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High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)
This article introduces the algorithm to draw non-layered trees in linear time and re-layout partially when some nodes change in O(d) time, where d is the maximum depth of the changed node.
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Flashing elements alienate users
Warning: This post might give vulnerable people new sensory sensitivities
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The Decline of Usability: Revisited
Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or unique, neither was the text what I'd consider my best writing. It was, honestly, mostly a way to blow off steam. It seems I struck a nerve, though, because it's proven to be one of the most…
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Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
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Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
Glimpse NX didn't have a great solution for missing menu, but this new 3D CAD application has
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Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning
We first published our paper on relief shading using neural networks towards the start of October 2020, and now almost 2 years later, we are very excited to share Eduard .
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CSS Is Fun Again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time…
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Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)
Whenever I watch videos of how things are made, I marvel at the cleverness of the manufacturing machines. Retired engineer Duc Thang Nguyen has created over 170
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Amiga ASCII Art
My thesis on Amiga ASCII art translated to English.
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Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
Why generative AI tools can be so difficult to use and how we might improve them
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CSS findings from the Threads app
A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.
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Stylized Water Shader
💦 A huge, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph. This works with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Includes colors, foam, refraction, reflections, caustics and Gerstner waves.
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An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma
There’s a new “feature” in Sonoma, and no one besides Apple is quite sure what it is. Alerts for deprecated APIs are now appearing frequently. Sometimes when you launch an app, and sometimes at random. Here are three I got the other day after waking a MacBook from sleep: From a UI point-of-view, these alerts […]
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An end to typographic widows on the web
Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows.
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Don't disable buttons
One of the most common accessibility issues I find (and fix) on client projects is dynamically disabled form buttons when a form is being submitted. Today I want to talk about why developers do it, why it’s bad, and what you can do instead. Let’s dig in! Why developers disable buttons Typically, I see the pattern used…
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When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)
How poor design killed John Denver dead.
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Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code
An inky color scheme for prose and code.
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Semantic Zoom
Making a gestural, itemized environment more fluid
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Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
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Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain
Three years ago, while playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided , I noticed a nice little trick and tweeted about it – today is the day when I finally release it as an article. Do you guess, what’s this about?
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New Bézier curves for vector graphics
Mathematical insights create a more intuitive UI for Bézier curves.
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How to Make Your Own Spooky Magic Eye Pictures (Autostereograms)
The simple standalone C++ code that goes with this post and makes autostereograms, can be found at The 1990s! They felt like a wasteland of culture at the time, but looking back, there was hyper co…
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Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture
Explore modern project architecture, theming, responsive layouts, and component design. Learn to improve code organization, dig into layout techniques, and review real-world, context-aware components that use cutting-edge CSS techniques.
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Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code
After many years coding in different teams — big and small — I think I can now finally explain to myself why and when do we need, or not…
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Bad Apple Font
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
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Smallest Typeface
Anders de Flon. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.
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CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)
I’ll cut to the chase before I type too many more words: textarea { field-sizing: content; /* used to be `form-sizing` but changed to this */ } I came across it via an Amit Merchant blog post…