Google News — Re-thinking Usability, Search Experience & Content Personalisations
A UX case study on one of the most common news aggregators.
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Are these Google logo concepts better than the real thing?
Google released a bunch of new logos and icons for its various Workspace apps in 2020 – to a chorus of disapproval. Users continue to complain about these bafflingly similar designs – but a series of fan-made icon concepts seems to be gaining applause on Twitter.
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.
10 Font Trends 2023: The Year of User-Oriented Typography
If you need a trouble-free method to understand what the design industry is up to, look at the typography trends. Fonts are like friends, they never lie.
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.
Wikipedia’s new look makes it easier to use for everyone
If you are a reader of Wikipedia on desktop, you might have noticed something new over the past couple of days. The website looks a bit different — it’s simpler; less cluttered; and, hopefully, easier to use. After three years of development, the Wikimedia Foundation has finally released the updated desktop interface for Wikipedia. The new look went live today on English Wikipedia, during the month of its 22nd birthday,…
