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by jongold 13y ago
For a vastly different take on the same subject… (no comment) https://medium.com/about-work/405b2d12d213
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by jongold 13y ago
Thanks :) I think 'not ruffling feathers' is sure to be one of the biggest challenges; we also have to figure out how to manage team size (if >1) and work load. In 'the real world' we have things like budgets to constrain them and I won
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by jongold 13y ago
I think we've just not done a good enough job of providing resources to teach people design. Notable exceptions like http://hackdesign.org/ excluded, It's either 'go to uni for 3 years' or 'figure it out yourself'
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by jongold 13y ago
I'm going to whip up a quick site I think - if you shoot me an email at opensauce@designedbygold.com I'll make sure I send you a link :)
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by jongold 13y ago
Bootstrap is a great example of something that might have taken _some_ work away from _some_ designers, but the whole it contributes back to is much richer as a result. Since Bootstrap and other high-quality frameworks have been released I'
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by jongold 13y ago
Hey - author here. Totally agree - I'm a crappy writer and I really hoped that sentiment didn't come across, but hey. Totally not what I meant :) I've been burnt too by people not paying, people underpaying, and people not wanting to pay —
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by jongold 13y ago
Fantastic suggestions, thank you :)
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by jongold 13y ago
Great post; really resonates with me. I've come to realise that it's a linguistic thing. "I can't do that" vs "I can't do that yet" Personally, I've always hated sysadmin and as a designer I can rely on Heroku for everything I'd conceivably
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Designing Open Source(medium.com)
91 points by jongold 13y ago|31 comments
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by jongold 13y ago
I thought we left the ironic hipster stuff to DesignerNews these days ;)
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by jongold 13y ago
I think it would be lovely if we lived in a world where gender roles and stereotypes and all the things we're mainly trying to take out of the tech industry didn't exist but…Brandid absolutely nail their brand placement for their target a
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by jongold 13y ago
Stupid question but what kinds of projects are people using Yeoman & Brunch etc for? I've been getting into lots of frontend MV* recently; a mix of stuff that I put in the Rails asset pipeline at work, and fun hacks on the weekend which
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by jongold 14y ago
Not entirely sure what you wanted to use Express for but I've found server-side JS with meteor very intuitive. REST APIs are really easy to roll with the Collections-API Meteorite Smart Package too.
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by jongold 14y ago
I dunno man, this is my highly-subjective-rating-scale ;)
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by jongold 14y ago
This is good news - the momentum of the Meteor community & of dev efforts is really infectious. Probably not ready to be building 100 million user services on just yet, but utterly fantastic for quick prototyping & iterating service
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by jongold 14y ago
Assuming you're trolling but worth pointing out that Meteor includes a Spiderable package so it's indexable by search engines etc. http://meteor.com/blog/2012/08/09/search-engine-optimization
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by jongold 14y ago
Nasty Gal are killing it - my girlfriend is totally obsessed with them.
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Intuition & insight in the process of design(colepeters.com)
4 points by jongold 14y ago|0 comments
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by jongold 14y ago
"You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painf
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by jongold 14y ago
Some of us have though, and I'll talk for days about International Style to anyone who asks :)
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by jongold 14y ago
Read some books about Swiss design :) http://www.richardhollis.com/books-as-author-and-designer/sw...
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We need more designers in startups in London.(blog.makeshift.io)
2 points by jongold 14y ago|0 comments
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by jongold 14y ago
Not wanting to be too critical, but there's lots of talk about "not wanting to look Bootstrappy" (or to a lesser extent, "Foundationy") — in that without customisation sites using them can look cookie-cutter. This is ugly - I'd rather see
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by jongold 14y ago
As a relative beginner - "It's a very different approach when compared to using jQuery for everything" — is a bit misleading. They're both very different to jQuery (or Backbone/Spine - which are beautifully simple). Totally anecdotal: - B
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by jongold 14y ago
Ridiculously misleading graph.
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Pay It Forward(3-beards.com)
7 points by jongold 14y ago|0 comments
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by jongold 14y ago
Great post. I think it's unfair picking on Angular for obtuse docs when Ember has the same problem though. The PeepCode Ember video was a big step towards Ember being accessible to all; it's still really difficult to use compared to Backb
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by jongold 14y ago
Responsive is a great tool, but it isn't a solution for every problem (or a necessity). Too much dogma around at the moment; not every part of every web-property your company owns has to be responsive (but obviously optimise the right bit
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The Magic of Macros: Lighting-Fast Templating in ClojureScript(blog.getprismatic.com)
14 points by jongold 14y ago|2 comments
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by jongold 14y ago
Because it gives the text a different character on a macro level.

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