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The history of Monokai
The history of the Monokai color scheme and the evolution of Monokai Pro
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 680 posts.
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Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web
Developing Apple-inspired progressive blur for the web; Technical insights and challenges.
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Click and Swap, our alternative to Drag and Drop
At Contentsquare, we gather hundreds of metrics about user interactions on the websites of our customers. Having all this information can easily become cumbersome and hard to exploit. To make user…
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What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections
Katsushika Hokusai died 170 years ago
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How to create accessible PDFs from the start
Accessibility does not need to be hard. Learn how to create accessible PDFs with Typst without any additional software while reaching new audiences and meeting...
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Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time
On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.
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Cascaded Displays: Spatiotemporal Superresolution using Offset Pixel Layers
We demonstrate that layered spatial light modulators (SLMs), subject to fixed lateral displacements and refreshed at staggered intervals, can synthesize images with greater spatiotemporal resolution than that afforded by any single SLM used in their construction. Dubbed cascaded displays, such architectures enable…
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Kniterate is a 3D printer for clothes [video]
Why head to the store when you could simply create your outfits right at home with the touch of a button? That’s the idea behind London-based startup
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Ubuntu - Getting physical
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.
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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 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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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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Building a Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor
What would a modern motion graphics editor look like?
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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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How Google designed its wildfire feature for Maps
Learn more about Google. Explore our innovative AI products and services, and how we're using technology to help improve lives around the world.
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Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Designing game narrative
Imagine one day you are struck with a flash of inspiration: freshly seared onto your mind is a story, one that is undoubtedly the greatest tale ever conceived by Man. It has all the elements of a great narrative: a gripping plot, nuanced characters, and an evocative setting.
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RenderMan and Funko Games
Case study for Funkoverse JAWS artwork.
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Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)
JPEG and AVIF are locked to 8, 10 or 12 bits. JPEG XL works in float32 with the XYB color space, so bit depth stops mattering. Here’s why that helps HDR.
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IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system from Microsoft Research. It augments the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations to enhance the traditional living room entertainment experience. Read the CHI 2013 Best-Paper: IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences (7.6…
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Media Queries and Responsive Design
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team