Live Intelligence

What’s happening across the world right now.

A curated, news feed that I find helpful.

Data & Charts

Big-picture trends and curiosity taps

Macro signals

Google Trends

Live search data showing what the world is suddenly obsessed with. Great for sensing topic “weather”.

Global • Real time Open ↗

Design & Making

Industrial design, UX, and creative process

Industrial design

Core77

Long-running industrial design magazine. Good for physical product thinking, form language, and weird prototypes.

Objects • Process Open ↗

Game industry

GameDeveloper.com

News, features, and postmortems from across the game development world. Great for staying grounded in how teams actually ship.

Dev logs • Industry Open ↗

Press

How the wider world sees itself (and the U.S.)

Gaming culture

Kotaku

News, commentary, and culture coverage from around the gaming sphere. Messy, human, and a useful pulse check.

Culture • Commentary Open ↗

Foreign press

Watching America

Translated articles from foreign media about the United States. A sideways view on policy, culture, and power.

Perspectives • Translation Open ↗

Games & Markets

Revenue charts and store intelligence

Store analytics

iOS Top Grossing Games

SensorTower’s rankings for the highest earning games on the App Store. Useful for spotting monetization patterns and surprise breakout hits.

iOS • Top grossing Open ↗