A few years back I was obsessed with the question of why some companies rocked at one thing, and sucked at another. How could Amazon be so…

The homepage of Adam Dunkels.

His 5 steps for creating a better version of anything

As the newest product designer at Serverless, I had to ramp fast. Here's what I learned about keeping developers at the center of my design strategy.

Design a turing-complete marble run with ascii/unicode art - GitHub - aaronjanse/marble-complete: Design a turing-complete marble run with ascii/unicode art

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2017 http://gotocph.com Gojko Adzic - Strategic Software Delivery Consultant ABSTRACT Serverless architectu...

Chemical engineer seeks to develop and understand materials that behave in radically new ways. Tiny sensors made of antibodies, protein nano-spheres ...

Designing a Next-Gen Graphics API for the Web Kai Ninomiya, Google* 2017 Oct 2 Thanks to my teammates Corentin Wallez (GPUWeb chair) and Austin Eng (NXT intern) + the GPUWeb and WebGL groups * I am not officially representing Google.

Scenario: Shoebox or social app?

A walkthrough of how we helped The Internet Archive design a new loading animation for the Wayback Machine.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is an approach to restricting system access to users based on defined roles. Many companies have built internal system like these, but usually in a very archaic and haphazard way.

Meet the world-renowned 3D artist and designer, Vitaly Bulgarov, at Gnomon School for a discussion about his work and career, and discover never-before-seen art

Adventures in Toy Design: Part 2

When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.

It's common for me to get excited about a personal project, put a bunch of time into it, and then lose interest. As much as possible, I want these projects to continue working; upkeep isn't fun. What does designing for minimum maintenance look like? The…

The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.

Blockchains revolutionized fundraising for open-source software, but not everything worked right from the start. In fact, ICOs of the 2016-2018 era were often horribly broken mechanisms that allowed founders to cash out before delivering any products. Many…

Warren Buffett’s longtime partner has donated millions to universities. The catch: They have to listen to his unusual ideas about architecture.