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Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Map UI (User Interface) for the film “Ghost in the Shell” Copyright Shirow Masamune / Kodansha • Bandai Visual • Manga Entertainment •
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
A Pretty Map of the European Power Grid
Crafting beautiful HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game development.
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secrets
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple colored CSS logo alongside the logos from JavaScript…
Pros and cons for different typesetting engines from engineering perspective and why PPReseume chose LaTeX.
I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code…
The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?
The history of the Monokai color scheme and the evolution of Monokai Pro
A detailed essay on my research and process of building a shader to mimic paint, watercolor, and aquarelle by exploring various implementations of the Kuwahara image smoothing filter.
I’m not sure what’s going on over in Cupertino for them to …
The Rodin Museum and the French Ministry of Culture threaten freedom of information and public access to cultural heritage
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
A very specific question, answered very longwindedly.
Write-up of a bunch of laser-cut projects designed with Cuttle.
Today we unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made.
Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm clocks.
Desktop windowing on Android tablets enables users to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows for optimal multitasking.
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton , make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I…
Different weights are cool, but the real question is whether your font can swash.
A great amount of my writing on this site revolves around complaining about modern user interface design . Some people agree with me, some don't. Most probably don't care at all. That's fine. What I find interesting is that many (but not all!) people who disagree either present extremely specific non-argument nitpicks…
Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
An exploration of the newly supported at-rule for explicitly defining and animating custom properties in CSS.
The 10 most frequent letters in English are ETAOINSRHL . This layout gets most of those letters onto the home row while making use of existing muscle memory. According to Carpalx , QWERTY-Flip scores about as well as the famous Dvorak layout, but while Dvorak is very hard to learn, with QWERTY-Flip you'll be up and…
