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Form Follows Function: This Simple Rope Connector - Core77
Form Follows Function: This Simple Rope Connector - Core77
You could be forgiven for thinking these cast aluminum pieces are trivets, but in fact they're rope connectors. The friction of the ropes hold them in place. These doodads are a knot-free way to make a climbing net, like you'd see at a playground (or
·core77.com·
Form Follows Function: This Simple Rope Connector - Core77
How to Code First with Design-First Benefits
How to Code First with Design-First Benefits
By coding early, we can validate ideas, identify technical constraints and refine our design based on practical insights and keep the project's goals in focus.
·thenewstack.io·
How to Code First with Design-First Benefits
UI Libraries Are Dying: What’s Next?
UI Libraries Are Dying: What’s Next?
UI libraries come with challenges, which greatly limit their effectiveness. Let’s explore how a new entity, the Bit component, addresses them.
·thenewstack.io·
UI Libraries Are Dying: What’s Next?
Form Follows Function: Early Design for an Adjustable Industrial Task Lamp - Core77
Form Follows Function: Early Design for an Adjustable Industrial Task Lamp - Core77
You've perhaps seen Dyson's Solarcycle lamp, which is adjustable in a Cartesian fashion to provide light exactly where you want it. It was probably inspired by this early-20th-century design for an industrial task lamp, produced by the Faries Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Illinois. It's pure form-follows-function. Both
·core77.com·
Form Follows Function: Early Design for an Adjustable Industrial Task Lamp - Core77
Cistercian Numerals - Futility Closet
Cistercian Numerals - Futility Closet
In the 13th century, Cistercian monks worked out a system of numerals in which a single glyph can represent any integer from 1 to 9,999: Once you’ve mastered the digits in the top row, you can represent tens by flipping them (second row), hundreds by inverting them (third row), and thousands by doing both (fourth row). And now you can combine these symbols to produce any number under 10,000: The monks eventually dropped the system in favor of Arabic numerals, which reached northwestern Europe at about the same time, but it was being used informally elsewhere as recently as the...
·futilitycloset.com·
Cistercian Numerals - Futility Closet
Toggles suck! | Axess Lab
Toggles suck! | Axess Lab
You’ve all seen them, tiny switches that let you toggle a setting. And maybe, just like me, you sometimes pause, thinking “...Is it on or…
·axesslab.com·
Toggles suck! | Axess Lab
UX for the Enterprise
UX for the Enterprise
Enterprise UX often involves navigating cumbersome processes, ancient technology, and clients skeptical of design’s value. Yet Fortune 500 companies are often the ones most in need of well-designed…
·alistapart.com·
UX for the Enterprise
Bret Victor, struggling
Bret Victor, struggling
Bret Victor has been provided by the management for your protection.
·worrydream.com·
Bret Victor, struggling
How to Comment on Social Media
How to Comment on Social Media
Rebecca Solnit with a cheeky & hilarious piece on How to Comment on Social Media. 1) Do not read the whole original post or what
·kottke.org·
How to Comment on Social Media
Virtual Stickers to Manage Replies By
Virtual Stickers to Manage Replies By
Dan Hon: “Over on Mastodon, which has a Kind of Person, I made these images to attach to help people manage replies.
·kottke.org·
Virtual Stickers to Manage Replies By
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
Use this versatile GUI tool to support users when they need to make a decision that involves considering multiple attributes of a small number of items.
·nngroup.com·
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
13 QR-Code Usability Guidelines
13 QR-Code Usability Guidelines
To be effective, QR codes need clear, brief, contextual information and must lead the user to relevant pages.
·nngroup.com·
13 QR-Code Usability Guidelines