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by mnicole 14y ago
I just can't tolerate a site where people upvote you based on where you work and not based on the content of your answer. A recent thread on using "bullets" to separate text elements on a single line wherein a Facebook employee responded by
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I'm interested in finding such places in Portland as well. I know we have a few hackerspaces, but I've heard mixed reviews on their locations/[most] active hours/the type of crowds that mingle there. If anyone has any suggestions for web fo
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by mnicole 14y ago
If the site were more user-friendly, it would be easier to use for people who don't understand the initial complexities of Wikipedia. One of the contributors on that page wrote against a redesign because they don't want to have to re-learn
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Ugh, thank you for bringing those up. These are particularly bad when I sign up for enterprise trials for work. It's clever when they utilize their metrics to calculate how much time I spent on the site and then send a message corresponding
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by mnicole 14y ago
Also, please do not transfer your past product's mailing list to your new app's mailing list unless it's directly in line with or an add-on to the type of service I originally wanted to know more about. I recently had this happen and even t
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by mnicole 14y ago
> Who would hire someone who only has W3Schools knowledge? And this pretty much negates your whole argument. If you ever plan on getting hired or being taken seriously enough to get clients, this isn't the resource. How pissed would you
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Also worth noting, another agency recently attempted to redesign the Associated Press logo with similarly weak results - http://www.objectivesubject.com/work/project/associated-pres...
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by mnicole 14y ago
I'm trying to remember the name of the designer that tried to call out fab.com a few months ago for "stealing" his aesthetic. By aesthetic I mean he puts white Helvetica type on black.
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by mnicole 14y ago
Agreed. A lot of terrible design practices get voted to the top here. Since it isn't a design-centric board and because we can't downvote (and it's rude to downvote without stating the reason anyway, generally), the best way to convey bad p
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Same situation for other sites like that (Gilt Groupe, The Clymb, etc.). Even as a registered user, if I'm on a new device (especially mobile) and I click on a link through an email and I can't see those products, I'm not going to log in to
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by mnicole 14y ago
Exactly what I thought; Wordpress' serif W dominates the web and this one is far too similar to it for people to know the difference. People know Wikipedia as Wikipedia and as an international website, we shouldn't use a generic 'W' as the
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by mnicole 14y ago
I've gotta agree on this one. Generally all I can think when I use browser-based design tools is how much faster/easier it would be for me to go into Photoshop or better, the code itself. I think the biggest flaw in these apps is they start
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by mnicole 14y ago
There are services like http://termsfeed.com/ that will make one up for you on-the-fly depending on your site's features. I can't vouch for them, but if you're concerned, they might be an easy place to start.
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We use it over XBL and the biggest problem we face (outside of the search/lack of content issue) is that if someone so much as accidentally knicks the controller, drops it on the ground or accidentally presses a button while moving it, it m
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by mnicole 14y ago
Perhaps where I'm getting tangled is in using the term "friends" instead of past recruits or former hiring managers. Regardless, I still think it's a poor practice, given that -- like rwallace said -- if everyone did it, it would just creat
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by mnicole 14y ago
References and testimonials, LinkedIn, Zerply, Github, et al? Maybe I'm too suspicious; if after an initial interview I got a stream of emails from an applicant's buddies/colleagues that I didn't ask for, I'd wonder why he felt he needed to
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Where do all of these "unqualifieds" come from if the startup is just going to hire through friends and recommendations; was there a public job listing somewhere? If there's a job listing, people are going to apply for the job. They're appl
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by mnicole 14y ago
This is my worry, that the Kickstarter brand will suffer some large blows because of the lack of foresight from its users -- both the listers who use it as their initial means to market a concept and the contributors who don't understand th
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Would like something like this up in the Pacific Northwest as well.
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by mnicole 14y ago
Just got some Rhodia dot grid paper ( http://rhodiapads.com/collections_boutique_dotPad.shtml ) to sketch out layouts and icons and I love it. For brainstorming and general chaos organization, I use iThoughtsHD. If I ever run into a bump in
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by mnicole 14y ago
So this thread is a few days old, but to add my experiences, I've spoken with two "talent" agencies, one that specializes in design and another that tries to specialize in technical people. Design is easy because it's subjective, but even t
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I believe the age thing is more about them not having an accrued history of personally-attributed content on the internet and how that weighed into making this decision. Whether or not that's related to their age is debatable, but one would
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by mnicole 14y ago
Came here to post about this. I am clearly not the target demographic (though there's logic in place for me), but asking me which player is offsides and then my two options are "I'm a female, A" or "I'm a female, just show me a picture of B
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by mnicole 14y ago
You can't just 'avoid' them; they're your co-workers, your managers, your family members. Likewise, voting a comment off of the screen doesn't mean it's "getting better", it means enough likeminded people were able to get their point across
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Different from what the two current sibling posts say, I've experienced a shift in the company's morale when a longstanding employee quit abruptly one morning after hearing about (drastic) changes he didn't agree with. Two weeks after his d
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Expecting one site's landing page to encompass everything for everyone is ridiculous and something a lot of user-generated content sites fail at understanding. You need to filter it to the extent that there's enough for everyone to at least
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Agreed. It works with sites like snip.it because no one post is more important than the other, but in Digg's case, you want people landing on the page and knowing right away what they should be looking at.
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by mnicole 14y ago
In addition to the great links others have posted, I've got some strewn about in my UI collection - http://lookwork.com/mandy/library/ui
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4chan-initiated and Reddit-fueled, 9gag's content has already been manipulated and their Facebook wall flooded with horrific imagery, fake memes and general buffoonery in order to offend and humiliate their community, which is basically thi
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The texture creep is what set off my alarms, which was happening while Steve was on his way out. Textures can be done right, but these weren't.. and worse, they've spurred an ongoing movement of people using distracting patterns on tiny dev

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