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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.

itsnicethat.com

POV: Is it the designer’s responsibility if an app is addictive?

Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?

webkit.org

An HTML Switch Control

We’re very excited to introduce a new HTML form control as part of Safari 17.4: a switch.

ciechanow.ski

Airfoil

Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly.

infrequently.org

Home Screen Advantage

Cupertino’s attempt to scuttle Progressive Web Apps under cover of chaos is exactly what it appears to be.

frontendmasters.com

console.delight

Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML?

raw.studio

Designing With Integrity: The Ethical Designer’s Handbook On Dark Patterns

Dark Patterns are deceptive design tactics, intended to manipulate users into actions they may not have intended.

craigmod.com

Five Years of Memberships

I’ve been running the Special Projects membership program for five years; here’s what I know.

css-irl.info

Design Patterns that Encourage Junk Data

It’s estimated that up to 88% of the data stored in the cloud is ROT (Redundant, Obsolete or Trivial) data, or “dark data”.

tylersticka.com

Browsers Are Weird Right Now

The options today feel… odd.

hey.georgie.nu

Displaying initials for an avatar component in a design system

Dives into finding as inclusive a solution as possible for displaying the initials of users on a platform.

rauno.me

Contrasting Aesthetics

Much of the art I appreciate in museums can be bucketed into aesthetics like typographic, medieval, or patterned.