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Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
Blender 2.82
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
State of SaaS Product Onboarding
Read our State of SaaS Onboarding annual industry report to see how your product's onboarding compares to SaaS industry benchmarks & what best practices you could implement.
Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
How UX design is impacting the way we binge watch television.
Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
The Logitech MX Master series of mice is a favorite among the Bolt team. They’re consistently rated as top of the pack among graphic designers, engineering design professionals and everyday users who are looking for a solid wireless mouse. While they aren’t ideal for gaming, they’re well-suited for
Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
My job involves a lot of staring at large numbers, mostly latencies in nanoseconds, and picking out magnitudes like microseconds. I noticed myself constantly...
Web Based Qt Design Viewer
View and share Qt Design Studio projects in a web browser.
Designing Accessible Color Systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers
When I graduated from college back in 2014, I did so with two bachelor’s degrees, one in computer science and the other in design. I originally chose design because I wanted to learn the necessary design skills in order to improve the usability and appearance of my personal projects. While I originally joined the…
Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
iPhone users in Hong Kong have noticed a change in the latest version of iOS: the 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan emoji [https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/] is missing. Previously restricted [https://blog.emojipedia.org/one-emoji-doesnt-show-on-ios-in-china/] on Chinese iOS devices, all other regions of
Web Graphics Done Right
Start taking graphics on the web seriously and boost your applications' performance by learning the essentials about digital image formats.
An Update on Plugin Security
Learn about Figma's response to the security vulnerabilities that were reported in a 3rd-party library that we use for plugin security
The Psychology of Colour
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Dark Mode for Slack
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar
Read this page on the Filament Group website
Helsinki Central Library chosen as the best new public library
On Tuesday 27 August Helsinki Central Library Oodi was chosen as the winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award in the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), which is currently underway in Athens. The annually presented Public…
Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...
Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
”We finally got a 3D creation tool like paper and pencil.” The reason why Khara, Inc. started moving to Blender.
How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections
Katsushika Hokusai died 170 years ago
Problems with the CSS background-image property
The CSS background-image property allowed us to do some amazing things, but in most cases, it's time to leave it behind.
33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets
Discover 33 amazing sites offering beautiful free icon sets for web and UI projects, with options for personal and commercial use.