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Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings
I tested thirteen models and found that their drafting is approaching professional levels.
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Websites Should Be Printable
I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whit…
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The Future of CSS
Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this blog post, we’ll explore the CSS of the future, to get a glimpse of what we’ll soon be able to do.
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Good type against all odds
A blog about software craft and quality
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No more icons in every menu by default
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in…
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The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book . The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS…
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Beauty in DVD Menus
The best part of digital video disc isn't the video.
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2D Vehicles
Explore my 1996 vehicle physics prototype, recreated for the web as Motion Lab.
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The lamps in my house
I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps
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Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
A blog about software craft and quality
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
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Tells of a Slop UI
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
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How video games inspire great UX (2019)
This quote is meaningful to me as I’ve often struggled with a problem until an insight from a user test “changed my perspective”.
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Divide by depth for instant 3D
When I first started working on games, I used high level frameworks that would give you a Camera that just kind of worked. But as I learned more and wanted t...
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
A blog about software craft and quality
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Why AI-generated event posters all look alike — and how naming a design style and era, from Bauhaus to punk fanzine, gets far better results.
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Anatomy of a Texture
A step-by-step guide to modern texture memory layout
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The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
Rebuilding Firefox.com with Mozilla and Lincoln Loop on modern, native CSS with no pre-processors, and what that means for design systems today.
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
A blog about software craft and quality
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Top Web Design Styles of 1993
It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way to find pages that live for ever in 1993.
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Quantifying Colour
A visual description of the CIE 1931 colour spaces.
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts
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Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
Thinking about UX, a slight delay on a simple tooltip can be nice so that mousing over something quickly doesn't trigger it, but if there are related tooltips nearby, maybe we don't need to wait.
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
Improving on a timeless recipe
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Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)
An interactive explaination of how QR codes work and techniques for rendering artistic QR codes
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Experiments with Plotter Art
Drawing procedural art with Inkscape and an Ender 3 printer
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HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo
Innovative Housewares This page : SMART IRON | FRISPER | FLAT CHAIR PROJECT | FIRST AID WITH A FACE OLISO is a small design firm focused on delivering inventive solutions to "change your home and lifestyle." As the sole industrial designer at the time, Sara worked with engineering, marketing