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by alabut 18y ago
Yes, utterly and absolutely. If you're a designer: personal websites are a sandbox where you can experiment with new designs, see what works for what kind of content or app, try out latest trends (if you're like that) or buck them with your
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by alabut 18y ago
Not at all - it just depends on how good a designer you are and/or comfortable with html/css.
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by alabut 18y ago
I'm a sucker for any kind of "behind the scenes" articles on other people's work and especially a progression of wireframes into final designs. Having said that, the screenshots is pretty much all there is in the post, there isn't any expla
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by alabut 18y ago
I thought that this was the norm too (that you have to hold off on any kind of agreement for compensation before the company has funding) but it's actually not the case at all. I just signed something with two friends last week for a side p
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by alabut 18y ago
Absolutely! That's the basic defense I've had in my head whenever anyone used to trash Jakob Nielsen, for example. Yes he sets out lists of guidelines to follow that you can brainlessly treat like a checklist, but you won't get the full und
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by alabut 18y ago
That's pretty much my approach and it seems to work well. I find that it helps to concentrate on color last, and not only that, but to set the overall color scheme first and then introduce highlight and alert colors last (like cilantro on t
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by alabut 18y ago
Unfortunately I find it's not quite as simple as the first snappy or good idea snowballing into the top comment - I've often noticed a good long chain of replies and discussion get bumped down simply because of the high karma points of the
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by alabut 18y ago
I'm not sure they are either, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I also lean towards the approach of learning from others and studying the ecology of existing designs, but I think that betrays a designer's bias:) The YC ethic seems to
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by alabut 18y ago
I open both the links and the comments for each link at the same time in background tabs, so if I like an article, it's one tab away for an upvote after reading. Otherwise I'm in the habit of closing two tabs at once.
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by alabut 18y ago
Not a lot new here but upvoting anyway just for this line: "UX is something that always evolves and gets better and better with data, user feedback and just availability of more time and is inherently an iterative process, just as is the co
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by alabut 18y ago
The fact that people are complaining about not being able to read longer blocks of text means it's working just fine. And it's a nice subtle touch - I never consciously considered why I tend to ignore rambling posts and stick to the discuss
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by alabut 18y ago
Not sure that limiting the textarea would help - it's not like it constrains the length of these replies, for example. It's pretty trivial to compose a block of text in Textmate and paste it in, I'll often do that just for the spell checkin
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by alabut 18y ago
Very interesting idea. Do you mean each paragraph in a post gets lighter as it goes on or the color for the entire comment block fades depending on overall length?
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by alabut 18y ago
Easy on the anti-designer bigotry there, dude, it's only the crappy designers that use super low contrast text just because they think it's cool. That's not the case here - see my comment below and pg's confirmation for a rational discussio
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by alabut 18y ago
This is absolutely true for me as well - since working from home in Nov, I've noticed the quality of my work has gone up even more than the quantity because I can concentrate on just the output rather than being self-conscious about looki
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by alabut 18y ago
This is an interesting question, not because it's from a Mayan calendar (I'm a flying spaghetti follower myself) but because the standard line of "live like today's your last" is a bit tired. If I had 3 years to live, say from a slow cancer
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by alabut 18y ago
I haven't seen a rationale for it yet but I'd guess that it's a subtle way of encouraging descriptions to be short (like the one you just wrote), it's probably intentional that it's hard to read long rambling posts like http://news.ycombin
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by alabut 18y ago
I agree with tptacek - if you're going to indicate that some commenters are better than others, make them darker rather than orange. And here's a theoretical underpinning to explain so it doesn't come across as simply a subjective design ch
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by alabut 18y ago
True, it hasn't changed my mind away from being pro-CSS. It has however, made me realize how much of a learning curve CSS must be for many programmers compared to tables, much more than I thought, so I'm less likely to debate the finer poin
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by alabut 18y ago
That's the first thing I thought of too when I saw this post. Have you watched the screencast of the dropbox-like functionality? Pretty slick.
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by alabut 18y ago
This is a great tip about starting your own fires, one that I've phrased as "setting artificial constraints" instead, which doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by alabut 18y ago
I love Fireworks, fucking hate CS4. I've been using FW since version 4, from everything from wireframes to full polished design, and I have never seen this much bugginess on any production software. The worst part of it is that the most per
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by alabut 18y ago
Oops, make that "so a basic understanding goes a long way".
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by alabut 18y ago
Here's a designer's take on why this is a great answer by pj - the html/css is the meeting ground between designers and programmers, so without a basic understanding goes a long way. Think of it this way - html by itself, even without css,
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by alabut 18y ago
I loved the message of the book - I only found the first half (a description of the problem) to be useful and eye-opening, however, since the second half where he tries to offer solutions to overengineering or underdesigning products seems
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by alabut 18y ago
My Firebug addiction is at the point now where I can barely think about CSS without firing it up. The most painful part of a project is still IE-compatibility but no longer just because of general quirkiness - it's more about being forced o
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by alabut 18y ago
Worth it just for the screenshot of Game Neverending - never saw the genesis of Flickr before, only read about it.
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by alabut 18y ago
Very cool, I had a similar idea for a "scorecard for politicians" type of app - input either your location or a politician's name, see some info on what laws they've voted on and if possible, boil it down to a scorecard of where they stand
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by alabut 18y ago
I'm not but my friend works for them and I get the concept - it's like feedburner for APIs. So instead of individual web apps polling twitter a few times an hour, for example, you subscribe to gnip and it pings you (gnip is ping spelled bac
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by alabut 18y ago
I just realized I actually do this right now - a mac mini for work and an ipod touch for music, email, etc. That's how I get away with using such a cheap system for design work - I offload everything except Fireworks on to the ipod, plus th

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