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erikdkennedy

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erikdkennedy··on Why is the sky blue?
It could also be this sorta thought:

"There's air in my room, it appears transparent. The sky is made of air, it appears blue. Why the difference"

erikdkennedy··on Why is the sky blue?
My day job is UI design, so I especially appreciate this

(Is there something in particular you're referring to? I feel like sticky nav and sidenotes aren't particularly unusual?)

erikdkennedy··on Why is the sky blue?
There will be! Requests welcome!

(I will almost certainly do one on quantum mechanics, but that's such a big explanation that I want to do some simpler ones first)

erikdkennedy··on Why is the sky blue?
TIL!

Debates whether to update the sidenote with an explainer on ambitransitive and labile verbs

erikdkennedy··on Why is the sky blue?
I'm the writer of the article, and happy to chat. Email is my username at gmail.
erikdkennedy··on Why is the sky blue?
Yes! This is exactly why I wrote this article :)

Any other questions give you the same disappointment?

erikdkennedy··on [dead]
Add unlimited colors. Remix instantly. One-click export to SVG/Figma. Gallery for inspiration.
erikdkennedy··on [dead]
- Creates more brilliant gradients than standard tools (by interpolating in 8 different radial color spaces) - Choice of 6 perceptually-uniform color spaces prevents the artificial "banding" in some gradients - 1-click export for CSS or SVG (which you can drag-and-drop into Figma, etc) - Includes a gradient gallery for inspiration/quick editing - Share-gradient-by-URL functionality - Go the “long way” around the color wheel (adds more color to the gradient)
erikdkennedy··on Gradient Generator Figma Plugin
Interpolates gradients in 6 color spaces, allowing easier tinkering with more brilliant gradients than most similar tools.
erikdkennedy··on Why Beginning Designers Don't Need to Learn Grids, Type Scales, or Color Theory
No, not all of them. But much of the stuff that goes out to the newsletter is later posted on the blog (https://learnui.design/blog) in some format or another.
erikdkennedy··on Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
Where do you work?