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From SVG to Canvas – A new way of building interactions
Felt’s transition from SVG to Canvas streamlined our interaction code and empowered us to tackle long-standing wishlist items we couldn’t with React.
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Why cards are the future of the web
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
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Most software companies ignore user behavior
And other things that they do at their own peril. And how to be better about it.
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Remarkable Pro Colors
I was happy with the Remarkable 2 and when the Remarkable Pro came out I decided to go with a second one in order to be able to see two pages at once : one as a reference for reading and one for writing, as one would normally do with paper. Expensive approach, I know.
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3D printed coffee cups
One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by ideating, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours, everyday during one month.
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A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
We trained an MLP that predicts 58 body shape parameters from 8 questionnaire inputs. The trick: a differentiable physics loss. Mass accuracy: 0.3 kg mean vs 3.9 kg for Ridge. No GPU at inference.
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Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite
Friends, this post has been in the making for maybe, 20 years.
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An Internet Canvas
Wouldn’t you want a digital medium with the expressive ease of paper?
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Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set
Bill Tavis designed this lovely vintage-style map of the familiar fractal shape, the Mandelbrot set. He is selling a poster version of the map, starting at the
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That’s it, we’re quitting
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.
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Pushing iOS
Here’s the stronghold and I’m the little bunny who can barely move around a sword going straight for it. If anyone sends me a picture of a bunny me that can’t move around a sword against a giant Apple stronghold castle… I’m putting it right here! Windows Phone is getting more traction and Android i
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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
A tale about how coding agents are actually making me more and more interested in design
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Jakob Nielsen on iPad Usability: First Findings
iPad apps are much improved, but new usability problems have emerged, such as swipe ambiguity and navigation overload.
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Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
Math fonts from six different type systems, courtesy Chalkdust
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Deep Chernoff Faces
One of my favorite ¹ concepts for multi-dimensional data visualization is the Chernoff Face . The idea here is that for a dataset with many...
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Understanding Image Sharpness (2003)
The sharpness of a photographic imaging system or of a component of the system (lens, film, image sensor, scanner, enlarging lens, etc.) is characterized by a parameter called Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) , also known as spatial frequency response. We present a unique visual explanation of MTF and how it relates…
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Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app
The Internet Archive also archives physical books. The archive’s 2010 scan of a late 19th century catalogue of colourful granite tiles came to my
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A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in endings of German town names
A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names.
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Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
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Flash: 99% Bad
Flash reduces usability by: making bad design more likely, breaking the Web's fundamental interaction style, and consuming resources better spent enhancing a site's core value.
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A monospace that looks like a proportional
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.