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Building a professional design tool on the web
Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere.
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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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Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…
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Flat Design: Its Origins, Its Problems, and Why Flat 2.0 Is Better for Users
Flat design is a web-design style that became popular around 2012. It is still widely used today, and its misuse can cause serious usability problems.
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Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (2011)
This page presents a scientific paper that has been redesigned as a sequence of illustrations with captions. This comic-like format, with tightly-coupled pictures and prose, allows the author to depict and describe simultaneously — show and tell.
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Apple's New Map
Four years in the making, it covers just 3% of the U.S.’s area and 4.9% of its population:
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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
In early 2016 I eventually decided it was my turn to take part in this project. I decided my job was going to be presenting the potential and the beauty inside these sketches. I selected those that I found most interesting and genuine and diverse, then rendered them as if they were real. I became the executor of these…
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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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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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The Elements of UI Engineering
What makes UI engineering difficult?
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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
A look into the rising trend of technology companies creating or commissioning typefaces for their exclusive use.
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Dark Patterns, the Ratchet
A dark pattern in the design world means something that is purposefully created to mislead users and to get them to perform actions against their own interest.
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