The rise of fake news in the recent times or at least the realisation of the dark side of open social media has got the internet thinking about ways to curb it. A common thought would be to fight fake news with the truth.

But Do You Think Fake News Can Be Killed With The Truth? Think Again, shows that there are multiple reinforcing loops that keep feeding the creation of fake news.

In the meanwhile, this is some content I would like to share with you this week. Here goes.

Graphic Design

Sketch is undoubtedly the best tool for interface design out there right now. Peter Nowell however has a few tricks on how to use Sketch For Print Design. Katy Cowan interviews Andy Shillington On 20 Years Of Running A Global Graphic Design School, which spun out of a design studio to an international educational facility with six campuses around the world. If you haven’t seen Black Mirror by now, do it now! It’s the best sci-fi show right now and the projections made have a very high probability of being real. Neil Bennet covers Black Mirror episodes turned into ‘Golden Age’ comic covers by artist Butcher Billy.

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UI Design

Design critiques are an important part of any product exploration. Jason Cranford Teague shows how to run a UI design critique in Creativity Under The Microscope. Andrea Limjoco shares the visual, functional and contextual challenges her team faced while Redesigning The Spotify Icon Suite. Bethany Heck talks about the value of eclectic type systems, and how you can structure your projects in ways that will allow you to use more typefaces together effectively in The Value of Multi-Typeface Design.

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UX Design

Every product we interact with has an end goal that the product is designed for. Imagine the world when computers as a product ceases to be special or unique — they become invisible. Greg Gascon shares it in How Invisible Interfaces are going to transform the way we interact with computers. Everyone proclaims chat-bots as the new websites, and messaging platforms as the new browsers. But Does Conversation Hurt Or Help The Chatbot UX?. Mariya Yao shares her study. While building products, if someone asked you a simple question. “How do you do what you do you are best at?” Jon Lax elaborates on how to use PlayBooks for designing & building products and shows Great Products Don’t Happen By Accident.

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News

Some uplifting news! Poverty can be solved and here is a research that shows how Mobile Banking is Lifting Hundreds of Thousands from Poverty. Skype has taken a step forward in bridging communication gap between people. Skype’s real-time translation now works for calls to mobiles and landlines. Manage and sync shared sketch symbols for your whole team, with Satchel, a sketch plugin and a cloud repository for design and UX teams.

Life and Beyond

Most people quit their jobs cause they can’t stand their managers. Arjun Dev Arora & Raman Frey describe why A Manager’s Job Is Making Sure Employees Have a Life Outside Work. Leadership at its best doesn’t pretend to know everything. Great leaders know the simple beauty of saying ‘I don’t know’; that statements like these draw people to us. Know more in Empathic, vulnerable, curious: inspirational leadership in the civil service. We might someday talk about “discovering a design” through the joint efforts of human and computer neurons, rather than “creating a design.” Explore it in Artificial Intelligence And The Future Of Design by John Bruner. David Heinemeier Hansson reminds us that maybe, just maybe, we too have a nagging, gagging sense that the current atmosphere of disrupt-o-mania isn’t the only air a startup can breathe. Reconsider.

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