Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,346 posts.
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like a lot of the time learning new CSS features doesn’t involve just learning a what a single property does, more like getting to grips with a collection of properties and how they work together — even learning a whole specification. That’s certainly not a complaint from me: it makes…
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
After reading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, I remember thinking to myself, “I probably learned more from this book than I learned from a majority of classes I took in graduate school.” This wasn’t the best feeling in the face of my $60,000+ graduate school loans! My loans feel less painful though …
The user interfaces are a weird thing. There are all sorts of libraries and frameworks that are supposed to help you on your journey of writing a GUI, but despite all the best practices and frameworks forcing you to eat your vegetables, the GUI always ends up being a ridiculous mess. After pondering some more about…
Google's research reveals how expressive design improves UX, usability, and evokes positive emotions in users
Computers would be so much better if they never had to deal with users, amirite?!!? I remember, years ago, working on a mobile web service which had a URl bar - so users could tap in bbc.co.uk on their T9 keypads - and a separate search bar. I thought that was pretty nifty. But it turns out, users tried searching for…
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
An analysis of my process.
This image has three components: On the left is an OCR’ed PDF from my ScanSnap iX500. I have selected most of the text, and on the right side you can see two copy&paste results. In the upper half is the result directly after scanning, right after the bundled ABBYY FineReader that comes with the iX500 did its magic. In…
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a ...
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How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS. Since
To preface the article, I primarily work on, and prefer, back-end code. I've been involved in both web and software development for over 4 y...
Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand user experience.
A dynamic ASCII art cloud generator that creates cloud patterns in real-time
Discover new fonts for Indian languages. Learn about open-source fonts & design solutions.
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I a…
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
Creating good-looking user interfaces has always been a struggle for me. If you’re in the same camp, this might help.
Using SVG to easily create sparkline charts, and rendering them on the server side with Elixir and Phoenix.
Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit ex
