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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 680 posts.
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CSS coding techniques
Lately, we have seen a lot of people struggling with CSS, from beginners to seasoned developers. Some of them don't like the way it works, and wonder if replacing CSS ...
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The $300M Button (2009)
How changing a button increased a site's annual revenues by $300 million.
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Introducing Vector Networks: Generalized path editing for graphics
Before I co-founded Figma my background was in game development, not in design. I remember being very surprised when I first encountered…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Like a Designer
In this article, we talk about the definition of kerning and its importance in design. Learn more about kerning here, and start kerning like a pro!
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Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
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Building a professional design tool on the web using C++ and Emscripten
Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere. That’s why…
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Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool
Today, after three years of silence and hard work, I finally get to announce the launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool…
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The Dribbblisation of Design
Only one of these weather apps is attempting to solve the real problem.
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10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Jakob Nielsen's 10 principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
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Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
By Mollie Ruskin, United States Digital Service
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Google’s look, evolved
Today we’re introducing a new logo and identity family that shows you when the Google magic is working for you.
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What we learned from designing 200 pitch decks
We have now worked with over 200 companies to help them impress investors and raise capital for businesses through designing pitch decks.
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Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
Play the Chrome dinosaur game online, free and without installing anything. Jump the cacti, duck the pterodactyls, add your score to your country and challenge friends in a battle.
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Firefox OS for TV: UX Overview
Introduction The user experience of Firefox OS on the television platform comes from Mozilla's vision of the Connected Home. This departure from our smart phone interface focuses on ease of ...
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Web typography for non-designers
Although a lot of today’s web content is highly interactive and image-based, language–and thus words–is still the basic means of expression on almost every single web page.
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A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived
It's flattering to see others appreciate our design and data visualization. Here is one YC company that appreciated us a bit too much.
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Why Every Movie Looks Sort of Orange and Blue
Maybe you haven't noticed, but just about every scene in every blockbuster movie has the same color scheme.
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A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs
The story of a girl who got too many parking tickets, and dared to dream of a better tomorrow.
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A redesign of the Django websites
Posted by Jannis Leidel and Russell Keith-Magee on Dec. 15, 2014