D&T Issue 58

Hi there!
Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Turns out, last week’s intro line needs a correction considering how BYJU’S surpassed Paytm to be India’s most valuable startup in the past week. The world moves fast, I suppose.

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.

It is a critical aspect of product design since good discoverability is responsible for a user’s task completion in a frictionless manner. It also helps them find new content and features that a product has to offer.

The company is launching a new product called Stripe Identity — a self-serve tool that companies can use to verify user identities.

The agency spent years running a secure phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark.”

The feature associates “Africa” with the hut emoji and “China” with the dog emoji.

NASA has assembled the first of its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rockets, which will carry humans to the Moon this decade.

An alien-made artefact or just interstellar debris? What ʻOumuamua says about how science works when data is scarce.

A machine-learning system has been trained to place memory blocks in microchip designs. The system beats human experts at the task, and offers the promise of better, more-rapidly produced chip designs than are currently possible.

How Lisa Smith turned the world off of minimalism and changed the design landscape.

While everybody else tries their hardest to become better UI and UX designers, why not be smarter and go in reverse? Nobody will expect that kind of genius, that’s for sure.

The site is expected to provide what a firm spokesperson calls an “optimistic” view of technology, in contrast to what it believes is excessively negative coverage in the traditional tech media.

The site is expected to provide what a firm spokesperson calls an “optimistic” view of technology, in contrast to what it believes is excessively negative coverage in the traditional tech media.