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parkov

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About parkov

Interface design, usability, web development

Homepage: http://thomaspark.me

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    I also enjoyed the Quora digests until one day the links stopped going directly to the threads but all pointed to a feed page. I assumed this was another dark pattern to boost page…

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    Comment #8271292

    I've created a site just like this as a side project. Especially relevant with Halloween right around the corner: http://carboncostume.com/ And since you mentioned it, the Driver: …

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    Comment #6776653

    Piggybacking on this, GlyphSearch is a tool for searching Font Awesome and several other popular icon fonts. http://glyphsearch.com/

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    Comment #6675352

    Thanks for the heads up about Font Awesome More. Looking to add any other libraries that are in heavy use out there.

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    Comment #6675343

    I made this to scratch an (admittedly very mild) itch I've had for some time. But I'm betting some of you have had the same itch. I posted some details about GlyphSearch here: http…

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    Comment #5731787

    Spooky, by pure coincidence that video uses the same book (different edition) for their demo that my blog post does for 1DollarScan: http://thomaspark.me/2012/12/digitizing-books-o…

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    Comment #4568472

    I found that equally baffling. I threw together a page that displays the best (according to Adobe[1]) webfonts of the bunch: http://jsbin.com/itayep [1] http://html.adobe.com/edge/…

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    Comment #4529041

    Relevant to this thread, since the goats-vs-sheep study is brought up so often to add authority to the claim, Caspersen et al. were not able to repeat Bornat & Dehnadi's results. T…

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    Comment #4423057

    I'm not color blind, but I see the same thing. Shading creates the effect of the boxes being different sizes even though they're not. Here's a screenshot: https://twitter.com/thoma…

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    Comment #4410848

    I wrote about this issue and ways to overcome it a little while back (with pictures!): http://thomaspark.me/2011/10/making-menus-escapable/

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    Comment #4162884

    Here's a nice demo of a similar library called Scrollorama: http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/ Skrollr is noteworthy because it's significantly smaller (5.5kb vs. 94kb+jQue…

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