Google News — Re-thinking Usability, Search Experience & Content Personalisations
A UX case study on one of the most common news aggregators.
Tech stories
Twitterrific and other clients begin offloading their apps after Twitter shuts them out
Twitterrific, one of the most iconic third-party Twitter clients, said today that it has removed the iOS and Mac apps from the App Store. Iconfactory, the company that made Twitterrific, said in a blog post that under Elon Musk’s management, the social media network has become “a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer.”
A difficult decision to set us up for the future
I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices.
Revisiting Apple’s ill-fated Lisa computer, 40 years on
On its 40th anniversary, we look back at the machine that brought the GUI to personal computers.
Can Designers Make the Metaverse Less Awkward?
After Mark Zuckerberg announced expansion plans in summer 2022 for Meta’s virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, critics took to social media. They compared the platform’s graphics to those of Second Life, an early 2000s life simulation game: The avatars were legless. The Eiffel Tower sat at the base of a bubbly, pixelated hillside. There was no way the design would be accepted by gamers who had seen what was possible…
AI art generators face separate copyright lawsuits from Getty Images and a group of artists
On Tuesday, Getty Images filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, the company behind AI art tool Stable Diffusion, alleging it used copyrighted images to train software.
TikTok knows you’re using it as a search engine. It’s even made an ad.
Nearly 40 percent of young people turn to TikTok or Instagram as a search tool, shunning Google.
Firefox found a way to keep ad-blockers working with Manifest V3
Google’s version of Manifest V3 limited features used by content blockers; Mozilla’s promising it’s not doing the same.
Netflix refreshes its iPhone app with a more fluid design
On Monday, Netflix rolled out updates to its iPhone app that introduced a revamped interface featuring a new billboard layout, new card transitions, new animation for both the launch and profile screens, updated haptics and more.
A Guide to Building a Chatbot Your Customers Won’t Hate
Customer service agents simply could not keep up with the increasing demand for customer inquiries, and more and more businesses resorted to building chatbots to help them address customer concerns with the help of Artificial Intelligence or AI, especially for repetitive and results-based queries.
