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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 72 posts.
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Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices
Given a software code repository together with all commit history, can you spot potentially problematic parts of the software?This is the question I have bee...
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Chinese Mobile UI Trends
A summary of common idioms and visual language found in Chinese smartphone apps.
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
Blog and Portfolio site for Forrest Smith, aka ForrestTheWoods
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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Understanding the iPhone 6 Plus Screen
An experiment to understand how the discrepancy between logical and native screen dimensions on the iPhone 6 Plus affects rendering quality.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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The Art of Unix Usability (2004)
This book and its on-line version are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0 license, with the additional proviso that the right to publish it on paper for sale or other for-profit use is reserved to Pearson Education, Inc. A reference copy of this license may be found at…
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Underlining | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management
Back in 2014, this article was intended to draw attention to several serious problems with babl/GEGL/GIMP color management, all of which revolved around the idea of using sRGB chromaticities to edit non-sRGB images. If you peruse the GIMP developers' list and users' list for the months of October and November 2014…
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Designing Stereographic Lampshades
I saw an article on the Guardian website here on the 3D-printing of shapes which project interesting patterns of light. Ignoring the strangely forced Halloween reference, I thought this would be an interesting project to attempt for an arbitrary pattern, perhaps as a personalised lampshade. Buoyed by the continuing…
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Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes
This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the sub...
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The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
On the existential crisis in gaming and the role of game design.
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Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator
Noteworthy display sizes of monitors, PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches and HMDs. Link background color takes into account typical viewing distance:
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Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand user experience.
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