The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is up to scratch.
Tuesday08/04
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Meet the YouTuber who’s schooling developers on how blind people really use tech
Kristy Viers is here to show the world how you use a phone when you cannot see.
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The Making of: Netlify’s Million Devs SVG Animation Site
The following article captures the process of building the Million Developers microsite for Netlify.
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What is a “Friction Log”?
A friction log is a type of UX experiment where the subject journals their feelings, thoughts, struggles, joys, and any other type of emotion.
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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
The story of how a bunch of how a couple of failed SaaS ideas and a bunch of ugly Less stylesheets turned into my life’s work.
Monday08/03
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Now comes with Elementor and dedicated Elementor pre-built websites.
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R’over the Moon
New Logo for Mars2020 by House of van Schneider.
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Getting the Most Out of Variable Fonts on Google Fonts
I have spent the past several years working on a font family called Recursive Sans & Mono, and it just launched officially on Google Fonts!
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The things of everyday design
Understanding affordances leads to better conversations about design.
Friday07/31
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Playing Tabletop RPGs via Figma
It's the question everyone' asking about Figma: Can you use it to play tabletop RPG's with your friends online? Well, you can, and it's pretty cool.
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NASA Mars 2020 Mission — Logo & Identity
A symbol capturing the energy and legacy of space travel, while celebrating the engineers who worked tirelessly on this mission.
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Teenyicons — Tiny minimal 1px icons
An elegant icon set by Anja van Staden with more than a thousand icons.
Thursday07/30
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Defining the ’90s Music Canon
Quantifying the songs that will characterize the ’90s
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Jokes aside, is the new Space Force logo any good? 5 design experts weigh in
Despite the obvious Star Trek comparisons, can the Space Force logo stand on its own?
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Designing Adaptive Components, Beyond Responsive Breakpoints
Designing systems of components that adapt to responsive layouts, containers, work with different content states & adapt to user needs, behaviour.
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Streamline UX - 19,500 vector illustrations
The world’s largest vector illustration pack
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Style9: build-time CSS-in-JS
In April of last year, Facebook revealed its big new redesign.
Wednesday07/29
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100 Days of 3D
It was a rainy weekend in Seattle. I drank some tea, watched a YouTube tutorial, and downloaded Blender 2.79.
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Turning Complex Data into Compelling Stories: A 5-Step Process
Uncover the story within extensive UX-research data by following a process of revisiting original research objectives.
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Black Print
The fascinating story of African American print culture; its authors, editors, journalists, printers and publishers.
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LoCoS visual language, by professor Yukio Ota
The life work of professor Yukio Ota is an entire language of symbols known as LoCoS that he dreams could be the lingua franca of the 21st century.
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Is it Good Design? Well, yeah.
We ask people who design and build Google products what they consider to be good design.
Tuesday07/28
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Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
Another aspect of the meyerweb redesign I’d like to explore is the way I’m using CSS Grid rows to give myself more layout flexibility.
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How To Create A GitHub Profile README
This article walksthrough how to access GitHub's new profile level README feature.
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@property: giving superpowers to CSS variables
Learn how to implement CSS custom properties with semantic typing, a fallback value, and more, directly in your CSS file.
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Making the Brand: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Meet the creatives and hear the story behind this year’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM) campaign.
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Looks Like You Need To Let It Out
It looks like you’ve been through a lot. It looks like you need to let it out. Record your scream and we’ll release it in Iceland.
Monday07/27
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Shoelace: a forward-thinking library of web components.
Shoelace provides a collection of professionally designed, every day UI components built on a framework-agnostic technology.
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A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline.
Complications quickly arise if you want to do anything fancier than the good ol’ CSS text-decoration: underline…
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How to visualize periodicity?
An Observable notebook by Pierre Ripoll.
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We’re in a golden age of UX. Why is video chat still stuck in the ’90s?
Today we have cloud storage and augmented reality—all on our phones. So why hasn’t video chat evolved at all?