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Crash Course: Design for Startups
A detailed brain dump about how to go about starting web design for startups. Including design process, inspiration and required reading.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 117 posts.
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Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators
Precision colors for machines and people
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Product design at GitHub
An inspection into the product design process we've carved out.
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That’s it, we’re quitting
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.
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New Chrome Logo
The first image of the new icon you posted does not match the actual new icon, which at least has some shading. The one you posted is just flat, solid color. The new one (with shading) look much better imo.
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Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in ...
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The Anti-Mac User Interface
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page
Last summer I was driving back to Chicago from Wisconsin. On the Illinois side there are a couple of rest stops over the tollway. It’s a great place to get some gas, grab some caffeine, and stretch your legs a little before the final 50 miles home. The rest stop usually has a booth where y…
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Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works
Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
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Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes
What additional abilities should designers acquire? There are many debates regarding this. Is it better for designers to learn how to code, write, or
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome
Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?
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How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
You’re in the iPhone mail app, and you’re looking at your inbox, when a new email arrives. What happens?
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CSS background image hacks
Emulating background image crop, background image opacity, background transforms, and improved background positioning. A few hacks relying on CSS pseudo-elements to emulate features unavailable or not yet widely supported by modern browsers.
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Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
The conservatives see non-standard custom UI elements as wrong. Liberals see an app built using nothing other than standard system UI elements as boring, old-fashioned, stodgy.