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Ketchup Bottles & The Physicality Of Design(flyosity.com)
29 points by flyosity 15y ago|10 comments
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by flyosity 15y ago
That's the exact phrase that stuck out to me too. Reminds me of Java developers who exclusively use GWT to build web apps because they want to "abstract away" the browser component of the web app and write it like an applet or desktop app.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Reading this makes me appreciate that my wife is also a software engineer and instantly understands things I talk about. We've been together for a long time (met near the end of college at RIT) but it's one of those life perks that I take f
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by flyosity 15y ago
Thanks! There really aren't many, which was a key reason why I put some together. There are lots of free PSD sites, but obviously they don't include any instructional material. However they are great to poke through to see how things are co
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by flyosity 15y ago
I wrote a 30+ page guide/book called Building iOS Apps From Scratch a few months ago, here's a link if anyone is interested. http://designthencode.com/scratch/
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by flyosity 15y ago
Re: updating your app all the time for discoverability, on the flip side of that coin is that if you update your app frequently you'll also lose glowing 1.0 reviews frequently, to be replaced by the often-less-glowing 1.1 reviews. This is a
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by flyosity 15y ago
It's more computationally expensive to calculate, draw and attach tap events to rows in a UITableView if you're trying to still keep 60fps scrolling. It's hard enough to get glass-like scrolling with dynamically-loading avatars and random s
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by flyosity 15y ago
The switch to a grouped tableview is one of the worst UI decisions I've seen Twitter make. Mobile screens are small so wasting horizontal space is a cardinal sin. Padding on either side of tweets might look good at first glance but it makes
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by flyosity 15y ago
This is a little too meta... I tweeted that (that's me!) but the link to Zuck's photos was found further down in the comments here on HN. That's where I saw it.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Unveiling things by having a velvet curtain or cloth on top (and then lifting it up!) has been done for decades, perhaps centuries. It's not unique to Apple or to 37signals, it's a common occurrence that they were expressing digitally.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I may be in the minority here, but I've received more than a few of these emails (people offering to buy me lunch to discuss an idea) and I always turn them down. Here are my reasons: 1) I typically go to lunch with my friends/coworkers and
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by flyosity 15y ago
Exactly what I came here to say. Please, startups, don't do design contests.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Ha, I'm quoted on slide 115. Thanks! Great resource, too. I'm about to tweet it out.
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by flyosity 15y ago
The software successes I see in the App Store take a two-pronged approach: launch with a polished 1.0, but then iterate quickly with similarly well-built .1s, .2s, etc. The upside of releasing multiple updates after a good 1.0 is out the do
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by flyosity 15y ago
It adds boxes to the DOM. Seriously, that's about it.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Pentile may be great engineering but the colors it shows are not true, and it has significant banding across solid colors. As an interface designer, it makes my eyes bleed and my graphics look sub-standard.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'm a big believer in jazzed-up images.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Nice snarky response, not sure it's warranted. There are lots of UI design techniques that work great on desktop that don't work at all on mobile, for various reasons, mostly because there are other interface paradigms that take their place
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by flyosity 15y ago
Yup. We use Zend at work and I did a double-take at the example code. "Wait, my code looks exactly like this..."
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by flyosity 15y ago
There's a difference between "looking like something I'm familiar with" and "working like something I'm familiar with". The problem with bad skeuomorphic design is when it looks familiar but doesn't act like the thing it's mimicking. A
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by flyosity 15y ago
Aaaaaand they just pulled it, confirmed on Twitter 20 minutes ago: https://twitter.com/#!/gmail/status/131794997308690434 Apparently they code-signed it with an improper distribution profile that doesn't allow for push notifications. How
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by flyosity 15y ago
I was a long-time TextMate user. The main advantage that ST has of TM is that the Go To Anything (files, functions in a file) feature is much, much faster than TextMate's. It also shows you the contents of files as you type, so you can sn
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by flyosity 15y ago
From the review at This Is My Next: "The subtle, pervasive lag that has characterized the Android UI since its inception is still there." You have got to be kidding me. How is it that Android still doesn't map a user's finger movements with
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by flyosity 15y ago
Not to mention that although the Pictos cloud glyph and the iCloud version share the same 4-cloud structure with similar shape proportions, they are definitely not the same icon. The Apple version's 2nd cloud on the left (the small one) has
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by flyosity 15y ago
I think I'll ask future job candidates to go through parts of the Dart runtime and find optimizations they could make at their interview. Thanks, Google!
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by flyosity 15y ago
It's not, and I felt the same way. I now regret giving the pageview for such an obviously inflammatory title.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I think we all saw what we wanted to see. I wanted an iPhone 5 and journalists wanted to write about an iPhone 5 so that was the story we all focused on. Looking back there are multiple signs that the 4S was going to be the only new model i
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by flyosity 15y ago
That's the price if you sign up for a 2-year contract. This is typically how they show the prices of iPhones since most consumers in the U.S. have no idea what a phone costs before the subsidy is paid by the carrier (and wouldn't pay it.)
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'm not always proven totally wrong on HN... ...but when I am it's by Joe Hewitt. TGIF!
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by flyosity 15y ago
I stand corrected! I got confirmation from both Joe Hewitt and JazzyChad that they are indeed webviews used in many places now instead of native tableviews. Disregard everything I said :)

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