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by harlanlewis 14y ago
Kickstarter isn't far from its own optimization industry - like SEO and social media consultants, but guidance for presenting fiscally impossible idea as plausible and tantalizingly close. Then just make a slick concept video, keyword that
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This. When I need a new pack of dry erase markers, I spend 45 seconds giving Amazon $5. Two days later, I don't have a dry erase marker problem anymore. I don't really know how I feel about the future world that's created by universal deliv
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by harlanlewis 14y ago
Whose perspective are you describing? There may be a world of folks who think Groupon = tech = uses email = young, but that definition presupposes failure for all tech companies because of their inherent silliness.
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I'm (thankfully) out of date on Facebook marketing tactics, but gating content behind Likes and Invited Friend Counts is standard - there are even plenty of sweepstakes to win just for consenting to being shown a like button. Generally spea
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
If the criticism has merit, the lack of a Dribbble profile (of all things) should not be used as a shield against critiques. I say that as a huge Dan Cederholm fan. To CodeAcademy's credit, they're doing a great job welcoming and acknowle
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Add keyboard nav to upvote, downvote, and cycle through pics. The internet needs a streamlined cat experience.
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Pinterest is a viral demo page for jQuery Masonry. ( https://twitter.com/#!/gem_ray/status/167010997008211969 )
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I've most often seen this tactic in secondary products, with the goal of learning from (hopefully) representative visitors in a way that doesn't risk presenting an unfocussed core offering. This sort of safety-zone data mining doesn't have
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
Good points! I actually don't have much of an argument to make, just the evolution of old+successful software is an interesting topic. It is definitely a fuzzy line between "new thing" and "old but better", and your list has a bunch of must
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_(The people using Photoshop that don't need much of it's power are mostly those that use a pirated copy for some basic home use)._ I disagree. I did pirate a copy for home use - I was a youngling, the version was v5.0 (not CS5), and that e
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
Nice, pretty solid bit of Godwin's Law trolling. I'm not interested in debating this to the level of detail that will spare me being called a nazi by someone on the internet, so suffice it to say that _any_ blacklist based on generalized at
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Strong points. But from a usability perspective, Bootstrap would be much more significant if it were opinionated about interactions instead of just gradients, whitespace, and CTA placement. The examples list of beautiful, usable, and ident
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This implies that feedback can't be provided throughout the interview. Reduce feedback loops, etc etc. In some of the 'worst' interviews I've conducted, it would become clear with 45 minutes to go that the candidate was a pass for technical
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
Re "why it's concave?": Concave buttons are less likely to be pressed while sitting in your pocket - waking the screen, waking some background processes, draining the battery unnecessarily throughout the day. To solve this problem, non-conc
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
We hung a rotating nerf missile launcher upside down from the ceiling that shoots folks who push broken tests to our staged for deploy branch (we use TeamCity). It's a work in progress and not a perfect system (we pair a lot so there's no g
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The key is 'getting in touch with folks'. Frequency matters - weekly works great for some, it will sink others. Make the appropriate decision for your products, your audiences, your channels - but the advice to regularly highlight benefits
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Silly, but only because it accurately describes how silly people can behave when they think they're acting rationally.
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
While that is true, it's hardly the end of the story. This is all a bit slipperyslopey and devilsadvocatey, and definitely a 2am runon sentence, but when businesses maintain the most extensive and authoritative identity rosters on the plane
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
My gandi.net experience is ~7 years out of date, but I also eventually gave up after difficulties with their payment system (a year or two into using them). Other than that, they were fine - pretty much invisible. The thing is, you can find
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
I actually rather like that 'remove on paste', default to educating/transparency instead of blindly running. Manually typing the prepended 'javascript:' works fine. Don't see any settings to disable (even in chrome://flags). Chrome's Javasc
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Thank you (and noste) for providing links. Shameful.
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This is a very serious accusation that implies a lot about how the company handled it, and after a handful of searches I've found no other references to it.
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Tangent time! "The optimal human-readable line length" isn't really something that exists, even if we make lots of assumptions about basic stuff like font size, avg word length, and color contrast. Here's a quick study on the reading speed
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Audience, and also variance of product. The product images shown in the test are extremely similar, reducing the effectiveness of any arrangement that emphasizes visuals over details. Amazon grids don't always use images that are quite as e
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You said it yourself - you want the controls to _fade_ into the background. A fade is a very simple animation to communicate what's happening, but the details of duration and exponential vs linear transition can make a simple fade seem fran
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by harlanlewis 15y ago
It seems that many commenters are missing the value of a demo combining effects in new ways, presented in a new context. There are many app experiences beyond simple navigation that ask for and respond to actions/events - many would benefit
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One should not be forced into product decisions by namesquatters or other external behavior of that ilk. Designing, building, and supporting a new product is a big longterm investment (even if it's just a Free/Pro version). The story behind