The Psychology of Waiting, Loading Animations, and Facebook

When Facebook users were presented with a custom loading animation in the Facebook iOS app they blamed the app for the delay. But when users were shown the iOS system spinner, they were more likely to blame the system itself. The Psychology of Waiting, Loading Animations, and Facebook →

Using the DevTools to get first in line to buy Tomorrowland tickets

All Friday night we were busy monitoring the different API-calls from the ticketpage to Paylogic. We found out that the ticket page refreshed every 2 minutes with a delay of 6 seconds to send back the answer. The trick was to refresh the ticket page in your browser at exactly 10h. 57m. 54sec., whereafter the …

The weight of rain

When I’m looking at data, I’m looking for little “Aha!” moments that I can point to, and say “Look here, something happened,” and then try to explain. Often those small moments can help lead a reader into the graphic, or help to explain the whole. And then he switches over to Mars Rover and Kepler …

The Amen Break

This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Everything …

Facebook’s Paper photo tilt feature in HTML5

Possible thanks to the Device Orientation Events. Facebook’s Paper photo tilt feature in HTML5 →photoTilt Demo →photoTilt Source (GitHub) → Did you know that this doesn’t work on a Retina MacBook Pro, but does on the previous MacBook Pro model? It’s the Sudden Motion Sensor which affords orientation detection, yet one cannot find that sensor …