Design
Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation
If you’re working on digital products, you have already read dozens of articles describing how and why the hamburger navigation on mobile (and desktop!) hurts UX metrics due of its low discoverability and efficiency.
Luckily, more and more sites and apps are experimenting with alternative, more efficient solutions for this very problem.
Typography can make or break your design: a process for choosing type
One of the most important skills you can learn as a designer is how to choose type. This is because text is one of the primary ways designers can communicate with users. Typography can make or break a design. --Jonathan Z. White
Technology
How Nvidia Debunked the Apollo 11 Conspiracy Theory
[The Nvidia] demo team rebuilt the scene of the moon landing in Unreal Engine 4, a game engine developed by Epic Games. They simulated how the sun’s rays, coming from behind the lander, bounced off the moon’s surface, and Armstrong’s suit, to cast light on Aldrin as he stepped off the lander.
We're moving fast. But nobody knows where we're going
We must begin by accepting uncertainty as a given; stay openminded about technological progress; and, when it comes to retirement planning, it is worth noting that bitcoin had just surpassed the value of gold...
Business
Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire
Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.
Programming
My website is 20 years old today
MY WEBSITE is 20 years old today. I’m dictating these remarks into a tiny handheld device, not to prove a point, but because, with gorgeously ironic timing, my wired internet connection has gone out. It’s the kind of wired connection, offering the kind of speed, ‘most everyone reading this takes for granted today — a far cry from the 14.4 modem with which I built and tested the first version of this site, shipping it (if you could call it that) on May 31, 1995.
Events
2017 Hockey World Championship games calendar
Get an automatically updated iCal feed for the 2017 hockey world cup (the first games will take place on the 5th of May).
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