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A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,346 posts.
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Design an Enclosure Using Photogrammetry
In this article, I’m gonna show you step by step how to design an enclosure just like this with the help of modeling clay and Photogrammetry.
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Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
Chrome’s bookmark manager and Google docs have questionably bad UI and design. They both lack such basic organizational features, such as tags, one has to wonder if they are purposefully bad at helping you stay organized.
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We Built a C++ Rendering Engine for the Web
Here at Ceros, we're no good at goodbyes. But one thing we've always excelled at? Embracing new beginnings and creating awesome new solutions. That's why we're kicking off a new era of tools crafted just for you:
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SVG favicons have some cool benefits
This article explores the world of SVG favicons. We cover adding them to HTML, using emojis, inlining them as data URIs, supporting dark mode, and animations.
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Blender and the Rabbids
Julien Blervaque and Yannick Castaing, Ubisoft Film & Television, share the experience of using Blender for Rabbids Invasion: Mission to Mars.
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Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (2018)
One of the easiest ways to start visualizing data is to turn a table into a heatmap: every cell gets a colour, the higher the number the brighter the colour. Unfortunately, this is often a fairly unrewarding exercise, yielding graphics that look like plaid or tartan fabric. Part of the problem is that the rows and…
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Towards richer colors on the Web
Preface Introduction Colors on the Web CSS Color Color in Chromium Render pipeline Richer colors Some ideas from WebKit High precision colors in Skia Summary In Closing
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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
Mobile patterns · Form field validation · Autofocus · Microcopy · Error messages · Error prevention
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Reddit’s disrespectful design
An overview of Reddit's adversarial and seemingly counter-productive changes.
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Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
I am grumpy. As my very clever wife summarised, I hate when designers prioritise their æsthetic preferences over my usability needs. I tried sharing a website using Google Chrome for Android. I hit the share button, and a panel popped-up from the bottom of the screen. Hmmm. It didn't have the share destination that I…
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Opinion-Driven Design
Some of my personal thoughts on how we design open source projects
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New Kind of Paper
Paper & pencil are the best tools for thinking. Let's enhance them!
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Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
All in all, I liked what I saw at this year's WWDC keynote. Until Apple showed the new user interface of Safari 15.
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State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
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Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product
The rules that help make good improv comedy can surprisingly help make good product too. Let's run through interesting parallels between the two, and how you can apply some lessons from improv to build better product.
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Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
The correct answer is: 6. Or 7, if you want to be pedantic and include the newline, but let’s not.
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Implementing strict three-point perspective
Implementing strict three point perspective is ridiculous. You’ll never need it. Let’s do it anyway.
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Firefox 89 Tab Appearance
Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting...
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The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides
New York Times op-ed recently decried tricks websites use to manipulate users… but have you ever tried to cancel your NY Times subscription?
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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The Expanse UI Design
Here’s a look at the various FUI designs from the sci-fi series The Expanse . Special thanks to Brian Benton who suggested this and provided some great links as well! A lot of the images have been collected from this massive image dump from drainsmith and further below we have some insights and
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Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1
A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online. We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel
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How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
My kid sister has been using Macs for about 5 years. She bought her 2012 MacBook Pro used on eBay for $500, and it lasted longer than any other laptop she has bought new or used. When she accidentally spilled orange juice on her MacBook two days ago, she asked my recommendation on getting the new M1 MacBook Pro or…
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A VR Frame’s Life
This blog post will take you through a VR frame’s lifecycle, explaining the end-to-end process from frame generation to final display.
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Material You – The next stage for Material Design
Announcing Material You: The latest release from Material Design. Learn about the next stage for Material Design.