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by johnqian 5y ago
This is an interesting/surprising reply to me, so I've spent some time thinking about it. The problem is that design is always a compromise between discoverability and post-discovery efficiency. Consider the swipe-left-to-delete p
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by johnqian 5y ago
I should have addressed the original article. As a sibling commenter mentioned, I didn't say all flat designs are good, quite the opposite. That to-do list design is very mediocre. A desktop to-do list app that I think is super well do
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by johnqian 5y ago
I never used the podcasts app before but just gave it a try. I can't seem to reproduce what you're describing. On the top-level pages ("Listen Now" and "Browse"), only the purple play button plays the podcast f
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by johnqian 5y ago
Exactly this. Design is always a compromise between discoverability and post-discovery efficiency. Programming languages are the extreme case of the latter; literally everything requires a reference, but once you’ve got the reference memori
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by johnqian 5y ago
This is a really interesting topic but I'm offput by the verbosity of this essay. For example: > And whatever our credences here, we should be clear-eyed about the fact that helping or harming an infinite number of people would be a
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by johnqian 5y ago
This is one of my favorite things on Youtube. With off-the-cuff words alone he paints more vivid visuals than most high production value videos. I particularly like the "Magnets" bit, even though it's more controversial.
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by johnqian 5y ago
I'm going to take a risk here and say that I'm a designer who generally likes flat design. I see a lot of hate here against flat design, and it makes sense. A lot of designers abuse it, making their UIs ambiguous. It's probab
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Liberal arts vs. engineering undergrad school for an aspiring tech entrepreneur
6 points by johnqian 9y ago|3 comments