mnicole

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by mnicole 14y ago
Don't know why people are saying you're an ass for calling out glaring design flaws in a $200 book about design. I felt similarly about Sacha's book on UI, but it was only $6-$12 so it didn't seem worth complaining about. If people want to
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by mnicole 14y ago
If you're going to ask visitors to answer questions, don't force them to read over things they don't need to know before getting to the meat of it. Just say "Here are some concepts for a _______ app/service, based on these screenshots, woul
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by mnicole 14y ago
Agreed 100%. I'd mentioned something similar to #4 in a previous post about this project. With all due respect to Nathan's efforts and marketing throughout this process, I thought he was a developer trying to teach design rather than a desi
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by mnicole 14y ago
I suppose as a designer I'm probably not your target market anyway, since I have other outlets to get critiques. One-liners would irritate me too much. :) Good luck!
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by mnicole 14y ago
Agreed, I went to click on the image of the chatroom on the homepage thinking it would zoom in on it, and instead I'm taken to a page with even fewer images.
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by mnicole 14y ago
> We might reconsider this size due to the fact that some just want to share their holidized logos on social channels and therefore need it bigger. Or anyone utilizing larger sizes for retina.
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by mnicole 14y ago
Judging by their "examples" pages, these all look really cheap and tacky. If yours was anything like it, that's the reason I wouldn't sign up. Design might take a backseat on other pages, but you can't afford not to have a professional/trus
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by mnicole 14y ago
Services like this concern me because I don't know the credibility of the person on the other end, nor do I know if the effort I put into someone else's review is going to guarantee that I get an equally verbose one. In the same vein, the f
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by mnicole 14y ago
A Hot or Not clone for screenshots that does nothing to give the designer/developer actual feedback and unfairly pits e-com sites against content-heavy sites and brochure sites?
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by mnicole 14y ago
If I'm driving and I get stuck in traffic, I'm going to be pissed during the duration of that encounter and if it somehow affects any plans I have. Similarly, if I am having a couple of bad rounds in a game (or even if I'm doing well but my
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by mnicole 14y ago
Nailed it.
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by mnicole 14y ago
This is a marketing problem. If your designer is posting on Dribbble, your app is definitely being seen; my iOS concepts get more views than anything because that's what people are searching for these days. People may like the design, but m
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by mnicole 14y ago
It's tough; people are always going to want to base your judgment against your own work, but you don't need to be a designer to 'get' design, just as anyone can call themselves a designer to begin with. If I'm an influential designer and my
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by mnicole 14y ago
I've seen a lot of back-and-forth about using Dribbble as a critiquing platform. People opposed to receiving such feedback say that they didn't ask for it and that it's rude to assume that uploading something to the site means that they're
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by mnicole 14y ago
Sorry, I still have no idea how HN handles our profiles and where the information we put in that box ends up going! You're very welcome :)
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by mnicole 14y ago
> Do you want a personalized news feed of only things you are interested in? They are working on making that and I'm not aware of anyone else trying. Over the years a lot of services have tried to do this exclusively, but Flipboard is t
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by mnicole 14y ago
The problem I see with it is a scenario like this, which others have brought up: 1. User X (a non-technical) posts an idea that gets a little traction, but not enough for them to feel confident enough to build it out, especially when it mea
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by mnicole 14y ago
Exactly. And the problem with #4 is that in trying to round up people the community trusts/knows by name, you're also going to end up bringing in people that have personal and professional connections that could also game the system.
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by mnicole 14y ago
This article and the comments here on HN seem to miss the entire point of mobile first (although the comments on the article itself are spot on): mobile first does not mean you're actually intending to build for mobile at all. It means funn
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by mnicole 14y ago
I don't understand the backlash they got for this story coming to light; when customers are being exploited (and especially repeatedly after asking them not to), the offending company deserves the heat. If this means certain brands decide t
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by mnicole 14y ago
Don't understand the downvotes, that's exactly what's going on. I alluded to this upthread; this aesthetic is more about Microsoft attempting minimalism to look trendy than than it is about usability, which is why qualified UX folk have bee
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by mnicole 14y ago
> UI design seems more sensitive to fashion whims these days than woman's clothing. I'd say that this is largely in part due to the fact that so many designers base their entire livelihoods on copying trends, instead of really understan
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Even if those additional copies weren't pirated, would the revenue from those users have been enough to sustain them?
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by mnicole 14y ago
It's less about the font itself and more about how people are using them. For some reason, people think that type on the web should be small and on top of that, don't take font-smoothing into consideration. Adobe buys TypeKit and this is st
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by mnicole 14y ago
I've paid for LastFM, Spotify, Rdio and Slacker Radio throughout the years and used all types of various other free services. I still try every single new music discovery app out there because, guess what, there's always more music to disco
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by mnicole 14y ago
We're discussing it because people would rather believe that it has something to do with elitism rather than sheer simplicity. Google image search shows that most Lenovos suffer the same fate with the edges, unless you're talking about the
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by mnicole 14y ago
Apple's hardware design is much less distracting for mockup presentations and given the OS, the type is more legible (see below). As a designer, I don't want my work pasted onto a ThinkPad with all of the blinky lights, colored buttons and
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Not to mention I'd rather see a replaced letter and have to tell friends "It's Push with a v instead of a u," instead of "It's called Dweeblr!"
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by mnicole 14y ago
http://cssdeck.com/ It says CSS, but it's basically JSFiddle with the ability to "play" the code as the person types it. It's also used as a platform to teach others how to program - http://cssdeck.com/codecasts I personally think this
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by mnicole 14y ago
This is why I stopped reading MetaFilter comments; it was the same people getting upvoted simply because they had been upvoted before with little to do with the quality or even correctness of their comment. If they came into a post with an

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