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315 points by davidbarker | 56 comments
TitleArt is a browser-based WordArt-style editor with a Windows 9x interface for creating text with classic shapes, colors, shadows, and 3-D effects.
157 points by embedding-shape | 67 comments
Walt Disney Animation Studios page explaining its filmmaking process, breaking down Zootopia 2 into sequences, shots, and frames across departments.
3 points by andsoitis | 0 comments
Ink & Switch essay presenting Crosscut, a stylus-and-tablet tool for sketching dynamic models with an embedded visual programming system, with interactive demos.
903 points by frizlab | 265 comments
Apple Music's 404 Not Found page, which features an interactive classic iPod as a hidden easter egg.
68 points by elwingo1 | 43 comments
TypeUI gallery of 113 interactive UI micro interactions (buttons, inputs, modals, sliders, etc.) with copyable implementation prompts for AI coding tools.
15 points by civilchaos | 7 comments
A free downloadable pack of 544 AI-generated icons, one for each North American city over 100k population, browsable via an interactive map and searchable grid.
187 points by firloop | 24 comments
A blog post on Unsung, a software craft and quality blog, titled "Good type against all odds" about typography done well under constraints.
95 points by akkartik | 26 comments
Color Names is an open, MIT-licensed collection of 31,970 community-authored color names, browsable in a 3D RGB/OKLab viewer and available via npm and API.
15 points by surprisetalk | 6 comments
Designboom article on Oberdoerfer & Krebs' Bend Chair and Bend Stool, 3D-printed seating reheated and hand-bent after printing, plus their other experimental print projects.
170 points by punnerud | 68 comments
An interactive 3D web guide that animates step-by-step assembly of IKEA furniture like the BILLY bookcase and LACK table alongside the manual pages.
449 points by riffraff | 275 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen noting Apple removed default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate and updated its Human Interface Guidelines against the practice.
44 points by cat-whisperer | 36 comments
An essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski arguing that taste and attention to detail differentiate software products now that functionality is commoditized.
532 points by tosh | 188 comments
Blog post by Karri Saarinen arguing that good software products carry the experience, values, and perspective of the people who make them.
536 points by noriax86 | 148 comments
GitHub repository for Nordwand Mono, a compact monospace neo-grotesque font designed for developers, licensed under MIT and OFL-1.1.
28 points by zdw | 15 comments
A blog post on Unsung (aresluna.org) discussing a finding reported across usability studies; no page text was captured to confirm details.
388 points by plaguna | 81 comments
Landing page for Furifont, a Japanese font that renders furigana readings above kanji via ligatures, with downloads and a customization builder.
103 points by jervant | 66 comments
A Mastodon post by Mario Guzmán showing a screenshot of an advertisement appearing in Apple Keynote's inspector sidebar.
699 points by otobrglez | 286 comments
Homepage of Iosevka, an open-source sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font family, with download, customization, repository, and specimen links.
80 points by rmason | 26 comments
WowHaus listing post featuring the yellow Donaldson Futuro House, a 1960s UFO-shaped prefab home for sale in Idyllwild, California.
60 points by soheilpro | 36 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post compiling screenshots of the macOS Dock across versions from Mac OS X 10 to macOS 27, tracing app icon design history.
50 points by droidjj | 31 comments
It's Nice That feature in which designer David Rudnick discusses the difficult process of creating the Rocastle typeface for Arsenal football club.
255 points by mdp2021 | 44 comments
Open Culture article about a 900-page hand-painted color guide from 1692, a precursor to Pantone, with a link to a complete high-resolution digital scan.
185 points by acley | 68 comments
GitHub repository for Doory, an open-source alternative to Canva for creating graphic designs, with backend and frontend code.
49 points by eustoria | 9 comments
Playgrnd is an index of 52 free small browser-based tools for generating visual art like patterns, marbling, glyph patchworks, and posters.
561 points by oskarth | 93 comments
An essay by Guillaume Ardaud proposing the "Lightbulb Computer," a projector-based desk computing concept as an alternative to smart glasses and headsets.
8 points by awa11 | 1 comments
Landing page for OldRoll Web, a free browser-based photo editor offering vintage effects like Digicam, Film, Y2K, 90s, VHS, and Dreamy filters.
321 points by sohkamyung | 260 comments
A deep-dive blog post on the Unsung software craft blog comparing keyboard layouts, keys, and shortcut conventions between Windows PCs and Macs.
45 points by eustoria | 10 comments
Cube Type is a web playground that renders typed text as letters on isometric 3D cubes, with composition, style, and sharing options.
23 points by speckx | 29 comments
Tedium article examining ArtCraft's vibe-coded remakes of creative apps and what they suggest about Adobe and Creative Cloud.
329 points by speckx | 178 comments
An essay on the design and aesthetics of interactive DVD menus, contrasting them with menu-less VHS and LaserDisc formats.
49 points by kaganin | 13 comments
A visual archive of 160+ open source sound visualization experiments across 25+ categories, including waveform animations, spectrum patterns, matrix displays and particles.
380 points by sohkamyung | 62 comments
GitHub repository for a photo-based reconstruction of Commodore 64 keycap lettering, providing desktop fonts, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
26 points by handfuloflight | 1 comments
Landing page for Graphical, a tool for creating visual themes for user interfaces.
315 points by farslan | 118 comments
Personal blog post by Fatih Arslan describing the designer lamps he uses in his home, illustrated with photos.
7 points by mmilanovic4 | 0 comments
Blog post explaining Fitts's law and why placing the menu bar at the screen's top edge makes it faster to target.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/4/19a83d9b-9696-4e42-89f7-05b0effd5404.jpg)
86 points by simonjgreen | 35 comments
YouTube video of Lenny's Podcast with Stripe's Katie Dill on scaling intent, quality, and artistry in product design with AI.
64 points by josephcsible | 24 comments
GadgetReview opinion article criticizing Apple for hiding fire extinguishers in its offices or stores in the name of clean, minimalist design.
120 points by young_mete | 160 comments
A Substack newsletter post by product designer Mete Polat arguing that Meta's Muse shows design matters in consumer AI for companies with the money to invest.
66 points by s4074433 | 30 comments
An interactive scrolling guide explaining Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio by stripping elements from a cluttered chart one piece at a time.
29 points by ibobev | 31 comments
A personal essay tracing the origin of the quote "the only intuitive interface is the nipple" through 1990s Usenet posts attributed to Bruce Ediger and others.
392 points by colinprince | 344 comments
A McMansion Hell blog post examining and critiquing the strange state of contemporary commercial ceiling fan design.
74 points by speckx | 46 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post responding to Marques Brownlee's "Dear YouTube" video on YouTube's A/B test video variants and what it means for software makers.
262 points by leephillips | 47 comments
A blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about modular industrial control dashboards and interfaces that predate pixel-based screens.
4 points by tobr | 0 comments
Michael Nielsen's 2016 essay on how computer interfaces can serve as cognitive technologies that expand the range of human thought.
98 points by yakkomajuri | 53 comments
A Railcode founder's blog post about how using coding agents to build the company website made him more interested in design and produced a designer-quality result.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/1/95cdc214-bb48-46b8-8bf9-f26bdc71e640.jpg)
26 points by surprisetalk | 5 comments
A YouTube video from Ink & Switch and Local-First Conf presenting PlayBook, a programmable paper notebook.
246 points by eustoria | 23 comments
Book of Shapes is a collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski.
52 points by ArisC | 29 comments
An interactive bracket tournament where users vote head-to-head among 64 iconic British designs across transport, graphics, objects, and buildings to pick a winner.
70 points by bovermyer | 23 comments
Blog post comparing Western heraldry and Japanese mon as rule systems to inform building procedural visual-identity generators like Iron Arachne.
71 points by surprisetalk | 25 comments
A bookofjoe blog post showing images of the 'walk' pedestrian signal figures used in different cities such as Montreal, Warsaw, and Kolkata.
84 points by sia_xi | 39 comments
Scissor Studio, a free browser-based WebAssembly graphics editor for raster and vector work with no signup, shown at its empty 'No file open' workspace.
251 points by theanonymousone | 177 comments
A blog post listing ten telltale signs of a low-quality, AI-generated-looking "slop" user interface, such as excessive gradients, rainbow colors, and pulsing badges.
40 points by luu | 10 comments
A blog post on Counting From Zero highlighting four papers from the CHI 2026 human-computer interaction conference that the author admires.
11 points by echohive42 | 7 comments
An interactive painting by echohive depicting the last day of the dinosaurs, with a T. rex and other dinosaurs in a forest as the asteroid strikes.
12 points by ChrisArchitect | 2 comments
Creative Boom article about Dutch designer Merijn Straathof rebuilding Richie Hawtin's album DE9: Closer to the Edit as a playable web-based instrument.
239 points by pillars | 129 comments
Aalto University's Nokia Design Archive, an interactive online collection of Nokia design materials, concepts, and products browsable by network or timeline view.
836 points by MitPitt | 121 comments
Bastardica is a web tool that mixes two fonts by replacing every Nth glyph using OpenType ligatures, running Python client-side via WASM.
22 points by luu | 3 comments
A fine art project page showing pareidolia faces found in everyday objects; the page returned a 503 Service Unavailable error when captured.
428 points by tosh | 194 comments
Blackmagic Design press release announcing DaVinci Resolve 21.1, an update to its video editing, color grading, and post-production software.
1133 points by zdw | 326 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog about the difficulties of typesetting text in monospace and choosing words carefully to fit it.
981 points by ckardaris | 481 comments
Blog post by Charalampos Kardaris arguing that GUI applications should be fully keyboard-driven, responding to an HN debate about TUIs versus GUIs.
448 points by GavinAnderegg | 180 comments
Landing page introducing Nebula Sans, a humanist sans-serif typeface designed for legibility in digital and print applications.
324 points by dcminter | 51 comments
Marcin Wichary's long illustrated essay (6,100 words, 600 photos) about a ubiquitous engraving font seen throughout Manhattan.
409 points by ExMachina73 | 198 comments
A Rands in Repose essay praising the typography of Blade Runner's title cards, set in Goudy Oldstyle, and reflecting on appreciating type design.
581 points by automatoney | 99 comments
An interactive write-up defining a custom color space for plausible, diverse skin tones, with a JavaScript color picker and a Python procedural generation algorithm.
319 points by nuwandavek | 71 comments
Isopolis is an interactive isometric pixel-art map of San Francisco generated by fine-tuned Qwen Image Edit on 3D Google Map renders, with guided tours and radio.
343 points by montroser | 157 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen on emerging design idioms of the AI era, like the sparkle emoji and rainbow colors, compared to the hamburger menu.
408 points by zdw | 70 comments
A blog article from datagubbe.se exploring the peculiar user interfaces of tools built by the demo scene, mostly for the Amiga.
351 points by speckx | 274 comments
Personal blog post complaining about restaurants and businesses replacing their menus with ugly AI-generated redesigns, starting with a Filipino/Hawaiian restaurant.
648 points by Gecko4072 | 157 comments
A gallery of website buttons collected by Anatoly Zenkov's Button Stealer extension, which grabs a button from every site he visits.
337 points by miniBill | 111 comments
A VelvetShark blog post examining why many AI company logos share a similar circular, radial design resembling buttholes.
689 points by ray__ | 153 comments
Mixfont experiment page for Decoy Font, a TTF font where each letter contains a decoy glyph intended to hide typed text from AI readers.
367 points by makizar | 148 comments
Blender.org release page for Blender 5.2 LTS, which currently returns a 404 "no longer here" error page.
505 points by nozzlegear | 249 comments
A blog post by Marcin Wichary on the Unsung blog comparing image-rotation buttons on iPhone and Nothing Phone to illustrate universal UI button design challenges.
650 points by zdw | 240 comments
Rogue Amoeba blog post by Paul Kafasis arguing Apple should end its prohibition on custom shapes in macOS app icons.
358 points by ilnmtlbnm | 44 comments
A Patreon post by Dany Bittel about physically printing Gaussian splats; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.
792 points by ravenical | 260 comments
Blog post by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) arguing that UIs should follow Wayland's "every frame is perfect" goal, avoiding glitchy intermediate states.
521 points by pentagrama | 229 comments
Blackmagic Design's What's New page for DaVinci Resolve, highlighting new features across its Edit, Color, Fairlight, and Fusion pages.
367 points by ranebo | 240 comments
A blog post arguing macOS should restore the grid layout for virtual desktops (Spaces), introducing a tool called GridLion that recreates it.
376 points by aleda145 | 43 comments
Design process page telling the story of Shantell Sans, a handwriting-inspired marker-style typeface, with download links.
402 points by zdw | 97 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.
643 points by dougdude3339 | 98 comments
Doug MacDowell's project essay about spending 50 hours designing and drawing a single line graph data visualization.
482 points by danybittel | 185 comments
A SuperSplat scene page showing an interactive 3D Gaussian splat capture of a strawberry.
463 points by _vaporwave_ | 59 comments
A Typeset in the Future blog post explaining typographic techniques that make text look futuristic, drawing on science fiction film and design conventions.
801 points by teleforce | 460 comments
Drive news article reporting that Mercedes-Benz will bring back physical buttons for frequently used controls after customer feedback against touch-sensitive controls.
581 points by stephen-hill | 90 comments
A blog post describing recreating Hokusai's "The Great Wave" as 1-bit pixel art at 512x342 on vintage Macintosh hardware using Aldus SuperPaint.
363 points by robinhouston | 83 comments
F.A.T. Lab's page for the Free Universal Construction Kit, 3D-printable adapters between construction toys; the capture returned a 403 Forbidden error.
338 points by cdrnsf | 213 comments
Blog post by Sam Henri Gold sharing thoughts on Anthropic's Claude Design and its implications for Figma and design tooling.
1093 points by thebiblelover7 | 274 comments
Blackmagic Design product page for the Photo page in DaVinci Resolve, a tool for editing and grading still photos including RAW files.
668 points by phil294 | 362 comments
John Loeber's 2023 Substack essay arguing for a return to idiomatic, consistent UI design like that of the desktop software era.