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The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators
A comprehensive deep dive into the design of Roland's legendary DCO
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How We Built the GitHub Globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
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Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time
While building a timer app I came across a peculiarity with displaying time and found out that the iPhone timer addresses it by showing you a fake time.
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The Hyperbezier Pen Tool
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Figma: The product design team’s process
A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient.
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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing
From personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as...
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UX Issues with Notion
I am an unfortunate user of Notion. I have to use it in my day to day job because it is the tool of my company choice. I suffer every time I'm doing anything in it. Maybe it's just me. But I honestly don't think so. It's been a year since my company migrated to Notion from Confluence. And I'm quite confident now that…
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Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab
Dava Newman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab.
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A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp
This June I started working on a new (fourth) edition of my book about aircraft computer models. Actually, I am finishing its first volume (“Preparations”). It describes how to prepare accurate ref…
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Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
This image has three components: On the left is an OCR’ed PDF from my ScanSnap iX500. I have selected most of the text, and on the right side you can see two copy&paste results. In the upper half is the result directly after scanning, right after the bundled ABBYY FineReader that comes with the iX500 did its magic. In…
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Centering in CSS
Follow 5 centering techniques as they go through a series of tests to see which one is the most resilient to change.
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Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
Dec 14, 2020 I’ve been writing for probably a decade about how bad Google’s GUI is for Google Analytics, Google Apps, and countless of their other p
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GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to show why GitHub dark mode is disappointing
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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
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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Cameras and Lenses
Interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work.
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Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
✪ Update 2021-06-11 For WWDC 2021, Apple has posted an excellent video on EDR.
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An API is a user interface
An API is a user interface for programmers, and is no different from a graphical user interface, command-line user interface, or any other interface a human is expected to work with. Turns out programmers are people – who would have thought?
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On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics
He’s too young to really follow the narratives — after every strip he pauses, asks what happened, and then says, slowly and calmly, “Why” — but he’s already very fond of the drawings and characters.
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Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
In the mind’s eye of many people, Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and mag…
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How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback
We are committed to advancing the future of design within our communities, among our members, in small businesses and corporations, in educational institutions, and for individuals. Please use this community resource hub as a guide to some of the most critical needs our community faces today, and will face in the…
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A visual comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur
Side-by-side screenshots of macOS Catalina and the Big Sur beta, covering Finder, Preferences, Control Center, Safari, Notes and more, with first impressions.
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Getting a biometric security key right
"Discover the upcoming YubiKey Bio with biometric capabilities. Enhance your security with our cutting-edge, FIDO-enabled device. Sign up for updates!
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Designing Raspberry Pi 400
Raspberry Pi 400's designer, Simon Martin, pens a few words on the making of our latest computer