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   by kadavy 14y ago

   > "The rise in A/B testing and other analytics tools have created fairy tale stories of changing a button color, or moving the CTA from the left to the right and suddenly you have game changing improvements. Once again, these stories ar
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   by kadavy 15y ago

   Hey, thanks for recommending Design for Hackers! (I'm the author)
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   by kadavy 15y ago

   Very clever idea. However, it sounds much more beneficial to the person sending the email than to those who are receiving it. It will be interesting to see if it will collapse for this reason, or if some unexpected mechanic of humanity will
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   Ask HN: Can you construct G2 Curves in CSS?

   1 points by kadavy 15y ago|1 comments
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   by kadavy 15y ago

   http://www.webcrawler.com/ First search engine I ever used. In high school Spanish class, about 1995. Still there! But, no more cool illustration of a spider.
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   by kadavy 15y ago

   Hey, thanks for picking up Design for Hackers! I was pleasantly surprised by the Kindle version myself.
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   by kadavy 15y ago

   After publishing a book through a publisher ("Design for Hackers"), I've had some other smaller ideas rattling around that I've considered self-publishing. Scrivener looks like a useful tool. I'm pretty sure I would hire an editor, though.
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   Google facing antitrust investigation(washingtonpost.com)

   3 points by kadavy 15y ago|0 comments
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   by kadavy 15y ago

   Cool! I think I'd like for the icons to be in a rising diagonal arrangement. Less work for the first joint of the thumb. Imagine it on the iPhone app...see what I mean?
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    "There are very little fonts in Google web fonts currently that are worth using." Amen! I like this multiples of 6 thing, too. Most attempts to get a baseline grid going (like on Blueprint, for example) just look wrong.
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    "Design for Hackers" now available on Amazon UK(amazon.co.uk)

    3 points by kadavy 15y ago|0 comments
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    What Steve Taught Me(kadavy.net)

    2 points by kadavy 15y ago|0 comments
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    "Design for Hackers" book tour in NYC Thursday night(facebook.com)

    2 points by kadavy 15y ago|0 comments
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Thanks to everyone in the community for hustling to get me to DC!
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Thanks! You do have the narrative correct – this has happened very organically, and today's success is a huge surprise! I'm glad the community has my financial interests in mind. After all, the better this book does, the more I can dedicate
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Agreed, he's in Turkmenistan! Checking with my publisher to see what his options are. (I'm the author)
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    I'm the author of this book, and I am blown away that it currently ranks #36 on all of Amazon[1], right behind the very deserving Eric Ries, who is also launching today. Thank you so much to the entire HN community for everything. I can't
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Thanks for that explanation! Now I understand better why I don't get a larger cut for ebooks. I guess since Amazon commands the distribution, they can command a larger portion of the sale price. (I am the author of Design for Hackers)
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    I personally haven't seen it on the Kindle, and consuming it that way sounds painful (there are so many illustrations). But, some seem to think it looks good on Kindle Cloudreader http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997007 (I am the auth
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Thanks! But CRAP! Don't want them to run out.
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    That's a pretty amazing amount of stuff for buying a few books – also an interesting lesson in aligning partners and motivating people to buy now.
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    > the design of the blog doesn't use whitespace effectively. Could you be more specific? My blog definitely needs a design refresh (your quote is right – I've been writing a book the past year so haven't had the time to design), but I'm
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    This post is based upon a part of my book, in which I do mention the italics, but I left it out on the first run. I've now edited to post so I do mention it. Thanks for noticing / commenting!
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    Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3(kadavy.net)

    33 points by kadavy 15y ago|12 comments
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    I'm uncomfortable with the notion that there is a "proper" way to use a search engine. It seems like we should design search engines based upon our audience's behavior.
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Here's a link to my current proposal video for easy clicking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WGNCk4ClzU
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    Ask HN: trying to use Kickstarter for Design for Hackers Book tour

    5 points by kadavy 15y ago|2 comments
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Gah! Just ordered one off Apple.com and they estimate it will arrive next Thursday :P
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Heck, beyond tux rental, I'd like just a simple suit rental for those rare occasions I'm attending a wedding.
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    by kadavy 15y ago

    Good point - sometimes there are other things that can have far more ROI for a budding business than A/B testing.