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Meet The Team
- wwortiz 16y agoSo which 6 are the wonder children?
- ashitvora 16y agoI guess, its a suspense ;)
- huhtenberg 16y agoNot pictured. They are the ones who are actually working :)
- jjcm 16y agoVery engaging. A good design with decent writing made me enjoy reading the entire thing (and made me want to). I'll definitely save this page in my list of examples of great web page designs.
- Dramatize 16y agoThey had me reading the whole page.
- jamesbritt 16y agoSame here, but only because I kept expecting a punch line to the cliche sappy cuteness of it all. Apparently it's not a parody.
- joelanman 16y agoLike this? http://huhcorp.com/ http://huhcorp.com/
- jamesbritt 16y agoThat's just creepy accurate. Thanks!
- shib71 16y agoToo many commas. But otherwise engaging.
- compay 16y agoYeah, some of them (like the ones before "that" and "when") are a negative transfer from German. Trivial to fix though, and something tells me they will. Definitely a beautifully put-together page.
- kwantam 16y agoAhh, is this a translation thing? I was reading through this page gritting my teeth at the appalling misuse of commas---and I am certainly not one to skimp on commas.
- HistoryInAction 16y ago+1 for em-dash usage :-D
- lucasjung 16y agoI don't think it's a translation thing: I think this was written in English by a native German-speaker, who applied German comma-use habits to English. I'm American, but I spent many of my early years in Germany and attended German schools through the fifth grade. After that my family moved back to the states and I finished my education here. To this day, I still have to make a conscious effort not to over-use commas. After I finish a first draft, a big part of my first editing pass is cutting out extraneous commas. I instantly recognized the comma overuse in the bios page because it's how I'm naturally inclined to write.
- compay 16y agoYeah, what lucasjung said. A "negative transfer" is when you apply habits from one language to another and make usage choices that are not necessarily errors, but sound awkward to native speakers. It's not so much a translation thing as it is a non-native speaker thing.
- Tyrant505 16y agoI was thinking of doing the same thing, but instead putting on all these different hats as a solo founder. Looks great, nice style.
- niyazpk 16y agoI can only imagine the effort that has gone into making that page look so clean and engaging. Their first app[1] looks beautiful too. I should give it a try. [1] http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/ http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/
- techiferous 16y agoSomeone go find Jan Martin and compliment him on the great design job. :)
- kaiuhl 16y agoTheir website uniformly crashes Safari on my iPad with iOS 3. Can anyone else confirm this?
- mcav 16y agoWorks ok for me on iPad iOS 4.
- andreshb 16y agoThe home page crashed my iOS Safari, but the about page did not.
- joelackner 16y agono issues, iPad iOS 3
- macco 16y agoIsn't it just a (very good) copy of an apple product page? Just wondering.
- okeumeni 16y agoSimply beautiful design!
- juliamae 16y agoI guess I'm the outlier, but I think this page is trying too hard. It turns me off because it seems fake, sugary sweet, attempting to be cute for the sake of being cute. The bios barely say anything of value about the people; they're idealized descriptions of what the perfect person for each job would be. I do think it's nice visually, but the length of the page annoys me.
- RtodaAV 16y agoCompletely Agree.
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- rick_2047 16y agoSometimes you should enjoy a beautiful thing without fussing about the amount of data in it. I am amazed nobody commented on the Photos, beautiful compositions.
- gabrielroth 16y agoYup. I find the 'our-whole-office-is-staffed-by-fun-people-who-love-(office-admin|client-management|sales|.+)' trope really grating. These are people going to an office to do their jobs. Maybe they're good at their jobs, and maybe it's a nice place to work, but it's not summer camp, it's not a four-year liberal arts college, and it's not a heist movie in which a crack team of experts come together for one last big score. It's a software company. Get a grip.
- drewse 16y agoSure beats Apple's page http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ As well as Tapulous' (which I thought was pretty good until now) http://tapulous.com/team/ http://tapulous.com/team/
- hans 16y agoPretty sad to see such ridiculous cliches, even photographed like some cheap sitcom.
- duck 16y agoIt took me a minute to remember where this was, but I always thought this was a great "team" page: http://www.tamtam.nl/people.aspx http://www.tamtam.nl/people.aspx Most of the individuals have a looping video if you click on them. Gives you a better idea on personality, yet doesn't take anything away from the experience.
- brianlash 16y agoI think the page is gorgeous, and as jjcm put it, very engaging. I understand where a few are coming from with the "tries too hard" objection but isn't "doesn't try hard enough" a greater offense? At least these guys give us something to talk about. I guess I'm just so tired of the characteristic uninspired About Us that I find this refreshing, if a little cutesy. Also, anyone notice The Assistant's copy of Founders at Work?
- bkhl 16y agoHonestly, I don't really care about the team page...but the product looks pretty good. I think I finally found a substitute of "Things" for my PC :)
- bl4k 16y agounreleased product - so it just tells me that they are spending time in the wrong areas
- scalyweb 16y agoI do like the blue "script" font. Does anyone know the name of it? Nevermind, I've found it. For anyone interested: It's Journal by Fontourist. http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=journal&page=1&nb_ppp_old=50&text=we+think+its+time+for+a+change!&nb_ppp=50&psize=m&classt=alpha http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=journal&page=1&n...
- jayphelps 16y agoIn case anyone's wondering, Wunderlist is written in HTML/JS/CSS using Appcelerator's Titanium Desktop packaging tool to make it native using the WebKit framework. You can check out their source inside the app package. Pretty neat stuff. Pretty clean coding.
- pak 16y agoI thought Appcelerator Titanium was supposed to compile to native code? I downloaded it myself, saw all the HTML and JS files in the package and wondered, what the heck is the point in making this a standalone app instead of a web app. It's a ton of UI for a very simple to-do list. If it's just a webpage running in WebKit, and this is all the binary encapsulates, I see no reason to put it online, and then add http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/ to allow people to use it offline as a desktop app, if they really want. Or, just use HTML5 manifests to make it work offline in any browser.
- jayphelps 16y agoI think the general point is that for certain apps, a native environment is better suited to allow easy access and organization mentally. For a to-do list, it makes some sense. That way you can ⌘+TAB over to it, add or check your to-dos, then go back to whatever it is you were doing without worrying about browser tabs. Another benefit is that you don't have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. If it looks good in your app on your dev computer, it should look the same on everyone else's. I do agree that since it's written using web tech, they should have a web accessible version as well. Maybe they do, and I didn't see it? Regardless, I think the end product is more important then HOW they made it or what language was used. If it works great and looks great, who really cares?
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- jerf 16y agoIt's so great to see Valve sticking with this franchise. I've had a lot of fun with Team Fortress 2, and I'm really looking forward to this new loadout of classes and the bold new visual style this is exploring. I can't wait to play nerd-on-artist matchups!
- exit 16y agothis reminds me very much of the thread about compulsory high fives at linkedin: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422422 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422422
- QuantumGood 16y agoYes, it's under-personalized, but it's the right thing to try to do well.
- harrygold 16y agoI actually like their team page. I think it's well done overall Funny, the one issue that bothers me about it is how their social media buttons column along the far left edge are intentionally placed partially cropped off the page. Looks like the page width doesn't fit in the browser even though its intentional in there design. Looks fine when you hover over but otherwise.. On a different note I think this is a clever team page that brings levity and keeps you on the page longer: hover over the avatar photos http://www.walltowall.com/3/about http://www.walltowall.com/3/about
- ecaradec 16y agoIt's weird to see the assistant closer from the top of the page than the developers...