Design

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iOS 7, flat transparent toolbars and clarity

Let’s talk about iOS 7 — it clearly has not been covered enough lately

Group characters in password input fields

When you enter a password, Terminal does not show anything

Large click areas for small elements

All user interface designers should know and apply the Fiitts’s law. It says that the larger and the closer the target area is, the easier it is

Dealing with legal all-caps

Some lawyers think they should shout at their readers by using all-caps text — this is how they communicate the idea “this is important”

Online video and opening titles

Online video does not require an opening title

RocketDocs and web app wrappers

I’ve tried RocketDocs, a wrapper for Google Docs, and was quite disappointed

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It’s always a pleasure to talk to Kostya Gorsky, lead designer from Yandex and my good friend...

Everyone is a designer

Life does not present you with a choice to be or not to be a designer

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As I’m sure many designers do, I have an Assets folder with a collection of small things you always need

The dark secret of yellow

The dark secret of yellow is that there’s no such thing as “dark yellow”. Many designers have technical background, and so they fail to acknowledge this fact

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