Layouts where content hugs the boundaries of illustrations are common in print and rare on the web. One of the reasons non-rectangular contour-hugging layouts are uncommon on the web is that they are difficult to produce. They are not difficult to produce anymore. And once again I have a flashback to (the now offline) The …
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Swift Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference
My Mom’s Motorcycle
A Clock that Writes The Time
WTF, forms?
CSS True Titles
Fixing a parallax scrolling website to run in 60 FPS
I recently visited a parallax scrolling website that was just one of thousands of different parallax scrolling websites out there. One thing that I immediately noticed was that the scrolling FPS of that page was really bad. I suspected that there would be room for improvement in their parallax implementation, and I wanted to take …
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The Illusion of Motion
Pixel Track
Pixel Track is a prototype connected display system. The display uses a mechanical ‘scanning’ based system for updating pixels. This means that the display consumes no power while it remains static. As a side effect, the scanning technology changes the pixel form and the qualities and behaviours of the sign change. The mechanical nature of …
Adaptive Placeholders
See the Pen Adaptive Placeholder by Danny King on CodePen. We’ve seen some floated labels before: when focussing a form field the placeholder seems to move towards a spot above the field. Adaptive placeholders goes a step further by also allowing one to change the text when something was entered into the field. Makes clever …