October 30, 2020 A Free Hyperlegible Typeface from the Braille Institute “People may be surprised that the vast majority of the students who come to Braille Institute have some degree of vision… They’re not 100% blind.”
October 27, 2020 The 1913 dictionary is better — Recomendo “modern dictionaries have lazy definitions that focus too much on simplicity at the cost of precision.”
October 23, 2020 Former MetLife CIO’s ‘No-Code’ Startup Unqork Hits $2 Billion Valuation With New Fundraise “I hate the word ‘developer’ because it means someone who is hired to write code as opposed to an engineer who’s hired to solve a problem…”
October 20, 2020 How North Carolina’s mail-in envelope got a new, easier-to-use look “The first thing I saw was that if I did something wrong, I could commit a crime,” he said, which is the opposite of the goal of making voting an easier, more inviting experience.”
October 19, 2020 Paperlike, the iPad Screen Protector: write and draw like on paper “So instead of sliding your Apple Pencil around on the glass surface, it feels just like a page in your sketchbook.”
October 16, 2020 Accordion Icons: Which Signifiers Work Best? “If using accordions in your mobile menus, the caret appears to be the safest icon choice.”
October 13, 2020 Figure It Out “Assuming the goal is objectivity and truthfulness, you’d want to avoid mixing saturations and hues that are unevenly perceived.”
October 9, 2020 The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave “Designing a complex machine interface is a juggling act… But we can break down the problem into two key questions: 1) How can we differentiate between the function of different inputs? 2) How can we organise…”
October 6, 2020 The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months “The kids agreed to work in teams of two, drawing up a strict roster for garden, kitchen and guard duty. Sometimes they quarrelled, but whenever that happened they solved it by imposing a time-out.”
October 4, 2020 Star Trek: The Motion Picture “The Motion Picture’s title card introduces a new font, with some of the curviest Es known to sci-fi. It also follows an emerging seventies trend: Movie names beginning with STAR must have long trailing lines on the opening S.”