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Nice slide from Google’s instructor-led training on progressive web apps. I like the way it shows three different approaches with a simple shape filled (or outlined) in different ways.

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(via The Infinite Drum Machine - A.I. Experiments)

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Watch a band of Lego robots cover Kraftwerk's 'The Robots'

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Bleeps and Bloops

I’ve been watching a lot of videos lately made by electronic musicians, and I’ve been delighted by the playful ways they are using the screencast genre for tutorials and for documenting the songwriting process. Here are two of my favourites: Jakob Haq and Red Means Recording.

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In this article, Dave Evans (early Apple employee, founder of Electronic Arts and now a professor at Stanford) offers some tantalizing details about the development of the first Apple mouse. Whatever he and Steve Jobs observed with users that demonstrated a preference for one button over two really stuck. Ever since, Apple has gone to great lengths to avoid adding a second button, including adding a scroll nubbin, letting you squeeze it, letting you swipe it, and even making the whole mouse itself a button.

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Touch friendly buttons over radio buttons for scale responses. Good job, Canada!

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When Korg released iWavestation, I fell down the rabbit hole of trying to recreate the Mac startup chime. Thankfully, someone else fell down even deeper. 

Related: Windows 95 Startup Sound Transcribed into Music Notation or MIDI?

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A form for all seasons.

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The copy writing on here is pretty winning.

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The borders on these callouts are thicker than usual and stand out more. Also, I love that more than one step is included. Easier to learn a simple set of steps this way than with a video.

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UX white papers and reports from UXPin 

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I hate meta-ads, especially when paired with terrible typography.

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“What We’ll Cover” sounds friendly yet professional. I love one word slide segues and changing the background color and density helps too. Would be very dramatic in a dark room.

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The other menu options don’t matter so we grayed them out.

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The visual display of quantitative (career) data.