1921
Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,346 posts.
1922
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.
1923
Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes
Google Maps gets a two-wheeler makeover. Discover how researchers rode motorbikes in India & Indonesia to design a better user experience.
1924
Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices
Art is not perception
1925
Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers
The difference between a designer early in their career and a more experienced designer are easy to spot. Here we outline the key differences.* *It should be noted that some young designers have been known to exhibit behaviors of senior designers. And on rare occasions, you may see a senior designer in the wild…
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No to "No UI"
A critique of 'invisible design' and the NoUI movement: invisibility propagates the myth of immateriality, ignores interface culture and takes agency away from users and designers.
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Oculus Medium Under the Hood: Developing the Move Tool
In our latest blog series we’re taking you behind the scenes of Medium to learn how we created the tools that make up this unique app!
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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.
1932
The new Firefox design is here
What comes to mind when you think of Firefox? Is it our best-in-class privacy features and ad blocking capabilities? Our partnerships with Wrexham, NVIDIA
1933
Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring
When Elden Ring got released, I knew that i wanna sneak peak behind the curtains and look what is lying in there. i won’t claim that i’m the die-hard fan of solus genre, but i’m a die-hard gamer for the 3rd person genere and i like to try them even if they’re not in the sub-genere i love. I’m probably more biased…
1934
Making Google Sans Flex
Discover the inside story of Google Sans, Google’s iconic brand typeface. From product lockups to code, learn how the Google Sans font family has evolved to solve specific UX design problems.
1935
Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health
Do you want to join the uprising? Click here to see a list of all groups around the world In a world where we spend the majority of our lives surrounded by buildings, the impact of architecture on our well-being often goes unnoticed. But what if I told you that the buildings you encounter every...
1936
Short term usability is not the same as long term usability
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...
1937
Orbs
Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you believe me?
1938
How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback
We are committed to advancing the future of design within our communities, among our members, in small businesses and corporations, in educational institutions, and for individuals. Please use this community resource hub as a guide to some of the most critical needs our community faces today, and will face in the…
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Grass Rendering Series
This is part 1 of a multi-part series on grass rendering. We’ll start by figuring out how realistic grass should look like, and how herbage can be modeled with the tools we have at our disposal in real-time 3D graphics. Then, we’ll look at how to implement different methods of grass rendering in Godot. However, most…
1942
Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
1943
Product design at GitHub
An inspection into the product design process we've carved out.
1944
Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.
1945
Why are maps so hard to make?
Announcing Felt's public launch and $15M Series A. Maps are fun now! Margins is back!
1946
Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet
If you're using a modern web browser, chances are you've got a few tabs open at the same time. Most certainly, there are too many of them. Is fine because
1947
PSD is not my favourite file format
This programmer does not like the PSD File Format:
1948
Mensch -- A coding font
The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are…
1949
Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
Large, rectangular menus group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.
1950
Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.