July 24, 2020 – Five Shouts Out

From Victorian demons to the Beijing night bus: why we tell each other urban legends

EditorJuly 24, 2020July 24, 2020

Maksimilian/Shutterstock Many of us are familiar with modern urban legends. There’s Bloody Mary – the apparition who appears if you chant her name in front of a mirror – or...

Earth

We discovered a new species, but war means it may now remain hidden forever

EditorJuly 24, 2020July 24, 2020

The male specimen discovered in the Natural History Museum, Vienna. Alec Moore, Author provided The world has a new species. My colleagues and I were hugely excited to announce it...

Thinkers and theories

Want a more meaningful life? Ask yourself: “Who would I take to a remote island?”

EditorJuly 24, 2020July 24, 2020

Jenn Liv A philosopher walks into a bar, and a barfly asks him, “What’s the meaning of life?” That philosopher is me, and it’s an inevitable question once people find...

Design

Case Study: 8 Design Tips That Increased My Ecommerce Conversions By 42%

FiveJuly 24, 2020

When it comes to increasing sales for your ecommerce store, there are 3 levers you can pull: You can increase your average order value; You can increase the amount of...

Design

How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO

FiveJuly 24, 2020

Contentful; Webster’s Dictionary defines “contentful” as… not found. Clearly someone made up this word, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The world of user experience metrics is moving...

Design

The Designer’s Guide to Letter-Spacing

FiveJuly 24, 2020

Most of the information we consume happens through reading, so it makes a lot of sense to pay attention to the words when designing. There are many aspects to typography,...