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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 151 posts.
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To design and develop an interactive globe
Stripe’s approach to creating a 1:40 million-scale, interactive 3D model of the earth.
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Unusual Maps
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past.
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Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino Nano Every , custom PCB, power supply’s, VFD displays, lasercut metal and LEDs. Software: Python 3 & Firebase realtime databases Changelog of…
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UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
🗝 The Keyring // 001
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PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.
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Chat Bubble Blindness
Last month we removed our live chat bubble and replaced it with a link to live chat in our navigation.
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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved over time.
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Thoughts on Voice Interfaces
I’ve been working on the Consumer Voice Products team in Mozilla for about a year now. My primary project has been Firefox Voice , but our mandate is larger.
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels
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.
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Autodesk criticised by architects
Architectural unrest about Autodesk and its support for the industry's design businesses is growing. Discontent has been simmering for a decade or more, and has led to calls for EU action.The rece
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Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS
This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.
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Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel
No newsletter next week Running the TLA+ workshop. No way I'm gonna have any brainpower after that. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel...
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Straightened Trees
Using custom code, the natural curvature of each tree is "corrected." Manufactured objects, i.e. buildings and power lines, twist and contort around the artificially plumbed tree. Each photo is shot on large format film, the only medium that captures enough detail to straighten the tree without pixelly artifacts…
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Things I wish I’d known about CSS
I learned how to build websites the old fashioned way: looking at website source code and trying to replicate the things I saw. I threw in the odd book for the stuff I couldn’t _see_ (like PHP/MySQL),…
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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
The homepage of the work for which I'm best known — a model Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders!
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The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
It’s finally here. A swing of the pendulum. A reemergence of fun in visual design.
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RenderMan and Funko Games
Case study for Funkoverse JAWS artwork.
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Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
An interactive visualization system designed to help non-experts learn about Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
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Lights and Shadows
Interactive article explaining how lights and shadows behave.
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Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is always exploring new optical architectures to improve form factor, comfort, and optical performance. Last fall,...
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Deep Chernoff Faces
One of my favorite ¹ concepts for multi-dimensional data visualization is the Chernoff Face . The idea here is that for a dataset with many...
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Goldman Sans
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities, and asset and wealth management firm that provides a wide range of financial services.