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Github’s Learning Lab will teach you how to collaborate with code
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This clever new font combines braille with Latin and Japanese alphabets
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Micro experiences are just as important as the design of your logo
A couple of years ago I needed a new health plan ahead of the yearly enrollment period. Lured by impressive branding and a slogan on a subway advertisement, I logged onto the homepage of a well-known insurance company. This company, well known for pedaling a “fresh” approach unfortunately, ...
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Apps are getting dumber — and that’s a good thing
They are, and that’s a good thing. Behind the surprising simplicity of some of today’s top apps, smart developers are realizing that they’re able to get users to do more by doing less. A new crop of companies is setting its sights on changing user behaviors; the small behaviors ...
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Glitch Rewind wants to make version control easy for everyone
Glitch, the experimental web development sandbox for beginners created by Fog Creek, today updated its service with a version control tool designed to allow users to revert to previous versions of their code, without the need to learn an expansive and complicated system like Git. The ...
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More landing page optimization tips than you can handle! (45, to be precise)
We all know that the websites we work on could be better -- way better in fact -- but it can be difficult to realize exactly ...
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You can’t learn design online
Today, the number of online courses, online certificate, and degree programs, and the scores of eager students, has grown exponentially in all disciplines -- design included. Suddenly, instead of moving to a costly design capital like New York or London, students can learn the basics ...
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Google open-sources AI for improving Portrait Mode in camera apps
Google's DeepLab v3+ is an image segmentation technology that uses a neural network to detect the outlines of objects in ...
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Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey reveals programmers are doing a mountain of overtime
Stack Overflow has released its annual developer survey. The document examines attitudes among developers with respect to the tools they use, the industry they work in, and most interestingly, how they got there. Each year, there's inevitably an interesting takeaway. While reading ...
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Designing Wakanda: An interview with Black Panther’s production designer
Note: This article contains a few spoilers from the Black Panther movie. When this article was originally published, Black Panther was on the second day of its opening weekend in Chinese cinemas. Before opening in China on Friday, the Marvel Studios movie directed by Ryan Coogler ...
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Here’s how I’m harvesting credit card data from your site
The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. It’s ...
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Why Facebook's logo is blue — a designer’s guide to color and emotion
We’re able to see different colors because of our retina’s innate ability to differentiate frequencies of light waves. Certain colors or shades evoke different sentiments in people. In this post, I want to give a quick introduction to color theory, ways to combine colors, and ...
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Google is testing a new Material Design layout for Search
Google appears to be experimenting with a revamped version of its in-house Material Design layouts – so don't be too surprized ...
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30% of all sites now run on WordPress
The folks at San Francisco-based Automattic have a good reason to celebrate this Monday: its WordPress content management ...
