Designer @citymapper Previously @AppliedStudio
Singapore/London
Joined April 2009
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The Sound of Software
Part IV of my Serious Play series on how to steal from video games to build more inspired software.
notboring.software/words/the…
I'm so glad this little feature gets so much love. Live buses will be back in Citymapper very soon!
Boo the @Citymapper update got rid of the little live buses chugging along the road 💔
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Citymapper is joining Via, the global leader in TransitTech. Read more →
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Two weeks ago in rainy Somerset with Gimlet Bar friends, sorting and pressing apples for cider. I think we processed >400 litres that weekend! Tasty tasty gimlet-bar.com/online-shop/
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Really enjoying the Richard Turley guest edit on @itsnicethat, especially this piece on tomato itsnicethat.com/features/tom…
no surprises there!
we had a MASSIVE turnout for our Bionic Reading experiment posted 4 weeks ago
check out the results here 🤓
blog.readwise.io/bionic-read…
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When Google Maps struggles, Citymapper comes to my rescue androidauthority.com/citymap…
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good morning, London.
good morning, Elizabeth Line!
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"The glaciers are melting, and I have more work to do," said one Swiss cartographer. A look at the graceful craftsmanship required to map the Alps, their extraordinary beauty and degradation. nyti.ms/3ud1smC
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居るだけで様々な人間を癒してくれる猫さん…🐈 nitter.cf/twitkocheng/status/149…
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Any claim about UI/UX is a claim about what is "natural" and this is always a political and historical argument.
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WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm).
It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around.
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ALT A table demonstrating multiple cases where WCAG 2 produces unintuitive contrast results compared against results from the new APCA standard
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"The disinfectant alcohol at the Wild Bird Society of Japan has, indeed, been made to look like a wild bird, and I would expect nothing less✨"
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A famous type foundry's sale to a PE-backed giant has rattled the font industry nytv.to/VB5kO