and you should be good to go.
Loss Aversion: Why the fear of loss outweighs the love of gain 😥
The sense of loss almost always hurts more than the joys of gain, and humans will generally tend to protect themselves from the former as opposed to assure the latter. This is loss aversion bias.
Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements 📢
Catch up on the news from Apple’s big developer conference.
The 4 biggest UI trends shaping Apple’s future 🔮
Piece together dozens of new features Apple announced at WWDC, and you can spot four clear trends.
Twitch turns 10, and the creator economy is in its debt 🎉
The livestreaming platform for gamers helped pioneer the patronage systems that prop up so much of the internet today.
Delicious biryani, compliments to the robo-chef 🤖
Automated ghost kitchens are coming for traditional Indian cuisine.
Waabi, the rare autonomous vehicle startup with a woman CEO, raises $83.5 million 💰
Raquel Urtasun helped run Uber’s autonomous vehicle division in Toronto before founding her own company.
Why is skeuomorphism not dead yet in music production UI? 🎸
As a UX designer and a music producer, I can’t help but wonder why many music production software knobs are still resembling, with such accuracy, knobs on real-world audio recording gear.
The app that monetized doing nothing 📱
Inside the meteoric, chilled-out, totally paradoxical rise of Calm.
Self-aware materials build the foundation for living structures 🌉
From the biggest bridges to the smallest medical implants, sensors are everywhere, and for good reason: The ability to sense and monitor changes before they become problems can be both cost-saving and life-saving.
Inclusive UX in an era of anxiety 🤝
It’s more important than ever to consider mental health while designing.
Honorary mentions
Major internet outage impacts websites and apps around the world 🌐
Jeff Bezos is going to space 🚀
A New Type Of COVID-19 Vaccine Could Debut Soon 😷
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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