A Month With a 75% Mechanical Keyboard
A 75% keyboard keeps the function row and the arrow keys but drops the number pad and squeezes everything else…
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What “Spring” Teaches About Colour
“Spring” is a short animated film from the Blender Animation Studio, released in 2019 and shared under a Creative Commons…
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Sintel and the Long Life of Open Films
“Sintel” is a fifteen-minute fantasy film from the Blender Foundation, released in 2010. A young woman crosses a frozen, dangerous…
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Packing for a Week in One Small Bag
For years I packed for the trip I was afraid of rather than the trip I was taking. The extra…
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Ten Minutes to a Better Salad
Most disappointing salads fail for the same few reasons: wet leaves, a dressing added too early, and nothing crunchy. All…
Technology
Backups You Will Actually Keep
Everyone agrees backups matter, and most people do not have one that works. The reason is usually not knowledge but…
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Tens of Thousands of Free Books
Project Gutenberg has been turning public-domain books into free e-books since 1971. Volunteers have prepared tens of thousands of titles, from “Frankenstein” to Austen to Thoreau’s “Walden”, free to read, download and share.
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Choosing Colours That Everyone Can Read
A colour scheme that looks beautiful to you can be unreadable for someone else. Around one in twelve men and one in two hundred women have some form of colour blindness, and many more people read on dim screens or…
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Breakfast at The Long Table
This café does not exist; it is the demo’s idea of a perfect one. It has a single table that seats twenty, a menu written on a board, and a rule that you sit wherever there is space.The menu changes…
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Designing for Small Screens First
For years, websites were designed for a wide desktop screen and then squeezed onto phones as an afterthought. Many people now read mostly on their phones, and the habit has turned around: design for the smallest screen first, then let…
Read MoreThe Web Accessibility Guidelines, Explained
The W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative publishes the guidelines most of the web is measured against, along with plain-language introductions, checklists and tutorials. If you build or write for the web, its “Getting Started” pages are the best hour you will…
Read MoreAdopt the Pace of Nature
Emerson was writing about education, but the line belongs on every designer’s wall. Good work takes the time it takes, and the second draft is almost always better than the first.
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How Bees Find Their Way Home
A honeybee can fly several kilometres from its hive to find flowers and return in a straight line, carrying a load of nectar and pollen. How it manages that has fascinated scientists for a century.Bees use the sun as a…
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