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Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages R…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,346 posts.
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Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher Mark Weiser where he ranted against “copilot” as a metaphor for AI.
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Animated Cursors
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor
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When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens
The history of technology is full of innovators who got their start creating with their hands. Steve Jobs cites a calligraphy class at Reed
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Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
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A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places
If you're still using this page, please email me at [email protected] and I'll send you a copy.
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Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function
Apple's new transparent design system has obvious readability issues that Apple's own design standards should have caught.
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Font-size-adjust Is Useful
In this article, I will describe a recent addition to CSS, the font-size-adjust property. I am also making a bold claim that everyone in the world misunderstands the usefulness of this property, including Google, MDN, and CSS Specification itself. (Just to clarify, no, I am not a web designer and I have no idea what I…
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Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
Recently, I modified anthes.is to use my own subsetted versions of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Following the principle of eating your own dog food , I also switched to Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in my terminal. After a month of daily use, I can now assess this font’s practical advantages…
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Don't animate height
Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and…
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Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters
A practical guide to implementing the boiling line animation effect using SVG filter primitives and JavaScript - Blog post by Camillo Visini
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Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography
The Nuberodesign Blog
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Blender 4.5 LTS
With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.
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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.
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Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
How an Apple legend approached the world’s most powerful psychedelic as a user-experience problem to be solved.
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SVGs that feel like GIFs
The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs!
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When Figma starts designing us
The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make
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macOS Icon History
Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades.
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Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
Both of these sentences divulge too much of the mechanics of getting the Amaya software. If you want to call your reader to action, use something like:
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People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design
The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design
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Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
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The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
Hamburger menus are a more familiar pattern today than 10 years ago, but the same old best practices for hidden navigation still apply.
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Visual History of the Latin Alphabet
Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other
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Should we design for iffy internet?
Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
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Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other…
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Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
Why Apple Just Killed the iPhone Interface (And What Comes Next)
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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Apple previewed a new software design, crafted with Liquid Glass, that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful.
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The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Cinematography of “Andor”
Continuing the ongoing series of interviews with creative artists working on various aspects of movie and TV productions, it is my pleasure to welcome Christophe Nuyens . In this interview, he talks about the transition of this creative field from film to digital, bridging the gap between feature films and episodic…