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Designer News is dead
Designer News is dead. Designer News was an online community for product designers. For years it was the best forum to discuss designing software.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,346 posts.
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In Praise of Buttons
The Nuberodesign Blog
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41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
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Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement! Learn about 12 properties to start incorporating into your projects, and enjoy reducing technical debt, removing JavaScript, and scoring easy wins for user experience.
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In loving memory of square checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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Tailwind Isn't for Me
I think the folks building Tailwind are talented and nice people. But at a pure technical level, I simply don’t like Tailwind. Whoever it was built for, it was not built for me.
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Blur Radius Comparison
The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur. There’s many ways to describe how blurry the blur is, and implementations vary so much that a blur in one app may be a completely different size to the blur in another app.
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Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)
I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles. While I was reluctant to do this, it turned out to be a good exercise to write “Golden Rules,” that are applicable in most interactive systems. These principles, derived from experience and refined over three…
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InVision design collaboration services shutdown
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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Ambient Co-Presence
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
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Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs
This is a technique I’ve used in actual for-pay software, but most recently in my text adventure game editor, Hiss .
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Smallest Typeface
Anders de Flon. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.
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CSS Is Fun Again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time…
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How to (and how not to) fix color banding
Discovering color banding solutions & Smooth gradients with a clever Noise one-liner by SLEDGEHAMMER Games
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Website search hurts my feelings
Searching and displaying results isn't hard, why do so many websites suck at it?
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WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
I’m a responsible web designer, and as such, since WordPress (finally) accepts media uploads of image/webp MIME type and since all web browsers newer than …
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The UX of delivering parcels
I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
Screenshots in documentation can be a contentious topic — some people really like them and think they add a lot of value, while others dislike them due to the maintenance burden and accessibility issues. So what should you do?
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Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
Our third film is from 1995, directed by Iain Softley. Hackers is about a group of teenage computer hackers, of the ethical / playful type who are driven by curiosity and cause no harm — well, not …
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It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult
Reflecting on investing in design systems
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Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.
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Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games
The only aspect of game development I’ve not attempted myself is the music. I mostly use royalty free music of Japanese origin (just because I dig their vibe...
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IA Writer in Paper
iA Writer in the form of a physical notebook
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Shader Park Is Kinda Neat
Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak
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Making noisy SVGs
Adding noise texture with only code
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HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Dark patterns in UX design and how to avoid them
Ten dark patterns in UX design, from confirmshaming to the roach motel, what each one costs you in trust, and honest alternatives to use instead.
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The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS
(I did a Twitter thread on this a while back, against my better judgment, and now moving to a proper blog.) The hanging-punctuation property in CSS is almost a no-brainer. The classic example is a …