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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Today we unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 38 posts.
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Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout
UPDATE October 2024: Since this article was published, members of the CSS Working Group have concluded that all of the grid abilities described here — variable-width tracks, explicit placement, spanning, and subgrids — are worth including in masonry layout, and are possible to implement performantly.
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The design philosophy of Great Tables
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising…
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Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source
Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.
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Round Rects Are Everywhere
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
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Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting
Mixbox is a new blending method for natural color mixing. It produces saturated gradients with hue shifts and natural secondary colors during blending. Yellow and blue make green.
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Open source 3D atlas of human anatomy
In less than two years, 'Z-Anatomy' gathered more than 5.000 tridimensional anatomical structures and labels with more than 3500 definitions in two fully functional open source viewers. Available for free in 5 languages, it progressively becomes an open alternative to all the students, the Health Professional and the…
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Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
Ryanair Airlines is an excellent example of a company that will use as many dark patterns as possible...
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The Objects of Our Life (1983)
Exclusive video footage of Steve Jobs talking about his design vision and philosophy and how design worked at Apple.
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Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
By: Steven Bassett
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Sky lapse in two tone
Using Sentinel-1 radar imagery to make out the shapes of our changing seaborne energy system
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Blender 4.3
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Figma AI
We’re introducing a suite of AI-powered features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life.
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The UX of UUIDs
Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.
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Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets
Desktop windowing on Android tablets enables users to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows for optimal multitasking.
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Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0
We just tagged the first public v4.0.0-alpha so you can start experimenting with it and help us get to a stable release later this year.
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The UX of HTML (2023)
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back
Today, we’re releasing a new guide explaining how to compel companies employing deceptive design to dodge data protection requests—like those for data deletion or access—to comply. It encapsulates five years...
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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.
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Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
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High Definition CSS Color Guide
CSS Color 4 brings wide gamut color tools and capabilities to the web.
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The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)
We believe that charts with two different y-axes make it hard for most people to intuitively make right statements about two data series.
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Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective
Pros and cons for different typesetting engines from engineering perspective and why PPReseume chose LaTeX.
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SN Pro Typeface
A friendly new font family that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. Discover a detailed breakdown of our design process and download links.
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Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS
Combining finest craftsmanship with elegant design to ship innovative digital experiences.
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InVision design collaboration services shutdown
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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How people with disabilities use the web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.