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by chefandy 3y ago
Lots of art techniques-- e.g. a basic set of shapes to help draw heads with correct proportions-- are formulaic. That doesn't make them any less artistic than someone just throwing down marks based on their gut instinct. Music itself h
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by chefandy 3y ago
BS. There's a hell of a lot of art in commercial art, and trying to make it appealing enough for people to pay for doesn't change that. This glib "no TRUE artist cares about making money" idea, and the closely coupled be
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by chefandy 3y ago
> It's also a prototype, you are numb and spoiled by the speed of technological advancements. > Like with good art, you need to learn how to appreciate it, see it not for whether it can be useful to you for 10$, but for what it c
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An xacto knife could have a huge impact on my budget.
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People say you can live on 1/3 of a paycheck but is that really true? No matter how clever I got with my cuts, I could never trim that much without losing either the payment information or signature line.
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by chefandy 3y ago
The web is a communication medium: having bad delivery is going to impact the efficacy of the message. I've worked as both a developer and a designer, and as a developer I've certainly had to push back against content-focused peop
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> I didn't consider how much intellectual work went into managing collections as entities I wasn't talking about the software development side, and I certainly wouldn't call the tech end of this a significant part of the
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I know so many people that so love them, and I do find the content useful sometimes... but I wish they could be modified a bit to have the deep dive after the really concise reference sheet style doc. But almost any time I've seen
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah I can see why a lot of people love it, but it's fundamentally anathema to the way I use docs. Considering how common other reference formats are, I can't imagine it's rare among developers, but I'm not sure. I'
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by chefandy 3y ago
As much as they annoy me, I think MS doesn't get enough credit for their dev docs. MDN has some more expository docs in addition to their great reference pages, too. They're super useful, but having them combined can be a real str
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by chefandy 3y ago
> This isn't a Getty Images initiative, but rather being run by the Getty Museum ADHD fail on my part! I even skimmed the article and totally didn't even parse that basic bit of context. Considering that Getty Images (originall
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by chefandy 3y ago
You're thinking about this from a technical perspective, but the tech is the easy part. The content, and therefore structure and logical chunking of the metadata, is far more consequential than the number of images. I've seen peop
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Haha... d'oh! That's a fail.
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The chunking and labeling of concise, strictly topical content and illustrative examples rather than having paragraph-after-paragraph of exposition is a huge factor for my flavor of ADHD, though we're obviously not a monolith. For cont
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah, sorry. Theory of mind failure on my part. Not everybody has my list of acronyms in their head, apparently.
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I'd be shocked if the IA wasn't all over this already.
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I'm surprised to find myself defending Getty Images at all, but here I am. Before I dealt with huge collections as a developer, I didn't consider how much intellectual work went into managing collections as entities-- Things like
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by chefandy 3y ago
I haven't looked at Drafts, but I stopped using Notes because I started doing work that requires Windows and it lacks native cross-platform support. The in-browser experience just doesn't cut it for me for something I need as much
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by chefandy 3y ago
Those would be great citations of we were talking about that. This entire conversation and the article it's responding to are discussing UI animation and not the merit of any given UI widget. You're obviously just going to just
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>>> Appropriately applied anything is good. I am disputing whether this is an appropriate application. >> Ok, explain why this animation is not an appropriate application of this animation in a technical demonstration of this
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by chefandy 3y ago
Bad design != Design. UI design is a communication medium, like technical writing. Within a weekend of fiddling, damn near anyone can operate the tools to assemble interfaces, but that does not mean they are interface designers. Failing to
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Appropriately applied anything is good. I am disputing whether this is an appropriate application. Ok, explain why this animation is not an appropriate application of this animation in a technical demonstration of this animation. >
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by chefandy 3y ago
> You are the one claiming to have numerical evidence to support your conclusions and failing to provide it. I think it is unreasonable to expect me to give that which you cannot. That appropriately applied animations are a valuable part
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by chefandy 3y ago
> I assure you, I do notice them. I am disabling them everywhere I can. I disable them in my Desktop Environment, I disable them on my Android smartphone. I am way more productive without them. Now, I don't hate animations per se. O
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What an astonishingly bizarre non sequitur. Are you implying that someone's socioeconomic status affects how they perceive animations in interfaces?
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by chefandy 3y ago
> They have an obvious incentive to like it: they're getting paid for doing nothing. Oh good lord: what an incredibly patronizing sentiment. If design makes an interface slower for its users to use, it's a bad design. What deve
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Somtimes. Checkboxes work for "yes" or "no", but they're not idiomatic for other "a" vs "b" selections.
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Do you have any support for anything you've said that isn't based entirely on your own assumptions and feelings about designers? > A dropdown with the words enabled/disabled indicating the state will always be better than
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> So? The justification is still substantive. What would change in a real slider that turns real setting on/off? No it's not. Whether or not a design accomplishes its goals is exclusively based on what it's trying to commu
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> But there was a general agreement between UI experts and power users on how a good UI with standard desktop controls should look like and behave, whereas now it’s a mess and there are significant disagreements. Details?

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