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November 18, 2015
Design Leadership: What's Next?
Design heads at 3M, Intuit, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Philips, and REI highlight 7 areas for future design leaders to consider.
The importance of corporate design leadership is growing fast, which makes me curious: what does the future of design leadership look like? Will this upward momentum continue, and if so, what are the skills needed for future design leaders? To find out, I asked the heads of design at 3M, Intuit, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Philips, and REI individually and as a panel at the Industrial Designers Society of America national conference. Like a design project, I then looked for patterns and synthesized findings.
Viber's Plan To Win Over America: Attract College Students
Viber has users around the world. Now, with a new advertising campaign, they want to establish themselves in America.
Subway commuters in New York and Boston might notice something unusual in the coming weeks: Entire stations decked out in advertising for an app. Messaging service Viber, which has 664 million users worldwide, but still trails behind competitors in the United States, wants to crack the American market.
November 17, 2015
Lyft Co-Founder: We're On Track For $1 Billion In Annual Revenue
The ridesharing service says it is on track for $1 billion in annual revenue, and has 40% of the San Francisco market.
Lyft president and co-founder John Zimmer says the ridesharing service is on track to make $1 billion in annualized gross revenue by November 2017. Zimmer made the announcement at the Connected Car Expo in Los Angeles as part of a presentation on the future of the rideshare space.
Tumblr Finally Added A GIF Maker To Its iPhone App
The newest feature in Tumblr's iOS app turns snapshots and videos into GIFs.
Tumblr is one of the web's major GIF repositories, and today, the company is taking a step to expand its role beyond just GIF discovery. The Yahoo-owned microblogging service has unveiled a new GIF creation tool as part of its mobile app; the feature is currently available for iOS users and will be introduced for Android soon.
Today in Tabs: The Take Pit
Takes! Why did it have to be Takes!?
MEN! Accentuate parts of your body you like e.g. good legs, to draw attention away from problem areas e.g. the things you do and say.
This Popular Emoji Was Named Oxford Dictionaries' Word Of The Year
If ever there was a sign that emojis have overtaken our lexicon, crowning an emoji as "Word of the Year" is it.
Oxford Dictionaries has chosen its word of the year—if you can call it that—and it's a doozy. The wildly popular 
emoji, dubbed "face with tears of joy," is the first emoji to be named "Word of the Year" by the influential dictionary publisher.
Mixpanel Launches Predict, An Analytical 'Magic 8-Ball' For User Engagement
Mixpanel's new predictive analytics product Predict claims to be able to get your business more engagement within 30 seconds.
The small field of "predictive analytics" wants to turn all the data mined by businesses into a type of "Magic 8-ball" that can be used to predict and solve problems before they start. Today, analytics firm Mixpanel is releasing Predict, a predictive analytics product that claims to figure out how to get your business more engagement in 30 seconds.
Twitter May Enhance "Likes" With Emoji Reactions, A La Facebook
Twitter's core users didn't take kindly to the switch from star-shaped "favorites" to heart-shaped "likes." Would emoji options help?
Earlier this month, Twitter stirred the pot by trading its star-shaped "favorite" button for a more au courant heart icon, which now denotes a "like." The move was meant to simplify Twitter's interface and more closely align it with social networks like Instagram—but it's possible you've since been more frugal about dispensing likes on Twitter. Tweaking the terminology is one thing, but a heart? It feels a lot weightier to "heart" something than to "star" it, and much like the like button on Facebook, a heart isn't quite an appropriate response to negative posts.
Asus Chromebit Review: The Cheap Browser On A Stick Needs More Time In The Oven
The minimalism of Chrome OS finds hardware to match, with mixed results.
A few years ago, Google shocked the laptop market with a $250 Chromebook.
With "Hello Hipmunk," Hipmunk Does Travel Planning Inside Your Email And Calendar
A dash of artificial intelligence lets you search for flights and hotels without actually searching for flights and hotels.
Hipmunk is my favorite travel shopping service for one reason: It has the simplest, most usable, least cluttered interface. But starting today, it's adding a couple of features that help you start planning for trips without visiting the site or app at all.
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