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Home | Laws of UX

lawsofux.com/
Laws of UX is a collection of the key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces.

iOS Ref

iosref.com/
Quick reference tables, tools, and links for iOS developers. iOS Ref has iOS compatibility tables, a beautiful Swift cheatsheet, a hex code to UIColor converter, device screen resolution tables, and more.

De l’automatisation des inégalités | InternetActu.net

internetactu.net/2018/01/15/de-lautomatisation-des-inegalites/
Dans une récente  tribune pour le New York Times, lavocate Elisabeth Mason (@elismason1), directrice du Laboratoire pauvreté et technologie qui ...

Audio Adversarial Examples

nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples/
We have constructed targeted audio adversarial examples on speech-to-text transcription neural networks: given an arbitrary waveform, we can make a small perturbation that when added to the original waveform causes it to transcribe as any phrase we choose.

18 Designers Predict UI/UX Trends for 2018 – Figma Design

blog.figma.com/18-designers-predict-ui-ux-trends-for-2018-2d04d41361c6
Designers are always looking toward the future — in our “build and ship it now” industry we’re programmed to iterate ad finitum. In the end, a designer’s obsession always circles back to one simple…

Styling using language attributes

w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-lang
What is the most appropriate way to associate CSS styles with text in a particular language in a multilingual HTML or XML document?

How brains and machines can be made to work together - Thought experiments

economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21733196-brain-computer-interfaces-sound-stuff-science-fiction-andrew-palmer
IN THE gleaming facilities of the Wyss Centre for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, a lab technician takes a well plate out of an incubator. Each well contains a tiny piece of brain tissue derived from human stem cells and sitting on top of an array of electrodes.

Writing Automated Tests for Accessibility - 24 Accessibility

24a11y.com/2017/writing-automated-tests-accessibility/
Marcy Sutton explains how automated tests for accessibility can help free up your team of some manual testing while preventing regressions into production.