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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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Depixelizing Pixel Art
Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
We’re exploring what fully self-driving vehicles would look like by building some prototypes.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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We lost a customer. This is how we found out
Free business calculators for CAC, Churn Rate, and LTV analysis. Make data-driven decisions for your business growth.
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I hate stacked area charts (2011)
Another great post
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Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand user experience.
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Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla
As designers in open source, we’re constantly looking for opportunities to bring the principles of universal access and redistribution to new areas. While the term “open source” may still be mainly associated with code, the value in free collaboration benefits every discipline – particularly design.
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Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus
The Mac App Store was released in January 2011 and it marked the beginning of a great new distribution channel. Even though it lacked some bells and whistles, the developer community was hopeful the problems would be addressed in due course. Unfortunately, it has been years and there's no evidence that the core issues…
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PSD to HTML is Dead
There are PSD to HTML tutorials are all over the web. In fact, many have asked why there's not a PSD to HTML tutorial on Treehouse. So why is it dead?
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Why xkcd-style graphs are important
For most data scientists, a toolkit like scipy/matplotlib or R becomes so familiar that it becomes almost an extension of their own mind. When fleshing out an idea, we will just open up ipython, write a few lines of code, and display the plot on the screen to get …
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Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting
Digital inpainting can extend or repair photos, artwork, and other images. See how it works in the Wolfram Language, and try it yourself.
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Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro
Over six months ago, I stopped using Adobe Photoshop and switched to GIMP for all my personal photography projects. This wasn’t the impossible task that most people believe it is.
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A redesign of the Django websites
Posted by Jannis Leidel and Russell Keith-Magee on Dec. 15, 2014
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CSS is unnecessary given a layout language
CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemented correctly; yet, successive versions specify even more complexity. At the same time, it is so underpowered that many elementary graphic designs are impossible or prohibitively difficult, and…
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iPhone 6 Screens Demystified
Articles about PaintCode's new features, interviews, application development topics.
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Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices
Given a software code repository together with all commit history, can you spot potentially problematic parts of the software?This is the question I have bee...
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Inspecting Yosemite's Icons
Dive deep into the visual updates of Yosemite's icons with this comprehensive analysis. From shapes and grids to lighting effects, learn how Apple's new design language impacts icon creation and discover tips for making your icons stand out in the Yosemite environment.
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New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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