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Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.
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Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes
This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the sub...
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Nexus One display and subpixel pattern
Progression news for Business
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Bill Buxton: Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known (1982)
Bill Buxton Microsoft Research Original: Jan. 12, 2007 Version: December 10th, 2025
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Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX
Many (maybe most) of us Software Engineers are deeply involved in projects where UI and UX are very important concerns (or at least they should be). Throughout the short history of our profession, we
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Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)
I wrote two posts on the topic of WebKit font smoothing before, but unfortunately the situation has grown worse since then. In allowing the designer to pick their own font smoothing mode with the -webkit-font-smoothing CSS property, WebKit developers have opened up an opportunity for typographic abuse, namely, the…
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The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)
How do I know about this switch? I had one installed, at Lexus’s suggestion, but with my money, not knowing about the horrifying interface until it was too late and my $1500 was history. What did I do? What any combination human-computer interaction designer/licensed pilot would do: I went through the trouble of…
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What makes a good smartphone camera?
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo
Innovative Housewares This page : SMART IRON | FRISPER | FLAT CHAIR PROJECT | FIRST AID WITH A FACE OLISO is a small design firm focused on delivering inventive solutions to "change your home and lifestyle." As the sole industrial designer at the time, Sara worked with engineering, marketing
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My talk on CSS runtime performance
A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. The recording is available online: (You can also read the slides.) This is…
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The continuing tragedy of CSS
A golden age of CSS was evident in Amsterdam, but to whose benefit?
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Don’t design like a programmer (2010)
Get honest, expert UX feedback on your AI-built product before you ship. Prioritized recommendations within 24 or 72 hours.
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How Quora Onboards New Users
Ask around about the best onboarding experiences out there, and Quora's flow is likely to come up. That's for good reason - it's brief, it's effective, and it's even kind of fun!
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How far back in time can I take my website's design?
A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
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I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel-identical in at least one font.
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Opinion-Driven Design
Some of my personal thoughts on how we design open source projects
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The most expensive typefaces (2019)
The most expensive typeface I encountered is JHA Bodoni Ritalic, at €4,401.99 (almost $5,000) for a single font.
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The Treachery of Image Files
I have recently come into possession of a series of exquisite miniatures which I pray are worthy of your esteemed attention. While my employers are familiar with your unusual tastes , they also appreciate your desire for privacy- this showing was arranged with the utmost discretion, I assure you.
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A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers
Homepage of Florian Echtler
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3D Printed Film Video Camera
An expensive and unreliable way to record low quality videos!