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LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it
or: Why Your Friends Keep Spamming You to Sign Up for LinkedIn
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,346 posts.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Like a Designer
In this article, we talk about the definition of kerning and its importance in design. Learn more about kerning here, and start kerning like a pro!
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Good Design
My first design job was an internship on Microsoft OneNote in 2007. Our intrepid leader was the product founder Chris Pratley, who…
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What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique
Four Things Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique Read the full post and more over on my personal blog at tannerc.com. Critique is an important part of any design process, whether …
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Teaching a Semester of D3.js
I spent last semester frantically putting together a course on D3.js for journalism students at the University of Miami at the same time as ...
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A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in endings of German town names
A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names.
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The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Make a Doom level, part 2: design
I assume you’ve read the introduction, which tells you the basics of putting a world together. This post is more narrative than mechanical; it’s a tour of my thought process as I try to turn my previous map into something a little more fun to play. I still touch on new editing things I do, but honestly, you already…
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Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
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The best icon is a text label
Icons are an essential part of many user interfaces. The thing is: more often than not, they break clarity. Just replace them by a text label. Or an icon plus label.
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Building a professional design tool on the web using C++ and Emscripten
Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere. That’s why…
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Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool
Today, after three years of silence and hard work, I finally get to announce the launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool…
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The Dribbblisation of Design
Only one of these weather apps is attempting to solve the real problem.
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Animated SVG vs. GIF
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
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10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Jakob Nielsen's 10 principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
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GTA V – Graphics Study
The Grand Theft Auto series has come a long way since the first opus came out back in 1997. About 2 years ago, Rockstar released GTA V. The …
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Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
By Mollie Ruskin, United States Digital Service
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