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Do you want to join the uprising? Click here to see a list of all groups around the world In a world where we spend the majority of our lives surrounded by buildings, the impact of architecture on our well-being often goes unnoticed. But what if I told you that the buildings you encounter every...
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
Mathematical insights create a more intuitive UI for Bézier curves.
Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.
Create animations from first principles and morph between different figures with Python. In 5 minutes. Kind of.
Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He has worked across an extremely wide range of disciplines, and his clients include some of the best-known and most prestigious brands in the world spanning diverse sectors from manufacturing and technology to transportation…
The logic behind Bézier Curves used in CSS animations and visual elements.
Making a gestural, itemized environment more fluid
Back in August 2020 , Google began testing a seemingly Apple Maps-inspired map style that added darker and deeper landcover colors throughout the world:
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
Loading UX takes careful consideration of both the user's and the system's context to use the appropriate loading pattern.
Adam Silver – interaction designer – London, UK
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
Earlier this year myself and a couple others at DrDoctor did some training in C4 Architecture modelling1. The trainer was really good and over a few sessions with him we got the hang of the method. We went onto use what we had learnt, meeting everything Thursday over the course of 3 months. We focused mainly on…
Understanding (and Art Directing) AI image generators
Dan Harden's Ravenchord redefines the piano by exposing strings and hammers in a striking spiral, blending aesthetic and acoustic beauty in one.
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
The story of the CRUDController
Reasons to be skeptical of the conventional wisdom about line drawing perception
Exact line rendering of smooth surfaces is harder than anyone would think
One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with …
Have you ever heard of Design Thinking?
Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we've relied on the window metaphor as the primary way of multitasking on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app can spawn one or more rectangular windows, which are...
An alternative to pprint for generically visualizing heterogeneous, hierarchical data
There is a ten-foot long alcove in our lower-level hallway — we call it the gallery . This is the one place in our house I can hang whatever I want (i.e., my own art) and switch it out whenever I want. To facilitate this, I installed a hanging system — basically a slotted rail mounted near the ceiling, with sliding…
