The radial glyph wave animation is also really cool, but the novelty will wear off and the delay will become grating especially if one is using the app in a utilitarian manner. Consider skipping transitions/animations if the user signals a preference for reduced/removed motion. Alternatively, you could add an on-page toggle for animations.

The slider is hidden by default. Hovering the volume icon makes the slider appear. There is margin between the icon and slider, though, so you have to quickly "zip" your mouse across this gap/chasm before the slider disappears. If you make it over to the slider in time, your hover then preserves its visibility.

I know for sure the devs at Condé ain't dogfoodin' on that interface anymore!

When the user decision to unlock (or "side"-load, for that matter) is required to be authorized by the vendor, though, is when I feel like I no longer have control over my own hardware.

Semi-relatedly to the OP, I dug deeper and found that M.O.L. continues to regularly update their site in honor of the logo's illustrator (including fresh monthly wallpapers and printable stationery): https://www.mol.co.jp/en/yanagihara/

I was pleasantly surprised by the ongoing reverence they have for their illustrator's legacy.

However, this time, I was really hoping the example implementations would use CSS transforms instead of properties that require repaints, especially since the rationale given here for using sprites is performance.

Maybe layer compositing warrants its own article and is beyond the scope here, but you can really tell when whoever built a frontend knows their stuff because all animations are hitting a consistent 60fps.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

A lingering bit of weirdness is that all !important declarations, no matter the layer they appear on, are interpreted as being part of their own implicit layer.

I do see what you're saying, though, and will admit to some cheekiness on my end.

I get to feel like a ninja when I commit, the conceptual meaning is close to that of the previous term, and there's no historical baggage related to the US. Win-win-win?

1) exploit known aspects of indivdual human behavior (more reliable when based upon aspects that stem directly from physiological processes)

and

2) play to the the social climate of whatever emergent phenomena are presently occuring in society.

Strategies for 2) tend to be less evergreen. Many people are always hard at work doing reaearch to bolster techniques for 1) and 2).

I agree with you that education helps build immunity against "cheap tricks" used to influence human behavior.

I also want to add that if one has the privilege of decreased susceptibility to these strategies, it's only that: decreased susceptibility and not immunity. At which point, if the goal is not to be influenced, then a useful strategy for the "marketed-to" is to maintain a healthy respect for the power these techniques can have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_light_sensor