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Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 233 posts.
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Deconstructing the Water Effect in Super Mario Sunshine
Note: The demos below require WebGL2 support . If you are running a browser without WebGL 2 support, user “petercooper” on Hacker News has helpfully recorded a video and GIFs and for me.
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Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients
Hi, guys, wanted to make some kind of warning for you to make sure no one gets into situation like this.
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Why do new cars look like wet putty?
"Wet Putty" whips are everywhere. What’s behind it? ... a BBSP investigation
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Color Spaces
Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
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Life Below 600px
Paddy Donnelly, an Irish UX/Web Designer in Belgium who really lives on the Internet. Aspires to be a webmaster. Co-host of @sameforyou. Remembers when Pluto was a planet.
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The billionaire’s typewriter
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Raster CRT Typography According to DEC
A closer look at the glyphs drawn by the DEC terminals VT100 and VT220.
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Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong
One of my hobbies is using a pen plotter to make computer-generated drawings. If you really like them, you can buy one!
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Bad Apple Font
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
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Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves
Edit: Since this post, I've created an interactive tool for binary visualisation - see it at binvis.io
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Design
I chose images from 1973 deliberately. It's easier to tell good design from bad when you're not looking at current fashions. (Try looking at the haircuts in an old high school yearbook.) Good design is timeless, and if you want something timeless you can't pander to the limitations of some hypothetical "average" user…
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Google Wave's Scrollbars
In spite of some of the reaction to it , I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don't really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can't discern any overwhelming advantages of Google's implementation. It seems I'm not alone. The…
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Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro
Free LUTs for iPhone 15 Pro Log Video
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Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
I complained about this on the socials , but I didn’t get it all out of my system. So now I write a blog post. I’ve never liked the philosophy of “put an icon…
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Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
Better design for Github repository page
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The most satisfying checkbox
The Art of Game Feel (a.k.a Juice) in Product Design
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Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable! Uppercase and lowercase have some different variants, in case you find one more readable than the other. Numbers (sort of) and some punctuation marks are included.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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