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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 72 posts.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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I hate stacked area charts (2011)
Another great post
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Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand user experience.
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Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla
As designers in open source, we’re constantly looking for opportunities to bring the principles of universal access and redistribution to new areas. While the term “open source” may still be mainly associated with code, the value in free collaboration benefits every discipline – particularly design.
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Why xkcd-style graphs are important
For most data scientists, a toolkit like scipy/matplotlib or R becomes so familiar that it becomes almost an extension of their own mind. When fleshing out an idea, we will just open up ipython, write a few lines of code, and display the plot on the screen to get …
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Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro
Over six months ago, I stopped using Adobe Photoshop and switched to GIMP for all my personal photography projects. This wasn’t the impossible task that most people believe it is.
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CSS is unnecessary given a layout language
CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemented correctly; yet, successive versions specify even more complexity. At the same time, it is so underpowered that many elementary graphic designs are impossible or prohibitively difficult, and…
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Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices
Given a software code repository together with all commit history, can you spot potentially problematic parts of the software?This is the question I have bee...
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New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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Dual-touch smartphone design concept
Smartphones have a thumb problem. The touchscreen is a magical invention, but it definitely has its shortcomings.
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Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?
Error - Opentype Information and Resources - Opentype. Learn more about Error - Opentype Information and Resources with details, resources and...
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
Blog and Portfolio site for Forrest Smith, aka ForrestTheWoods
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The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
On the existential crisis in gaming and the role of game design.
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A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work
A New Car UI - How touch screen controls in cars should really work.
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BioShock Infinite Lighting
Programmers don't generally have reels, but we do have blogs. I've been explaining the rendering work I did on BioShock Infinite quite a b...
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The Scroll Up Bar
A design pattern that is currently growing more popular is the fixed position bar at the top of the page. Sometimes the bar stays the same throughout, sometimes the header morphs into a slimmer bar as you scroll down, sometimes a completely new bar appears.
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Designing Stereographic Lampshades
I saw an article on the Guardian website here on the 3D-printing of shapes which project interesting patterns of light. Ignoring the strangely forced Halloween reference, I thought this would be an interesting project to attempt for an arbitrary pattern, perhaps as a personalised lampshade. Buoyed by the continuing…
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Ikea C&D's 8-year old Ikea furniture hacking website
Updated 19 June: Read latest development (New talks). I am afraid I have a bit of bad news. Some months ago I received a Cease and Desist (C&D) letter from the agent of Inter IKEA Systems B.V., citing that my site IKEAhackers.net has infringed upon its intellectual property rights. In that letter they asked that