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matthewstrom.com

The Polish Paradox

The more you polish, the less you see.

nngroup.com

The Picture-Superiority Effect: Harness the Power of Visuals

People often remember visuals better than words.

tonsky.me

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back

stuffandnonsense.co.uk

Design Deja Vu

While designing, I had an overwhelming feeling of deja vu and that I’d made a layout exactly like this before.

jakearchibald.com

HTML attributes vs DOM properties

They’re completely different, but often coupled.

minus-ze.ro

Flattening Bézier Curves and Arcs

It’s possible to flatten Bézier curves into line segments without resorting to recursive subdivision.

breckyunits.com

Blog Posts, Sorted by Sleep

Have you ever examined the correlation between your writing behavior and sleep?

smashingmagazine.com

Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers

Penpot helps designers and developers work better together by offering a free, open-source design tool based on open web standards.

benjdd.com

Turn images into contour maps

Take a look at how I turn images into a contour map in the browser with the element.

ellyloel.com

Front-end development’s identity crisis

I’m not a “full-stack developer”, regardless of what my last job title says.

arun.is

Inside arun.is: table of contents

The design and development process behind the table of contents component used on arun.is.

davidwalsh.name

I’m So Old: Web Edition

Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding.

nngroup.com

Homepage Design: 5 Fundamental Principles

Effective homepages are simple and easy to access, communicate the organization’s and site’s purpose.

ignorethecode.net

Steal These Surface Duo Ideas

Comparing the Fold 4 and Surface Duo folding smartphones.

blog.applaudstud.io

Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button

How much was really lost in the great calamity that was iOS 7? For a UI designer like myself, quite a lot.

pjonori.blog

Color is a four letter word

Profanity can be a remarkable way to get a point across. The trick is sparse use in the right situation.

garden.bradwoods.io

Juice

Juice is the non-essential visual, audio and haptic effects that enhance the player's experience.

dwell.com

The Great Toilet Rebrand

After decades of being treated like something that’s better left unnoticed, designers are making toilets fun again.

linear.app

Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product

Today’s startup MVP is about iterating early to build the highest quality competitor to an existing idea, not validating a novel one.

danmall.com

Spine

A story of when I walked away from a good project.