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Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after)

Why Minecraft Works (Design Concepts)

Hobby Game Dev2011123 points32 commentsGames & Graphics details

Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form

Readability: The Optimal Line Length

Baymard Institute2011cited by 39Design & UX details

The length of text lines substantially impacts their readability — yet this is often overlooked in e-commerce. See our latest test findings on line length readability.

Game of Thrones CGI

Andy Gavin2011210 points67 commentsGames & Graphics details

This is a very interesting little video showing off how the Game of Thrones locations are built up using Computer Graphics, substituting effectively for matte painting in traditional film. In my ex…

Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)

The $300 Million Button

UIE Brain Sparks2011142 points73 commentscited by 10Design & UX details

Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com

If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan

Use Google+ to Improve Your UI

The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button

Lukas Mathis2011219 points199 commentsHardware & Electronics details

When I posted the link to Andrew Durdin 's visual guide to the iPhone's home button , a number of people sent me messages that basically said "I don't see the problem".

Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"

Charlie Park2011235 points38 commentsDesign & UX details

Charlie Park believes in you.

User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer

Jennifer Boriss2011513 points199 commentsDesign & UX details

This past Friday, I went to Westfield Mall in San Francisco to conduct user tests on how people browse the web, and especially how (or if) they use tabs. This was part of a larger investigation som…

Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews

Jakob Nielsen2011108 points24 commentsWeb & Frontend details

A confusing startup screen that offends existing subscribers dooms The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app to low ratings.

Cool notification messages with CSS3 & Jquery

The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped

Lukas Mathis2011166 points113 commentsDesign & UX details

In an essay titled "The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped" , Jon Bell writes:

Clever Names Aren’t Always a Good Thing

Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)

Nicolas Gallagher2011127 points28 commentsWeb & Frontend details

84 GUI icons created with CSS

Google Calendar Redesign: It's Goddamn Terrible

Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X

Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products

Official Google Blog2011185 points109 commentsDesign & UX details

Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture

Designing GitHub for Mac

Kyle Neath2011360 points76 commentsDesign & UX details

An analysis of my process.

AT&T's Rube Golbergian Web Form

How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design

Apple’s iCloud Icon Uses The Golden Ratio

Apple R&D (1989): Mousing is faster than keyboarding, but users don't believe it

Bruce Tognazzini2011119 points228 commentscited by 32Design & UX details

Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989 Republished as Chapter 6, in Tog on Interface

CSS3 regions: Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3

Adobe2011105 points25 commentsWeb & Frontend details

3D Printed Bikini

Top Programming Fonts

Dan Benjamin2011439 points200 commentscited by 8Tools & Productivity details

Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.

Treatise on Font Rasterisation

Freddie Witherden2011154 points15 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Font rasterisation is, in the author’s opinion, one of the most interesting fields of computer science. If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to provide an…