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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 105 posts.
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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?
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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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The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons
In the early 80s, Susan Kare was a pixel art pioneer at Apple. Today, she continues to dazzle.
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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
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Chinese Mobile UI Trends
A summary of common idioms and visual language found in Chinese smartphone apps.
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Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999
New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.
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Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
Writing and work from Darrin Henein — a designer, game developer, and photographer from Toronto.
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Understanding the iPhone 6 Plus Screen
An experiment to understand how the discrepancy between logical and native screen dimensions on the iPhone 6 Plus affects rendering quality.
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Generative eBook Covers
Here at NYPL Labs we’re working on an ebook-borrowing and reading app. This post explores automated ways for creating covers for public-dom…
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Why I'm Done With Social Media Buttons
I removed social media buttons from my site in 2014 after noticing they got near-zero clicks. Here's what I learned—and why the share-button era ended.
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What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
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Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.