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by Smudge 14y ago
I once hired a designer to put together the cover art for a CD, based on the fact that he was nearby, affordable, and had a limited but decent portfolio online. (The project had a small budget, so we weren't shooting for the stars or anythi
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by Smudge 14y ago
Care to elaborate? As I see it, classes named after colors are based on unstable assumptions about presentation. When these assumptions change, you've saved yourself a headache if all you need to change is one line of CSS, instead of every
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by Smudge 14y ago
I understand what you are going for, but in this case, I think a more relevant question is "can my housemate/co-worker/sibling/mom get the hang of email or phone?," in which case the answer is certainly "yes." If I need something done, and
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by Smudge 14y ago
If there's a real market for this kind of app, that's great and I hope it does well. But it's not something I would ever use. (This is intended as feedback -- think of me as the type of user you'd have to work hard to win over. Maybe it's a
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by Smudge 14y ago
I only ever wash dishes by hand when I need some time to clear my head and relax. The other 5 or 6 days of the week I'm incredibly glad I have a dishwasher. I think this appliance saves me more time than anything else (in the kitchen).
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by Smudge 14y ago
In my experience, daily stand-up meetings work best when: -The team is new, or starting on a new project. -The product is approaching a big deadline. With the former, it helps the team build momentum early-on if there is a chance to sync-up
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by Smudge 14y ago
Instead of classes for each color (".red", ".blue", etc) you should use classes which indicate state or function (".primary", ".warning", ".success"). Otherwise you might find yourself editing a lot of code just to change the colors of your
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by Smudge 14y ago
Personally, I've found that I no longer think twice about the VS2012 UI (been using it since the beta). I don't know if I'm more or less productive than I was in VS2010, but the difference is likely marginal since I haven't noticed. It's th
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by Smudge 14y ago
I can see exactly what you mean, but the point you make is marred by your usage of the word "Idiots." The concept of Office being a different kind of "Metro" than normal Metro is not obvious to everyone. Edit: I guess I'm just confused abou
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by Smudge 14y ago
IMO, the solution to "it's different" is either to learn how to use the newest version, or to not upgrade.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Customer acquisition, I would think. The cost to them is very small compared to the gains they get by attracting so may people with an awesome, simple-to-use service. Think of it as the "gateway" dyno. Tiers would just get in the way of the
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by Smudge 14y ago
That was just opinion. Should have made that clear.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Free dynos shut off after inactivity (~30 minutes in my experience). So you're probably subsidizing a lot less than you think, since most production apps have scaled beyond the free tier.
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by Smudge 14y ago
> "maybe it's just common" Perhaps making it a poor choice for building a brandable user interface. That is, if you want your app to stand out from the crowd.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I agree. This site seems to call-out anything with a certain kind of texture as "skeumorphic," and many of the examples are quite attractive on their own. But I think you're pigeonholing it into a certain school of design. I don't see it ca
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by Smudge 14y ago
I wasn't arguing that texture is worse. When used appropriately, it's generally better than solid colors, both in terms of UX and just visual attractiveness. But there is a certain category of textures that seem to come up most often on thi
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by Smudge 14y ago
I think that's part of the point here. The visual metaphor of leather doesn't make much sense, and is only there as an ornament because it (apparently) looks attractive. Why include the leather at all, if it's not a helpful metaphor for usi
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by Smudge 14y ago
My designer friend and I are laughing so hard at this that we're crying. In all seriousness, this is the perfect tool for showing people how skeumorphism can be taken too far. I actually like many of these designs, but the point is that the
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's hard to tell, but the image has also been rotated, which makes it seem like he is leaning forward more intently. Click the little "compare" link on the TinEye result to see what I mean: https://www.tineye.com/search/b2e69b229df764bf6b
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by Smudge 14y ago
Ignoring the article's contents for a second, let's look at how clearly doctored the image is to make PG look insidious. Before: http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/paul-grah... After: http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.co
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by Smudge 14y ago
They also say: Kickstarter is under no obligation to become involved in disputes between any Users, or between Users and any third party. This includes, but is not limited to, delivery of goods and services, and any other terms, conditions
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by Smudge 14y ago
I'm taking a partial break from Facebook. I consider it a tool for broadcasting information to a network of people who know me, and I ignore everything else (especially the part where I could spend hours each day consuming all of the inform
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by Smudge 14y ago
I hope to be pleasantly surprised by a really stellar phone, but honestly I just don't know what competitive edge they could bring to the market, unless they've made drastic improvements to their flavor of Android.
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by Smudge 14y ago
> They didn't compensate me for travel. (From the comments on reddit.)
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by Smudge 14y ago
Would recommend using CodeRay with the Kramdown gem (a markdown converter implemented in Ruby). Kramdown is a superset of markdown, and has a ton of other nonstandard (but nifty) features.
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by Smudge 14y ago
For most uses, fine-grained kerning is overkill. The following will work well enough in browsers that support it (Firefox often turns this on by default): text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; Scripts like Lettering.js are best for typ
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by Smudge 14y ago
I like being able to change the behavior of my application without having to make changes in the markup (some of which can even ripple out into the stylesheets). Things just scale more cleanly as the app's complexity increases, and the sepa
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by Smudge 14y ago
Sometimes, if you really know your target audience and how they'll respond, it's okay to create what might typically be considered a UX nightmare. I'm not convinced that this was one of those times, but I could be wrong.
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by Smudge 14y ago
It does seem a bit conservative to me, which is why I submitted the link. I wanted to see whether I was alone in that thought.
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Why Good People Leave Good Jobs(sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
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