In 2011 a Belgian photographer was allowed entry into one of Japan’s Yakuza families. Over two years, he captured the lives of those living in the underworld
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To Scale: The Solar System
Ionic: Preparing for iOS 9
iOS 9 is releasing next week, and with it comes some changes and bugs that Ionic developers need to be aware of. Even if your app was published for an earlier version of iOS, you might still need to make some fixes due to regressions released by Apple in the web browser. Some minor things, …
Glen Keane – Step into the Page
Be inspired: Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Disney’s Tarzan, to name just a few. Keane has spent his career embracing new tools, from digital environments to 3D animation to …
Jony Jive: A Jony Ive Soundboard
Design for Realtime – User experience principles for realtime and reactive systems
Great set of example videos (both right and wrong) on how to properly build interfaces that are updated reactively – without a page refresh (viz. “the realtime feed”). Imagine the difficulty in communicating the rationality of the system to the end user. In the realtime world our challenges are not only to build delightful features, …
HTTP/2: The Next Version of the Internet
Fail them faster
GDS – Government Digital Services – recently reworked a few application forms they have. Instead of letting the user complete everything, and then – at the end – give a notice that they’re not eligible for some reason they’ve put a simple yet clear disclaimer at the very start of the completion process. We knew …
The Inner Circle of Europe
FBSimulatorControl – A Mac OS X library for managing and manipulating iOS Simulators
Just launched by Facebook: FBSimulatorControl, A Mac OS X library for managing, booting and interacting with multiple iOS Simulators simultaneously. FBSimulatorControl works by linking with the private DVTFoundation, CoreSimulator and DVTiPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient frameworks that are present inside the Xcode bundle. Doing this allows FBSimulatorControl to talk directly to the same APIs that Xcode and simctl do. …