Popular design news of the week: June 8, 2015 – June 14, 2015

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that were posted, so don’t miss out and subscribe to our newsletter and follow the site daily for all the news.

Skype for Web (Beta) is Now Available to Everyone in the us and UK

Why Web Design is Dead

Why You Should Google Yourself Now

Apple is Going to Kill the Home Screen

Why Apple Abandoned the World’s Most Beloved Typeface


Apple is Launching Search Engine to Destroy Google — and You’re Already Using It

Apple’s Next Revolutionary Design Language

Graphic Designer Creates Illustrated GIFs to Showcase Her Creative Skills

How I Scored Free Stuff from my Favorite Companies

The 5 Biggest Usability Fails in Movies

Did Yahoo Inappropriately Copy Designs by a Cult Graphic Artist?

First Look at Apple’s New OS X: El Capitan

Google Ideas

The New ITunes Icon is a Throwback to Apple’s Classic Logo

Two Kinds of People

Airbnb’s Design Chief on Why Designers and MBAs Make Perfect Power Combos

Open Sourcing is no Longer Optional, not even for Apple

Apple Finally Learns AI is the New UI

7 Reasons You Might Actually Want to Use Google Keep

The Secrets of Airport Design

Apple Admits the IPod is Dead

Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe

Twitter and Medium Announce They’ve Invented Email

6 Tips for Designing Happiness

Gay Pride Month Gets Google’s Support with Rainbow-Colored Images for LGBT Searches

Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.

Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman is a freelance writer and designer from New England. You can visit her site or follow her on Twitter.