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Designing for the Eye
An illustrated essay on optical corrections in architecture and typography, from Greek columns to letterforms, and why g…
Designing Michelangelus
A Microsoft Design article on the making of Michelangelus, a contemporary serif typeface shaped by Michelangelo's handwr…
Designing Sound
A long-running community resource collecting tutorials, interviews, and articles about sound design for film, games, and…
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Designing Windows 95's User Interface
A retro-computing look at the usability studies Microsoft ran while designing Windows 95, showing early prototypes and h…
Developing the OptiGap Sensor System
An R&D case study on OptiGap, a bend-localization sensor for soft robotics made from 3D printer filament, walking throug…
Development Initiatives
A data-focused organization tracking global poverty, humanitarian financing, and aid flows through reports and interacti…
Diabolical Plots
A speculative fiction magazine and blog publishing free short stories alongside quirky lists and essays for writers abou…
Diagonal Thumbnails Gallery
A roundup of web designs that break from standard grids with diagonal thumbnail layouts, collected as inspiration for mo…
Diatom Arrangements
A look at the Victorian craft of arranging microscopic glass-shelled algae into tiny patterns and pictures under a micro…
Diceware Passphrase Home
The original Diceware page by Arnold Reinhold, explaining how to build strong passphrases from ordinary dice rolls and a…
Dickie Goodman: We've Spotted the Shark Again
A detailed history of Dickie Goodman, the novelty artist whose 'break-in' records spliced pop song snippets into fake ne…
Did You Lose Your AirPods?
A hands-on write-up of how the author reunites strangers with lost AirPods using a few clever tricks, a small do-gooder…
Didgeridoo Playing as Treatment for Sleep Apnoea
The famous randomised trial testing whether learning to play the didgeridoo can reduce snoring and daytime sleepiness in…
Dieselgate, But for Trains
The story of hackers reverse engineering Polish trains that mysteriously locked up after third-party repairs, revealing…
Different Types of Pizza
A list of more than 500 kinds of pizza with topping names and regional styles sorted by country, from Italian classics t…
Diffractive Chocolate
Instructions and the science behind chocolate with a microscopic grating that splits light into rainbow colors, from the…
Dinosaurs Brought to Life: Winsor McCay & Walt Disney
A Walt Disney Family Museum essay on how Winsor McCay's 1914 cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur inspired Walt Disney, and how D…
Direction Nowhere
A long-form essay by jazz critic Nate Chinen in At Length, a literary journal devoted to writing that takes its time, mi…
Discord, or the Death of Lore
Archivist Jason Scott laments communities moving from searchable public forums into closed chat servers, and what vanish…
Discover Wildlife
BBC Wildlife Magazine's website featuring animal facts, live webcam roundups, and nature photography from across the UK…
Discovering Wikipedia Edits by Institutions
A project write-up on uncovering Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies, and government agencies, explaining ho…
Discrete Logic Network Card
A build log of a 10BASE-T Ethernet transceiver made entirely from discrete logic chips, with schematics, scope traces an…
Discworld Rules
An essay arguing that Terry Pratchett's Discworld is a healthier fantasy diet for technologists than Tolkien, and what e…
Ditherpunk
A friendly, illustrated deep dive into monochrome image dithering, explaining ordered dithering, error diffusion and gam…
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