April 2011
24 posts
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a... →
By Charles L. Mauro
Font Squirrel: @font-face generator →
What Apple needs to do now →
Adam Greenfield
“Oh, but that interface. Or more particularly, the design of applications and utilities. The worrisome signs that first cropped up in the iPhone 3G Compass app, and clouded the otherwise lovely iPad interaction experience, are here in spades. What’s going on here is an unusual, unusually false and timid choice that, in the aggregate, amounts to nothing less than a...
WatchStudio Neat presents The Cosmonaut: A minimal, wide-grip capacitive stylus for touch screens
March 2011
21 posts
Aesthetics of Joy: The New Humanism →
by Ingrid Fetell
“How quickly we forget the effortless magic of our unconscious mind, a silent engine, a hidden processor that runs in the background, quietly alert. Aesthetics of Joy is about the language that speaks to this unconscious mind, the language of form, movement, surface, and character that communicates with the mute sensemaker that is our emotional brain. Joy is sense, as is...
The New Humanism →
by David Brooks, The New York Times
“This growing, dispersed body of research reminds us of a few key insights. First, the unconscious parts of the mind are most of the mind, where many of the most impressive feats of thinking take place. Second, emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to things and are the basis of reason. Finally, we are not individuals who form...
“filename
On getting, it must return the string “C:\fakepath"...”
– HTML5 filename spec
I cannot believe this is the preferred implementation. C:\? Really?
Rejex: the JavaScript regular expression editor →
Beautiful, useful implementation for quickly testing JavaScript regular expressions.
Creating Triangles in (pure) CSS →
