It's an Olivetti Valentine. An iconic piece of design with mechanicals almost identical to the Lettera 32. Its designer, Ettore Sotsass, was apparently not fond of it ("I worked as an architect for sixty years of my life and all people know is this fucking plastic machine" - or something to that effect) and its first production run was not particularly popular.

This blog covers the top UI design trends of 2025 that are redefining digital experiences. From dark mode and AI integration to micro-interactions and minimalist layouts, we cover all the latest UI design trends that focus on usability, emotion, and smarter design. Whether you’re a designer or a business, these insights can help you stay ahead.

I’d like to share the process of porting the original codebase from ~67,000 lines of C code to ~81,000 lines of Rust

Allows for code to become “portable” between files since the code can carry most of its external dependencies inside of itself, making refactoring a bit easier.

Which keys are those? It's possible that they slow down keys which would otherwise risk penetrating the page. If they're on period, comma etc then this is likely the case.

Before writing component tests, think about whether you actually need to test the component, or if it’s more about the logic inside the component. If so, consider extracting out that logic to test it in isolation, without the overhead of a component

Company: WestcloxAlternate Name Forms:  Henry Dreyfuss Patents: Role: Inventor Title: Clock Case Number: Des. 85916 Issue Date: 1932-01-05Role: Inventor Title: Clock Casing Number: Des. 114262 Issue Date: 1939-04-11Role: Inventor Title: Clock Number: Des. 154995 Issue Date: 1949-08-30

Henry Dreyfuss designed the style 3, 5 and 6 cases. The style 4 is a modification of style 3 and may also have been designed by Dreyfuss.

LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google. They look things up themselves. Most importantly, they don’t get tired

Given that they are not used that frequently, we traded a smaller surface area for more explicitness.

For such work, Dreyfuss collects an annual income greater than $2,000,000, a healthy slice of the approximately $25,000,000 which business spends on industrial design in America. There are about 30 people on the Dreyfuss payroll in his New York and California offices. The boss shuttles between the two.

Before redesigning a tractor, Dreyfuss drove one for days. When he almost ran over his assistant because he couldn’t see him in time, he redesigned the tractor for visibility. Dreyfuss also found that farmers lost fingers in exposed tractor gears, corn pickers, and other farm implements. He fixed it so that the gears and chains were enclosed.

DESIGN:The Dreyfuss Touch

Mobile-first web design and app design is an approach where skilled UI/UX designers focus on designing their web apps for the smallest screen first, and then enhancing it for larger screens. It’s a design philosophy that literally puts mobile usability and design first, which differs from the traditional design approach which usually optimizes the design for desktop views, and then is optimized for mobile and tablets.

Man muss das alles nicht mehr können. Zumindest in der Theorie.

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This article, then, has three aims.

I’m not a believer in languages designed by a committee and I have faith in Matz making reasonable decisions at the end of the day.

ome examples could be the following:

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the “paperwork reduction act” required any government office to check with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House every time they wanted to put out a form, to ensure the form was not duplicative of any other existing form. This measure aimed at “reducing paperwork” from the government, has indeed accomplished its goal, but by making it impossibly slow for any government office to put out any form or survey. This hurts everything from website user surveys to USGS surveys of opinions around public lands.

Having a beautiful website isn’t enough anymore. It's about functionality, ease of use, and the ability to integrate easily with different tools enhancing the user experience. For all the developers and designers, webflow is the best choice for building a website, and that too without writing a single code. Webflow has gathered a vibrant community along with many SAAS tools. All the webflow development service comes with many plugins and integrations, all with the sole purpose of making the development process efficient and productive.

The software design model can be compared to an architected plan for a house. High-level plans represent the totality of the house (e.g., a three-dimensional rendering of the house). Lower-level plans provide guidance for constructing each detail (e.g., the plumbing lay). Similarly, the software design model provides a variety of views of the proposed software solution.

including both high-level software architecture and low-level component and algorithm design.

Software architecture choices include specific structural options from possibilities in the design of the software.

"los investigadores que llevan a cabo investigación exploratoria deben ser creativos, de mente abierta y flexibles: adoptar posturas investigativas y explorar todas las fuentes de información [...] Ellos hacen preguntas creativas y toman ventaja de la serendipia (es decir, factores inesperados y fortuitos que tienen implicaciones amplias)"2

In this diagram, the dependency direction goes inwards, meaning that outer layers know about inner layers, but not the other way around.

A professional web designer ensures your website is scalable and optimized for performance. Fast load times and smooth functionality enhance user satisfaction and help retain visitors.The advantage of an intuitive and easily accessible interface for further enhancing the website's capabilities of your business would definitely be with the back end development company.

This experiment is a digital research library for R. Buckminster Fuller and his ideas.

the death example actually points to something more primordial! It points to the fact that I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for Relevance Realization. I mean, Perspectively. What I mean by that is whenever I am thinking or doing anything, [-] it's always framed because if I'm unframed, I'm facing combinatorial explosion, which is not intelligible to me.

As digital nudges become more widespread, it is essential to consider their potentially harmful conse-quences. Our research, based on 42 semi-structured interviews, found that even with the consent of thenudged individual, nudging them in a digital environment can lead to feelings of stress or guilt. Throughour findings, we developed an in-depth understanding of the impact of digital nudging on user dignityand provided guidelines for designers to consider the potential dignity affronts. The participants in athree-month research study reported responses to digital nudges that could be categorized as dignityaffronts in the form of forfeit, flight, and fight actions. I

These findings raise the question of what constitutes a dark pattern. As discussed in the literature review byMathur, Acar, et al. (2019), there is no clear definition of what constitutes a dark pattern. Some definitionsfocus on the intention of the nudger and state that a dark pattern is an intentionally harmful nudge (Contiand Sobiesk, 2010). Other definitions state that any harmful nudge, regardless of intention, is a darkpattern (Waldman, 2020; Zagal, Björk, and Lewis, 2013). Looking at the findings of this research, thedigital nudges in the app were both helpful and harmful, depending on the participant. This illustrates thatperhaps a digital nudge can become a dark pattern under certain circumstances, even if it is responsiblydesigned.

Digital nudging has become an important research topic for information systems researchers to explore.In general, digital nudging is seen as a positive form of engagement while few study the impact of digitalnudging in a critical manner.

Importantly, our paper shows that a digital nudge can become a dark patternunder certain circumstances, even if it is responsibly designed.

You must ensure a clear set of information to be added in the design, consistency is the prime requirement for the branding.

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blended course designer can reframe the ways assessment is seen and appreciated by students.

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I had a wonderful conversation with an American a few years ago when he was interviewing me and he said Graham this is really intriguing because it sounds like you end up with very light need for regulation that this would appeal to the libertarian end and I said absolutely there's almost no need to tax these companies because the state may be a stakeholder with rights to dividends and capital gain so you don't need to tax the company you don't need regulation

n stark opposition to Otlet’s insistence that an ideal KOS be impersonaland universal, Kaiser firmly held to the view that, ideally, KOSs should beconstructed to meet the needs of the particular organizations for which they arebeing created. For example, with regard to the use of card indexes in businessenterprises, he asserted that “[e]ach business, each office has its individualcharacter and individual requirements, and its individual organization. Itssystem must do justice to this individual character [11, § 76].

No less important, the numerical notation served to “translateideas” into “universally understood signs,” namely numbers [13, p. 34].

Otlet, by contrast, was strongly opposed to organizing information unitsby the alphabetical order of their index terms. In his view, such a mode oforganization “scatters the [subject] matter under rubrics that have beenclassed arbitrarily in the order of letters and not at all in the order of ideas”and so obscures the conceptual relationships between them [6, p. 380]

Whereas Otlet and Kaiser were in substantial agreement on both thedesirability of information analysis and its technological implementation inthe form of the card system, they parted company on the question of howindex files were to be organized. Both men favored organizing informationunits by subject, but differed as to the type of KO framework that shouldgovern file sequence: Otlet favored filing according to the classificatory orderof the UDC, whereas Kaiser favored filing according to the alphabeticalorder of the terms used to denote subjects

Peretti figured out early on the first principle of a successful website: wide distribution. Rather than publishing articles people should read, BuzzFeed focuses on publishing those that people want to read. This means aiming to garner maximum social shares to put distribution in the hands of readers. Peretti recognized the first principles of online popularity and used them to take a new approach to journalism. He also ignored SEO, saying, “Instead of making content robots like, it was more satisfying to make content humans want to share.”[8] Unfortunately for us, we share a lot of cat videos. A common aphorism in the field of viral marketing is, “content might be king, but distribution is queen, and she wears the pants” (or “and she has the dragons”; pick your metaphor). BuzzFeed’s distribution-based approach is based on obsessive measurement, using A/B testing and analytics. Jon Steinberg, president of BuzzFeed, explains the first principles of virality: Keep it short. Ensure [that] the story has a human aspect. Give people the chance to engage. And let them react. People mustn’t feel awkward sharing it. It must feel authentic. Images and lists work. The headline must be persuasive and direct.

For about 10 years or so I've been telling anyone who will listen that we don't want to grow a giant company that we control, we want to grow a giant ecosystem that we support. One with a broad range of hosts, developers, agencies, partners and publishers who can build on top of shared infrastructure — where our role as a core team is helping the collective ecosystem thrive. Growing a larger market, rather than trying to capture all the value within it.

The primary purpose of the non-profit structure is to protect against this and ensure that any decisions made benefit the organisation and its community, not its owners. Ghost has no incentive to slash costs and drive up profits, because it has no owners. It will always be independent.The organisation exists for-purpose, rather than for-profit.

You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.

“Think like a librarian,” Milo used to urge us, which might sound less impressive than “Think like a philosopher,” “Think like a psychologist,” or even “Think like a lawyer,” but it did make the point that information wasn’t given, that it had to be actively sought. Once, a student called asking for book titles that might help her with her assigned topic on the pros and cons of marriage. The Library of Congress subject heading “marriage” was too broad to be of much use, and the subheadings in various library catalogs weren’t much better. But remembering James Thurber and E.B. White’s Is Sex Necessary?, I reasoned that there might well be a book on the pros and cons of marriage with an analogous title. Sure enough, Is Marriage Necessary? did turn up as a title in our catalog, and I was able to start the student on her way to a bibliography—nothing special, but our work was full of wonderful, nothing-special moments. Far more impressive was the ingenuity of a colleague who supplied a patron with the names of Korean massage parlors in the Gramercy Park area (yes, someone asked) by combing the Manhattan white pages for names (Oriental Health Spa, Rising Sun Health Club) of likely establishments on and around East Twenty-Third Street. Ours was not to reason why.

In the apprenticeship each of us endured under Milo’s exhausting tutelage before getting anywhere near a telephone, we learned not merely how to find information but how to think about finding information. Don’t take anything for granted; don’t trust your memory; look for the context; put two and three and four sources together, if necessary.

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The constructal law of design and evolution in nature

This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices. Liberating Structures used routinely make it possible to build the kind of organization that everybody wants. They are designed to include everyone in shaping next steps.

by porting ffmpeg to the zig build system, it becomes possible to compile ffmpeg on any supported system for any supported system using only a 50 MiB download of zig. For open source projects, this streamlined ability to build from source - and even cross-compile - can be the difference between gaining or losing valuable contributors.

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The beauty of runit is its brevity and simplicity

Reliability of the init system is paramount so simplicity is a key attribute.

Your application code should not be dealing with PID files, log redirection or other low-level concerns.

Flexible view control

databases are not designed to be browsed.

Its philosophy is also to fail fast while early-testing alternative solutions

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Design tokens are a methodology for expressing design decisions in a platform-agnostic way so that they can be shared across different disciplines, tools, and technologies. They help establish a common vocabulary across organisations.

The middle layer approach pushes designers to explicitly describe the component visual architecture and that translates to its better understanding.

Designers want every part of the app interface and all the elements to have the same look and feel, and design tokens were created to help them achieve that outcome.

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework developed by CAST to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. The goal of UDL is learner agency that is purposeful & reflective, resourceful & authentic, strategic & action-oriented.

in fact the best ideas happen when you are not planning them when you are just creating an environment where people get together in an informal way this is the reason why um Steve Jobs when he designed the Pixar building um he the initial idea was there's just one bathroom for the whole company

upport cross-divisional thinking and that the best ideas are already in a company and it's just a matter of sort of um getting people together

We want users to unsubscribe to messages they don’t want; we don’t want them to mark them as spam and hurt the reputation of the sender. We have seen by implementing this unsubscribe affordance in the UI that spam marks go down and in some cases are being reduced by 30 to 40%.

Most of the feedback loops in employment — from salary payments to annual performance appraisals — were torturously long. So Coonradt proposed shortening them by introducing daily targets, points systems, and leaderboards. These conditioned reinforcers would transform work from a series of monthly slogs into daily status games, in which employees competed to fulfil the company’s goals.

This led him to propose two kinds of reward: primary and conditioned reinforcers. A primary reinforcer is something we’re born to desire. A conditioned reinforcer is something we learn to desire, due to its association with a primary reinforcer. Skinner found that conditioned reinforcers were generally more effective in shaping behavior, because while our biological need for the primary reinforcer is easily satiable, our abstract desire for the conditioned reinforcer isn’t. The pigeons would stop seeking food once their bellies were full, but they’d take far longer to get tired of hearing the food dispenser click.

Skinner’s goal was to make his pigeons peck the button as many times as possible. From his experiments, he made three discoveries. First, the pigeons pecked most when doing so yielded immediate, rather than delayed, rewards. Second, the pigeons pecked most when it rewarded them randomly, rather than every time. Skinner’s third discovery occurred when he noticed the pigeons continued to peck the button long after the food dispenser was empty, provided they could hear it click. He realized the pigeons had become conditioned to associate the click with the food, and now valued the click as a reward in itself.

A very interesting example of just this issue was raised when they had the Treasures of Heaven exhibition at the British Museum, and they brought together numerous relics and the beautiful reliquaries within which they were set, and icons from Byzantium and elsewhere in the eastern parts of Europe and put them on display. Now, the visitors included people of the Eastern Orthodox faith, and, in that faith, the proper way in which to venerate an icon is to kneel before it, to pray before it and to kiss it.Now, was the British Museum going to allow visitors to kiss this exhibition, the items in this exhibition? Or actually, shouldn't the British Museum have obliged everyone to do so? Merely viewing such icons from a distance and not engaging in that sensory interaction with them would be to defeat their sensory presence, their way of being in the world. And so, I would love to see more experimentation with historically appropriate manners of viewing.

a lot of these objects were not meant to be put in a museum. A lot of them were in people's homes, in their cabinet of curiosities, or in the place where only men would be able to gaze at them, or in churches or in other different formats. And then now that they're in a museum setting with general visitors, what is the museum's responsibility in how we are talking about this, how we're choosing to display them, how we're choosing to talk about them in the labels, in the catalogs, in the exhibitions? Because all of that is adding to the art historical knowledge.

James Norris is the owner and operator of Ex Nihilo 3D Print and Design in Spring, Texas. He has always had a fascination with figuring out how things work and seeing if there was a way it could be better. In late 2016 his wife, a burgeoning writer, purchased their first typewriter. He soon became obsessed with all the amazing parts and mechanisms. From there the typewriter collecting began.​From the first Olympia, to an inherited Olivetti, to his first Selectric, and so on.While repairing these machines he realized that there where a few setbacks. The most immediate being parts availability. So armed with his 3d printer he designed and printed his first part. A Selectric cycle clutch pulley in mid 2021. After showing the 3d printed part to some like minded individuals he was happy to learn that they were as excited as he was. He loves to design new parts and accessories to bring these typewriters back to life.James is thrilled to be working with Philly Typewriter, and looks forward to helping with your current and future parts needs. James lives in Texas, is married with two children.

Sundberg’s first typewriter design was for IBM in 1955. This was for what we generally call the IBM Executive (Model C/Model 41);

Most designers today think of themselves as the designers of objects. If we follow the argument presented here, we reach a very different conclusion. To make objects with complex holistic properties, it is necessary to invent generating systems which will generate objects with the required holistic properties.

design forms through the iterative readings and responses to interrelational conditions, with the intention of producing environments synchronous with their cultural settings.