My latest experiment is Needledrop, a turntable interface for playing music from YouTube. Enjoy chill vibes as you spin a virtual vinyl of your favorite album from YouTube. You can try it for yourself here: Needledrop With Needledrop, I went for the Dieter Rams school of design. It's inspired by unapologetically skeuomorphic interfaces like Apple's| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
We've all run into CAPTCHAs, those annoying registration fields you never get right on the first try. But CAPTCHAs do play a valuable role, keeping spambots out by verifying that you're a human. On top of this, reCAPTCHA serves a greater good, having you digitize old books in the process. Meet CRAPCHA. CRAPCHA doesn't serve| Thomas Park
With the era of the humble unstyled and unscripted input field behind us, there's increasing variety in how monetary inputs work on the web. And this inconsistency can lead to big mistakes. Take two cases from the same company. PayPal has you input money amounts by the cent. To input fifty dollars, you type 5| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they all show the before and after statically, side by| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...