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Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 58 posts.
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Minimalism
This website is for sale! ihumanable.com is your first and best source for information about ihumanable. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Beautiful plots of roots of polynomials
Click on the picture for bigger view. Roots of quadratic polynomials are in grey; roots of cubics are in cyan; roots of quartics are in red and roots of quintics are in black. The horizontal axis of symmetry is the real axis; the vertical axis of symmetry is the imaginary axis. The big hole in the middle is centered…
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Microsoft makes patent claim for sparklines
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Google Wave's Scrollbars
In spite of some of the reaction to it , I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don't really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can't discern any overwhelming advantages of Google's implementation. It seems I'm not alone. The…
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Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books
An infographical analysis of the structure of the Choose Your Own Adventure books series
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Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego
Because The LEGO Company get paranoid about this sort of thing let me make it clear that I have no affiliation with them, that my views are my own and do not necessarily represent theirs, and so on. So if you think any of this is official you are as deluded as they are.
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Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular?
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You're our customer. We Hate You
It is axiomatic in modern American life: the longer you are a customer, the more some of our most common, everyday corporations come to disdain you.
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Arial versus Helvetica
Here’s a nifty little graphic showing the difference between Arial and Helvetica. It seems to have been created by Raynor. (via ignant)
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Death To The Div
Every web developer is looking forward to the new HTML spec, HTML 5. The new spec will birth 20 new elements to add more underlying semantic meaning to
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Why Can't Gmail Search?
Hey! There is a followup post here! Google, the King of Search. Gmail, the darling of geeks everywhere for mail. Links: Gmail; Yahoo; Cyrus-IMAP; Squirrel Mail I am my family’s IT Director fo…
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Managing UI Complexity
Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed.
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Please don't use pie charts
I don't like pie charts. I don't like them because they fail to convey information. They do that because people have a really hard time ju...
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Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter