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Gears
Interactive article explaining how mechanical gears work.
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Cameras and Lenses
Interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work.
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Old CSS, New CSS
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with. I’ve been taking for…
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The Decline of Usability
If you find this text interesting, please consider also reading The Decline of Usability: Revisited or some of my other many ramblings on modern user interfaces.
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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
The homepage of the work for which I'm best known — a model Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders!
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Things I wish I’d known about CSS
I learned how to build websites the old fashioned way: looking at website source code and trying to replicate the things I saw. I threw in the odd book for the stuff I couldn’t _see_ (like PHP/MySQL),…
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Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved over time.
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Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
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Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
A s*** font that f***ing censors swearing automatically
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Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
今月から、スタジオジブリ作品の場面写真の提供を開始します。 今月からスタジオジブリ全作品の場面写真を順次提供することになりました。今月は、新しい作品を中心に 8作品、合計400枚提供します。 常識の範囲でご自由にお使いください。 思い出のマーニー50枚 かぐや姫の物語50枚 風立ちぬ50枚 コクリ
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Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
Dragons Abound produces maps in SVG, which is a vector graphics format. Vector graphics have a lot of features (such as lossless zoom) tha...
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The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they all show the before and after statically, side by
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Annoying website features I face as a blind person
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Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
I've decided to stop using dark mode across all of my devices, because research suggests that going to the dark side ain't all that.
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Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
The fate of many startups depends almost entirely on one conversion point: When a visitor becomes a user. All too often, this pivotal role falls on the shoulders of a pitifully generic “sign up” button that’s lucky to get even a minute of consideration during development. If you take
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How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
Developer and writer.
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels
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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Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy
This post made it to the top of Hacker News, sparking some great debate. See the discussion here. It’s a common narrative in tech to design products with the assumption that users are stupid …
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PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.
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Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction
I learned the hard way how important a carefully designed sign-up process is. I saw a large percentage of interested people fail to sign up because of easily preventable flaws in the flow.
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Lights and Shadows
Interactive article explaining how lights and shadows behave.
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Why Figma Wins
Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory…
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GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to show why GitHub dark mode is disappointing
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How We Built the GitHub Globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…