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by alabut 14y ago
I noticed it too - I'm on an iPad 2.
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by alabut 14y ago
A great way to deal with the different modes is to establish habits and routines around each of them. My friend is head of design at Salesforce and turned me on to the concept of "Me, Make, Meet": http://managinguxteams.com/2010/03/27/me-m
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by alabut 14y ago
That's a good question. I think making sure to add a personal note would help explain why you recommend something, like "here's a great helmet for going river rafting with, I used it last weekend" or etc. I get annoyed by stuff that doesn't
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by alabut 14y ago
We actually have a (very handy) bookmarklet but I de-emphasized it so much in this design (buried on the right in tiny type as the second tip) that it makes it look like we don't have one. I can see a v2 of this page reversing that and bein
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by alabut 14y ago
Hi, Referly's designer here. Yeah, those big huge brands really do have affiliate programs set up that we integrate with and it's an interesting design challenge you brought up, some way to indicate that a site's a recognized vendor in our
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by alabut 14y ago
That's hilarious. I was jamming out this design all weekend and never once did it occur to me, then I get this and a few tweets about it. Let's call it an unintentional in-joke then :)
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by alabut 14y ago
Tldr; argues that skeumorphism has its place, when used appropriately to immediately get across the purpose of the app. That also accurately describes the importance of visual design overall, not just this one particular flavor of realistic
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by alabut 15y ago
Cute and fun. I'd try the app if it had this page. As a working designer, there's a few things I love about this guy's approach: * use real language, not lorem ipsum. Text is half of the design. * branding is just as much about giving pers
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by alabut 15y ago
Well done Stammy, this was excellent. It's like the way I wanted Founders At Work to never end and keep reading more about company's from the inside, rather than the "success theater" at presentations and talks. It's so good I might just st
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by alabut 15y ago
Yeah, doesn't really help his case that the way to go is to sit around overthinking something until you gain the courage to act. The girl he made fun of was acting like she'd read Blink and is no less rational than his decision-making.
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by alabut 15y ago
Blogger was like that too and I loved it. It's why I've had super basic shared hosting at Dreamhost for so long - it could handle pretty much any traffic by serving up plain HTML. I'd be curious to see how a "Blogger of today" would fare if
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by alabut 15y ago
" I have exactly the same workflow, except my "ideas pane" is just a text file in Dropbox. " Interesting timing - I came up with an idea this weekend for a Dropbox-based blogging app that pushes both final and draft posts to a blog every ti
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by alabut 15y ago
" I'm sure there must be counter examples " Measure Map was a small team acquired by google that made a pretty analytics app for blogs and they went on to overhaul Google Analytics, which at the time still look pretty rough because it was a
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by alabut 15y ago
PG - the post only mentions groups, so are you open to solo founder types applying as well? They're probably more likely to be non-hackers that need a team, like designers.
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by alabut 15y ago
It sounds like working at certain types of tech companies forces insights that I usually hear from overworked Wall Street types. The reference to Eric Schiermeyer and the Buddhist monk is interesting because the only other time I heard abou
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by alabut 15y ago
Argh, this would've been so useful just 48 hours ago at a big client meeting where I presented a dozen wireframe layouts with a responsive design. As a designer, I tried something new by skipping Fireworks and going straight from sketches t
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by alabut 15y ago
" I don't think Jobs really gave a damn what Isaacson wrote about what went on under the kimono at Apple. " You nailed it. That's the opinion I heard from Gruber on The Talk Show podcast and it makes sense - that Jobs would've picked someon
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by alabut 15y ago
" TL;DR it turns out that design is a lot of work, just like code. " The funny thing is that as much work as Idan is showing here, he's making the design process look a lot shorter than it is or can be by only showing part of it, the pixel
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by alabut 15y ago
A joke in bad taste, dude. What has 37signals done other than pipe up about getting ripped off?
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by alabut 15y ago
Love his answer to #7 on what advice he'd give to a new developer: "7. What advice would you give to a beginner server-side developer and what to an open-source author / contributor? Meh, advice-shmadvice. Who am I to give advice? What’s ex
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by alabut 15y ago
Sony made this same mistake in the 80's by buying a movie studio. I can't see Apple going down this road of diversification through acquisition. Then again, Sony's terrible product divisions are propped up by their massive sales in life ins
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by alabut 15y ago
And like Dribbble, Pinterest, Storenvy and any of the "deck of cards in a grid" gallery layouts.
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by alabut 15y ago
I was nodding along until I hit #5 - pricing films at 99 cents, without any variation for the length of the work. That'd be like if both songs and albums cost 99 cents each. All you get is a race to the bottom with a lot of short derivative
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by alabut 15y ago
You're absolutely right and it's called Baby Duck Syndrome, which you can learn about after the blackout here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_duck_syndrome
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by alabut 15y ago
Unfortunately no, not yet, I'm still abstracting out the themes from a few recent side projects and wanted to clean things up before posting anywhere.
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by alabut 15y ago
Ha, Darius from colourlovers was one of the first people I tested the idea out on over breakfast a few weeks back and he really warmed up to it, especially considering the ambitious marketplace he's building now: http://creativemarket.com
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by alabut 15y ago
Absolutely! Definitely inspired by all the Bootstrap activity I've been seeing here lately. Here's another one - a form builder based on Bootstrap and jquery: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3442883
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by alabut 15y ago
I'm creating a library of design patterns for BS, so ping me if you want to be included. EDIT: I'm sorry I don't have a signup list yet! Just email me at my HN username at gmail and I'll send out an alert that way.
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by alabut 15y ago
No offense, but your comment is a perfect example of how listening to customer feedback is more of an art than science. You ask Joel to keep the product simple in the first paragraph and then ask for some non-trivial features in the third.
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by alabut 15y ago
Reminds me of a post (from a now defunkt blog) explaining the design decisions of google maps that gives it superior readability compared to yahoo and bing: http://web.archive.org/web/20110101023957/http://www.41latit... They're fairly b

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