A bad web form sparked a series of increasingly absurd designs for inputting phone numbers, including an incrementer, slider, random number generator, and very large table. Here’s a good rundown of the solutions developers came … Read more
Since May, our research group has been developing a new tool called Snowball. As with our other tools, the purpose of Snowball is to empower people from all sorts of backgrounds to express and create … Read more
You have two choices when it comes to formatting academic papers for conferences and journals: Microsoft Word and LaTeX. Word is familiar and easy for anyone to pick up. But the WYSIWYG interface that makes … Read more
In math, you’re sometimes so focused on getting the calculations right that you end up with nonsensical answers without realizing it. In web design there’s a similar phenomenon, where you’re so intent on pixel perfection … Read more
Right now we’re blessed with many, well, awesome icon fonts that continue to grow with every release, like Font Awesome, Glyphicons, and Ionicons. And game-changers like Iconic might be just around the bend. But searching … Read more
