QArt – Pictures in QR code with no inherent errors
QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building roof , volleyball bikini , belt buckle , or airplane banner ) to load a web site on a cell phone instead of having to…
Death To The Div
Every web developer is looking forward to the new HTML spec, HTML 5. The new spec will birth 20 new elements to add more underlying semantic meaning to
IPhone’s Misplaced Decline Button?
Design, tech, writing, and other creative matters.
Please don't use pie charts
I don't like pie charts. I don't like them because they fail to convey information. They do that because people have a really hard time ju...
You're our customer. We Hate You
It is axiomatic in modern American life: the longer you are a customer, the more some of our most common, everyday corporations come to disdain you.
Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego
Because The LEGO Company get paranoid about this sort of thing let me make it clear that I have no affiliation with them, that my views are my own and do not necessarily represent theirs, and so on. So if you think any of this is official you are as deluded as they are.
Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser.
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
Typeface by Toyota. The iQ font Designed By A Moving Car.
A blog about the best creativity and design in the world.
ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models (+amazing vid)
NEWS 100 concept models created by sketching with ILoveSketch for 4.5 days at Emerging Technology, SIGGRAPH 2009 (New Orleans, LA, USA, August 3-7) Paper and demo presentation of EverybodyLovesSketch at UIST 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 4-7)
Simple rule of thumb for measuring the perceived complexity of a user interface
A user interface rule of thumb: The fewer UI elements a user must deal with, the more appealing the interface.
Edward Tufte: Sparklines: theory and practice
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
Mistakes in Web Design
The 10 most egregious UX offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
Writing Microcopy
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular?
Recreating the THX Deep Note - EarSlap
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
Mac-Assed Mac Apps
Link to: https://inessential.com/2020/03/19/proxyman