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Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game
To me, a classic JRPG is pure mechanism, a kind of puzzle. Was there some way of getting the fun out of building such a mechanism—of solving that puzzle—, wrapping it with the minimal amount of functionality, the simplest thing that could possibly pass as a video game?
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How to Build a Minimum Lovable Product
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
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Using Deep Learning to model personal visual aesthetics
Visual aesthetics are very personal, often subconscious, and hard to express. In a world with an overload of photographic content, a lot of time and effort is spent manually curating photographs…
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Pixel Perfect
Regarding the 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display.
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Making Quieter Technology
I spent the last years making technology calm and pleasant to use. This is roughly how I did it.
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The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
Ant Design is a design language comes with a set of React component open sourced by Alibaba’s Ant Finance. One can assume its popularity by looking at its 38837+ stargazers on Github .
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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.
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Too Much Color
I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.
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A Short History of Color Theory
Programming Design Systems is a free digital book that teaches a practical introduction to the new foundations of graphic design.
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Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)
Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie.
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Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my favourite secrets and tricks. 😄
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Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst explores different hierarchal visualizations by visualizing file system or disk space.
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Why Is the Django Admin "Ugly"?
Updated October 27, 2023 to include additional quotes and commentary. While talking with people at Djangocon US, one question kept coming up: “why is the Django admin so ‘ugly’?”. I’m paraphrasin...
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Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'
Link to: https://www.codingfont.com/
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Why are restaurant web sites so bad?
On Twitter, my friends Shani and Erie are engaged in a bit of time-honored kvetching about the legendary and general awfulness of restaurant Web sites. Who thinks it’s good idea to blast annoying music at people going to your site? Why do they so often rely on Flash, which doesn’t really add anything to the…
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Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file
(I don't plan on doing lots more of these Windows UI blog posts. I just happened to come across this and found it interesting. Besides, it's super hot where I live and I can't do anything meaningful anyway, so here we go.)
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The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos
I’m not arguing that making concept videos directly leads to a lack of traction in the current market. I’m arguing that making concept videos is a sign of a company that has a lack of institutional focus on the present and near-present.
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Psychology of food menu design
You sit down at an upscale restaurant and scan the menu, banter with the waiter, and make your selection. You feel sure you’ve chosen what you want, based on your appetite, your budget, or your culinary preferences. But have you really? Behind the scenes, some restaurants have cleverly designed their menus to steer…
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Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell
When film director Mamoru Oshii was looking for a model of the city of the future for his seminal 1995 animated film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell (based on the manga by Masamune Shirow), h…
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A/B testing original design vs. random template bought from ThemeForest
When creating your landing page, should you customize a ready-made template or create one from scratch? Results of A/B testing a ThemeForest template against a homebrewed one.
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Using AI to Animate Children’s Drawings
We’ve built a first-of-its-kind method for using AI to automatically animate children’s drawings of people.
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Thank HN: Design for Hackers
Last week, I signed a contract to publish Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty with John Wiley & Sons. I still have plenty of work left to get this book onto shelves – and to exist at all – but I’m extremely excited about it, and wanted to share the news with everyone, especially visitors coming
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Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
This article moved to its own webspace! You can follow him by clicking this: simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds
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The Psychology of Colour
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