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Photoshop for Text
In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,666 posts.
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Sound
Interactive article explaining how sound works.
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Allow disabling of motion or animation
Users that are prone to seizures or motion sickness may need to disable animation or motion. Add an option for users to disable this. This…
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When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons
At the Fronteers conference, Manuel during his presentation did an exercise on building HTML that seemed fairly straightforward. On the site of Max Böck there's a thing you can click to open up a theme selector. What's that thing? Of course, it's a button! Because it opens the theme selector at the top of the […]
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Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid
Extending elements beyond the content area with CSS Grid and named grid lines.
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UML: My Part in Its Downfall
In the last year or two there has been a slow but steady trickle of articles attempting to account for UML ’s lack of long-term success (if you have time for only one, I suggest Hillel Wayne’s article ). As fate would have it, I had some involvement in UML standardisation in the early 2000s, so I saw some of the…
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Cool HTML elements nobody uses
Were you left in tears while searching for cool HTML elements? Don’t worry! This article contains 7 elements to up your Coolness…
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Eye-tracking is a missing input device for VR experiences
So you want to shoot lasers from your eyes, hmm?
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Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers
The difference between a designer early in their career and a more experienced designer are easy to spot. Here we outline the key differences.* *It should be noted that some young designers have been known to exhibit behaviors of senior designers. And on rare occasions, you may see a senior designer in the wild…
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Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG
It's been a while since I introduced a new syntax to the css-doodle project to solve my own problems. While I'm not sure it would be useful elsewhere, I need to make some notes before I forget the details.
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The Curious Design of Skateboard Trucks
An engineering deep-dive into skateboard truck design flaws
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iPhones and action discoverability
Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the wild when I can. One of the things that always catches my eyes is the idea of discoverability, or how a user is able to discover that action X does some thing Y. A basic way to do so is to rely on…
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The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
How does this work? I launched the project on 12 September 2022. The YouTube video was just created with results of 10 days. I will publish new results on my socials. Press:
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Dreamy Blur
One day I saw a few pictures shared by my friend Fish. I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it's just because the camera lens wasn't wiped clean.
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Mille Bornes
Edmond Dujardin, Joseph Callenac and the design history of Mille Bornes.
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Folk Interfaces
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing. - Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1
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Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
I finally was able to try it. And I can assure you it’s impossible to create professional and useful images from a text description.
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I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E
From Data to Daily Life
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Making Quieter Technology
I spent the last years making technology calm and pleasant to use. This is roughly how I did it.
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Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
Does it ever feel like the internet is getting worse? That’s been my impression for the last decade. The internet feels now like it consists of ten big sites, plus fifty auxiliary sites that come up whenever you search for something outside of the everyday ten. It feels like it’s harder to find amateur opinions on…
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Cut the cutesy errors
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
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An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)
macOS has a wonderful input mechanism where you press and hold a key on your keyboard to display the accent menu. It's easy to internalize: *long pres...
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The CSS Behind Figma
A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.
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I regret my website redesign
Mistakes I made working with my first design agency.
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Behind the pretty frames: Resident evil
Resident Evil…what a franchise…regardless if you’re old gamer or a new gamer, you can’t have a gaming life without trying at least a single RE game. Horror games have not been my favorite recently, but back in the day Resident Evil, Silent Hill & Alone in The Dark, been on the top of my list. Can’t tell you how many…
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