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Motion design looks hard, but it doesn’t have to be

Dec30
by on December 30, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, syndication


Motion helps make UIs expressive and easy to use. Despite having so much potential, motion is perhaps the least understood of all the design disciplines. This may be due to it being one of the newer members of the UI design family. Visual and interaction design dates back to early GUIs, but motion had to wait for modern hardware to render animation smoothly. The overlap between UI motion and traditional animation also muddies the waters. A lifetime can be spent mastering Disney’s 12 basic principles, does this mean UI motion is similarly complex? People often tell me that designing motion is…

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5 ludicrous cryptocurrency exit scams that regretfully happened in 2018

Dec30
by on December 30, 2018 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


When you say “cryptocurrency,” you’d be forgiven if one of the first things that comes to mind is: “exit scam.” Exit scams refer to those cunning plots, whereby blockchain startups collect investors money, often through initial coin offerings (ICOs), only to disappear suddenly, along with any the funds raised. This happens so frequently that by August, more than $100 million in funds contributed to ICOs had been stolen as part of an exit scams in 2018. They’re indeed such a common occurrence, odds are there a handful you have forgotten actually happened this year. While this may not be an…

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5 ludicrous cryptocurrency exit scams that regretfully happened in 2018

Dec30
by on December 30, 2018 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


When you say “cryptocurrency,” you’d be forgiven if one of the first things that comes to mind is: “exit scam.” Exit scams refer to those cunning plots, whereby blockchain startups collect investors money, often through initial coin offerings (ICOs), only to disappear suddenly, along with any the funds raised. This happens so frequently that by August, more than $100 million in funds contributed to ICOs had been stolen as part of an exit scams in 2018. They’re indeed such a common occurrence, odds are there a handful you have forgotten actually happened this year. While this may not be an…

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Our favorite Android apps in 2018

Dec30
by on December 30, 2018 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider


Here at TNW we’re always looking for a killer app that does something better, entertains us, or introduces innovation. Our favorite Android apps in 2018 are a mixture of brand new apps, returning champions, and things we’re finding for the first time. These aren’t the usual suspects, like “Netflix” and “Spotify” that you’ll find on most lists. Instead they’re the ones we wrote about or fell in love with this year that haven’t necessarily been shoved down your throat already. First up: some apps that’ll make your life easier, more secure, and better informed. SwiftKey Keyboard This keyboard for Android…

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End of year crypto roundup: How did Ethereum perform in 2018?

Dec30
by on December 30, 2018 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, The next generation of money management


Ethereum is an open-source blockchain platform which lets anyone create and deploy decentralized applications (DApps). The project was first proposed in a white paper in 2013 by a 19 years old Vitalik Buterin. Buterin’s purpose was clear. Instead of targeting and building every single use-case over blockchain, he wanted to create something that could be used to create anything over blockchain — whether it is custom cryptocurrencies, financial instruments, smart property, decentralized storage systems, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), non-fungible assets, identity management solutions, or whatever else you could think of. And, he wanted the users to be able to do this by…

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