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How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
Developer and writer.
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Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source
Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.
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The vocal effects of Daft Punk
Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic.
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This coupon code is a slap in the face
At the moment of purchase that you get a slap in the face: "You're paying full price, but if you had our magic code you wouldn't have to."
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Round Rects Are Everywhere
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
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Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)
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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
Monet’s paintings evoke a sense of energy and life, they leap off the canvas with color and contrast, but Monet somehow managed to avoid using the color black for nearly his entire painting career. By avoiding black in your own designs, you can replicate some of this dynamism. Monet and Other Impressionists Explored…
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Isometric Pixel Art
Intro Isometric pixel art is based on the isometric projection, which is a method for accurately ‘projecting’ 3D objects into fancy 2D. Unlike perspective drawing, there is no vanishing point in isometric projection. Furthermore, the 3 coordinate axis have equal foreshortening, eliminating the need
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Blender 3.2
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2!
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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
Some highlights and lowlights.
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Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
How to figure out what the user experience should be when you don’t have time, budget, or a design team.
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The 12-bit rainbow palette
A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue
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Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
One of the major improvements to look forward to in Thunderbird "Supernova" is a beautifully redesigned calendar UI. Here's your first look!
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Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerge. David Siegel advocates for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen keeps it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combines flair with usability.
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Blender 5.2 LTS
The first long-term support release in 5.x series. Supported until July 2028.
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Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards
In March 2022, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 members of the museum’s security team.
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A few interesting modern pixel fonts
A blog about software craft and quality
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The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies
Dive into the customer's mind. Read guides. Watch cool videos. Pricing, sales, design, negotiation, and more.
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Writing copy for landing pages
Write copy that delights visitors, persuades prospects, and wins customers.
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Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010) : URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL…
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
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What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)
Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…