Fake Navigation Apps on Google Play Store Misusing Google Maps (Android Alert)

Many navigation apps found on Google Play Store are found to be a scam. These apps with collective downloads of 50 million are using Google maps for navigation purposes pretending as their own maps and running adds on it. A researcher named Lukas Stefanko, at ESET, discovered these fake apps. He...

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To control misinformation, WhatsApp has confined message forwarding to 5 contacts or groups

WhatsApp has taken an initiative to control the growth rate of misinformation by enforcing a restriction of sending one message content to the five individuals or group at a time. The Facebook, as an owner of this messaging App, initially started from India for testing purpose, because a number of...

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Facebook to help users with Social Causes through "Community Actions"

Change.org is about to get some competition very soon as Facebook is working on launching a petition feature which will allow a user to create campaigns based on social causes that others can support. The addition of this feature can be attributed to Facebook’s recent attempts to introduce...

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Google Chrome is experimenting to troubleshoot the ‘white flash’ between webpages

Most of us overlook the minimal flaw that has been with Google Chrome since its early years. Yes, we are talking about the ‘white flash’ glitch that appears when we are changing between two web pages. Finally, Google is working on resolving the problem, according to recent news. Majority of...

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Hackers exploit browser history of websites through extensions APIs

Infected websites can now get hold of browser extension APIs to execute code inside the browser in order to steal sensitive information such as browsing history, bookmarks, and even user cookies. The attacker can also seize the user’s active login sessions and access account information such as...

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Facebook determined to win back its users' trust

Amidst Controversies regarding user privacy, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged the company’s mistakes and pledged to make things right and win back the users’ trust. In her address on Sunday, she spoke about how important is it to prevent abuse more quickly and improve ways to protect...

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Web Design Weekly #343

Headlines

The Ethics of Web Performance

Tim Kadlec shares his thoughts on whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. (timkadlec.com)

Get a Free .design Domain Name For Your Website!

A .design domain is like .com and .net, but it’s more relevant to designers. Your .design name includes free email hosting & Site Builder. (porkbun.com)

Articles

CSS doesn’t suck

Andy Bell writes about CSS positively to counter the falsities that are spread over the internet on a weekly basis. More of these types of articles please. Good job Andy. (andy-bell.design)

Designing the Flexbox Inspector

Victoria Wang shares a behind-the-scenes look at the UX patterns and processes that helped shape the inspector. (hacks.mozilla.org)

The Flexbox Holy Albatross

An entertaining read by Heydon Pickering that explores some tricky Flexbox jazz. (heydonworks.com)

When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout

Rachel Andrew explains why it is different to other layout methods and shows some useful patterns and sites which showcase it well. (smashingmagazine.com)

The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Cuba and India (theguardian.com)

Tools / Resources

Lucid

A Chrome Developer Tool designed to help debug React-GraphQL applications. Easily visualise the component hierarchy, state/props data and state changes of your React application and more. (reactlucid.io)

Mail To Links Tool

A quick and easy way to generate markup for mailto links without having to worry about the annoying formatting. (mailtolink.me)

Storybook 4.1

Hot on the heels of the massive Storybook 4.0 release. This time around, the team focused on performance, compatibility and convenience. (medium.com)

New ES2018 Features Every JavaScript Developer Should Know (css-tricks.com)

A UX Guide For Designing Error Pages (blog.prototypr.io)

JavaScript Rising Stars (risingstars.js.org)

Inspiration

Say hello,new logo – Slack (slackhq.com)

CSS-Tricks – Design v17 (css-tricks.com)

Jobs

Product Designer at Discord

If you’re interested in joining a passionate team of designers and gamers that are designing features that will be used by millions of gamers across the world, come help us do that. Also please bring some toast. We have hella butter. (discordapp.com)

Senior Product Designer at Monzo

We’re looking for a seasoned and empathetic problem-solver, with tons of experience in digital product design, to help us deliver the best banking experience possible. (monzo.com)

Need to find passionate developers or designers? Why not advertise in the next newsletter

Last but not least…

What CSS Taught Me (youtube.com)

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