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Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters
Explore Web Design 3.0 and discover modern website design principles with free positioning, overlapping elements, creative layouts, and flexible grids.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 122 posts.
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An Update on Plugin Security
Learn about Figma's response to the security vulnerabilities that were reported in a 3rd-party library that we use for plugin security
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Animating CSS Grid
Soooo, Jen Simmons just dropped a surprise bombshell on Twitter – CSS Grid grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows properties are now animatable in Firefox Nightly! Naturally I had to jump in and have a go right away!
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Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience
A complete rundown of the entire process behind designing and building a new map for the world of Cogmind, and explaining how it integrates with gameplay.
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Most software companies ignore user behavior
And other things that they do at their own peril. And how to be better about it.
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Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers
When I graduated from college back in 2014, I did so with two bachelor’s degrees, one in computer science and the other in design. I originally chose design because I wanted to learn the necessary design skills in order to improve the usability and appearance of my personal projects. While I originally joined the…
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
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Where do individual contributors go once they peak?
On why senior individual-contributor designers shouldn't have to move into management to grow—and how the industry can build a real IC leadership track.
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Web Based Qt Design Viewer
View and share Qt Design Studio projects in a web browser.
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At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
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Depth of Field
Depth of Field from random sampling
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Photos from Crude Sketches: Nvidia's GauGAN Explained Visually
In this article I'll be explaining how GauGAN converts simple blobs of color into photorealistic paintings of landscapes.
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Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode
Things you should know about color when adopting dark mode.
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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS
谁向云端着此亭，檐前树木映窗棂。 -- 释绍嵩《陪赵知府登桃岭山亭》 (image from 中国窗棂) The traditional Chinese window lattice has a symmetrical beauty, as well as a very beautiful formal name -- 窗棂.
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Ton Roosendaal and Blender receives ASIFA-Hollywood Ub Iwerks Award
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets
Discover 33 amazing sites offering beautiful free icon sets for web and UI projects, with options for personal and commercial use.
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CSS Grid the Right Way
CSS Grid is fun to use but hard to learn. Here are three tips to help you understand and leverage the Grid spec.
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The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)
How do I know about this switch? I had one installed, at Lexus’s suggestion, but with my money, not knowing about the horrifying interface until it was too late and my $1500 was history. What did I do? What any combination human-computer interaction designer/licensed pilot would do: I went through the trouble of…
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A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera
A completely rebuilt digital Polaroid SX-70 camera
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The Problem With Hexagons
H exagons are ubiquitous in wargames now (indeed, both Philip Sabin’s War: Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games and Peter Perla’s The Art of Wargaming feature hexagons on their book covers), but this wasn’t always the case. My first wargame – the first board wargame for many of us – was Avalon Hill’s original…
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Lightweight API Design in Swift
This week, let’s take a look at a few core language features that enable us to design really lightweight APIs in Swift, and how we can use them to make a feature or system much more capable through the power of composition.
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The Evolution of Web Design (2016)
The Evolution Of Webdesign is a collection and imitation of Webdesign Trends from 1991 to 2020.
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SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
Silly, terrible, no-good very-bad jigsaw puzzles. Featuring Voronoi diagrams, KD-trees, and Clojure.
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What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections
Katsushika Hokusai died 170 years ago
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Building a Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor
What would a modern motion graphics editor look like?
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Hexagonal Cross Stitch
At least year’s Bridges Conference in Stockholm, I attended a short presentation by Susan Goldstine about “self-diagramming lace” . As motivation for the new work she was presenting, Susan referenced her paper from the year before on what she calls “symmetry samplers” . Samplers are an old tradition in fibre arts. A…