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In loving memory of square checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm clocks.
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Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
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Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton , make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I…
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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Today we unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made.
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We need visual programming. No, not like that
Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?
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Printing Music with CSS Grid
Music notation should be as accessible and as fluid as text is on the web. CSS Grid helps us get there.
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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple colored CSS logo alongside the logos from JavaScript…
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Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
by Hugo Barra (former Head of Oculus at Meta) Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product. Inspired by my dear friend Matt Mullenweg̵…
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Frosted glass from games to the web
Crafting beautiful HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game development.
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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court
The Rodin Museum and the French Ministry of Culture threaten freedom of information and public access to cultural heritage
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So you think you know box shadows?
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
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Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
Windows 10 DesktopJuly 2015 –– An icon is defined, among other things, by its longevity. Icons don’t withstand change - they endure it, by evolving...
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What UI density means and how to design for it
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
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Copying is the way design works (2020)
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
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Toasts are bad UX
The core problem is that toasts always show up far away from the user's attention.
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How video games use lookup tables
How to implement 1D LUTs to color grayscale thermal vision videos, 3D LUTs for color correct and smart hacks from video games
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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table
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CSS for printing to paper
At work, one of the things I do pretty often is write print generators in HTML to recreate and replace forms that the company has traditionally done handwritten on paper or in Excel. This allows the company to move into new web-based tools where the form is autofilled by URL parameters from our database, while getting…
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The Monospace Web
Monospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives. Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Or are we hopelessly nostalgic? I’m not sure. But I like them, and that’s why I started experimenting with all-monospace…
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AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secrets
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Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout
UPDATE October 2024: Since this article was published, members of the CSS Working Group have concluded that all of the grid abilities described here — variable-width tracks, explicit placement, spanning, and subgrids — are worth including in masonry layout, and are possible to implement performantly.
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
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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CSS @property and the new style
An exploration of the newly supported at-rule for explicitly defining and animating custom properties in CSS.
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The design philosophy of Great Tables
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising…
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The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
You know the nagging feeling that your product, project, or company has become more complicated than it needs to be? You can solve many problems and get better results by doing something unthinkable to many: removing parts that once seemed essential. My crusade against complexity continues with this short story
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How to center a div in CSS
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
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Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
This is the first of two posts about a renderer I have been developing, focusing on what I've built and how it works. The second post discusses why I've built it and my plans for the future. I've been developing a custom real-time renderer which uses very small voxels to produce a distinctive visual style that…