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Can QML become the next standard for web UI?
Recently, I came across a few articles [1, 2, 3] comparing Qt’s modern UI framework – Qt Quick and its own declarative language QML to HTML, with QML coming out as a clear winner in sev…
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The end of the clearfix hack?
A new value of the display property has landed in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightlies. In the Editor’s Draft of the CSS Display Module Level 3, display: flow-root is defined as: “The element generates a block container box, and lays out its contents using flow layout. It always establishes a new block formatting…
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In search of the perfect writing font
Monospace is the typical choice that communicates writing. With iA Writer Duospace, we went a step ahead. What makes Duo better than mono?
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How United Onboards New Users (design)
Approx. reading time: just a couple minutes, despite insane slide count (it's a lot of tiny changes from one to the other)
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The making of Exchange, a new typeface
The search for a more flexible and effective relationship with typographic history.
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Oculus Medium Under the Hood: Developing the Move Tool
In our latest blog series we’re taking you behind the scenes of Medium to learn how we created the tools that make up this unique app!
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Designing Websites for iPhone X
The section below about safe area insets was updated on Oct 31, 2017 to reflect changes in the iOS 11.2 beta.
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The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design culture of “No”
Much of modern Apple’s design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as technological progress allows, following (and largely defining) the modern design fashion of nearly-unquestioned devotion to minimalism.
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How Useful Is Tufte for Making Maps? (2007)
Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1998, 2nd edition 2001) is a classic book, arguably his best, and certainly a key text in the field of information graphics (whi…
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Ligatures in programming fonts
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MDN’s new design is in Beta
Change is coming to MDN. In a recent post, we talked about updates to the MDN brand, and this time we want to focus on the upcoming design changes for ...
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How to choose and pair typefaces
Pair typefaces effectively: Categorize fonts by properties. Use 3×3 grid method to find combinations.
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I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
To put SLS technology’s capabilities to the test, we used the Fuse 1 SLS printer to build the structure that housed the 2017 FUSE conference.
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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…
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Mac external displays for designers and developers
If you’re considering an external display for your Mac, there’s a few important decisions to make. Apple doesn’t sell external displays any more, so you can’t just default to their wisdom. That’s an issue, because not all displays are well suited for Macs.