Jim Nielsen (no relation) waxes design-philosophic on the atrocious menus in macOS Tahoe. Unfortunately you can’t solve this one with accessibility settings.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Tag: design
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The Evolution of the YouTube Progress Bar (2005-2025)
Over on Kottke there’s a fun visual history of the YouTube progress bar. From the comments: the design evolution of iTunes.
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VHS Distributor Logos
An excellent collection for your Tuesday blues. Ray sez:
After seeing them all together, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that this could have been the Dribbble popular page about 5-6 years ago.
I totally see it, yeah.
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A List Apart going ad-free, patron-supported
ALA was instrumental to my start in this business. I both bless and curse them for this. [Here’s the Patreon.][pat] It’s a move I am fully in favor of. Death to ads.
>[We’re getting rid of advertisers][link] and digging back to our roots: community-based, community-built, and determinedly non-commercial. If you want to highlight local events or innovations, expand your skills, give back, or explore any other goal or idea, we’re here to support you with networking and backing from the community.
[link]: https://alistapart.com/article/new-a-list-apart-wants-you “New A List Apart wants you! · An A List Apart Article”
[pat]: https://www.patreon.com/alistapart/posts “A List Apart Patreon”
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Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella
[An article about a cool thing with a goofy lede][link]:
>An algorithm has *usurped the traditional role of a designer* to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella.
Emphasis mine. It’s goofy because nothing usurped anything. A designer created an algorithm to create variations. It’s just a different kind of design.
[link]: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/01/algorithm-seven-million-different-jars-nutella-packaging-design/ “Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella”
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#c0ffee is the color
A [beautiful list of valid HTML colors which are also english-language words][link]. There’s a poetry to how some of these match up; “defied / #DEF1ED” for example seems perfect somehow?
[link]: http://c0ffee.surge.sh/ “#c0ffee is the color”
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Stop using device breakpoints
Adam Silver with some good horse sense. This is a surprisingly common practice here in the Year of Luigi 2017. It’s mostly surprising because we spent so much time talking about this during the original web standards push that I’d hoped it had sunk in.
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“For The Love Of Dog” Wireframe Skull Featured on Adafruit’s YouTube Channel
I am truly honored to have my work represented by [this marginally-popular regular feature on Adafruit’s YouTube channel][link].
Seriously, so great.
[link]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psWgfBCL-Ek “Wireframe Skull on Time-lapse Tuesday”
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I Designed A T-Shirt With Pro Wrestler Jervis Cottonbelly
This was fun. You can catch Jervis on Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, and CHIKARA Pro. You can buy the shirt on prowrestlingtees.com.
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Trail Type
[A user-generated collection of typography from national parks and other ‘wild’ spaces.][link] Beautiful stuff.
[link]: http://www.trailtype.com/ “Trail Type”
