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by ebf 14y ago
"Design is about making choices and Metro makes none. Of course excessive skeuomorphism is bad but it is design because it makes a statement and presents no choice. What Microsoft shows in “balls” to make changes it’s lacking in making choi
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The opportunity that Apple is missing to build a better neighborhood(switchboard.nrdc.org)
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by ebf 14y ago
The slide to unlock feature is a skeuomorphic design. The sliding lock is a very common lock on doors. I would consider it obvious for that reason alone.
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by ebf 14y ago
"When searching online I find it vaguely insulting that my presumed default state is one of not already knowing what I'm looking for, and furthermore the question I'm asking is the same question everybody else is asking." Often when I searc
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by ebf 14y ago
If the company allowed the discrimination and harassment to occur even after several complaints, why shouldn't they be held liable?
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by ebf 14y ago
It seems to me the 37 signals website puts the most important bits above the fold.
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by ebf 15y ago
They list 2560x1440 on a 10" screen as a common display size for Windows 8. That puts it at 291 DPI compared to the new iPad's 264 DPI.
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by ebf 15y ago
My whole dorm played their games when they were iminlikewithyou.com. My friends never thought the name was childish, and it went with their cute art direction.
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by ebf 15y ago
I never run my browser at full width.
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by ebf 15y ago
Great pitch, but some feedback: On my Macbook Air, I didn't even realize there was something below the fold. I was scrolling side to side and clicking on the icon, trying to figure out what to do (partly the fault of Lion's disappearing scr
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by ebf 15y ago
I would say your example is not analogous. To upgrade from XP to Vista, the user has to purchase Vista and go through the install process. To upgrade from 3.x to ICS, the user simply downloads an OTA update. The upgrade to ICS can be done b
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by ebf 15y ago
I've noticed this problem lately. Last night, I saw that a large percentage of my front-page was from 1 subreddit. I'm also subscribed to over 200 subreddits. Some of these subreddits never hit my frontpage, and I tend to visit only 10-20
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by ebf 15y ago
Only one of my friends played D2 on LAN. I never understood why anyone would want to play like that. Playing online was incredibly more fun to me.
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by ebf 15y ago
Spongebob Squarepants, at least early on, had terrific writing.
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by ebf 15y ago
I'm pretty disappointed in the direction Chill has gone. Social video is an incredibly interesting area. Chill, however, didn't iterate too much on the idea of Turntable for videos, and now they've pivoted to a Pinterest for videos.
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by ebf 15y ago
I really enjoyed learning Logo in my 5th grade gifted program. I'm pretty sure that most of the class enjoyed it as well.