Hi there! Hope you're having a splendid week thus far. Before we get started, here's a healthy reminder that people are better than robots.
On another note, here's a breakdown of how compliant the social media giants currently are in the face of the new IT rules in India.
We've got some great reads for you so let's jump right in.
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Why every platform wants to be a super app 🚀
From Togo to El Salvador, real and wannabe super apps have proliferated across the world, aspiring to become the next WeChat or Alipay.
How design is being transformed by things we can’t see 👀
Companies across the world are tasking executives with being design driven, but how do you actually get there?
This weird doughnut skyscraper is the future of architecture 🍩
The unTower might look strange, but it’s highly adaptable to an ever-changing cityscape—and that’s why it has sparked the interest of major developers like Tishman Speyer and Hines.
TikTok’s Chinese nemesis Kuaishou hits 1 billion monthly users worldwide 📈
Kuaishou, announced it has sailed past the one billion monthly active user (MAU) mark. To put it in perspective, Facebook’s MAUs stood at 2.85 billion as of March.
The $600+ billion company is a game-changer, but it may not exist in 50 years (and Elon Musk Knows It.)
Chrome versus Brave: A cast study 🔎
How a lot bit of forwarding thinking about user privacy, and a little bit of UI plagiarism make Brave a surprisingly good browser.
A very brief history of every Google messaging app 💬
What a decade and a half of confusing services can tell us about the future.
Pickup trucks and environmental safety 🔋
When President Joe Biden took Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup for a test drive in Dearborn, Michigan, in May 2021, the event was more than a White House photo op. It marked a new phase in an accelerating shift from gas-powered cars and trucks to electric vehicles, or EVs.
The city as an emergent life form 🧬
While comparing cities to living things perhaps isn’t as novel in 2021 as it was when Organism was first released in 1975, the analogy has never been as dizzyingly inventive or convincingly rendered as in this experimental short by the US filmmaker Hilary Harris.
Buyers of Amazon Devices Are Guinea Pigs. That’s a Problem 🛍️
Amazon’s experimental approach to product design can hurt your wallet and the environment. Why does it need our help to figure out what it’s doing?
Honorary mentions
Is it 'sign in' or 'log in'? ✅
An Alternative Voice UI To Voice Assistants 🗣️
What if Shopping on Amazon Was Just … Better? 🛒
Twitter now lets iOS users easily share tweets as Instagram Stories ✨
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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