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Today, we’re releasing a new guide explaining how to compel companies employing deceptive design to dodge data protection requests—like those for data deletion or access—to comply. It encapsulates five years...
In less than two years, 'Z-Anatomy' gathered more than 5.000 tridimensional anatomical structures and labels with more than 3500 definitions in two fully functional open source viewers. Available for free in 5 languages, it progressively becomes an open alternative to all the students, the Health Professional and the…
The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur. There’s many ways to describe how blurry the blur is, and implementations vary so much that a blur in one app may be a completely different size to the blur in another app.
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
iA Writer in the form of a physical notebook
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
Ten dark patterns in UX design, from confirmshaming to the roach motel, what each one costs you in trust, and honest alternatives to use instead.
What happens when a gang of amateur photographers, turned into amateur developers, joined by a bunch of back-end developers who develop libraries for …
Walkable, mixed-use planning is the key to getting young people outside again and enabling their independence.
Showcasing new Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Updated October 27, 2023 to include additional quotes and commentary. While talking with people at Djangocon US, one question kept coming up: “why is the Django admin so ‘ugly’?”. I’m paraphrasin...
D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams.
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.
Teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals.
UPDATE 10/11: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes layers and transparency is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version
What did Vincent van Gogh look like? His self-portraits provide a good indication. Read on to find out all about them.
Do you want to join the uprising? Click here to see a list of all groups around the world In a world where we spend the majority of our lives surrounded by buildings, the impact of architecture on our well-being often goes unnoticed. But what if I told you that the buildings you encounter every...
Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
Loading UX takes careful consideration of both the user's and the system's context to use the appropriate loading pattern.
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
Dan Harden's Ravenchord redefines the piano by exposing strings and hammers in a striking spiral, blending aesthetic and acoustic beauty in one.
Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we've relied on the window metaphor as the primary way of multitasking on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app can spawn one or more rectangular windows, which are...
Flowchart Fun is the fastest free online text to flowchart generator. Easily convert text to flowcharts, mind maps, and process diagrams with our text-based editor.
Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
I came across an intriguing comment recently by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and public face of ChatGPT. Altman has been in the news quite a bit during his global PR tour, including an appearance at a U.S. Senate hearing last Tuesday, during which he asked for Congressional regulation of AI.
In the early phases of a project a spreadsheet can be a more useful design tool than Figma.
