The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/11/19

medium.com

Delete and Heal for Vector Networks

Since I joined Figma in September, among many other things, I had the pleasure of working on the intuitive yet surprisingly complex behavior you see above (You might need to give it a second to load the GIF).

airbnb.com

Welcome to the world of trips

theverge.com

Microsoft Surface Studio review: a beautiful invader of Apple's base

The heart of the Surface Studio is its 28-inch PixelSense display. It's stunning to look at and it's truly one of the best desktop monitors I've ever used. It makes things feel oddly lifelike because you can't see the pixels - text, videos, and pictures just look great on this thing.

medium.com

Rethinking Message Notifications on iOS

We all have that special friend, colleague or loved one who just. Can't. Wait. To. Send. Their. Messages. Before. Finishing. Them! For some of us, these repeated messages lead to a perpetual stream of notifications that drive you mad. We found that with every iteration of iOS and Android the notifications keep getting bigger and more prominent.

medium.com

Building a Robot Journalist

Bakken & Bæck teamed up with news agency NTB to create Norway's first robot journalist. The result was a digital football reporter that writes articles like a human. Automation and algorithms already play a big role in the media industry. Programmatic advertising, algorithm-operated front pages and machine translation are some of the ways automation has infiltrated the news desk.