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by eflowers 12y ago
The skew is exactly what Dr. Dre's fans, and other pop fans, want. They are made by a former gangsta rapper turned pop rapper. Who can listen to Dre without a trio of 12" subs rumbling their car or house or the dancefloor? I have
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by eflowers 13y ago
"but it would have been a lot of work just to validate a simple idea: is this useful, do people need this?" I would say the opposite. You could easily do rapid experiments to validate the idea before investing any development time
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by eflowers 13y ago
What I've learned is that 20 minutes in, you're hour is up.
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by eflowers 13y ago
No Less files? That feels like something that would be really helpful.
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by eflowers 13y ago
I've started a similar thing, but much more bare bones and meant for really digging through things. There's almost no presentation layer done other than just setting up Bootstrap defaults. It's meant to be something you go fu
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by eflowers 13y ago
I can't do the math on how $200 for a theme could appeal to anyone who has the ability to do it, unless they make one theme and push up 20 slightly different CSS versions of it. $200 is approaching maybe 90 minutes of contract work, an
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by eflowers 13y ago
I can't tell if you're saying that visual/graphic designers are saying they are doing "UX", or if "UX" people are really just hand-waving visual designers? I got lost around "wank word" and UX be
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by eflowers 13y ago
I would like to hear it. Post in my comments thread on the page and tell me what you think and find out, I could add a revision and expand on the mixin and semantic naming part to help address some of the pros/cons. (im the author if t
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by eflowers 13y ago
Can you elaborate on how the "full mixin" approach in Bootstrap 3 isn't as sufficient? From what I can tell, you can leave markup completely out of your HTML, and even go so far as to use pseudo classes to designate where you
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by eflowers 13y ago
I've been using the WIP for a few months and the changes in RC2 are looking really great. I am curious as to what the ramifications will be on the learning curve of people really making the most of the new grid system and how it can be
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by eflowers 13y ago
Outside of places like HN, most people don't. I am trying to think of a hacker analogy, but can't.
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by eflowers 13y ago
I have definitely been a UX PM, even having a former VP of Engineering saying that the 3 "UX people" in the company were the only people providing the "tactical PM role" since PM's were stuck writing PRD's (wat
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by eflowers 13y ago
I would say 95% of initial impression I've had is that I'm a "look and feel" person. Even after long, very specific conversations, it still comes out as "look and feel." And honestly, that's what most peop
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by eflowers 13y ago
That's a good way of putting it. I would add that someone, a UX role perhaps, also has to have researched/figured out the answers to "A cake for who?" "What is the occasion?" "How big does this cake have t
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by eflowers 13y ago
I agree. That's one of those places where being in a UX role is way outside of UI design, and I'm taking the apps on-site with customers (I am mostly b2b) and observing and testing them as they use it. Recording their responses, a
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by eflowers 13y ago
Being an internal consultant is often what happens. It's a horizontal role that might look like it's owning a bunch of things, but really it's support various needs in various domains that have a touch on the user/custom
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by eflowers 13y ago
You get it more than most. This is right on target. It goes from 50/50 one day, to 90/10, to 10/90. And yes, often as I have lived and witnessed, UX is set up to fail through that structure, especially when they don't ac
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by eflowers 13y ago
I think UX often is a thin, horizontal role across many others. My personal experience has been that yes, there are significant aspects of PM, UI, marketing, development, data analysis, etc that are thrown my way and I am supposed to "
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by eflowers 13y ago
Hello, I wrote this article. I can check one thing off my bucket list - an article of mine on the front page of HN (spot 28 as I write this). Reading the stuff here in HN, I agree with almost everything said. My intent wasn't to take a
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by eflowers 13y ago
11" Macbook Air and 2 27" Thunderbolt Displays. Staples folding banquet table, 72". Full size apple keyboard. Microsoft Intellipoint Optical Mouse, 1.1 (USB/PS2)
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by eflowers 13y ago
I am glad you pointed this out, your premise is a quintessential example of "UX is not UI." It's not the visual or web designers primary job to A/B test or step into the users shoes on every detail, that's what a responsible and valuable UX
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by eflowers 13y ago
I can see what you're saying, and I don't want to belabor it to death. But as the UX guy, a persona is what nails down the problem before ever coming to a solution. Maybe we're talking about different types of personas. The question I'd ask
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by eflowers 13y ago
Creating personas on what people say is bad UX, and not a flaw in personas. Knowing what a user behavior based interview/persona is the job of whoever is in charge of the startups UX process. I don't see how you can "know your market" witho
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by eflowers 13y ago
I have a hard time believing that Microsoft is the best example of persona usage.
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by eflowers 13y ago
Just like any development or UX tool, personas can be dangerous or super effective. It has nothing to do with the concept of personas, it's just how people choose to research and use them. The intent isn't to design for a specific customer,
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by eflowers 14y ago
This is the key to Bootstrap (or similar css frameworks). It's not intended to be a theme. If you want to just have the css/html ready for you to do some documentation or a project that has no need for any visual differentiation, then go ah
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by eflowers 14y ago
I've never heard of the Seattle Freeze, but upon reading about it, it can't be any worse than the Salt Lake City freeze if you're not downtown. Interesting, I wonder if moving from Salt Lake to Seattle would make the "freeze" feel like noth
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by eflowers 14y ago
I really like this. I had done something similar in a project, but this execution really ignites my imagination. Really well done. I am curious if chosen.js would have to be modified to handle backbone style async, I know it's been strange
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by eflowers 14y ago
I just learned that I am such a sloppy coder since I hit semicolon with my index finger apparanlty, and my right hand only uses my thumb, index, and middle finger. No wonder I can never hit the semicolon or parens/braces/brackets. I use my
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by eflowers 14y ago
Having to constantly remind yourself that, more or less, "this is happening right now" is a surreal experience. It feels like the cheesy curated montage at the beginning of a smarmy independent film - but it's not. It's just random, unfilte

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