Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 55 posts.
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
Sequence diagrams really shine when you’re documenting different parts of a system and the various ways these parts interact with each other.
We asked Jon Hicks, creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to re-imagine his iconic design in light of our exciting future.
Learn about our new interface, and how we're making Figma better for developers
Showcasing new Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.
D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams.
I came across an intriguing comment recently by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and public face of ChatGPT. Altman has been in the news quite a bit during his global PR tour, including an appearance at a U.S. Senate hearing last Tuesday, during which he asked for Congressional regulation of AI.
Learn how psychological biases are used to trick players into gambling money in the new Mario Kart Tour game, raising ethical questions.
Walkable, mixed-use planning is the key to getting young people outside again and enabling their independence.
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it — thus reversing the locus of control.
Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we've relied on the window metaphor as the primary way of multitasking on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app can spawn one or more rectangular windows, which are...
Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 3.6 LTS!
Viewport compositor, VDM sculpting, built-in hair assets, many lights sampling on Cycles, and so much more!
UPDATE 10/11: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes layers and transparency is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version
Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
Learn how to create an accessible hamburger button with pure HTML and CSS.
Learn how Adobe managed to let users edit even the biggest files on the web version of its iconic Photoshop app.
A new API is coming to the web platform to help you position elements in an adaptive way with no tricks.
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
Dan Harden's Ravenchord redefines the piano by exposing strings and hammers in a striking spiral, blending aesthetic and acoustic beauty in one.
iA Writer in the form of a physical notebook
