Robots in Ghost Kitchens, an $80m Post Stealth Series A and Humanity’s Hate of Loss 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…

Apple Design Awards, The Rule of Three and The Dangerous World of Language AI Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. If things weren’t getting expensive enough, it turns out there’s an inevitable price hike that you will face with Ubers and other shared car services. Let’s hope your biking skills are…

Design Systems, Bringing AI to Life & Bidding Adieu to Internet Explorer Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Life in the past year and more has been quite topsy-turvy and to make things feel even more off-kilter, WhatsApp is suing the Indian government over mandates that Whatsapp says are,“fundamentally undermining the…

Google I/O 2021, Hackers for Vaccines and Biotech’s Hunt for Blood Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. The Chinese space agency definitely seems to be having one, after their Zhurong rover successfully landed on Mars becoming the only other agency after NASA to have achieved the feat. We’ve got some great…

A Visionary in Light, Psychedelic Medicine and the Global Chip Crisis Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Before we get into the more serious reads in the newsletter, here are eight outlandish items that have been jumping on the NFT bandwagon, strange times we live in. We’ve got some great reads for…

One year of D&T! A long list of reads that almost made it Hi there! Hope you’re having a good (and safe) week. We’ve been in better spirits because as of today, D&T turns 1! It’s been a long journey since when we started writing personally handwriting emails for a small group of 5-10 of…

Covid Resources, GenZ Women as VCs and Doomscrolling Hi there! We hope you and your loved ones have been able to stay safe in these difficult times. Considering the disarray from this past fortnight, we thought it appropriate to share some useful resources, along with links where you can help out through volunteering or donation.…

The Threat of Bitcoin Mining, Adding Time to Google Maps and the Broken Future of Work Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Before getting into some interesting reads, just sharing a little gift, it’s a digital synthesiser that you can play with and hopefully beat some lockdown blues with. We’ve got…

India’s ‘Missed Call’ Industry, The Evolution of Google Maps and the Summer for Indian Startups Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Facebook’s (well, their users) having a rough one with the recent data breach of over 500 million users on their platform, we’d like to say we’re surprised but that’s a…

Clubhouse’s 70’s Prototype, Imperfectionist Creativity and Sir Martin Sorrell’s New Venture Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. 2021 already seems to have some big wins coming in for Indian startups with Cred and Meesho hitting unicorn status. We’ve got some good reads for you so let’s jump right in. Note: For…

Moore’s Law for Everything, The Japanese Writing System and B Corporations Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Considering we’ve been pushing all this talk of NFTs to you over the past month, we thought you might be interested in checking out Coindesk’s guide on how to enter the world of NFTs.…

Introducing Access, Substack’s Scam and Governance Against Dark Patterns Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. International Women’s Day may have passed us by but it’s never too late to admire the legendary women designers who have defined the domain for decades, if not centuries to come. One of the women on…

The man who got FB addicted, a must read for non designers and AI to improve UX Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Did you know that after almost 2 decades, tech maverick Ekioh is attempting to design and build a new internet browser. Named ‘Flow’, this browser is being built…

NFTs and Digital Art, Diplomatic AI and Data Privacy in India Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Did you know that Jack Dorsey is selling his first tweet ever posted to the tune of $2.5 million? The tweet is being sold as an NFT or ‘Non-Fungible token,’ more on that shortly.…

Deep Nostalgia, Crypto Art & The History of the Internet Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. As we come to the close of this financial year, we thought it best to prepare to start the new one with the perfect desk setup. We’ve got some good reads for you so let’s…

Product Design and Astrology, Semiotics, Social Listening for Meme Stocks and the First Extra-planetary Landing Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Before we get into it, get acquainted with the state of User Research in 2021. We’ve got some good reads for you so let’s jump right in. Note: For any…

AI Reading Your Mind, Nuclear Design Blunders and Digital Synesthesia Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Btw, check out this superb list of Github repos here. We’ve got some good reads for you so let’s jump right in. Note: For any articles behind paywall, open them on an incognito/private window and…

Praying Robots, Cognitive Load and Spinach Sending Email Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. As the world seems to be taking a new-found interest in bitcoin (again,) Tesla has gone ahead and invested 1.5 Billion on Bitcoin, and is trying to figure out crypto payments. Well if tech worries you, you…

The Evolution of Design, Design Patterns You Cannot Use, Loan Shark Apps in India and Twitter’s Artistic Redesign Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. As you step up your pace into the middle of the workweek, Jeff Bezos seems to be stepping down from his duties as CEO at Amazon. AWS…

Behind the redesign of Google Search, A subreddit toppling hedge funds, Bumble’s IPO and the State of Design 2021 Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. If you’re up to it, Elon Musk is offering up $100 million for creating the best carbon-capture technology. We’ve got some good reads for you so…

Humility in AI, One-Minute Cities and India Paving the Fintech Future Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. As the world collectively contemplates chat services, Hike Messenger seems to have completely given that up. We’ve got some good reads for you so let’s jump right in. Note: For any articles behind paywall,…

Tesla registers in India, Buddhism + Tech and Algorithmic Layouts Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. We thought that as the world decides to move to alternative chat platforms, it might be best to show you how to migrate all your Whatsapp content to Signal. All the while,Elon Musk says‘use Signal,’and…

Lunar Pandemics, Images from Words, CIA’s Redesign and the Secret History of the Microprocessor Hi there! We hope you’ve have a splendid year end and first few days of the new decade, in this time we’ve noticed that while Google worker unions seemed to be appearing, Jack Ma seems to have completely disappeared! We’ve got…

The code behind the vaccine, Best of 2020 design, Vitalik Buterin’s Endnotes and Bezos’ thinking process Hi there! Hope you’ve been having a pleasant year thus far, we know Ingo Ullisch is having a good year knowing that he solved a mathematical riddle that remained unsolved for centuries. We’ve got some good reads for you…

Apple’s electric car, MindGeek and why you don’t know of it, Artificial Scarcity and The man who invented the future Hi there! Hope you’ve been having a pleasant week thus far. We know it’s been an eventful one for cryptography nerds globally now that the Zodiac killer cipher has been finally cracked, just 50 years…

AirBnb’s story, the best design tools, GE’s Innovation Barometer and China’s Her Hi there! Hope you’ve been having a pleasant week thus far. We know Americans are feeling some relief knowing that the first set of Pfizer vaccines have been dispatched from their factories. By the way, FB had a company-wide meeting the minutes of…

The state of UX in 2021, Opening the Pandora’s box of OTT and Who is Andrew Mason? Hey, hope you’ve been having a pleasant week thus far. Before we get into it, here’s a link to livestream the SpaceX SN8 high altitude test We’ve got some great reads for you this week, so lets jump…

Automobile interfaces, Self-Lacing Shoes, Asking Advice from Customers and An Overall Good Week for Science Hi there! Hope you’ve been having a pleasant week thus far. We know Slack sure did with all the attention they’re getting from Salesforce. We’ve got some great reads for you this week, so lets jump right in. Google’s DeepMind…

Chess + Design, Going Back in Time & Music as an Asset Class Hi! Hope you are having a great week so far. Before we kick things off, have you heard of Roblox? It’s the game that’s taking children aged 13+ by storm (and their parents alike). The game’s growing to become quite the thorn…

Urban Ladder, Resilience docking on ISS, 100 D3 Visualisations and designing to save people from themselves Hello! Its Wednesday again. It always feels like a great time of the week, almost like a weekend till you realize you got tricked again, much like every week. Well, a lot of Europe is now again talking about…

Sapiens Graphic Novel, Apple+ARM, Information Design, Viruses as Evolutionary agents and an Important Hyperloop event. Hey yo! Everyone knows about the US elections so no point discussing that, won’t pretend it doesn’t affect the world, because it does. Anyway, I have been bragging about how I finished the book The Martian through the weekend. In…

Cognitive biases, The Ballpoint Pen, Milena Marić, Really good UX and the importance of Starlink Hello there! Welcome to the world of theoretical empiricists where thoughts don’t matter and actionability is a conflicting emotion. Anyway, here is the weekly boat of shrimp I have for you this Wednesday. Cognitive biases and where to find them…

Jony Ive meets AirBnb, John Maeda’s CX report’20, Quibi’s expensive burnout and The Network Hello hello! This week is special, it is the 25th issue of D&T! This is why I have decided to spare you the introduction to this week’s D&T. Here you go with your weekly dossier: John Maeda’s 2020 CX report is…

Google vs US Govt, a16z on Data, Journalist Toolset from Google, The gaming universe and Crypto on Paypal Hello fellow human going through an unprecedented time that has been progressively normalized by the gradual and unnoticeable adaptation of our mind to its immediate environment. Here are the reads for this fateful week. Google being charged…

100x faster video calls with AI, Apple’s Lidar, Trevor Milton, Hacking Apple and the oldest internet posts! Hello! Quite a few interesting things happened this week. But I am just gonna mention that Segment got acquired for $3.2 billion by Twilio because I am money-minded that way. Anyhoo, this week I am adding a section…

Instagram history, Daniel Ek, Nobel Prizes, Our Cognitive Biases, Horrible AI and Horrible Policing! Hello! Hope you have been having a good week yet. Sad day today as Van Halen died of Cancer. He had battled and defeated (lip) cancer back in the early 2000s as well. Aside from his general coolness did you know…

Tik Tok’s trap for you, Tech to Influence Dreams, User Flows and yet another Tech company being evil Hey! Looks like humanity’s everlasting search for a home away from the home it had littered is seeing some rays of hope especially given how aside of finding phosphine in Venus we now found water below Mars’…

Netfix’s The Social Dilemma, Stock Traders on VR, Microsoft’s bets and Healthcare Design Hello Hello! I hope you have been safe last week. Btw, we are super happy that some of our stuff we have been writing got curated on publications like UX Collective and The Startup Special thanks to our content teammate, Paridhi! Meanwhile…

Apple Event, Bad Critique, Interactive Paper, Blade Runner Skies and Life on Venus Hey yo! It’s Wednesday again and I am gonna send you more stuff to slowly influence you into thinking like me. It’s a social experiment called a newsletter. Did you check out how California rushed right into Philip L Dick’s dystopian future?…