Issue 65

Issues to avoid from big red buttons

Hello, dear readers! 👋

In this issue, among other things:

• Interactive article about Bezier curves

• What do users think about dark themes

• Analysis of all the patterns of people reading online

• Alternative movie posters for famous films

• Application for recording beautiful screencasts

• A large collection of loading indicators in CSS

• A tool for generating photos of people in full height

• Cool new plugins for Figma

Enjoy reading!

🗞 News and articles

Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid

Nielsen Norman Group studied why people choose a dark theme and what is the real effect of it.

They write that the dark mode is popular, but not necessary. When users like dark mode, they still maintain similar behavior without it. They think about it at the system level, not at the application level.

The authors also collected tips on implementation and pointed out the most potentially problematic places.

People Don’t Read Online — They Scan. This Is How to Write for Them

People on the Internet rarely read texts carefully, more often they scan them. Rita Kaind-Envi made a detailed analysis of all the patterns of such behavior. This knowledge will help you adapt the content of websites and applications so that people find the information they need as quickly as possible.

Bézier Curves — and the logic behind them

A gorgeous interactive article by Richard Ekwonye explaining how Bezier curves are arranged and how they work.

⚡️ Briefly

Automotive Robot Controllers — UX Design Patterns & Benchmarking. A cool overview of industrial robot control interfaces from Creative Navy agency.

Attention is drawn to the mandatory presence of a large physical red emergency stop button.

Design tool memory usage. The results of tests of the main design tools on the appetite for RAM. Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop and Affinity Designer were tested. Spoiler: Figma loses in almost all tests.

Discover new visual techniques with Jerry-Lee Bosmans’ printmaking challenge. An interview on the new Off-Grid website, in which Jerry-Lee Bosmans, the author of cool gradient paintings, tells the details of his workflow and how he came to such a masterful work with gradients.

New technologies

Meta has introduced SeamlessM4T, a "first of its kind" AI capable of translating between hundreds of languages. This is a single language model that can translate from speech to text, from text to speech, and from text to text for 100 languages at once.

🧘 Inspiration

A bold generative identity for Intrinsic, a company developing computer vision systems and AI for robots.