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by jblock 14y ago
http://saumya5.brinkster.net/hci/25.pdf Sorry, but a Wiki is about content, not looks.
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by jblock 14y ago
Sorry, but this color scheme is unreadable. Contrast is your friend! And I'd rather not see a bunch of "test" articles with one paragraph or so. Show me some dense, complex content, and maybe I'll grow interested (that and not having it 500
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by jblock 14y ago
Blaming issues (which most would consider a non-issue) like this on Steve Jobs not being around is insulting to all of the hard-working designers and engineers at Apple that worked 80-hour weeks to get this thing into your hands. They didn'
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by jblock 14y ago
NI had a section of demos like this at their technical conference this August. They were all hobby projects. Things that engineers just thought "were cool" and were stupidly easy to make with this hardware. There was a crane game, a 6-foot-
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by jblock 14y ago
I couldn't care less about what Apple was thinking before they released this. What matters is that they pushed out a living, breathing UX fuck-up of an application to millions of people that depended on it to get around.
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by jblock 14y ago
http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/31923428912/walkin... http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/ Pretty common.
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by jblock 14y ago
Unfortunately, this IS how people differentiate between Android phones/iPhones. It's not good by any means, but there's a reason they do it.
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by jblock 14y ago
The author never talks about this "meaningful content" he wants to see on social networks. Why can't people just impulsively think that their food is photogenic and cool and take pictures of it? The author has no right to determine what is
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by jblock 14y ago
Easier said than done. There's a lot more at play in their lives than "go to college again" and "don't go to college again."
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by jblock 14y ago
When I met him, it took me a few minutes to realize that he was the founder. He spoke about Quora and the associated technology therein in an amazingly casual way. He sold it to me without even really selling it.
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by jblock 14y ago
...and the college students most likely already have Facebook accounts. The author discusses all these things that would be great and engaging if that content the students are going to be posted to G+. The problem is that it isn't. It's goi
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by jblock 14y ago
I'm in love with the idea, but the frequency that payments get bounced via Kickstarter bothers me when the funds are applied directly do medical procedures like this.
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by jblock 14y ago
"They save money where they can by selling you disposable furniture." Done. That's why most people go to Ikea. They aren't looking for bulletproof furniture. They're making stuff for people that want to have some furniture for a while and f
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by jblock 14y ago
This redesign assumes that Wikipedia needed simplification. I think that if the brand and experience needed simplification, people wouldn't use it or would be more vocal about changing it. The designers clearly have some layout and visual a
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by jblock 14y ago
Not to nitpick or defend MS, but it sounds like they don't want to call it 8 unless it has all of the hardware features specified by 8 (like NFC). From what I understand it will get all of the new software benefits/features of Windows 8, ju
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by jblock 14y ago
I'd be interested to see interaction studies in the non-tech community about Craigslist, because I haven't seen a person in non-tech find difficulty in posting on Craigslist. Also, don't confuse my opinions about Craigslist's design/UX with
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by jblock 14y ago
"Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it." If a lot of people INSIST on using it, then that means it has good UX. Complaints with their UX should be qualified.
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by jblock 14y ago
Looks good and all, but I really don't think it's worth $200K. And $150K more for Android support? Where's all this money going to go?
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by jblock 14y ago
Conflicted. I'm happy for the guys who worked hard and clearly got what they wanted out of this deal, but as a loyal Sparrow user, I feel some sense of betrayal that they're simply going to abandon their products beyond security updates.
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by jblock 14y ago
The aspects of Facebook that annoy you or I are the exact reasons why other people embrace it. It's become a part of people's lives--more than just a web application. I think the tech community might gravitate towards these niche solutions,
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by jblock 14y ago
haha, I actually meant the "what the fuck" part
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by jblock 14y ago
I mentioned this out loud at the office and that was the exact same reaction.
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by jblock 14y ago
"To understand just how ridiculous this plan is, let’s point out, first, that recording and streaming television is not a difficult technical problem to solve." Yeah, if you paid for cable. The whole point of Aereo is that you DON'T pay for
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by jblock 14y ago
I don't want to make assumptions without seeing some data on this, but do people really think that the 10" iPad is too big? I can understand a fiscal reason to make smaller iPads, but I struggle to see any vast ergonomic benefits to a slig
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by jblock 14y ago
I've noticed an odd phenomenon lately: when I'm in a crappy mood, and someone asks me how I'm doing and I lie and say "fine," it often takes me out of my own head and reminds me that I might be overestimating whatever is going wrong.
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by jblock 14y ago
Sometimes people seem to forget that the most frequent users of Craigslist, and the ones that keep it popular, are not complaining about it having bad UX. We are. I want PadMapper to succeed (it helped me find a place super-quick for grad s
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by jblock 14y ago
Anything without appropriate context is hard to "get." Think of how often you have to explain something to someone when they react unfavorably. The problem with the pieces in this collection is that they are lazy. They don't come from a sen
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by jblock 14y ago
"...if you have practically nothing to lose." My student loans say differently. :) But honestly, so many factors go into post-undergrad job hunting these days that it's difficult to simplify the issue into "go to a startup" and "don't go to
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by jblock 14y ago
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of null, dancer.js:319 All I see are floating particles. The code looks sleek, though, and I'd love to see it working. I had a hacked up WebGL visualizer for a computer graphics class lon
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by jblock 14y ago
HBO is a Time Warner subsidiary. Until that's not a thing, this just simply won't happen. I'd like it to, but the business realities just make it unfeasible.

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