user interfaces

  • Favicons Could Be the Supercookie That Tracks You Everywhere

    Favicons Could Be the Supercookie That Tracks You Everywhere

    As Apple prepares to launch its anti-tracking update for iOS, Facebook and other companies that have built their business on invading users’ privacy are nervous about the future. But there’s always a new vulnerability waiting to be discovered. For instance, researchers now claim that a website’s favicon can be used to stealthily track users in…


  • Let’s Take A Second To Admire Sci-Fi User Interfaces

    Let’s Take A Second To Admire Sci-Fi User Interfaces

    Computer interfaces in the real world are, generally, frustrating, boring, and at best functional. No one has great joy in using Google Chrome, and everyone is always mad at whatever update Twitter is rolling out. But in sci-fi? In science fiction, user interfaces aren’t just useful. They’re the coolest shit imaginable.


  • Where The Progress Bar Came From

    Where The Progress Bar Came From

    We’ve all spent hours — maybe even days — of our lives cursing the slow crawl of the dreaded progress bar. But did you ever stop to think about how much worse it might be if the bar wasn’t there in the first place. Fortunately, thanks to one grad student’s genius idea back in the…