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The most popular blog posts about design & ux on Hacker News. 26 posts.

2011
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37signals.com - Evolution of a homepage

Christmas 2010 I had the idea to make a video of the 37signals homepage. I’d recently gained access to the relevant source code repositories and It seemed like a fun thing to do over a weekend. The result is the video below. It’s a timelapse of the 37signals.com homepage between Marc…

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How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page

Last summer I was driving back to Chicago from Wisconsin. On the Illinois side there are a couple of rest stops over the tollway. It’s a great place to get some gas, grab some caffeine, and stretch your legs a little before the final 50 miles home. The rest stop usually has a booth where y…

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Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows

Box-shadow is a pretty powerful property in modern browsers. With just six little values, you can make some really neat stuff. How much neat stuff, you ask? To find out, I set a little time aside each day to play with it. The result is 39 ridiculous little experiments that, due to whatever issues, can only be viewed…