A Designer-less Future, Living Forever & the Metaverse Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Design is a subject we discuss a lot in this newsletter and in our lives. With the rapidly changing state of affairs, it seems only fitting that the foundations for creating good designers in the workforce are…

Byju’s Toxic Growth, UPI Credit & Why Hyperlinks Are Blue Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Turns out the past 18 months of us looking at ourselves through video calls has had potentially irreversible effects on our self-image. Aptly coined ‘Zoom Dysmorphia’ is a thing and it’s here to stay -…

Apple’s Double Agent, Living upto 200 yrs and the Designer Steve Jobs Couldn’t Hire Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. The team here at Canvs are die-hard fans of the movie series ‘The Matrix’ so it came to us as exceptionally good news that ‘The Matrix 4’ was announced at an…

A $600 mn Heist, Twitter’s Nauseating Redesign & Bangalore’s First IT firm Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. The world is getting more unreal by the day, countries fall to tyrannical forces as their people fall from the sky, space cowboys suing the ultimate institution in space. That aside, let’s try…

Space billboards, the Olympic UX Nightmare, OpenAI’s Codex, and the Pixar Story Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. If your current feed isn’t providing you with the shock that you need, then we’ve got you covered. Turns out, it is a supposed ‘code-red for humanity’ according to a landmark UN report,…

Time Crystals, Design Led Healthcare and a Gigantic Fintech Buyout Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. A few months ago (in D&T Issue 36) we spoke to you about Tesla and their big factory in India. However, a spanner seems to have been thrown into the works as India rules out…

The UX of Default Settings and the Design Behind Olympics Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Remote work has been a concept for quite a while, but in the past year and a half, it has truly entered the collective lexicon of the world’s working force. Here’s a detailed report on…

Pegasus, Windows 365 and a Fraud on the Farm Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Yesterday, Jeff Bezos, with a few others alongside, took a ride to space in his hilariously suggestive rocket ship. This wasn’t however received without its fair share of blazing criticism, to whom even Jeff declared were,…

Google’s ultracheap future, billionaires in space and UPI in Bhutan Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. Donald Trump once said, “Rich guys, they love rocket ships, and that’s good” And that seems to be ever prevalent the further in time we move in time with Sir Richard Branson flying to space…

Manufacturing Addiction and The Most Important Company You Haven’t Heard Of Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. An interesting new development has broken through in the open-source space with ‘ONDC’ or ‘Open Network for Digital Commerce’. The platform is being built as a bid to curb monopolies in the e-commerce space…

Solving Reimann’s Hypothesis, Fitt’s Law and the Fall of Juul Hi there! Hope you’re having a splendid week thus far. As it happens, Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odour molecules, and the evidence was right beneath our noses! With that horrible pun set aside, we’ve got some good reads for…

Tesla’s Demise, Doughnut Skyscrapers and TikTok’s Colossal Competitor 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…

Designs That Suck, FBI’s Clandestine Criminal Network & NASA’s Megarocket 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…

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…