On this page I’ve been thinking a lot about a “digital go bag” concept, now that “go-bags” are in the public narrative. What would it look like? What use cases would it focus on? Real life go-bags are generally focused on getting you able to get to a safe place, with usually about 3 days worth of…

Translations: Chinese 1 Chinese 2 I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration: accompanied by explanation: Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing,…

Don’t get me wrong, efficiency is great If you’re reading this article about design systems, I’m going to assume you understand the effects and impacts of consistent experiences. If not, you can learn

Maryjanetxt nos pone en la pista del encanto premonitorio de Alex Colville (1920-2013), importante pintor canadiense asociado al realismo mágico que asentó su

Listado sin orden particular de las palabras que me ponen de buenas aunque su significado me sea adverso o indiferente

Just enough research This is a story about developing the sense of knowing when it is enough to research and your gut feeling, as no data will tell you when to stop. Earlier in September, I had the pl

Image: 20th Century Studios In the final season of The Good Fight , unrest is always present. On one side, there is a crowd protesting. On the other, there is police. Across all 10 episodes, it’s neve

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La crítica de watchmen a las ideas de Steve Ditko y su moralismo Ayn Randiano

Como cada año intento hacer un recopilatorio de los highlights randoms de mi año y estas son las cosas que me sucedieron en 2022

While product designers research users and their problems, product managers decide on priorities of these problems and assign tasks to developers.

Despite that pyrotechnology had a significant impact on the cultural evolution of humankind, our understanding of fire use is very limited

Pequeña reflexión sobre las interfaces web caóticas del pasado y las cosas que perdimos con las nuevas herramientas de desarrollo

Full-text audio version of this essay. The most “liked” TikTok in 2020 was not some astonishing clip of a goose twerking , girl Renegading , or group of strangers harmonizing the shit out of a sea sha

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Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences. I started my career as a user interface designer and human factors engineer 20 years ago. As a designer who focused o

Op-ed Design has become intertwined with the most harmful dynamics of the social web Words by Sahadeva Hammari Published on June 22nd, 2022 Illustration by

Music Q+A The ‘music on ribs’ sold by dealers who bought X-rays from the back door of hospitals and pressed forbidden music onto them 3 August 2016 Text Alice

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Este es un listado de las mascotas más espantosas de frameworks, lenguajes de programación y otras piezas del esperpéntico ecosistema del mundo de la tecnología de principios del siglo XXI.

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Valuing data over design instinct puts metrics over users

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Un texto de un man un poco insufrible sobre cómo está chévere tener espacio y darnos el tiempo de crear cosas. Recomiendo mucho el TLDR

How to effectively name your design tokens in a systematic and future-proof way. Lukas Oppermann Jan 27 · 10 min read Design tokens are the single source of truth for design primitives like colors or

Context menus have existed for decades, from macOS to Windows, from Xerox Parc to the web. They’re a widely understood user interface concept, but many new apps still fail to deliver them at the stand

Curator Amr Hamid discusses how his rare archive of cassette covers traces the evolution of Egyptian design, and preserves it. Words Liz Gorny — Date 20 January 2022 Share When Amr Hamid first began p

We have Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash to thank for popularizing avatars as our digital personas, from early internet message boards to full-body VRChat . We also have Snow Crash to blame for

Svilen May 21, 2017 · 7 min read Designing Programmes by Karl Gerstner is one of the most elusive design books in the world. Brand new copies retail for over $2,000, and even used versions go for over

While content may be king, its presentation significantly impacts the way an audience perceives it. In fact, no matter how interested readers may be in getting answers to specific questions or finding

The support for CSS logical properties is getting better by time. However, I still struggle to memorize them each time I want to use them in a project. What does start mean? And what does end mean? It

The UI should adapt to the hand gestures and not the other way around

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