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Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators
Precision colors for machines and people
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 19 posts.
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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work . I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I'm a little skeptical of, given that I've actually tried them and the…
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Readability: The Optimal Line Length
The length of text lines substantially impacts their readability — yet this is often overlooked in e-commerce. See our latest test findings on line length readability.
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Apple R&D (1989): Mousing is faster than keyboarding, but users don't believe it
Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989 Republished as Chapter 6, in Tog on Interface
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Explorable Explanations
An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries to generalize specific examples, and devise specific examples for generalities. An active reader doesn't passively sponge up information, but uses the author's…
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Top Programming Fonts
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
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Crash Course: Design for Startups
A detailed brain dump about how to go about starting web design for startups. Including design process, inspiration and required reading.
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There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
I recently worked on the update to the ASP.NET site, now in beta at ...
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The Anti-Mac User Interface
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome
Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?
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Slide Design for Developers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography
This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT, check out the Golden
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
The conservatives see non-standard custom UI elements as wrong. Liberals see an app built using nothing other than standard system UI elements as boring, old-fashioned, stodgy.