design
Design Deconstruction
Design is perhaps the software paradigm most wedded to the mouse and the GUI. But there’s no reason it can’t be text-driven.
"We Need to Talk About Goodman Games" vs. "Eating the Book" - Why not both?
Last week, Questing Beast's Ben Milton released a video in which he talked about Dungeon Crawl Classic (DCC) adventures, and why he generally doesn't like them very much. In it, he compares Goodman Game's DCC module "Sailors on a Starless Sea" to Necrotic Gnome's Dolmenwood module "Winter's Daughter", which he likes quite a bit.
A Brief History of the Fediverse Symbol
How do you create an icon for a network that no one individually controls? Here's a showcase of many different attempts for the Fediverse.
Introducing Decentralized Social Icons
We're building our own icon font for the Social Web, featuring over 91 logos of projects, protocols, and platforms.
When It Rains, It Pours
Umbrella design is an interesting conundrum. Sure, it could be better, but nobody's come up with a successful new design in hundreds of years. Why is that?
A Creative Market Reset
Canva’s purchase of Affinity creates a new market dynamic for creative professionals, and it could have ripple effects as big as AI.
Weird HTML Hacks
Many of these code quirks shouldn’t work, but somehow they do. We’re highlighting 10 hacky website coding strategies—some big, some small.
Navigation as state: Implementing animated navigation transitions for large screens with moveableContentOf in Jetpack Compose
Navigation state as a driver for large screen transitions
Published Via Desktop
A list of programs from the all-too-brief golden era of desktop publishing that “didn’t make it.” The GUI’s killer app didn’t slay forever.
Painting With Light
How a little box and stylus revolutionized television graphics. You may not know but the Quantel Paintbox is, but you’ve seen its impact.
Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad
Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives
v4
Tedium has a new, fresher coat of paint, with a design intended to get you to dive in even deeper, if you so choose.
Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives
Big Email Energy
Why your favorite email newsletter (not Tedium) always gets cut off by your favorite webmail client. (It may be all the tracking stuff in the links!)
The Tough Climb
Being creative is easier than ever, yet some are motivated to go down the more complicated road to reach creative nirvana. Why is that?
Blister In The Store
Why plastic blister packs and clamshell packs, despite the near-universal frustration they create among consumers, have become a truism of consumer goods.
No Room for Design
Of the many things that social platforms have taken away from us, perhaps the most disappointing is the freedom to customize our spaces. We need it back.
Painting Outside The Lines
Adobe was already a big company when it first sold Photoshop, but its biggest competitor, Paint Shop Pro, was built by an airline pilot in his free time.
Dinwiddie’s Dream
NBA ratings are dropping, along with athletic shoe sales. So why is one player choosing this moment to push his own independent shoe brand?
My Modular Mind
What makes modular designs great for consumers often makes them troublesome for businesses, or why you can’t upgrade an iPhone these days.
Pure Polycarbonate
Nintendo copied Apple, while Apple copied Braun. Why are there so many electronics made of white polycarbonate, no matter the decade?
Creating an Expandable Floating Action Button in Android — Part 2
An expanded floating action button used to call out sharing
Composition over Inheritance; Adding a Material Speed Dial to a Floating Action Button
Material Floating Action Buttons
Driving Motional Intelligence for Global Persistent UI on Android with a Simple State Store
Navigation destinations in the Reply Material Studies app. Notice UI elements common to various screens
Simulated Fireworks
How computers have helped to reinvent fireworks displays through timing and elaborate simulation techniques. It’s kinda like a mix of old and new technology.
Carpooling Unalone - Karwaan
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Toilet Duck Dynasty
How the Toilet Duck rode its unique bottle design to mainstream success—and brought clever design to the bathroom, too.
CMYK All The Way
How mass-production printing technology, starting with the lithograph, was pushed forward thanks to a growing interest in color.
Your Code Is Junky
FrontPage tried to solve an important problem in the early-internet era—the idea of making web design accessible to mere mortals—but the code wasn't so hot.
Implementing a "Swipe" and "Finger Up" listener for Android's SwipeRefreshLayout
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You Probably Don't Understand Watches
If you dislike the Apple Watch, sorry to hear that. Now, let us show you some other watches you definitely can't afford.