Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly

Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are

https://skiff.com/annotated-privacy-policy

Kiwi tastes a golden nugget. It's delicious.Script, direction, animation: Andreas HykadeAnimation, artwork: Angela SteffenMusic & sound: Heiko MaileFlute: To...

Nuggets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUngLgGRJpo

Quickly create video mockups in phone frames, customize sizes and colors, and download instantly—all locally in your browser for free.

Create App Video Mockups Locally & Free In-Browser

Dark mode is popular, but not essential. Users like dark mode but maintain similar behaviors without it. They think about it at the system level, not the application level. If you choose to support dark mode, test your design to avoid common dark-mode issues.

Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid

https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/112765051627624067

We're building a native, fast, powerful chat app for teams. It's ultra-low RAM, 120 fps, tranquil and has context-aware notifications.

Inline - Messaging for teams that crave high-quality software

Auto Interfaces is the best collection of modern vehicle infotainment system designs, interactions and screens.

Auto Interfaces

Step inside the revolutionary Mercedes-Benz MANUFAKTUR Studio, where luxury and craftsmanship reach unparalleled heights. Located in Sindelfingen, this cutti...

Inside Mercedes’s MANUFAKTUR Workshop: Where Luxury is Made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FB0yxqpSA

Internet Artifacts

Family Values

Discover the 10 key values that fueled Bonhomme since 2013.

Bonhomme | 10 ans

The user experience discipline suffers from constant reinvention of the terminology used to describe our concepts, leading to confusion, miscommunication, and rework. Let’s stick to the established names.

UX Vocabulary Inflation

https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ux-vocabulary-inflation

Diode is a 3D hardware simulator capable of simulating arduinos, integrated circuits, capacitors, transistors and much more.

Diode — Build, program, and simulate hardware

A deep dive into Leica's proprietary engraved fonts and how they make their products more special.

Leica’s engraved fonts

How did your home page rank in our study? Enter a web site domain below (minus "www.") to view details.

WebAIM: The WebAIM Million - The 2023 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages

The POSP is a one-stop shop for all open-source activities of Porsche AG and subsidiaries, featuring selected projects and providing documentation on our FOSS best practices.

Porsche Open Source Platform

Windows 10 DesktopJuly 2015 –– An icon is defined, among other things, by its longevity. Icons don’t withstand change - they endure it, by evolving...

Windows 10 Desktop — GMUNK

What’s next for Adobe’s design system: more modern, accessible, friendly, and enjoyable.

Spectrum 2

Time zone converter

The science behind how design choices influence perception and behavior

The hidden power of typography | Microsoft Design

https://microsoft.design/articles/the-hidden-power-of-typography

UX Myths

MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018Instructor: Patrick WinstonView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/how_to_speakPatrick Winston's How to Speak talk has been a...

How to Speak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

daedalOS

Get inspiration from world's best illustrations.

illustrations universe

Learning to design is learning to see, an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to my profession.

Learning to See

An interactive timeline of all models ever made by Ferrari

The History of Ferrari

Generate and customize CSS easing functions with ease and magical precision using Easing Wizard 🧙

Easing Wizard - CSS Easing Editor

UPDATE:    My rounded rectangles cognitive  argument is getting a good thrashing &mdash...

UI and Us — UI and Ux design — Interface — User Experience - UI and us Blog - Realizations of Rounded Rectangles

Explore the evolution of car design through a data visualization of all cars designed by the big Italian design studios

Car Design History

How do various design tools utilise memory? What’s their baseline usage with no documents open? How does memory grow with lots of large documents open?

Design tool memory usage

https://bjango.com/articles/designtoolmemory/

https://www.pendo.io/pendo-blog/a-tried-and-true-framework-for-prioritizing-user-research/

Curated collection of A/B test results from best-in-class apps

abtest.design

Why Does Email Development Have to Suck?

https://dodov.dev/blog/why-does-email-development-have-to-suck

Icons save space. Icons look crisp. Icons give quick answers to hard questions: How do we make it nicer? How can we brand it? How do we make it more fun? We ♥ icons. Until they start messing with our minds.

On Icons

Over 7000 examples of top-notch mobile paywall screens. World's largest UX & design database for the best converting paywalls on the app stores.

7000+ Paywall examples, designs & UX for mobile apps

As you know, privacy policies are quite difficult to read and understand due to the legal language.

Skiff, on the other hand, explains its policies in plain language and sets a good example for other companies. 

https://skiff.com/annotated-privacy-policy

Even though they don't post new stuff anymore, this is a great source for small details.

https://littlebigdetails.com

“Dark mode is a nice-to-have, not necessarily a need-to-have in most cases.”

An alternative to Font Book: https://rightfontapp.com/

Apple's Old HIGs https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/112765051627624067

Collection of vehicle infotainment system designs.

https://www.autointerfaces.com

A calculator could only be so cool.

(Simon Schuster)

We’re looking for people to test out the Gather Journal in Testflight (not the Library or Notebook just yet). If you’re looking for a simple app for capturing your thoughts, text-only, organized by day, let me know! The app works on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

A personal blog experiment. The goal was to design a cosy reading experience, close to reading a book, focused only on content.

Mercedes-Benz Manufaktur Studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FB0yxqpSA

“10 different terms in 40 years — only 4 years for each name for our profession. Ridiculous. How can we be taken seriously when we don’t know what our name might be 4 years from now?”

https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ux-vocabulary-inflation

What is your experience and opinion with the design department OKRs?

If you find them useful, then it would be great to hear how you use and approach them in your company. If you don't, then it would also be interesting to hear why.

This is a mobile app I designed two years ago that helps to reduce screen time. A nice detail was that you can see not only the screen time, but also how much time you were in the moment.

How was the wallpaper for Windows 10 made?
https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop/

Time zone converter. But beautiful.
https://www.timezones.digital/

Such a good lecture!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

Personal website in a desktop simulation.
https://dustinbrett.com

"It is not the hand that makes the designer, it’s the eye. Learning to design is learning to see."
https://ia.net/topics/learning-to-see

"A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort than for example an ellipse of the same size. Our "fovea-eye" is even faster in recording a circle. Edges involve additional neuronal image tools. The process is therefore slowed down."

A good article showing that Figma is very bad at memory usage.

Sketch seems to use the least memory in the tests. I guess it's the advantage of being a native application.

https://bjango.com/articles/designtoolmemory/

An informative article on email development.
https://dodov.dev/blog/why-does-email-development-have-to-suck

Icons or not icons, that is the question.
https://ia.net/topics/on-icons

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