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Bootstrap Design for Hacker-Founders
This post was a response to a fellow YC Winter '08 founder, but I figured it might be valuable to other folks, so I threw it up on my blog.
- dcurtis 19y agoThis is an awesome article. Lots of people confuse graphic designers with interface and user experience designers, and they often end up with shitty applications with pretty outer shells. Good user experience and also pretty: wufoo.com Pretty, but lacking user experience: imthere.com Awesome UI: cdbaby.com Sadly, bad user experience ("noprocrast" implementation), also not pretty (though simple): news.ycombinator.com
- dcurtis 19y agoAhh, not cdbaby.com's default style, this one: http://cdbaby.com/?css=plain http://cdbaby.com/?css=plain
- breily 19y agonews.yc is really nice looking if you install greasemonkey (ff extension) and the News.YC Enhancements script. Also, I figure whoever wrote that script uses this site, so thanks for that.
- brianm 19y ago"As a startup, the first thing that you'll need is a logo." Umh.
- webwright 19y agoI was talking about from a design perspective... I think that's obvious given the topic of the post, but I suppose I could clarify it. Jeeez. Nitpick much?
- brianm 19y ago:-) I still say "umh" to that. Are you more likely to use an app by a company with a good logo, or an app with a good ui?
- tel 19y agoBrand development is still deadly important. No one is going to use your site if they can't remember it. If your competitors are on par with you feature-wise, the one with the stronger brand is going to win. That being said, if your opponents aren't on par with you feature-wise, well...
- german 19y agoHave you guys noticed the text highlight in Firefox! That's great CSS!