The clamour of modern urban life – in both the physical and digital worlds – can sometimes be overwhelming. In the first of a two-part report, Canvas8 looks at how complexion reduction is seeing apps redesigned with bold headers, simple icons and reduced colour for a unified mobile experience.

Smartphone apps have become part of our everyday lives, but as they’re memory hogs and drainers of battery life, people are now looking to consolidate their home screens by deleting underused icons. When it comes to news, however, Apple is giving smartphone and tablet users another option.

Filter bubbles and ‘fake news’ have people concerned about the credibility of content shared on Facebook and Twitter; 13% of Britons say stories posted on these platforms are mostly unreliable. Canvas8 sat down with 20 people across the UK to get their views on social media as a news source.

The time people spend on smartphone apps is continuing to grow, with Americans devoting almost 70 hours on them in June 2015 alone. But with people’s attention concentrated on just three of the top App Store apps for 80% of this time, is marketing in the others worth it?