evilmartians.com
How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs — Martian Chronicles
9 min · · Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Wepback · Shared by 216, including Galen King, Marc Thiele, tcherno, CSS Weekly, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Oliver Raduner, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Evil Martians, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Elijah Manor, Marius Bleuer, Matthias Lampe, Veerle Pieters, Rodrigo Noales, Miguel Alvim, Tomas Vestenicky, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum #cis, sascha aßbach
The Markup
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google
15+ min · · The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page · Shared by 299, including Chris Isak, tcherno, Ethan Marcotte, Dominik Grolimund, Gui Schmitt, Jay Rosen, Bernhard Huessy, Rand Fishkin, Brian Ahier, Marko Saric, Katja Evertz, Thomas Fuchs , Dr. John Grohol 🇺🇦, Tim Soulo 🇺🇦, emily bell, Dr. Pete Meyers, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mathew Ingram, Aron Pilhofer (now here journa.host/@pilhofer), Thomas Power
webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
1 min · · Using language and emotion (shame) to steer users away from making a certain choice. Prevalence: 169 instances across 164 websites. Confirmshaming on radioshack.com. The option to dismiss the popup is… · Shared by 91, including UX Design Weekly, Niklaus Gerber, Andreas Bossard, Eric Bailey, Marius Bleuer, Christina, Adrian Swinscoe, Xavier Bertschy, Martin Hoffmann, Patrick Sanwikarja, tcherno, bouiboui, Mathew Ingram, Victor Tolosa, Marko Saric
UX Collective
A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables (2021)
1 min · · The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process. · Shared by 248, including Mark Kaigwa, Johannes Dornisch, Stef Walter, Matthias Lampe, rohit, Josep M. Ganyet, Nick Floro, Adham Dannaway, Oscar MacDonald, tcherno, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹
blog.google
A Google designer takes us inside Search’s mobile redesign
3 min · · Google Search's mobile experience has a new look and feel. Designer Aileen Cheng takes us through the update. · Shared by 73, including Nicolas Babin, Danny Sullivan, tcherno, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Johannes Lenz
gt-flexa.com
GT Flexa Typeface
1 min · · Instead of the traditional view of a typeface as a collection of static styles, GT Flexa embraces the idea of a fluid design space. As a dynamic tool, it enables joyful typesetting that allows for… · Shared by 16, including Trent Walton, Oliver Schöndorfer 🇺🇦, tcherno
surma.dev
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
20+ min · · I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostaliga and none of Lena. How did I get here? (You can skip… · Shared by 46, including David Hellmann, Joe Groff ⎷⃣, tcherno, Artnome, @rastrau@mstdn.social, Periklis Papanikolaou
It's Nice That
Minimalist design has the maximum effect in United Sodas of America’s branding
· Placing a heavy focus on minimal details such as a varied colour palette and direct typography, United Sodas of America takes a different path to packaging design. · Shared by 39, including tcherno, Surface Magazine, 6clicks | John Robert-Nicoud
Le Temps
Comment Amazon & Co. nous manipulent grâce aux «dark patterns»
3 min · · Se désinscrire du service Prime d’Amazon est quasiment impossible, la firme américaine utilisant des «dark patterns» pour tromper les utilisateurs. Les astuces de ce genre sont nombreuses. La FRC… · Shared by 3, including tcherno
Bored Panda
Over 150 People Tried To Draw 10 Famous Logos From Memory, And The Results Are Hilarious
7 min · · Companies spend millions to earn a tiny space in our heads that would help instantly recognize their brand logos. But how well do you think that money is actually spent? To find out a custom signage… · Shared by 41, including tcherno, Nils Hitze, Helmi, Clemens M. Schuster, Thomas Power
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
20+ min · · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. · Shared by 1030, including Vicki Davis, Mario Klingemann💧💦, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Sam Altman, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Leo Polovets, Soumith Chintala, Ilya Sutskever, MIT CSAIL, Jane Manchun Wong, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Josh Wolfe, Randy Olson, Kevin Kelly, Chris Messina, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, danabramov.bsky.social, Vinod Khosla, Carla Gentry 🎶
M.G. Siegler
Instagram’s Latest Middle Finger
4 min · · The dark design of Reels replacing the creation button · Shared by 74, including Johannes Dornisch, 👨🏻💻☕️, tcherno
goodpractices.design
Design good practices
11+ min · · Guidelines to naming conventions, components structure and document organization. · Shared by 158, including Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Nick Babich, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Stef Walter, Elise Korsmo Fjeld, Benoist Lawniczak, tcherno, Oscar MacDonald
uxmatters.com
Debunking the Myth of the Fold
4 min · · You have only four to nine seconds before the user begins to scroll. You have only a few seconds to engage visitors. Once visitors land on your Web site, they try to orient themselves and decide… · Shared by 10, including Gabriele, tcherno, Oscar MacDonald
azumbrunnen.me
The power of unfinished · How to get more done, uplevel your craft, and create work that gets noticed —…
11+ min · · Reaching the last page of a long and difficult book is a blissful moment. It’s when we get a sense of pride and fulfillment. Whether it’s announcing a product, wrapping up the design of a project, or… · Shared by 215, including IronBrigade - Gaming/Vlogs, tcherno, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Marius Bleuer, Christian Surchi, Jansnet, Konrad Weber, Neil Lee