Tinder and Facebook: Too close for comfort?

New Tinder Social feature allows users to create groups and meet up with other groups. Except in doing so, they're presented with a list of Facebook friends also using the app -- and not everybody is happy about it.

#AirbnbWhileBlack: How Hidden Bias Shapes The Sharing Economy

The sharing economy is making online transactions far more personal, which can lead to some unintended consequences.

Crafting Plastics designs plastic sunglasses that are biodegradable

Milan 2016: this eyewear collection by Crafting Plastics was created from test samples of new biodegradable plastics (+ slideshow). (more…)

Popular design news of the week: April 18, 2016 – April 24, 2016

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.

Material Design Color Palette Generator

 

Man Who Allegedly Deleted his Startup with One Line of Code is a Huge Troll

 

The Cutting-Edge CSS3 Features that are Essential to Modern Web Design

 

Optical Corrections in Logo Design

 

21 Tiny Design Features that Show Apple's Incredible Attention to Detail

 

New from Google: Goals

 

Everyone Thinks They're a Designer…

 

Stop Feeling Dumb About Pairing Fonts

 

The Ultimate Responsive Logo Reacts to the Sound of your Voice

 

“Me-Too” Content Strategy Leads to Failure

 

Should I Use Grid or Flexbox?

 

New MacBooks with Better Specs Plus a Rose Gold Option

 

How Facebook is Slowly Eating the Rest of the Internet

 

Ship your Side Project - Even if it Sucks

 

Magic Leap: Inside the World's Most Secretive Startup

 

11 Things They Didn't Teach You at Design School

 

Twitter/Medium Founder: “We Put Junk Food in Front of Them and They Eat It”

 

Wait! The Web Isn't Dead After All. Google Made Sure of it

 

This Dizzying Drone Video is the First to Use the 'Vertigo Effect'

 

The First Roman Fonts

 

Bootstrap 4 Cheat Sheet

 

The True Story of Milton Glaser's Best Client

 

Airbnb Rolls Out Redesigned App with Much Improved UX

 

Welcome to the Invisible Revolution

 

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

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A '60s Architecture Collective Who Made History (but No Buildings)

The hallucinogenic visions of Italy's legendary radical design group Superstudio are still making waves.

Canon's Spendy New Movie Camera Can Truly See in the Dark

Canon's new camera has bananas low-light capabilities. We shot some footage to show off its see-in-the-dark skills. The post Canon's Spendy New Movie Camera Can Truly See in the Dark appeared first on WIRED.

Former Coal Executive Don Blankenship Sentenced To 1 year In Prison

The former Massey Energy CEO also must pay a $250,000 fine for his role in a 2010 mining disaster that killed 29 miners.

10 space-saving furniture designs for small homes

City dwellers are adapting to escalating house prices by living in smaller, more flexible spaces, and designers are responding with furniture that makes the most of every inch of the floors, walls, and even the ceiling. We've pulled together 10 of the best examples (+ slideshow). (more…)

Solar And Wind Energy May Be Nice, But How Can We Store It?

Renewable energy is taking off across the nation, but storing the energy is still a problem that is challenging companies to innovate with solutions ranging from molten salt to ice.

The Law of the Jungle

To create this immersive experience, we rendered 3D models of natural elements like trees, branches and flowers to recreate the feeling of entering the Jungle. Building the site in WebGL and using a dimensional transition between frames allowed us to further emulate this feeling. We also implemented animations between each section-drag the scene horizontally to animate the page. The site is built on the Tumblr platform, allowing fans to follow the page as well as share, like and reblog its social content. All in all, visuals blend seamlessly with technology to create a wholly original experience to celebrate Disney's The Jungle Book.