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by kadavy 12y ago
Synopsis: Design agencies are disappearing. The industry of design has evolved from independent experimenters, to being a core skill of successful founders, and now established enterprises are investing in design talent. But, Human Centered
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by kadavy 12y ago
First of all, thanks for the mention! (I wrote Design for Hackers). I'll just elaborate so OP and everyone else can get an idea of how I approach things when teaching design. My goal with the book was to "reverse engineer" ev
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“Will it scale?” is a less important question than “will it ever matter?”(kadavy.net)
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Speaking: the Nerves & the Art(kadavy.net)
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Techies must nip growing scorn in bud(sfgate.com)
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by kadavy 13y ago
Thanks for submitting, but any chance you could delete this? I published it by accident, but should have it ready next week.
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Before Y Combinator and TechStars, Booth accelerator proved impressive model(upstart.bizjournals.com)
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DesignTrain: (free) 12-week design course, via email(designtra.in)
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First-ever SF "Design for Hackers" meetup tomorrow night(facebook.com)
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If you love your idea, let it go(kadavy.net)
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Summer of Design teaches you core design principles(lifehacker.com)
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Summer of Design: free "Design for Hackers" online course(summerofdesign.com)
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Use humor to increase your conversion rate. (startupmoon.com)
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by kadavy 13y ago
I'm glad Paul wrote this. The work culture in Silicon Valley can be invigorating; but at the same time, it can be poisonous, especially for someone who is naturally inclined to be work-obsessed. I left 5 years ago, and I'm so glad I did. It
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by kadavy 13y ago
Suggesting that meditation is a "waste of time"... Wow, that's hard to imagine thinking that way if you do creative work!
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Make things out of stuff(kadavy.net)
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Why you should move that button 3px to the left(designstaff.org)
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by kadavy 13y ago
Just to add a +1 to point #2, I didn't even really like writing when I started my blog, and my first blog post sucks[1]. 9 short years later, I'm an author of a book that has done pretty well[2], and I LOVE writing. 1. http://kadavy.net/bl
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by kadavy 14y ago
Not ugly enough. You need to make the white space less uniform, and the line-heights less generous. Just kidding, this is terrible. Great work!
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by kadavy 14y ago
The message pattern you describe sounds a lot like "the one-line hook"[1], and yes, it's very effective. [1] http://onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/match-messages/
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hey, thanks for mentioning "Design for Hackers" (I wrote it!) If anyone is looking for something beyond just the Kindle sample, there are some links to sample stuff at http://designforhackers.com
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by kadavy 14y ago
I realize Paul is doing it for the sake of learning, but that seems like an insane amount of consideration to display and bandwidth. I remember seeing an article that argued that you should just serve up big images, and that slow cellular d
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by kadavy 14y ago
Actually, I get better results with http://lmgtfy.com/?q=picnichouse+mason
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How does one assess the mood of a typeface?(quora.com)
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by kadavy 14y ago
I redesigned my blog recently[1] and purposely made the type slightly bigger than intuitively felt comfortable. The funny thing is, plenty of people complain about it being too big, but nobody complained when it was way too small. [1] http
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hey, thanks for mentioning "Design for Hackers" (I wrote it). I'm a bit late to the thread, but if anyone wants to get a sampling of the approach that I take to explaining design check out some sample articles I linked to on http://designf
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by kadavy 14y ago
By the way, just noticed a similar "hanging indent" method on the author picture on the 37Signals blog: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3442-the-design-roulette
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by kadavy 14y ago
Looks good! I love those short lines of text ;)
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hey Kevin, think of it as akin to "hanging punctuation." Since the photo is a circle, I consider its visual "edge" to not be its literal edge. Notice also how the edge of my face sits along the imaginary line of the left margin. Thanks for
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by kadavy 14y ago
The one killer application of Google Glass will be using it as a second monitor in a cafe. That would be entirely worth looking ridiculous.

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