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IA Writer in Paper
iA Writer in the form of a physical notebook
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 55 posts.
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HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Dark patterns in UX design and how to avoid them
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.
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Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion
What happens when a gang of amateur photographers, turned into amateur developers, joined by a bunch of back-end developers who develop libraries for …
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
Walkable, mixed-use planning is the key to getting young people outside again and enabling their independence.
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Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Showcasing new Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
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Why Is the Django Admin "Ugly"?
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...
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How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)
D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams.
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The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
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.
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Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.
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Common-knowledge effect: A bias in team decision making
Teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals.
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Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
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
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Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits
What did Vincent van Gogh look like? His self-portraits provide a good indication. Read on to find out all about them.
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Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health
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...
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Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy
Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
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UX design patterns for loading
Loading UX takes careful consideration of both the user's and the system's context to use the appropriate loading pattern.
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
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Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano
Dan Harden's Ravenchord redefines the piano by exposing strings and hammers in a striking spiral, blending aesthetic and acoustic beauty in one.
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Rethinking Window Management
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...
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Styling Flowcharts Using CSS
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.
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Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
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Customers don't want chat bots
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.
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Starting design work in a spreadsheet
In the early phases of a project a spreadsheet can be a more useful design tool than Figma.
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Blender 3.6 LTS Released
Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 3.6 LTS!
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Clojure is a product design tool (2015)
Clojure makes me more efficient and extends my reach as a designer. And it protects me from complex design workflows...
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Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Learn about our new interface, and how we're making Figma better for developers