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The most popular blog posts about design & ux on Hacker News. 202 posts.

2023
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Ford 021C Concept Car (1999)

Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He has worked across an extremely wide range of disciplines, and his clients include some of the best-known and most prestigious brands in the world spanning diverse sectors from manufacturing and technology to transportation…

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Is Design Dead? (2004)

The rise of agile methods (particularly XP) makes some people wonder if there's any role left for software design. I argue that this change shifts from planned to evolutionary design.

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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…

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Designing Good Interfaces

Technician: Welcome to Custom Lube, how can I help you? Me: I need an oil change. Technician: OK, you can hop on out. Where is the oil you want to use? Me: I didn’t bring any oil. I expected you would supply that. Technician: That’s a common misunderstanding. At Custom Lube, we don’t supply oil or anything else. We…