Popular design news of the week: October 19, 2015 – October 25, 2015

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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.

Rawcode – A New Home for your Code Snippets

4 UX Habits for Improving Interaction Design

Let’s Redesign Web Design

Google User Experience Research Studies

Google Goes After Microsoft by Making Google Apps for Work Free

Hypsum – The Themed Placeholder Text Generator

Rare Photos of Apple’s Highly Secretive Input Design Lab

Choosing a CMS your Organization will Love

404 – Back to the Future

Bootstrap Studio: Create Responsive Websites Using the Bootstrap Framework

StarWars.iOS

Project Flux – Leaked Internal Google Document

TechPrep by Facebook

Covers – A Series of 55 Animated Vintage Book Graphics

Blocks – The World’s First Modular Smartwatch

Voice & Tone by MailChimp

Apple Bans Over 250 Apps that Secretly Accessed Users’ Personal Info

Site Design: What is Burning Man?

Siri Celebrates ‘Back to the Future’ Day with Humorous Responses

Introducing Boomerang from Instagram

Windows 10 Upgrade Nags Become More Aggressive, Offer no Opt-out

Google Frightgeist

Twitter and Facebook are Turning Publishers into Ghost Writers

The Secret History of the Hashtag, Slash, and Interrobang

Existential GIFs That’ll Make You Question your Daily Grind

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• Scientists propose 26 million year cycles of mass extinctions
• Vista Rooms creates India’s first functional app on Instagram
• The 2015 Guide To Electric Cars
• Two week impressions with the Moto 360 2nd gen
• California 2100: The Future Holds Doubling Extreme Droughts and Floods
• 2,400-Year-Old Healing Temple dedicated to Asclepius, God of Healing, Excavated in Greece
• The Legendary Cretan Labyrinth Cave: Inspiration for the Story of King Minos and the Labyrinth of the Minotaur?
• Exploring the Origins of the Vandals, The Great Destroyers
• How Patricia Made History: NASA Analyzes Historic Hurricane Patricia’s Landfall, Heavy Rains, and More
• 054/366: Unprecedented Catblogging [Uncertain Principles]