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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 108 posts.
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Float Label Pattern
Compare Wix vs WordPress for ease, design, ownership, SEO, apps, ecommerce, and cost. See which platform fits the website you want to build.
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Stop Using Small Font Sizes
TL;DR: 16px minimum font-size for body text, 1.5em line-height for said text; max width should be 60-80 characters == 27-35em.
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Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
See how Fantasy propels category leaders forward—AI strategy, flagship digital product design, and brands used daily by billions.
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Don't Support Information Architects
Last week Information Architects (iA) released Writer Pro, a follow-up to the company’s popular text editor, iA Writer. By far, their most heavily touted new feature is Syntax Control. Oliver Reichenstein, iA’s director, promised in a blog post to vigorously protect this new feature: Syntax Control is a solid…
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Ditching responsive design
Collect and send payments, minimise failures, and fight fraud. No more chasing payments and no expensive card fees.
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Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
This article moved to its own webspace! You can follow him by clicking this: simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds
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Design
I chose images from 1973 deliberately. It's easier to tell good design from bad when you're not looking at current fashions. (Try looking at the haircuts in an old high school yearbook.) Good design is timeless, and if you want something timeless you can't pander to the limitations of some hypothetical "average" user…
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The making of Medium.com
There is plenty of media in the world already. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushing from smartphones, corporations, and new-fangled media startups onto the Internet, available for the world to see.
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Why cards are the future of the web
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
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An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"
The talk I released today is called " Media for Thinking the Unthinkable ". It's the most personal talk I've given, in that it was driven by my own motivations as opposed to someone else's.
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iOS 7: Catch me if you can
iOS 7 throws CSS a curveball.
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Open Sans, how do we love thee?
If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com. Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. I…
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Wysiwtfftwomg
I get the content in Word, copy into the various boxes in the CMS and then see how it looks. Normally I spot a few typos, or it doesn’t appear where I want it to, then I have to go back and find the article again – which isn’t so bad, it’s normally at the top. The real pain is when I have to add another link to that…
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How blind people use Instagram [video]
Tommy Edison shows how he uses Instagram on the iPhone. So we’ll just take a picture of the crew. Why I’m holding the thing up to my face like I can look throug
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Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk
Another masterpiece from Bret Victor: The Future of Programming. What you probably don’t know is that his talk was actually an hour long. The second half was censored from the internet by an …
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Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2)
This post is part of a series documenting the design and development of this blog, including responsive images and working with HiDPI assets.
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The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art
I had no intention of ever learning this much about Joy Division or pulsars, but because of my apt to be a law abiding citizen, I was forced to research the about the ubiquitous design made popular by the British band and artist Peter Saville for a t-shirt project I’m heading on SixPrizes. In short, […]
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How to become a designer without going to design school
I got my job as a designer without going to design school. I had hacked together my own design education in 6 months while working a full-time job. I didn’t think I was ready but started applying for jobs anyway – and got a job at a great startup, Exec.
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Matt Groening's Artwork for Apple
The story that The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening once illustrated a brochure for Apple back in 1989 has been making the rounds of the internet for a while now. However, in addition to that brochure, Groening did other artwork for Apple around that same time period. For anyone unfamiliar, Apple hired Groening to…
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Starters Guide to iOS Design
As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design. In this guide I'll describe the deliverables you'll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of…