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Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App
From personalization and performance, to familiarity and flexibility — there are plenty of reasons to love native apps
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 151 posts.
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Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
In the mind’s eye of many people, Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and mag…
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Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
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…
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Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is always exploring new optical architectures to improve form factor, comfort, and optical performance. Last fall,...
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Centering in CSS
Follow 5 centering techniques as they go through a series of tests to see which one is the most resilient to change.
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Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
✪ Update 2021-06-11 For WWDC 2021, Apple has posted an excellent video on EDR.
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Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
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On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics
He’s too young to really follow the narratives — after every strip he pauses, asks what happened, and then says, slowly and calmly, “Why” — but he’s already very fond of the drawings and characters.
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Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino Nano Every , custom PCB, power supply’s, VFD displays, lasercut metal and LEDs. Software: Python 3 & Firebase realtime databases Changelog of…
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Autodesk criticised by architects
Architectural unrest about Autodesk and its support for the industry's design businesses is growing. Discontent has been simmering for a decade or more, and has led to calls for EU action.The rece
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Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization
Today we are announcing Diagram Maker, an open source graphical user interface library for IoT application developers. With Diagram Maker, IoT application developers can define their own user interface and user experience, or suppress it completely and build their own custom behavior using Diagram Maker APIs. In this…
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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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iOS 13's Music App Sucks
iOS 13’s Music App gets worse as iOS gets better.
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Chat Bubble Blindness
Last month we removed our live chat bubble and replaced it with a link to live chat in our navigation.
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Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS
This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.
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Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS
Since macOS 10.12 there’s a bug in Apple Mail that causes it to randomly become the frontmost application. If you are in full screen mode — like when you are giving a talk or watching a movie — it opens itself up in split view mode where it takes up half the screen while your other main window is being resized. I saw…
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The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
It’s finally here. A swing of the pendulum. A reemergence of fun in visual design.
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Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
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Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
Dec 14, 2020 I’ve been writing for probably a decade about how bad Google’s GUI is for Google Analytics, Google Apps, and countless of their other p
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How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs
Geoffrey Golden explores narrative design and imbuing NPCs with life and personality
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GTA V – The Wormy Fountain
This article was updated. Jump to Update 1 . Update 2 . Update 3 . Update 4 . Update 5 .
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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past.
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When Fonts Fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
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Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had devel…
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Undiscoverable UI Madness
We have a couple Mac users in the office so I went around and asked them how to do some things on macOS, which as we all know, is much better than iPadOS at making important, useful UI elements easily discoverable. I talked to 3 people who have been using
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Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS
CSS grid goes hexagonal.