Design / UX / Visualization (2026-01)

Show HN: A minimal Vim color scheme based on Gruber Darker (github.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by ruscito Jan 31, 2026 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Design / UX / Visualization thread

A minimal Vim color scheme with muted colors and cyan functions. Based on Gruber Darker but with darker types and better C syntax support.<p>Feedback welcome!

Patterns – A catalogue of Rust design patterns, anti-patterns and idioms (rust-unofficial.github.io)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Brysonbw Jan 31, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS Design / UX / Visualization thread

How Much of CP/M's Design Ended Up in MS‑DOS? (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

HN 13 pts 9 comments by ingve Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Visualizing large repositories via AST Analysis (ast-visualizer.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by codeviewer Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Another attempt to visualize time and space (rtnf.substack.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by altilunium Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Don't invert established UX mental models (thoughts.wyounas.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by simplegeek Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Foley (Sound Design) (en.wikipedia.org)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by lawlorino Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Font design (on my Nintendo DS) [video] (youtube.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Antibabelic Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Minimal self driving car visualizer?

HN 1 pts 0 comments by LowLevelKernel Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Self driving car tools A minimal tool to visualize open drive map with lanes and ego and other cars as most minimal bounding boxes?

Dieter Rams – Ten principles for good design (vitsoe.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by thunderbong Jan 31, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Selecting the right sensor: A guide for R&D and electronics design engineers (eeworldonline.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by hhs Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Design, Just Rebrand Please (focused.io)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by austinbv Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Notification underload (zuma9pt5.com)

L 8 pts 5 comments by abnercoimbre Jan 30, 2026 designpractices Design / UX / Visualization Productivity / Career / Business thread

Why the Sound Design of Cast Away Is One of Film's Greatest Hidden Achievements (nofilmschool.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by thunderbong Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

IcoGenie: CLI-First SVG Icon Generator for Developers (icogenie.xyz)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by albertnahas Jan 30, 2026 Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

Using the 2D discrete Fourier transform to fix rainbows in manga on color eInk (youtube.com)

HN 2 pts 2 comments by seam_carver Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

MIT engineers design structures that compute with heat (physics.mit.edu)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by o4c Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit (jamieclarketype.com)

HN 237 pts 51 comments by tobr Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Glyphr Studio – open-source web-based font editor (glyphrstudio.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by microflash Jan 30, 2026 Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

Online Explain Plan Visualizer for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB (explain.datadoghq.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by tanelpoder Jan 30, 2026 Data / Databases / Infrastructure Design / UX / Visualization thread

Forget about coding. Learn UX and Product Design (jdjuan.substack.com)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by jdjuan1234 Jan 30, 2026 Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (blender.org)

HN 534 pts 112 comments by vidyesh Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Retarget Mixamo Animation to MMD in one click (mixamo-mmd.vercel.app)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Amyang Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Backseat Software (blog.mikeswanson.com)

L 71 pts 21 comments by chai Jan 30, 2026 design Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

ASIC Design Jobs (semidesignjobs.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by johncole Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Understanding the Monad Design Pattern in Kotlin (lasantha.org)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by kiriberty Jan 30, 2026 Programming Languages / CS Theory Design / UX / Visualization thread

Show HN: Guess My RGB – Daily game to test your color visualization skills (rgb.day)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by balgan Jan 30, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization Gaming / Retro Computing thread

I built a daily color guessing game. You're shown RGB values like (147, 83, 211) and try to pick what color that actually is.<p><pre><code> The scoring uses Euclidean distance in RGB space. New color every day. ...

Colorblind-Friendly Design Guide for Developing Apps (github.com)

L 16 pts 1 comments by colindean Jan 29, 2026 a11ydesignswift Design / UX / Visualization Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Explain Plan Visualizer (explain.datadoghq.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by aloukissas Jan 29, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Show HN: Liminal Shift: Personalized audio visualizations (liminalshift.app)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by tylersavery Jan 29, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread

Hey HN. I built a tool that generates personalized audio visualizations for goals and stress release.<p>The idea came from a manual workflow I was doing for myself — using AI conversations to clarify goals, generating scripts based on my specific context, then running them through text-to-speech. I ...