Emulating background image crop, background image opacity, background transforms, and improved background positioning. A few hacks relying on CSS pseudo-elements to emulate features unavailable or not yet widely supported by modern browsers.
Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments. Despite the good intentions of the author, Clem, many readers interpreted this as an attack against GNOME…
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How some RPGs get coins wrong: they matter a lot until they matter not at all. It’s fun to play until your PCs are rich, but it’s even more fun to be able to buy things with those riches. Absorbing…
I got my job as a designer without going to design school. I had hacked together my own design education in 6 months while working a full-time job. I didn’t think I was ready but started applying for jobs anyway – and got a job at a great startup, Exec.
A modern look at how to combine CSS :has, :nth-last-child, and style queries to create dynamic components.
This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT, check out the Golden
The story that The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening once illustrated a brochure for Apple back in 1989 has been making the rounds of the internet for a while now. However, in addition to that brochure, Groening did other artwork for Apple around that same time period. For anyone unfamiliar, Apple hired Groening to…
As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design. In this guide I'll describe the deliverables you'll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of…
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
Art is not perception
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…
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.
CSS Grid is fun to use but hard to learn. Here are three tips to help you understand and leverage the Grid spec.
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…
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...
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…
An inspection into the product design process we've carved out.
Announcing Felt's public launch and $15M Series A. Maps are fun now! Margins is back!
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
This programmer does not like the PSD File Format:
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…
Large, rectangular menus group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.
