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3 Trends in Web #design from the Museum of Web Design
▻https://hackernoon.com/3-trends-in-web-design-from-the-museum-of-web-design-7bbc4a25885f?source

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Yesterday, my co-founder and I put together the “Museum of Websites” to showcase the evolution of popular websites. Since we’re both front-end design lovers, it was fun to put the project together and inspiring to see the humble beginnings of today’s tech giants. In this post, I’ll share three learnings from browsing the historical design trends of the web’s most popular landing pages.One: More media and bigger imagesAs the world has moved towards smaller screens, websites have made their images larger. Increasingly, media (images and video) take up more real estate than text. See Reddit, Product Hunt, Amazon.Two: Banner adsHaving a single splash ad across the top of the website, usually with visuals and color, seems to be an increasingly popular design choice. Check out Airbnb, Yahoo, the New (...)

#website-design #web-design #museum-of-web-design #ui-design

Obama’s #Drone Program Probably Would Have Killed Ahmed the Clock Kid
▻http://gawker.com/obamas-drone-program-probably-would-have-killed-ahmed-t-1731145274

Yesterday Barack Obama joined the groundswell of social media support for Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student detained by the police for being seen with an electronic device and being a Muslim named Ahmed Mohamed. Good for Obama. And good for #Ahmed that he wasn’t building a clock in Yemen.

#signature_strike #dissociation

Anorexic cover girl model, 19, dies in her sleep | Mail Online
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137423/Bethaney-Wallace-Anorexic-cover-girl-model-19-dies-sleep-weight-drops-6

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Yesterday, her father Clive, 47, said: ’She lost her self-esteem.

’She would say she was fat but she was so beautiful – she didn’t realise how beautiful she was. She had up days and down days. It was like Jekyll and Hyde.

’I tried to warn her that her organs would fail but she just said: “Don’t be silly”. If you mentioned food it would start an argument.’

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Her parents, who also have a 22-year-old daughter, Shari, said her death was all the more tragic because Bethaney had finally started confronting her condition late last year.

She had been given an eating plan by West Suffolk Eating Disorder Service to help her.

Her father, a roof tiler, added: ’She was getting better. She was having counselling and making good progress but the paramedics said her blood sugar level was very low.’

#poids #mannequinat