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Google Maps' Moat
Over the past year, we’ve been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London—but some of the biggest differences are outside of large cities.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 65 posts.
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How Booking.com manipulates users
Many websites and applications these days are designed to trick you into doing things that their creators want. Here are some examples from timewellspent.io:
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Beware of Transparent Pixels
If you use sprites with transparency in your game — and you most likely do for the UI at least — you’ll probably want to pay …
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Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG
You may not realise it, but bandwidth is expensive. It costs you time, money, and battery power whenever you download a file larger than it needs to be. That's why I've become a little bit obsessed with SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics. They're the closest thing to magic that the web has when it comes to image…
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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A Year of Google and Apple Maps
Shortly after I published my Cartography Comparison last year, I noticed Google updating some of the areas we had focused on:
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A Primer on Bézier Curves
A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them.
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Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the ide…
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Refresh Is Sacred
There are two kinds of client applications: The first kind has a “refresh” or “reload” button to make sure your app’s in sync with its server’s view of the world. The second kind is broken.
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Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
In 2017, I will graduate from Ghent University. This means starting a professional career, either in academia or in industry. One of the first things that came …
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a ...
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The Art of Writing One-Sentence Product Descriptions
A look back at early interviews with Facebook and Uber CEOs illustrates an ingenious way to communicate hard-to-describe products.
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Papercraft with Blender
Blender version 2.79 incorporated functionality which enables you to fabricate 3D models by folding paper. I decided to try it out. Drawing the model I downloaded a 3D model of a goat and re-meshed…
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Ableton Live Redesign
My redesign of the Ableton Live. The entire process and elaborate case study of UX and UI design including guerilla UX research, interviews, sketches, drafts, wireframes, iterations, interface ideas and everything in-between. UI design galore.
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If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013)
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Musical User Interfaces
Design. Programming. Music. Teaching.
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Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Bars
When people click a URL and see that it’s a Medium site, their reaction should be “Oh, good, a Medium site — this will be nice to read.” Right now it’s gotten to the point where when people realize an article is on Medium, they think, “Oh, crap, it’s on Medium.”
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Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients
Hi, guys, wanted to make some kind of warning for you to make sure no one gets into situation like this.
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Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
It might sound silly if you’re not a heavy user of browser tabs, but I am convinced that the lack of favicons is holding back Safari’s market share.
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Metal Gear Solid V – Graphics Study
The Metal Gear series achieved world-wide recognition when Metal Gear Solid became a best-seller on the original PlayStation almost two …
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Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
I’d like to preface this case study by stating that my intentions behind redesigning Apple Music were in no way driven by indignation or…
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Game developer’s guide to graphical projections
Retronator Do It Yourself
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Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen , November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk .