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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 57 posts.
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Don't force users to register before they can buy (2015)
Guest checkout with optional registration on e-commerce sites simplifies the purchase process and invites users to register when they feel comfortable, rather than forcing unwanted registration.
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Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com
Discover the 9 best ecommerce UX practices from the world's top B2B ecommerce sites that made the top of HackerNews as the best ecommerce site.
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We’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone
I joined Mozilla in 2017 as an accessibility engineer and soon became the tech lead for accessibility. But for years prior, I was already deeply involved w
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Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.
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Interface Ideas for Chat Apps
New interaction ideas for chat UI in mobile devices.
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Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
One of the major improvements to look forward to in Thunderbird "Supernova" is a beautifully redesigned calendar UI. Here's your first look!
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Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
Bike Outliner now supports rich text! Download Release notes Bike’s rich text editing should be familiar. There’s also innovation 1 . I’m trying to improve the fundamentals of how…
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The Canon Cat
A software design framework for humans, distilled from Jef Raskin's Humane Interface.
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New motorcycle lighting design could save lives
Motorcycle drivers are 27 times more likely to die in an accident than those in regular passenger vehicles. Night driving is especially dangerous, accounting for nearly half of all fatal crashes.
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Write better error messages
When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport
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On Adobe acquiring Figma
Week 53 of Founding Typogram
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The number input is the worst input
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
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Color fonts on Google Fonts
Discover the first batch of color fonts on Google Fonts. Customize color palettes, add gradients, and more with COLRv1.
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Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
Makuta Visual Effects shares the experience of using Blender in the creation of some of the VFX for the Indian blockbuster RRR:
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Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.
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The top layer: a solution to z-index:10000
With new built-in components and APIs coming to the platform, what is this "Top layer" that they enable us to use?
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Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
Two competing syntaxes need your help in determining which should be championed through to a specification candidate.
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Monodraw – a non-subscription, powerful ASCII art editor
Monodraw v1.6 is now available for public testing. It features a visual refresh and the ability to simultaneously edit multiple shapes of the same type.
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The Modos Paper Monitor
At Modos, our mission is to help you live a healthy life by creating technology that respects your time, attention, and well-being. Today, we'd like to introduce the Modos Paper Monitor: an open-hardware standalone portable monitor made for reading and writing, especially for people who need to stare at the display…
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Fighting JPEG color banding
How to compress JPEG even more without losing in visual quality
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X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass
Oh my GOSH this is getting good. One of my favorite planes the F-4 Phantom. And one of our alpha testers recently casually mentioned that he was an Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom flight instructor. I’ve been exchanging emails with him about every 30 minutes or so, on average, for 12-hour-long days, for the past […]
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Webcams aren't good enough
There are no good webcams. Why? And what can we use instead? This article compares the most popular webcam options (such as the Brio, the Kiyo, and the C920) to better alternatives.
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Blender 3.2
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2!
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CSS: Absolutely positioning things relatively
Using CSS grid to render complex webpages responsively.
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The Modos Paper Laptop
At Modos, we want to give you the tools and space to focus on what truly matters in life. That’s why we created the Modos Paper Laptop: the world's first e-ink laptop designed for reading, writing, and thinking in a distraction and eyestrain-free environment.