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by mnicole 14y ago
It goes without saying, but good design does not equal good UX. A problem I have with places like Awwwards is that the sites they highlight look good from the screenshot, but navigating them and getting to the core intent isn't as easy as i
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> increase natural population growth A booty call app seems like a terrible place to promote parenting.
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Oh I didn't notice it in the banner itself, just the rest of the body headlines. I don't like it up there either, it's too busy/awkward.
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This is petty compared to the purpose of the startup, but the typography/use of ligatures on the site is fantastic.
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Ah, Verge comments; always so insightful.. Everyone brings up Digg as a counter-example, but completely forget SomethingAwful as a strong and diverse community with radical degrees of separation between each sub while still being able to ki
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Love this, even just for website palettes. Nice work.
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I mentioned this in a post the other day, but I get most of my local conference/meetup information from regional female dev mailing lists I'm a part of. These groups are really good about ensuring that the whole tech community knows about w
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There's a deep irony in telling people on a site like this not to use the tools that we all put our blood, sweat and tears into every day. If onboarding wasn't such a big deal and something people needed in order to prove the market exists
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While a preprocessor all the same, I wouldn't put LESS in the same category as Stylus and Sass. It will never have some of the more powerful features the others do.
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Yeah, I'll just stop using your products and let your shareholders know it was because people on HackerNews knew better than to build solutions people will use.
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I'm using it at a 100-person office but nobody wants to integrate yet-another-step into their daily processes or have to hop around different places to get different pieces of information (because naturally, John Doe will always want to do
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I don't want to make the statement that women are smarter as it may be more related to what each gender accomplishes with their education. Men are physically more capable at labor-intensive roles that don't necessarily need the type of educ
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Which is what Facebook's Marketplace already emails me about; friends' and friends of friends' listings. Adding it to Pages whose primary intents are not sales seems like a great way to get unwanted spam.
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No way - just the opposite! In fact I think it worked the last time I ever saw it years later. That was an incredibly memorable piece of my childhood, and apparently that of many others' as well: http://dribbble.com/shots/680831-Fisher-Pri
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If my intent is not to get invested, I'm not going to use it. I look at it, I toy around with it, and I decide whether or not it is applicable to my needs. If it is, I'm going to use it, and the more I use it, the more dependent I become on
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This is such a silly question, but are you the one that made the barn door on the farm moo when it opened?
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There's no incentive to try new services and give feedback if the very next day you are left with nothing, just as there is no incentive to try a service if it is forcing me to pay before so much as a demo or trial period. The point I'm mak
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Getting tired of this response. I'm dealing with this issue right now with Snip.it. They were clearly in talks with Yahoo! about being purchased (and potentially others as they were putting out surveys every few months about usage and purpo
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> I'm a female dev and I don't feel weird on all male teams. Just another team member. But I did feel singled out when the other female developer and I were mostly assigned to work together. Could it have been to make her feel more comf
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There are lots of various localized groups for women in tech in most cities, many depending on their specialties. Some of them are mailing lists, some of them are Meetup groups, some of them are IRC channels. Tap into those communities with
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Outside of the fact that there have been studies that show having more women on a team increases productivity and communication, I don't think just knowing a change needs to happen is enough for a lot of people. A few men I've worked with h
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Totally with you on that last point. I think what set off my alarm with yoga in particular is that while it is a fantastic meditative and healthy activity, it's often very sexualized. In reading more about it on their site and an AMA someon
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I'm going to be the jerk that says using yoga and pedicures as a means to bring women in might actually be more alienating than welcoming to many of us. I have no interest in any of those activities intermingling, and I think it sends a mes
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Great response. At RailsGirls PDX they asked how everyone had found out about the event. I'd found out through a female dev mailing list I'm a part of, but I was really happy to learn that many - if not most - of them had been encouraged by
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These two sites just made my day.
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I questioned responding to this at all because privilege is a social aspect, not a biological one. An extra six years of life isn't exactly a benefit because those extra six years aren't added to my childhood or adulthood, but at the end of
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> A bunch of differences, but the big one is that we're 100% open source. No crippled-unless-you-pay business model here, personally I find those irritating. Vanilla is too, they just charge if you host with them and want customer suppo
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This is the definition of busy.
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Does it, though? ;)
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And now I can't reply to scott_s's reply (another weird quirk that I don't understand, since it doesn't seem to be tied to how nested the comment is), but even something as simple as renaming those links would help people ('threads' to 'you

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