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Great software design looks underwhelming
Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward — building a CLI tool that hit an API and allowed the…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,666 posts.
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One Logo, Three Companies
Fountain pens in Japan.
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Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development
There are countless articles why developers should not focus on Frameworks too much and instead learn to understand the underlying languages. But I think rarely we can find good reasons except that Frameworks come and go. To me, the main reason is different: You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t…
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Cross Views
Your camera has the ability to take three dimensional photos. Your screen has the ability to display three dimensional photos. You’ve probably never used either.
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Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my favourite secrets and tricks. 😄
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In Defense of Text Labels
Why Icons Alone Aren't Enough.
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty
While playing Anno 1800 , I noticed something which I’ve never noticed before in any other game (but to be fair, I don’t play too many city builders): The sun keeps a position relative to the camera and thus the shadows alway s fall from left to right:
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Visualizing data is an art
The case for less rigor and more nuance.
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The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
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Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an outspoken advocate for low-density cities without skyscrapers. With this in mind, it’s hard to believe the tower design pictured above came from Wright. It’s called The Illinois , and it was planned to be a mile (1,609 meters, or 5,280 feet) in height. That’s more than fou
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.
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The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)
A detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work.
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Motion sickness accessibility in video games
Motion sickness is an issue that affects up to one third of people. Is there a way we can strive to make gaming more accessible to people who suffer from the more severe forms of motion sickness?
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UI is hell: four-function calculators
One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in interface design.
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Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
Articles, projects, podcast by Ulysse Pence
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The Most Mario Colors
The Mario franchise has two distinct logo styles. The first began with the Mario Bros. arcade game and is mostly used for side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. games, though not all of those games use that style. The second is a multicolor polygonal style, and though it’s primarily used for 3D Mario adventures now, it was…
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Please don't force dark mode
A discussion on why forcing dark mode on users can lead to poor user experience, the impact of high contrast ratios on readability, and the need for better guidelines in dark mode design.
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Issues with color spaces and perceptual brightness
Unlike RGB, the CIELab color space And the more modern variants like CIECAM02 and Oklab. is designed to be perceptually uniform. This is a broad goal, which roughly means that we would like changes in the numbers to match same changes that we observe when performing various studies of human perce
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Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
How the redesign of a street in a walkable college town reflects our broader values for cars over people.
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Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard
Cosmos is the easiest way to design a keyboard around your one-of-a-kind hands. Scan your hand using just your phone camera, then fit a keyboard to the scan. The key positions align to your fingers' lengths and movement.
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Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money — George Hill, commercial real estate…
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Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics
The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic.
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Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Subscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying.
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Triptych Proposals
These relatively small changes make HTML significantly more expressive, enabling far more web applications to be built with pure hypertext.
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A Pixel Parable
An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town.
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Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'
Link to: https://www.codingfont.com/
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Design Token-Based UI Architecture
Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation