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The colors of IKEA 2016
Every year, Ikea releases its catalog, with new product and new colors. I’ve selected some of the most interesting pages to extract the palette, and maybe get some inspiration.
Designing for VR
There has been a lot of interest for VR lately. Oculus is set to release a final product in 2016 and Google just announced tools for building and designing VR experiences at Google I/O. Virtual Reality seems to be very difficult to get right, and that’s probably why it hasn’t reached mass market yet. Hopefully, some […]
How to design a dashboard
Here is a simple recipe for designing a dashboard : show shiny charts have a dark blue-ish sidebar go flat Here are some examples from Dribbble :
Productive webdesign workflow with Photoshop
This post is a collection of documents and tools that can improve your Photoshop workflow. It’s probably not useful by itself, but is a good place to start when you want to work more efficiently. Best practices The first step to improve your workflow is to adopt some self discipline. A neatly organized PSD file […]
Connecting mobile HTML5 to hardware
Initially, this article was supposed to be “How to add an external flash to a Firefox OS phone” but my project did not work out. The idea was to add an external light to the camera of the Geeksphone Keon, as it doesn’t have any built in. Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete the project, here is […]
Building Full Hacker News
I recently created Full Hacker News, a website that displays the full content of all Hacker News articles, in one single page. I created it because I needed a simple and easy way to read interesting content during my daily commute. I live in Paris, and there’s no Internet connection in the metro. With Full Hacker […]
iOS7 usability fails
Review of the first FirefoxOS phone : the Geeksphone Keon
Following Palm’s trails, Mozilla is pushing its own phone OS based on Web technologies. Not to end the same way, Mozilla is betting on openness by allowing anyone to build FirefoxOS phones and apps. The corporation has also decided to start with emerging markets, leaving the western markets to Android, iOS, Windows8 and others. The first dedicated […]
Quelles solutions pour regarder des vidéos Youtube sur une connexion Free.fr ?
Comme tous les abonnées de Free, je ne peux quasiment pas regarder de vidéos sur Youtube. Bien que ma connexion soit de la fibre, le débit pour lire les vidéos est catastrophique. Il suffit de voir ce test de vitesse fourni par Youtube pour se rendre compte que c’est inutilisable. Comme de son côté, […]