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- JacobAldridge 14y agoI like the format.
- rdl 14y agoYeah, this is my favorite refer.ly thing yet. It's pretty niche, though.
- dmor 14y agoThanks, we've switched gears to work on design and focus less on products (still the business model, but not every item needs to be a product link) and more on articles various audiences want to read. Great to hear you like the format, anything in particular about it that works well for you?
- rdl 14y ago1) Interestingly cropped square images. (although some of them were a lot better than others) 2) I was going to give you credit for the captions, but those are just headlines -- I guess internet media has gotten good at snappy headlines. 3) I'm really biased in favor of this content in specific, so I'm not really a great judge of the format when I see it in this context. Would be easier to judge something I care less about, like "80 vacation destinations" 4) I like the grid vs. the pinterest-style non-aligned grid. (I'm still amazed that gf spends ~1h/day pinning random things. I never got into it.) 5) I generally hate buttons in the UI; it is nice how they disappear.
- JacobAldridge 14y agordl answers in better detail than my awareness extended to - I just found it easy to skim for the relevant links in a sea of information that didn't feel overwhelming.
- rdl 14y agoI'm horrible at actually doing design, but better at figuring out what I do and don't like about design. It is a curse :(
- dmor 14y agoThis was really helpful, thank you for jotting down your thoughts. It is especially interesting that you like the cropped images, I have been debating that design element quite a bit. I can't stand the masonry effect used on Pinterest
- rdl 14y agoWhat I'm liking more and more is images which bleed off the viewable area, then are clicked to expand to more conventional composition. The small-form representation doesn't need to be complete, it just needs to be interesting. I'm not sure if there's an automated way to pick an exciting close crop, though.
- dmor 14y agoWould you prefer that when you click you are sent off to a new page entirely, or do you just want a modal to pop open with an expanded version of the image and a bit more info?
- rdl 14y agoIt depends. When I'm on the desktop, I generally do the mod-click so I get a new tab, and for those, I'd want a new page. When I'm on the iPad, I'd want a modal.