Web Design: Hold the Press

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Design/UX/product

The best UX and design conferences this year [uxdesign].

This is an amazing old-school PC font pack [int10h]. Fair to say typography peaked in the Atari days.

Story epilogues [medium/@johnpcutler] are a useful addition to your product development process.

Picture This

News/business

Amazon, Google and Facebook are joining the battle over net neutrality [wired].

While the tech giants are in Washington DC the United States Congress will also have a word with them, grilling Alphabet, Facebook and Twitter over the terrorist content that goes up on their sites [recode].

Prominent tech folk have signed an open letter expressing concerns with the implementation of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages [ampletter] For what it’s worth - that link looks great on mobile.

GoPro is nearly Gone [bloomberg].

… but someone call GOB, because Segway’s back, baby! With a robot you can ride [theverge].

Kodak’s jumping on the blockchain [thenextweb]. But in a way that actually kinda makes sense.

Nearly 3/4 of women in computer-related jobs report discrimination in the workplace [recode].

Paint It Black

Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)

Remember how scientists made Vantablack, “the blackest substance in the world”? The black feathers of the male bird of paradise are almost as good [wired]. And at least those birds actually use this ability for something important (mating).

There’s a piece of digital art called Permanent Redirect that, yes, moves to a new URL whenever someone views it [kottke]. I had a go at finding it but was unsuccessful, so I clicked on the screenshot link in that post. I’m not proud of it.

Kiyo [getkiyo] is a social media app aiming to make social media less horrible and stressful. The app is helmed by actor/writer BJ Novak, who’s great.

Finally, this marble run perfectly synchronized to “Waltz of the Flowers” by Tchaikovsky will put many a very big smile on your face [youtube/doodlechaos]. Also, how good is classical music?!

There's Versioning! Idea: one of those marble runs synchronized to The Imprerial March from Star Wars. Could that be amazing? Just give me the word and I'll start drawing up the plans.

I'll be back tomorrow with more for you!